Formed in July 2020, the Election Integrity Project or EIP project was created to silence voices supposedly reporting election misinformation. It was a partnership involving numerous leftist organizations and our government. They used a “ticket” system to log news articles or social posts they wanted taken down.
TGP obtained 558 internal project “tickets” logged from September into November of 2020. During this 6-week span, The Gateway Pundit was the most targeted with 24 tickets.
First, an analogy might be helpful.
When your internet service goes down, you contact your provider. They create a “service ticket” in their help desk software. They provide phone support or maybe dispatch a technician. Each action is logged in the system. The ticket is closed when the problem is resolved.
This group of election truth overlords called the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) operated the same way. They used Atlassian Jira Service Desk software as their central ticketing system. All the partners would submit “misinformation tips” to EIP.
Many partners had direct access to the Jira software to collaborate and help discredit content. Others would use the EIP tip line or send emails. EIP had ties to the intelligence community and held weekly meetings to solicit journalists to participate.
EIP’s goal was to get social media outlets to take down content or apply labels like “Disputed, might be misleading”. The tickets often mention “limit reach” or “reduce spread”. Labels can trigger throttling, which prevents others from seeing or sharing the content. The “reach” of each story was tracked.
Requests first flowed to roughly 30 students at the Stanford Internet Observatory.
These kids created the EIP tickets and initial investigation. Overall, 50 people at Stanford were involved. This entire EIP idea came from four of them working as interns at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
Ticket EIP-605: TGP reported that a GOP poll watcher was denied entry in Philadelphia. The video & audio prove he showed his court order. We also posted the court document granting him access. Yet, it was still ticketed as misinfo.
But EIP also needed people to proactively review content. This included content from news outlets, pundits, actors, and politicians on the right. For this help, EIP partnered with the retirement association AARP.
Retired adults from the Washington chapter of AARP were trained to be “Factcheck Ambassadors”. The state of Washington is a Democrat stronghold with twice as many DEM voters as Republican. So you can safely assume these “Ambassadors” were primarily leftists.
The Center For an Informed Public (CIP) ran this “Ambassador” program for AARP. CIP is a Seattle research center and part of the University of Washington, in Mary Gates Hall. It was created in 2019 to “resist misinformation”. This university played a significant role in EIP, especially with news outlets.
Once a ticket was created, partners including Graphika, DFRLab and others worked to discredit the content or change the narrative. The Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is the research unit of the leftist think tank Atlantic Council. But not all content was checked.
In January 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives created the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Throughout 2023, Stanford refused to supply the Jira tickets to them, even when subpoenaed. Only when threatened with contempt proceedings did they comply.
The Committee published a four-part 17,000-page report in late 2024. They list numerous examples where EIP takedown requests were made without checking if the story was incorrect. Ticket EIP-713 targeted TGP and said, “We are sending this to you quickly as we likely won’t be able to figure out a fact-check here”.
Report Part 3 says, “The approach demonstrated in these and other tickets makes clear EIP’s focus was not about the truth, but the advancement of viewpoint-based discrimination.
The report also said, “Tickets had no justification for reporting the content other than CISA’s and the EIP’s own political agenda.” (pg. 76)
The 558 “Jira tickets” from the Weaponization Committee, the 24 TGP tickets, and the comments transcription are posted below.
Note: The NYTimes is mentioned often, but never for misinfo status. It was used for fact-checking, background reporting, or an example of mainstream coverage. This was clearly a government apparatus to eliminate and reduce news that did not agree with the party line.
Alex Stamos and CIS are the only two names listed as creating requests targeting TGP. The names on the other 22 TGP tickets are redacted. Stamos left Facebook in 2018 as their Chief Security Officer and founded the Stanford Internet Observatory in 2019. Stamos left in 2024 for SentinelOne, then Corridor, and is still an adjunct Stanford professor.
After the November 2020 election, the EIP election project was temporarily closed. In early 2021, with some new partners, the Stanford Internet Observatory was rebranded as the Virality Project. This was real-time monitoring of social media to identify and stop COVID “misinformation” or reports they disagreed with.
The EIP project was brought back for the 2022 election cycle and terminated afterward. The RNC declined to participate in EIP. Maybe they could have learned something, or obtained competitor insight if they did.
These projects didn’t just target news outlets, actors, or politicians. It also targeted everyday people who posted content they felt was truthful and important. In fact, the project had real-time access to 50 million COVID-related tweets per day.
Because of the House Weaponization Committee’s work, the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) shut itself down in 2024. The negative press, lawsuits, and proof they undermined free expression were just too much.
The SIU’s demise was a result of a string of efforts including the Murthy v. Missouri Supreme Court lawsuit that this website, The Gateway Pundit, was the lead plaintiff.
Not once did the EIP project contact TGP to discuss published articles. They wanted to silence entities without them knowing. A project like this, even 20 years ago, would have been laughed out of this country. We are glad it is gone…for now!
DOWNLOADS:
The Gateway Pundit 24 Jira Tickets (Excel)
House Weaponization Committee 558 Jira Tickets (Excel)
Actual Comments Extracted From the 24 TGP Jira Tickets.
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