The Federalist has an update today on British operative Imran Ahmed, who lives in the US and targets and censors conservative publications in America.
Imran Ahmed is one of five foreign operatives who the State Department wants to expel from the United States. Ahmed is the CEO of the international nonprofit, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, an organization whose entire focus is to rid conservative voices and publications from the public square. The Center for Countering Digital Hate worked to silence voices it opposed by creating advertising blacklists to deprive
In December federal judge and Obama appointee Judge Vernon S. Broderick of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a temporary restraining order preventing federal officials from detaining or removing Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) CEO Imran Ahmed. The State Department sanctioned him for pressuring American companies to suppress U.S. speech.
The order bars action by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and other senior administration officials.
The State Department replied to the ruling, “The Supreme Court and Congress have repeatedly made clear: The United States is under no obligation to allow foreign aliens to come to our country or reside here.”
Ahmed has hired Roberta Kaplan, a radical socialist who represented Mary Trump in her case against her uncle President Trump. And Norm Eisen, the man behind the 2020 color revolution in America.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate put The Gateway Pundit high on their list to persecute, smear, and put out of business.
Ahmed defends his censorship campaigns and silencing of critics. He takes it one step further and targets the advertisers on conservative publications.
“I will not be bullied away from my life’s work of fighting to keep children safe from social media’s harm and stopping antisemitism online,” he declared, a complete lie about the nature of his work.
Ahmed also issued a statement defending his censorship campaigns.
“I will not be bullied away from my life’s work of fighting to keep children safe from social media’s harm and stopping antisemitism online,” he declared.
Imran Ahmed bragged during testimony in front of the UK Parliament that his group had successfully spurred Google to stop monetizing The Gateway Pundit!
Imran said this during testimony before the UK Parliament in September 2021, when he bragged about working for over a year to push Google to demonetize The Gateway Pundit.
Imran Ahmed: Another problem with the Bill is that it does not deal with the advertising market. Google has two parts to its advertising business. The first part is a display network and websites.
Google has about a third of all additional ad revenue, but 95% of the sites that you ever see that have ads on them have ads placed there by Google.
Google has chosen breadth over expense. They have an enormous display network and they gobble up sites and put them in there, including Gateway Pundit, which was spreading election misinformation—“The Big Lie”—Covid disinformation, and all sorts of malignant and anti-black narratives (what?), really horrific racist nonsense.
We found that, thanks to Google ads monetisation—Google takes advertising revenue from everywhere; I think we found Democratic Party adverts placed on Gateway Pundit, a viciously far right site, which just goes to show that, even for the advertiser, it is a terrible waste of money, and most of them are utterly frustrated when they find out about it—Google has become a primary funder of malignant, violent, racist, anti-Semitic, and Covid disinformation content on the internet.
I can give you an example of a site I first heard about through the Home Office’s counterterrorism office and which we targeted last year. It was covered in adverts for household brands.
We contacted each of those brands and got all their adverts taken off, and the site shut down after the ads disappeared. It just goes to show you that the advertising revenue from Google is vital to the proselytisation of hatred in our society.
Counterterrorism told us that they were concerned about it. Gateway Pundit raised millions of dollars of revenue from Google ads—$1.1 million in just seven months.
I am very proud to tell you that after our campaign Stop Funding Misinformation, that story was featured in Forbes magazine in the USA.
I think it was last weekend when Google took them off their display network after a year of campaigning by CCDH, and they are now demonetised, which means that they will not be able to spread their nonsense any further or at the scale and speed at which they were able to before. That is another thing that I am very proud of my team for.
There is even video of this Imran Ahmed’s testimony before the UK Parliament about how glad he was to push Google to demonetize The Gateway Pundit after a year of campaigning Google to do so.
Here is the Imran testimony—via Bad Kitty:
But that’s not all.
America First Legal revealed in March 2024 that Joe Biden was paying radical foreign operatives to target American websites like The Gateway Pundit.
America First Legal discovered that the Biden regime was funding Imran Ahmed and his UK-based censorship group, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
Imran Ahmed’s group targeted American independent news organizations like The Gateway Pundit, Zero Hedge, Breitbart, The Federalist and several others.
From the day it took power, the Biden Administration mobilized the national security state to support its censorship program. On June 15, 2021, Biden’s National Security Council published its first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.
To justify censorship, Biden’s strategy asserted that “Internet-based communications platforms” make Americans “vulnerab[le] to domestic terrorist recruitment and other harmful content.” Effectively, the Biden Administration turned to the national security state and its allied technology companies to censor political opponents. In Orwellian fashion, it said: “All told, a better, more holistic, and coordinated understanding of and information sharing on today’s threat will allow a more effective and comprehensive response. That response will address not just current and imminent incarnations of the domestic terrorism threat but also its contributing factors before they can generate still more violence in the future.”
Last week, far left judge Vernon S. Broderick of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a temporary restraining order preventing federal officials from detaining or removing Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) CEO Imran Ahmed.
So Ahmed can remain in the country and continue to censor and blacklist conservative and independent media in the US. Ahmed is not even a US citizen!
Something is terribly wrong here!
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