I am seeing this watermark agreement floating around as proof of the watermark psyop story.

The STATES do this, not the feds, and they do watermarks and other security measures EVERY election.

Here's the agreement from 2016 for California:

[link to elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov (secure)]

Each state has its own ballot printing regulations that must comply with federal law. You can look up your state's ballot printing regulations easily. Yes, there are federal regulations too, but they serve as guidelines for the states. The feds don't actually print it. If the feds wanted to do the watermarks, they would have to seek the cooperation of the very same Secretaries of State that they are accusing of fraud in this fairy tale sting.

It doesn't work this way. They send out the paper to printers, but THE STATES contract with the printers and they are printed to their specifications.

When Trump says he won the vote Twitter points out it is yet to be officially called:

But when Trudeau congratulates Biden on winning the election no such warning is forthcoming, or indeed when Biden and Kamala congratulate themselves:

Earlier today I demonstrated the laughable and ludicrous mistakes made by a BBC “Reality Check Team” tasked with covering up the Democrat vote fraud in Michigan. See here: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/11/05/press-prostitutes-make-foo...

Now the presstitutes at USA Today have come up with a totally different coverup for the same fraud.

The earlier BBC coverup reported that election officials said they had made a “data entry error.” This error, said to have been corrected, was the way the BBC explained away a sudden 138,000 votes for Biden in the early hours of the morning when no one was watching.

I blew this lie out of the water.

So the presstitutes had to find another coverup.

Once the hysteria over the presidential election recedes, it should be interesting to see what the Fox News Channel’s ratings look like. Online, there is definitely a backlash growing against the disgraced outlet.

What should worry Fox above all is that they appear to have forever lost their core viewers, the people who were once the most loyal.

You never want to lose your base. Once you lose your base, you’re in serious trouble.

The backlash had been brewing for a while but really took off after Chris Wallace’s dreadful and dreadfully biased and dishonest role as moderator in the first presidential debate between President Trump and Joe Biden.

The backlash then went nuclear after Fox News maliciously and erroneously called Arizona for Joe Biden on Tuesday night — a state that is still too close to call.

The American public has been inundated with “experts” on voting who are working overtime to convince us that voter fraud is a myth and can’t be committed on the massive scale, as President Trump and his supporters are suggesting. More and more whistleblowers like an election worker in Detroit who was told to backdate ballots and former Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich are stepping up and proving that the Democrat media’s narrative about voter fraud being a myth is a lie.

Business-focused US media outlet Quartz has gone into damage-control mode, apologizing for tweeting an explainer about what happens if Democratic candidate Joe Biden dies before inauguration just as the press called his victory.

“It may seem morbid, but given that Biden, at 77, will be the oldest president-elect in history and is running in the midst of a pandemic, it’s worth clarifying what would happen if he dies before taking office,” an article by Tim McDonnell, Quartz’s climate reporter, said just minutes after CNN and other media outlets declared Biden the victor.

Multiple Rupert Murdoch-owned conservative media outlets in the United States have shifted their messaging in a seeming effort to warn readers and viewers that Donald Trump may well have lost the presidential election.

The new messaging appears to be closely coordinated, and it includes an appeal to Mr Trump to preserve his “legacy” by showing grace in defeat. The message is being carried on Fox News and in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post – all outlets avidly consumed by Mr Trump himself, especially Fox.

One Fox News host, Laura Ingraham, an intimate of the president ever since she spoke at the 2016 Republican national convention, made an astounding statement that seemed directed at Mr Trump personally, advising him to accept defeat “if and when that does happen” with “grace and composure” and appealing to his sense of his own legacy.

This is a bogus conspiracy theory.

The federal government has no role in printing ballots or in the on-the-ground mechanics of elections. The responsibility lies with state and local governments.

Some states may require a watermark on ballots, but there is no evidence of a secret Trump-issued watermark on “official ballots.”

We are in the midst of a flaming dumpster fire of an election. Deep blue areas like Fulton County in Georgia, Philadelphia, and Detroit, along with states like Arizona and Nevada, are a national embarrassment. Scratch that, an international embarrassment. Somehow, Florida, one of the largest and most contested states, reported its results on election night. There are some governors, including my own, who should be asking for Florida’s blueprint.

President Trump has assembled a team to challenge some of the more blatant irregularities. This has Democrats and their media activists demanding he just takes the L if initial counts come through for Joe Biden. They insist on this despite the prima facie shadiness observed by the entire country.

