EXCLUSIVE: Unearthed Emails Show Lega­cy Media Cozy­ing Up to Dis­graced Cen­sor­ship Group

EXCLUSIVE: Unearthed Emails Show Legacy Media Cozying Up to Disgraced Censorship Group

FIRST ON MRC: Nev­er-before-seen emails reveal how sev­er­al lega­cy media out­lets close­ly aligned them­selves with a dis­graced cen­sor­ship enti­ty, accused of lead­ing the cen­sor­ship of Repub­li­cans and con­ser­v­a­tives on social media.
Doc­u­ments reviewed by MRC Free Speech Amer­i­ca indi­cate that cer­tain left­ist, lega­cy media out­lets — includ­ing The Wash­ing­ton Post, The Guardian, ABC News, NBC News, Vice and oth­ers — col­lab­o­rat­ed close­ly with the anti-free speech Elec­tion Integri­ty Part­ner­ship (EIP), a now-defunct con­sor­tium of researchers and uni­ver­si­ties with ties to gov­ern­ment agen­cies and embroiled in cen­sor­ship con­tro­ver­sies.
The Stan­ford University’s Stan­ford Inter­net Obser­va­to­ry (SIO), along with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Washington’s Cen­ter for an Informed Pub­lic, led the effort to launch the EIP, a con­sor­tium of aca­d­e­mics and researchers. 
Telling­ly, the EIP was cre­at­ed “at the request of” the Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty and Infra­struc­ture S …