Matt Taibbi Details Government Censorship Project 'That Was Sponsored By The American Taxpayer' — Transcript

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1. 0:00back gentle lady back gentlemen from
2. 0:01Kentucky is recognized thank you Mr
3. 0:03chairman Mr shellenberger last Congress
4. 0:05you helped expose censorship grants at
5. 0:08the National Science Foundation
6. 0:10specifically known as track F grants can
7. 0:13you tell us more about those censorship
8. 0:15activities conducted associated with
9. 0:17these grants yeah this was the National
10. 0:19Science foundations track F was
11. 0:21basically to create censorship tools
12. 0:23that would become sort of the middleware
13. 0:25uh to you know such as you know News
14. 0:27Guard for example is the most famous of
15. 0:29way the global disinformation index the
16. 0:31idea is to essentially impose on
17. 0:34people's uh systems either directly
18. 0:36through their computers or adopted by
19. 0:38social media companies a set of tools
20. 0:40that would allow centralized authorities
21. 0:42to decide what the truth was and filter
22. 0:44it for people it's an horrifying program
23. 0:47all of track F in my view should be
24. 0:49eliminated and I think there should be
25. 0:50an investigation to figure out what in
26. 0:52the world were they thinking when they
27. 0:54created a program to basically have the
28. 0:56taxpayers subsidize the creation of
29. 0:58elaborate censorship tools that included
30. 1:01the use of AI in creating that
31. 1:03censorship so taxpayers are actually
32. 1:05paying to for the government to help
33. 1:08private companies censor their free
34. 1:10speech yeah and then the idea was that
35. 1:12they were just going to you know give
36. 1:13these tools to Facebook and x and others
37. 1:15to use or to give them to Microsoft and
38. 1:17others to use uh it's awful stuff and by
39. 1:20the way it also came from Department of
40. 1:22Defense so many of that much of those
41. 1:24NSF grants are are sort of recycling um
42. 1:27older DARPA DOD projects you know when I
43. 1:30coached a t-ball the kids shared helmets
44. 1:34and so occasionally there would be an
45. 1:35outbreak of lice and we'd Comfort the
46. 1:38parents by saying it's not it's not a
47. 1:40sin to get lice it's a sin to keep lice
48. 1:43so with these track F grants uh later
49. 1:46today I plan to reintroduce my bill to
50. 1:49eliminate those and I want to make a
51. 1:51plea to the White House and anybody in
52. 1:53the executive branch who's listening or
53. 1:55anybody at Doge you need to go after
54. 1:58these track F Grant
55. 2:00and defund anything that's says Miss dis
56. 2:04or mal information those are all in my
57. 2:07opinion Orwell in terms also we have an
58. 2:10Omnibus coming up in March where I'm
59. 2:13scared to death we're going to refund
60. 2:15all of these things we're basically
61. 2:17going to feed the lice uh that were
62. 2:19contracted in the last Administration
63. 2:22but this isn't just limited to NSF
64. 2:25grants uh the cyber security and
65. 2:28infrastructure security agent
66. 2:31sisa uh within DHS is a flagrant
67. 2:34violator of free speech they had things
68. 2:37like election Integrity uh partnership
69. 2:40Mr taibe can you can you tell us
70. 2:42anything about this what's gone on at
71. 2:44DHS or sisa yeah so sisa
72. 2:48um was the uh as we've found in the uh
73. 2:52Twitter files uh the election of
74. 2:55Integrity partnership was um run by
75. 2:58Stanford uh they had four Partners
76. 3:00including the center for for an informed
77. 3:02public uh University of Washington
78. 3:04Graphica the Atlantic council's digital
79. 3:06forensic research Labs uh but they
80. 3:09partnered with sisa uh and the global
81. 3:13engagement Center at the state
82. 3:14department and we found in the Twitter
83. 3:16files um and also uh chairman Jordan
84. 3:20also found um some um emails s basically
85. 3:24saying that this EIP project was founded
86. 3:28at the behest of BHS uh so uh this
87. 3:33essentially EIP was a sisa created
88. 3:36project or it was a cisa
89. 3:40um sort of sponsored project and uh it
90. 3:44was you know it's it's essentially a a
91. 3:46Content
92. 3:47moderation uh removal uh operation that
93. 3:50was sponsored by the American taxpayer
94. 3:53another example of American taxpayers
95. 3:55unwittingly knowing well unwittingly
96. 3:59without knowing
97. 4:00funding their own violation or
98. 4:03deprivation of their first amendment
99. 4:05rights Mr shellenberger can you explain
100. 4:08how you traced usaid funding that served
101. 4:11as the basis for whistleblower report in
102. 4:132019 which led to the impeachment of
103. 4:16President Trump sure well you may
104. 4:18remember that the uh the so-called
105. 4:20whistleblower was in the White House was
106. 4:22actually a CIA analyst and in that
107. 4:24whistleblower complaint which led to the
108. 4:27impeachment one of the central pieces of
109. 4:29evidence was created by a usaid funded
110. 4:32and controlled organization called the
111. 4:35occrp and we have another piece out
112. 4:37today about how it participated in the
113. 4:39Russia gate hoax as well creating
114. 4:42essentially very important information
115. 4:43leading to that so I mean you have in
116. 4:46usaid a much larger fund of money and a
117. 4:48much broader strategy for information
118. 4:51control that included censorship but
119. 4:52also as I mentioned taking control of
120. 4:54investigative journalism um really
121. 4:56worldwide I mean its Ambitions were you
122. 4:58know amazing so yeah I mean that's a
123. 5:00that's an agency when when we saw that
124. 5:02get shut down by Doge I thought that was
125. 5:05completely appropriate if there's
126. 5:06something in there that it was doing
127. 5:07that's valuable then you could refund it
128. 5:09later but my view same thing with sisa
129. 5:11death penalty for organizations that
130. 5:13participated in violations of the First
131. 5:15Amendment like cisa cyber security is an
132. 5:17extremely important function it
133. 5:19shouldn't be contaminated and and
134. 5:21undermined by censorship activities I
135. 5:24think it's always been known that our
136. 5:25government has funded the change in
137. 5:28administrations if we can say it
138. 5:29politely of other governments but isn't
139. 5:31it borderline treason when the taxpayer
140. 5:35is when organizations entrusted with
141. 5:37protecting our country are now
142. 5:39undermining our own government
143. 5:41absolutely I mean if you're trying to do
144. 5:43regime change illegal if you're
145. 5:45weaponizing DHS FBI uh sisa that's
146. 5:49that's treasonous regime change
147. 5:51activities redirected you know that you
148. 5:52developed abroad that we developed
149. 5:54abroad for regime change directed
150. 5:56against the American people and the and
151. 5:57our Representatives I mean it's shocking
152. 5:59and we still haven't dealt with it as a
153. 6:00country Mr chairman I see my time is
154. 6:02expired I'd like to introduce into the
155. 6:04record or ask unanimous consent to
156. 6:06introduce into the record an article in
157. 6:09Newsmax shellenberger usaid paid for
158. 6:12Trump impeachment effort dated uh
159. 6:14February 6 2025 without objection Gil is
160. 6:18back the gentleman from Georgia is
161. 6:20recognized thank you Mr chairman Mr
162. 6:22ranking member today's hearing entitled
163. 6:26censorship industrial complex