President Donald Trump's allies have turned to Facebook and other social media sites in an effort to spark nationwide protests against the 2020 election, thrusting some of Silicon Valley's most powerful organizing tools into a contest over the legitimacy of American democracy.

The campaign and its aides have relied on a network of new and existing Facebook pages, groups and events - some of which have garnered hundreds of thousands of members - to rally people in public this week around a baseless conspiracy theory that Democratic candidate Joe Biden is attempting to "steal" the election. Some of the efforts promoted in places like Pennsylvania and Arizona specifically target vote-counting centers, threatening disruptions while ballot-tallying is still underway.

President Donald Trump delivered remarks on Thursday evening on his current standing in the elections and reported fraud and irregularities in Democratic strongholds.

President Trump set election night records in his landslide victory. Then since the late hours in the morning on Wednesday Democrats in battleground states began dumping hundreds of thousands of tainted votes into the pool to gradually whittle away at the president’s leads in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Arizona.

Trump had more votes and more minority votes than ANY REPUBLICAN in history.

Now Democrats are actively attempting to steal this election from the American people.

Amid the turbulence of the Communist Left’s evolving theft of President Trump’s election victory is their vigorous censorship campaign. Twitter is audaciously censoring messages from our President, Donald J. Trump, at this most crucial time in US history. On Thursday, Steve Bannon’s YouTube live stream was cut-off mid-program as he and his team discussed the blatant election fraud by the Communist Left. Facebook is actively removing all groups dedicated to exposing and reporting on election fraud. The fear among the social media monopolies is rampant as they panic that citizens are becoming increasingly aware of the intricacies of their coup.

Matt Taibbi discusses the controversial new developments surrounding possible corruption in the Biden family. Taibbi takes us back to the original controversy of Biden’s supposed pressure on the Ukrainian government to dismiss prosecutor Viktor Shokin when Biden was Vice President. The mainstream press, says Taibbi, remains united in their view on this issue: the dismissal had nothing to do with Hunter Biden’s activities on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, and anyone claiming otherwise is just spouting right-wing talking points. In his latest series of articles, Taibbi reexamines some of the circumstances surrounding this story. He also ties it to more recent revelations about Hunter Biden’s laptop, a story that has received even more disdain from the mainstream media. Taibbi is deeply concerned about tech company censorship of news organizations, fearing that this could signal a trend that spells the loss of a free press in America.

Vladimir Putin is poised to step back from the Russian presidency after being diagnosed with a neurological condition. That’s according to a Moscow commentator who once claimed membership of a shadowy, secret intelligence group.

The explosive suggestion, made by political scientist Valery Solovey, was covered widely in US and UK news on Friday. Outlets including the Sun, the Daily Mail and the New York Post ran the story that Putin has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The tabloids, among the most read in the West, suggested that the president would stand down next year.

The Big Three broadcast news outlets and National Public Radio all cut off the feed of President Trump’s remarks on the election Thursday night, barring the American people from hearing his side of the vote counting controversies in several battleground states. The news outlets accused Trump of spreading falsehoods and piously said they would not broadcast them.

One news outlet, USA Today, not only cut Trump off but then also removed video of Trump’s remarks from all of their platforms–an extraordinary effort to censor the President of the United States more common in communist China.

I'm in the Trump Hotel in Washington DC having spent the evening at a Republican campaign party. The mood of the room changed as new voting numbers became known. The only thing that is certain at the time of writing is that Donald Trump has exceeded expectations. He was written off but things are neck and neck.

There are now legitimate grounds on which to ask some serious questions about the polling industry.

Its practitioners managed to get the Brexit result totally wrong in 2016. They got Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign wrong too.

These companies have consistently shown Joe Biden to be strongly in the lead and, once again, they are totally wrong. Unless they radically reform their methodology, why should anybody listen to them?

The US mainstream media finds itself in a similar position.

Steve Pieczenik gives his take on the Holocaust and the Origin of the modern state of Israel.

Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi examine how the press and the major tech platforms function as a propaganda and censorship bureau on behalf of the Democratic Party and the Biden campaign.

Taibbi, author and journalist has been following developments since Twitter and Facebook blocking a New York Post story about a cache of emails reportedly belonging to Democratic nominee Joe Biden's son Hunter, with Twitter blocking the New York Post out of its own account for over a week.

The overt censorship is emblematic of the widening and dangerous partisan divide into information that hurts or promotes one political faction over another, and is now infecting nearly all news organizations.

