The British Labour Party’s illegal operation to elect Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5 also includes a subsidiary effort to destroy Elon Musk’s X platform.
A group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), the creation of a Labour Party torpedo, has targeted Musk and seeks the help of top U.S. officials to wreck the platform, Paul Thacker and Matt Taibbi wrote for their Substack page The DisInformation Chronicle.
That means the CCDH, like the Labour Party, might be violating U.S. law — in this case, IRS rules that forbid nonprofits from lobbying on legislation.
“Kill Musk’s Twitter”
“In an explosive leak with ramifications for the upcoming U.S. presidential election, internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate — whose founder is British political operative Morgan McSweeney, now advising the Kamala Harris campaign — show the group plans in writing to “kill Musk’s Twitter” while strengthening ties with the Biden/Harris administration and Democrats like Senator Amy Klobuchar [Minn.], who has introduced multiple bills to regulate online “misinformation.”
CCDH is “hyperfocus[ed]” on Musk, the two reported. “’Kill Musk’s Twitter’ is the first item in the template of its monthly agenda notes dating back to the early months of this year.”
The center is a key fellow traveler of the British Labour Party and a “messaging vehicle” for the party’s think tank, Labour Together. McSweeney, now British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, founded both. He works with an anti-American subversive named Imran Ahmed, who runs CCDH.
“CCDH documents carry particular importance because McSweeney’s Labour Together political operatives have been teaching election strategy to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, leading Politico to call Labour and the Democrats ‘sister parties,’” Thacker and Taibbi reported:
CCDH’s focus on “Kill Musk’s Twitter” also adds to legal questions about the nonprofit’s tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) organization.
According to the IRS, CCDH could lose its special tax status if “a substantial part of its activities is attempting to influence legislation.” Yet, CCDH’s third item on its annual priority list is “Trigger EU and UK regulatory action” and the group previously employed the firm Lot Sixteen to lobby congressional offices on “misinformation” in Washington.
So Starmer’s top man is interfering in the November election. Starmer wants Harris to win for good reason:
The new British government also believes that a Harris defeat would leave Starmer “alone” as the “keeper of the center-left flame” and in “worrying isolation” as “the Grand Atlantic Alliance’s last hope.” On top of providing election strategy, over 100 “current and former Labour staffers” have begun knocking on doors for Harris this summer, drawing howls from Trump surrogates such as Sebastian Gorka, who called it a “bloody outrage.”
Labour Together has been meddling in the United States “through CCDH” for three years, the reporters explained. CCDH helped the party regain power in Britain by deplatforming rivals with “accusations of bigotry, misinformation, and other misdeeds.”
As well, a CCDH subsidiary, the defunct Stop Funding Fake News, targeted websites The Federalist and ZeroHedge during the Floyd Hoax riots of 2020.
That effort “often involved collaborating with a mainstream media outlet to level an accusation of bigotry, followed by a pressure campaign against advertisers to shut off revenue to the target,” the two reported:
“CCDH went directly after us and … worked with Google when they briefly suspended all advertising on Zero Hedge, our primary source of revenue then,” recalls Zero Hedge editor Tyler Durden, noting that the boycott came after CCDH worked with NBC on an article depicting them as racist for claiming damage from BLM riots was under-covered. Similar tactics led to demonetization of The Federalist, whose apparent crime was a June 3, 2020 piece called, “The Media Are Lying to You About Everything, Including the Riots.” Like Zero Hedge, The Federalist criticized mainstream coverage of BLM protests, including calling not-yet-fired CNN anchor Don Lemon a “not very bright man.”
“NBC News colluded with a foreign left-wing group in an attempt to destroy us because it disagrees with our political commentary and media criticism,” The Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway told The Wall Street Journal at the time.
CCDH also tried to deplatform and destroy Substack writers such as Alex Berenson, who published contrarian material about the China Virus vaccine.
Pressed to jettison the rebel voices, Substack told CCDH to “f**k off.” CCDH went away with its tail between its legs like a whipped pup.
Get Musk
But now, CCDH is hunting bigger game: namely, Elon Musk.
