by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. at the Defender
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) — authors of “The Disinformation Dozen” — planned to “kill” X (Twitter), shut down popular social media accounts on other platforms, censor non-establishment voices and “bring back” attacks on “antivaxx” voices, according to internal documents leaked by CCDH insiders.
Investigative journalists Paul D. Thacker and Matt Taibbi on Tuesday released the documents on The Disinformation Chronicle and X.
Thacker told The Defender he spoke with “several CCDH insiders” who provided minutes from internal CCDH staff meetings that took place between January and early this month.
According to the documents, CCDH planned to organize “black ops” against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chairman on leave from Children’s Health Defense (CHD), and pressure Substack to remove COVID-19 vaccine critics Dr. Joseph Mercola and Alex Berenson from its platform.
“Black ops” are defined as a “secret mission or campaign carried out by a military, governmental, or other organization, typically one in which the organization conceals or denies its involvement.
The minutes from CCDH’s Jan. 8 staff meeting included this:…
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