The post's timing occurred minutes after Trump declared victory in the US presidential elections early Wednesday morning.

Nine hours later, the gruesome photograph remains uncensored by Twitter and outlines the conservative bias on the social media platform.

Griffin did not post a caption with the photograph. Her hatred towards the president led to her firing by CNN in 2017 for tweeting the same image.

In recent weeks, there's been a massive uproar among conservative users of Facebook and Twitter, who allege these left-leaning social media platforms are unfairly censoring them.

Griffin's post has been up for nine hours, receiving more than 10.9k retweets and 48.5k likes. Yet, the image could be breaking Twitter's sensitive media policy, which means users "may not post media that is excessively gory or share violent or adult content within live video or in profile header, or List banner images. Media depicting sexual violence and/or assault is also not permitted."

Twitter went on another censorship blitz today, targeting the account of President Trump and numerous conservative journalists and commentators as concerns and disputes about incoming election results continued to mount.

Twitter which censored Trump and the Trump campaign over 65 times during the campaign while leaving Biden untouched, censored three tweets from the President in the space of a few hours.

“They are working hard to make up 500,000 vote advantage in Pennsylvania disappear — ASAP. Likewise, Michigan and others!”

Regardless of the official outcome of these elections one thing is for sure, polls cannot be trusted in general and especially with a candidate like president Trump.

Opinion pollsters have once again proved terribly wrong in the US Presidential election, four years after Hillary Clinton was widely predicted to win and lost.

Polls held just before election day this time around gave Biden an average lead of ten points nationally, and smaller margins in swing states, which all-but evaporated on the day itself.

Heading into the election the aggregate poll average had Biden up by 8-9 points. This was based on hundreds of polls and had been steady for six months. Yet instead of the landslide for Biden that the right-thinking echo chamber was expecting, we’re looking at a photo-finish.

And this after they had *already* got it similarly wrong in 2016, and had been claiming all along they had learned from their error and had updated their methods so that nothing like that could happen again.

They didn’t just get it wrong. They got it wrong by a massive margin.

They didn’t just get it wrong by a massive margin. They got it wrong by a massive margin twice in a row.

They didn’t just get it wrong by a massive margin twice in a row. They got it wrong by a massive margin twice in a row, *after* they had spent years assuring us they had foolproofed their models.

Twitter has censored a recent post by President Donald Trump, marking it as “disputed” and stating that it might be “misleading about an election.” Facebook placed a warning label on Trump’s similar post to its platform, although its action is far less restrictive than Twitter’s.

President Trump recently expressed his feelings about a recent Supreme Court ruling on voting in Pennsylvania in a tweet, which Twitter has now marked as “misleading.” Trump stated: “The Supreme Court decision on voting in Pennsylvania is a VERY dangerous one. It will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. It will also induce violence in the streets. Something must be done!”

You might recall earlier this month, the State Department told the Republican National Committee that it would take approximately 75 years to fulfill an open records request seeking access to emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aides. We are not exaggerating, a government lawyer actually wrote that it would take that long. Justin Sandberg, a DOJ attorney, said that they could only process about 500 pages a month. That translates to about 14 to 20 emails per work day. The government claims that the RNC’s FOIA request amounts to hundreds of thousands of emails and was “too burdensome” to fulfill.

Silicon Valley’s selective censorship of news stories isn’t limited to just the U.S. presidential election, a right of center veterans group said Monday. YouTube and Google platforms are violating the free speech rights of an Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans organization, a veteran and the group’s founder said, by refusing to allow online promotion of its video honoring a U.S. Marine two-time Medal of Honor recipient and urging an end to U.S. military involvement in “endless wars” in the Middle East.

One of the suspects in the “international” show trial for the downing of MH17 (Malaysia Airlines Flight 17) Boeing 777-200ER, over Eastern Ukraine in 2014, Russian Sergey Dubinsky, stated that a group of Dutch journalists offered him 50,000 euros (around $58,000) for the “truthful account” of what “really happened” to the Malaysian passenger jet.

Dubinsky gave an interview to a journalist working for the Bonanza Media and announced his readiness to undergo a polygraph in the presence of international investigators in Russia.

With merchants in Democrat-run cities boarding up their storefront windows, the possibility of serious urban violence is well-understood. As horrific as that could get (ask anyone who lives in Minneapolis), the progressive fascists appear to have a plan in place to make it even worse: disguising their rioters as Trump supporters in order to make the case that Donald Trump truly is a dictator that must be violently overthrown if he wins, or arrested and prosecuted if he loses.