“CCDH’s growing Washington office is working on similar plans to ‘kill’ the online presence of Democratic rivals like Musk by attacking X’s advertising revenue, a tactic first perfected in London against The Canary [website]. CCDH is also laying the foundation for broader regulatory changes in the direction of platform censorship,” Thacker and Taibbi explained:
“60 meetings on the Hill,” reads one CCDH task assignment from early 2024. “Meeting with 16 congressional offices over the next two weeks to give updates on the Elon lawsuit,” reads another, referring to Musk’s since-dismissed lawsuit against CCDH accusing it of manipulating data to make a case for proliferation of hate speech on X.
CCDH also held meetings with federal legislators while pushing for “change in USA” toward a censorious proposal it calls the “STAR framework,” which would create an “independent digital regulator” that could “impose consequences for harmful content.” STAR’s core concepts are similar to Europe’s just-instituted Digital Services Act and Britain’s even more stringent Online Safety Act, which puts the national media regulator Ofcom in charge of determining fines for uncooperative platforms.
Problem is, CCDH could be violating the rules that govern its tax-exempt status. Indeed, the leak reveals that senior officials were worried about exactly that. IRS rules forbid nonprofits from lobbying on Capitol Hill to influence legislation. The officials also discussed relinquishing their tax-exempt status:
That the CCDH is pushing STAR in the US is obvious from its agenda notes. Equally clear however is that the group held those meetings while its senior officials wondered if they were violating lobbying laws. “Question on lobbying — if it is anything that Congress could have a vote on, it counts as lobbying,” reads one note from a January meeting. “Question on lobbying. Imran needs that to be checked, and if necessary register a c4 ASAP,” reads a later note in February.
CCDH gained tax-exempt status by registering as a 501(c)(3) organization in the US in 2021, but the IRS says “an organization will be regarded as attempting to influence legislation if it contacts, or urges the public to contact, members or employees of a legislative body for the purpose of proposing, supporting, or opposing legislation.” In some instances, it appears the group is cognizant of that line.
“Understanding our limitations… as a 501c3,” was another part of discussions last January. Nonetheless, the group repeatedly scheduled multiple meetings with legislators to discuss pushing STAR and other proposals, with Ahmed and others openly talking about pushing for legislation and how CCDH’s work “will help us inch towards our goal of regulatory action.”
IRS rules also forbid nonprofits “from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office.”
If CCDH is pushing to “Kill Musk’s Twitter,” it might be violating that rule, too. Musk has endorsed former President Donald Trump, and CCDH is clearly pro-Harris, pro-Democrat. The question is whether attempting to destroy X is indirectly opposing Trump’s candidacy.
“Single Package”
The two reporters explained that “CCDH, Labour Together, and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party exist as a single package, with McSweeney at the helm.”
And that “single package” has been meddling in U.S. politics for three years. That’s when Ahmed opened a CCDH office in Washington, D.C. He immediately “began working with American journalists to suppress dissent and enforce narratives friendly to Democrats and the Biden/Harris administration,” Thacker and Taibbi reported.
CCDH showed up in the Twitter files and used a letter from state attorneys general to deplatform a “Disinformation Dozen” because of their material about the Covid virus. One was Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:
“I hope you will take decisive action to prevent them from endangering people’s safety any longer,” wrote Imran Ahmed in a July 2020 email to Twitter, while forwarding the “The Disinformation Dozen” report.
“The Disinformation Dozen” report coincided nicely with a Biden administration campaign to beat back American fears of the COVID vaccine and was referenced by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki in a warning that social media companies should censor the accounts.
“There’s about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms,” Psaki claimed, citing the CCDH’s work.
But CCDH’s claims turned out to be “baseless.” The leftist major media “issued corrections” about CCDH’s disinformation.
Internal documents and CCDH whistleblowers revealed a major conspiracy to destroy Musk’s X. It included a “slew of liberal groups now organizing against Musk including a senior advisor at the White House, a Democratic Party staffer in the office of Congressman Adam Schiff [Calif.], Biden/Harris State Department officials, Canadian MP Peter Julian (recently tweeted “Boycott all advertisers on Twitter”) and Media Matters for America (a Democratic party-aligned watchdog now locked in a lawsuit with Musk),” the reporters explained.
Upshot of the Thacker-Taibbi exposé: The top men who work for the British prime minister are interfering in the U.S. presidential election.
Now we need to know Starmer’s role in this operation, as well as in direct election interference.