A source that has always been reliable was able to photograph an Antifa flyer:

Earlier this week I reported how a mere 6 companies control almost everything we see in the corporate media. On the corporate news networks, it is common to use “doctors” to get a specific message across to the public, by using their “appeal to authority,” where facts and real science are not even needed to convince the masses. See:

Brainwashing the Masses: 6 Companies Own Almost ALL of the Media in the U.S. – Using Medical “Doctors” to Sell Their Message

This is true beyond just the corporate media news broadcasts, which are controlled by the Billionaires on Wall Street, primarily the pharmaceutical industry today.

But it goes beyond just news broadcasts, as their propaganda can be even more effective in the entertainment industry, where critical thinking skills are relaxed all in the name of “entertainment.”

Journalist Glenn Greenwald has made major waves throughout mainstream and alternative media by resigning from The Intercept, an outlet he co-founded in 2014 with the stated mission of holding power to account with the power of unrestricted journalism.

Greenwald says he resigned because Intercept editors refused to let him publish an article he’d been working on about the mass media’s role in covering up the Hunter Biden October surprise and obfuscating its nature, which he says is a violation of the conditions in his contract for editorial freedom. He also published part of the email exchanges he’d been having with the editors in the lead-up to submitting his notice of resignation.

Freedom of speech on the Internet is all but extinct, and on the eve of the 2020 US elections, a de facto “free speech court” is going to make sure it never comes back. On Facebook at least.

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Days away from the most polarized electoral contest in American history, social media companies like Facebook have vowed to censor any voices which they and their partners in the federal government consider inconvenient. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook is ready to implement election information strategies that have been in the works for years.

Company spokesman Andy Stone told the WSJ that the social media giant will be applying the “lessons” learned from previous elections in accordance with the designs of “hired experts” and vague references to “new teams,” who are leveraging their “experience across different areas to prepare for various scenarios.”

A Department of Homeland Security election alert spawning new Russia fears was so incoherent and inconsistent with previous findings, it suggested a state of political panic inside the agency.

Just days before the 2020 election the bureaucratic forces behind the original claim of Russian hacking of state election-related websites in 2016 launched a new drive to spawn fears of Moscow-made political chaos in the wake of the voting.

The new narrative was not consistent with information previously published by the the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), however. It was so incoherent, in fact, that it suggested a state of panic on the part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials worried about a possible transition to a Joe Biden administration.

During a recent appearance on “America This Week” with Eric Bolling, Rudy Giuliani went on a tirade over Twitter’s censorship of the HunterGate bombshells.

Seeing as how Twitter has no problem with people sharing the Borat prank story, Giuliani wants to know why the Biden Crime Family’s treasonous behavior is off-limits on the social media platform.

“I think Jack Dorsey is covering up child pornography,” Giuliani declared as the only possible explanation for why Twitter refuses to allow information about HunterGate to be shared.

“This is completely unjustifiable not to cover this story. It’s completely un-American. It’s inconsistent with everything we were founded to be.”

The Big Tech censorship by Jack Dorsey’s Twitter of the New York Post story on Hunter Biden and Joe Biden is so egregious that I have to speak up. If there were any doubt, it is now clear that Twitter’s censorship system is set up to survey, capture, control, and manipulate the political narrative within this country.

Make no mistake, the mathematical parameters and algorithms that Dorsey’s team developed and implemented had this goal in mind. Despite what he and his company might have you believe, his frustration and anger are more likely related to getting caught, and the resulting public outrage, not the wanting of some algorithm.

Any remaining lines between social media companies and the political propaganda and covert influence world have been erased. Powerful men such as Dorsey and the other tech giants who control social media platforms are meddling in inflammatory issues to engineer and influence the outcome of the upcoming election.

In September, 2018, The New York Times published an op-ed that became an instant media sensation. The content of the opinion piece was unremarkable: banal anti-Trump agitprop. Noting “the president’s amorality,” the author wrote that Trump “is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making” and his “impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic” — no different than what one reads virtually every day from that paper’s small army of relentlessly on-script anti-Trump columnists or that one hears daily on panels assembled by MSNBC or CNN.

The podcast, which you can view at the bottom of this article, is interesting for several reasons. Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi are both what would, until very recently, be considered mainstream journalists. Now they see themselves on the outside of a monolithic system where information has been completely politicized to the point of it being, in Taibbi’s words, “a one-party media environment.” I rather doubt that either of them are Trump supporters, but they realize that if Trump loses, things will get even worse. Self-censorship, which is undoubtedly already high, will increase as lines that cannot be crossed without ending one’s career touch on ever more subjects. They compare the situation to the Soviet Union where everyone knew that the official media could not be trusted, but underground Samizdat documents were treasured.

Matt Taibbi discusses the controversial new developments surrounding possible corruption in the Biden family. Taibbi takes us back to the original controversy of Biden’s supposed pressure on the Ukrainian government to dismiss prosecutor Viktor Shokin when Biden was Vice President. The mainstream press, says Taibbi, remains united in their view on this issue: the dismissal had nothing to do with Hunter Biden’s activities on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, and anyone claiming otherwise is just spouting right-wing talking points. In his latest series of articles, Taibbi reexamines some of the circumstances surrounding this story. He also ties it to more recent revelations about Hunter Biden’s laptop, a story that has received even more disdain from the mainstream media. Taibbi is deeply concerned about tech company censorship of news organizations, fearing that this could signal a trend that spells the loss of a free press in America.

Renee Graham, a columnist for the Boston Globe, compared the caravans springing up around the country in support of President Donald Trump with Islamic State terrorist invasions.

“See the difference? Me neither.” Graham tweeted on Saturday under two photos, one of a pro-Trump caravan and the other of footage of armed ISIS terrorists.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson devoted a segment of his show on Wednesday night to damning documents supposedly proving corruption by Democratic nominee Joe Biden—except they had mysteriously vanished in transit.

“On Monday of this week, we received from a source a collection of confidential documents related to the Biden family,” Carlson told viewers. “We believe those documents are authentic, they’re real, and they’re damning.”

“We texted a producer in New York and we asked him to send those documents to us in LA,” Carlson went on. “He shipped those documents overnight to California with a large national carrier brand … But the Biden documents never arrived in Los Angeles. Tuesday morning we received word from the shipping company that our package had been opened and the contents were missing. The documents had disappeared.”

Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chad Wolf called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to “commit to never again censoring content” on its platform after the big tech giant temporarily suspended the account of Acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan.

Following contentious Congressional testimony this week from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and a 22% drop on Friday, the social media giant finally decided to unlock the New York Post's account just days before the general election - after more than two weeks in Twitter jail for posting a negative article on the company's preferred candidate, Joe Biden.

Psychologist Robert Epstein tells 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' how social media giants are interfering in the US election

Just days before the election, but certainly still dismissed from coverage by the very networks that for years peddled the hoax, the final nail has gone into the Steele dossier coffin.

Already widely debunked, including by no less than Special Counsel Robert Mueller who the Steele dossier advocates put all their hopes in only for their delusion to eventually be shattered, a key source for many of its claims has been revealed by The Wall Street Journal to be a disgruntled Russian PR executive living in Cyprus.

Mass mailing service Mailchimp, a US based marketing automation service, has updated its Terms of Use regarding types of content that are prohibited for distribution on the platform. In particular, the service now "does not allow the distribution of content that is, in our sole discretion, materially false, inaccurate, or misleading, in a way that could deceive or confuse others about important events, topics, or circumstances."

I am posting here the most recent draft of my article about Joe and Hunter Biden — the last one seen by Intercept editors before telling me that they refuse to publish it absent major structural changes involving the removal of all sections critical of Joe Biden, leaving only a narrow article critiquing media outlets. I will also, in a separate post, publish all communications I had with Intercept editors surrounding this article so you can see the censorship in action and, given the Intercept’s denials, decide for yourselves (this is the kind of transparency responsible journalists provide, and which the Intercept refuses to this day to provide regarding their conduct in the Reality Winner story).

For years now, CNN has made it clear that they are an anti-Trump network. All day long, they run with the most Trump-critical programming they can create. They have pushed every imaginable anti-Trump story from the ‘fine people’ hoax to the Russia hoax.

Now CNN has decided it no longer likes negative programming, even if it’s true, as long as it’s critical of Joe Biden.

They are refusing to air an anti-Biden ad even though it’s accurate.

Social media were supposed to democratize speech, liberating the people of the world from the tyranny of gatekeepers. They failed. Seduced by vanity and ideology, they’ve become censors themselves, a Soviet-style thought police.
Once upon a time, Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil,” Facebook was all about connecting people, and Twitter executives proclaimed it the “free speech wing of the free speech party.” Fast-forward to 2020, and they’re all about ‘deplatforming’ voices the legacy media and the political establishment has denounced as unworthy of being heard.

During a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey alleged that his platform had never censored President Trump, a claim which is provably false.

Yesterday, during a hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, the CEO’s of Facebook, Twitter, and Google discussed their various platforms and allegations of censorship. During the hearing, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey alleged that his platform had never censored President Donald Trump.

“We have not censored the U.S. president,” Dorsey echoed. “We do not take down the tweets but we add context around it.” However, numerous examples of the President being silenced on Twitter can easily be found.

A man who has been accused of an attempted kidnap scheme against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., also reportedly made warnings targeting President Trump.

Barry Croft, of Delaware, is said to have published several threats against elected officials on his Facebook page, including a comment about executing Trump, according to an unsealed FBI search warrant affirmation obtained.

Democrats have said that the plot to kidnap Whitmer was done by the right-wing, or orchestrated by Trump. But now they want to hang Trump, which completely disproves the allegations.

Glenn Greenwald explains why he thinks most American media will not cover the Hunter Biden scandal.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been disgusted with my colleagues in my profession as I have been in the last three weeks because of this story,”... “In general, journalists do not care about where material comes from if it’s A, authentic, and B, newsworthy.”

“Sometimes you get great documents from sources who have terrible motives,” He continued. “Like Deep Throat leaked about the Nixon administration to The Washington Post, not because he was a Snowden, not because he was noble, but because he was resentful that Nixon passed him over to be the director of the FBI.”

He claimed the argument that the revelations from Hunter Biden’s laptop “might have come from Russia” was a “complete corruption of the journalistic function.” Greenwald added the real reason most news outlets won’t cover the story is because “they’re all desperate for Trump to lose.”

Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.

The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.

The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.

A former Trump administration official who went completely against the president with an op-ed and book under the pen name “Anonymous” revealed himself Wednesday as a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security.

The official, Miles Taylor, said in a tweet six days before Election Day that president Trump is “a man without character” and “it’s time for everyone to step out of the shadows.”

Taylor has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration in recent months and had repeatedly denied he was the author of the column, even to colleagues at CNN, where he has a contributor contract. He left the Trump administration in June and endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president this past summer.

Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey found himself the biggest target at Wednesday’s Senate hearing, with the tech head being attacked for everything from his laid-back look to confusing answers on censorship and Holocaust denial.

Before Dorsey even opened his mouth on Wednesday, the meme-makers had already got to work. Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Dorsey appeared with a long, disheveled beard, a look that left many on social media scratching their heads and instantly pouncing.

“I can't believe they made Ben Gunn the head of Twitter,” conservative commentator Ben Shapiro tweeted, in reference to a character from ‘Treasure Island’ marooned on an island for years.

Republican senator Ted Cruz tore into Jack Dorsey Wednesday during a hearing on Big Tech's handling of politics on their platforms as he bashed the Twitter CEO for censoring tweets linking to the New York Post story revealing the contents of Hunter Biden's damaging hard drive.

'Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear? And why do you persist in behaving as a Democratic Super PAC silencing views to the contrary of your political beliefs?' Cruz shouted as he joined in remotely for a hearing on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The law allows tech platforms not to be sued for what their users post.

The hearing was called by Republican senators in the wake of Twitter stopping tweets linking to the story about Hunter Biden, and Facebook limiting its users' ability to post it. It was titled: 'Does Section 230's Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?'

It's clear that Twitter's Jack Dorsey has perhaps unintentionally acknowledged that Twitter's unofficial moderating system is based simply on whoever shows the most outrage.

In response to questioning from Sen. Rick Scott, Dorsey replied:

“We don’t have a general policy around misleading information and misinformation... We rely upon people calling that speech out.”

For all their talk of “neutral platforms,” the Big Shots at Big Tech — Twitter, Facebook and Google — are running a protection racket. They figure they can dictate what Americans get to see and read, and what other media companies must do to reach the public via those platforms.

It’s a clear threat to a healthy democracy — and Congress has noticed. On Wednesday, the Senate launched a hearing to investigate “Big Tech’s bad behavior.”

Center-stage: Twitter’s strong-arm tactics to censor The Post ever since we began reporting on Hunter Biden’s emails. First, it froze our account and banned our stories; then, amid a public backlash, it agreed to unfreeze us — but only if we deleted our original tweets.