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New Emails Show DHS Created Stanford ‘Disinfo’ Group That Censored Speech Before 2020 Election

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New emails show officials at the Department of Homeland Security created a Stanford University “disinformation” group that censored Americans’ speech before the 2020 election, according to a House Judiciary Committee report exclusively obtained by The Post.

The House panel’s 103-page staff interim report says never-before-seen emails and internal communications were obtained from the group, known as the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), and show how it worked with DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to flag, suppress and remove online speech in coordination with big tech companies.

One of EIP’s founding partners — the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab — described CISA’s central role in the alleged censorship effort in a July 31, 2020, email.

“I know the Council has a number of efforts on broad policy around the elections, but we just set up an election integrity partnership at the request of DHS/CISA and are in weekly comms to debrief about disinfo,” the lab’s senior director Graham Brookie wrote.

The staff report says, “[T]he federal government and universities pressured social media companies to censor true information, jokes, and political opinions. (Read more from “New Emails Show DHS Created Stanford ‘Disinfo’ Group That Censored Speech Before 2020 Election” HERE)

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Stanford Law Accreditation, Required Courses Under Scrutiny After Students Shut Down Judge

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Scrutiny of Stanford Law School is growing after it refused to discipline students for repeatedly disrupting a conservative federal appeals court judge and even pledged to prevent judges from identifying them by blurring their faces from a video it was paid to make.

House Education Committee Republicans asked the American Bar Association in a Friday letter to investigate whether the school was out of compliance with ABA accreditation conditions based on its treatment of 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan.

A high-profile legal scholar who faced similar sustained heckling last year from students at the University of California College of the Law, Ilya Shapiro, joined George Washington University Law School’s John Banzhaf in criticizing Stanford Law for giving a pass to the heckler’s veto.

Both have also called for bar admissions complaints to be filed against the students who shouted down and hurled crude slurs at Judge Duncan, allegedly including “We hope your daughters get raped!”

Required first-year courses for Stanford Law students may help explain their illiberal attitudes and apparent unfamiliarity with the First Amendment, according to Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official who perused the curriculum. (Read more from “Stanford Law Accreditation, Required Courses Under Scrutiny After Students Shut Down Judge” HERE)

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Stanford Students Protest Dean for Apologizing to Trump-Appointed Judge

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Hundreds of black-clad, masked students hijacked a class by the head of Stanford Law School — in protest at her apologizing to the Trump-appointed federal judge who copped abuse from the students.

When dean Jenny Martinez returned to teaching after apologizing to US Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan for last week’s stunt, she found her classroom vandalized with signs, photos obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.

“Counter-speech is free speech,” argued many of the fliers — a claim that was printed on most of the students’ masks, the outlet said.

“We have free speech rights too,” read another, while a third demanded an apology.

At the end of her class, all but a handful of Martinez’s class of 60 stood and stared at her silently to suggest they were also being silenced, students said. (Read more from “Stanford Students Protest Dean for Apologizing to Trump-Appointed Judge” HERE)

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Stanford’s Class of 2026 Doesn’t ‘Look Like America’; U.S. is “Publicly Committing Suicide”

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The demographic profile of Stanford University’s class of 2026 is out, with 1,736 matriculated students in the freshman class of one of the world’s most prestigious universities. But as some perceptive critics were quick to notice, one key demographic is disproportionately underrepresented: While whites make up more than 50 percent of the nation’s adolescent population, per 2019 Office of Population Affairs numbers, they were only 22 percent of Stanford’s class of 2026. A Twitter user by the name of Fischer King was one of the first to flag the disparity, adding: “Now I’m speculating, but admitted white men are likely connected — legacies, or just bought way in. The rural math genius like John Nash — he has no chance.”

Progressive journalist Elizabeth Spiers, on the other hand, suggests this is simply meritocracy at work:

Of course, if Spiers and her counterparts believe that the underrepresentation of whites is simply the result of merit, they would ostensibly be fine with ending affirmative action — after all, the stated purpose of affirmative action was “to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body,” as Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in the majority opinion for the Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling on the matter, Grutter v. Bollinger. Now that said “diversity” is apparently attainable without the artificial engineering of race-conscious admissions, we can return to colorblind candidate selection. Right?

Spiers, for her part, goes on to attribute the fact that there are more women than men in Stanford’s class of 2026 — 54 to 46 percent — to the fact “that girls outperform boys in school,” maintaining: “Given that we know that empirically, anyone who is confused about why there might be slightly more women than men is just asserting their own biases.” Excellent: We’ve relegated Ibram X. Kendi’s “all disparities are proof of discrimination” — “when I see racial disparities, I see racism” — to the dustbin of history where it belongs. Overrepresentation of one group, and underrepresentation of another, in a particular institution is no longer proof, in and of itself, of systemic bias. I look forward to Spiers extending that logic to the nation’s prison system, policing, crime, income inequality, marriage rates, Fortune 500 C-suites, the so-called “wage gap,” and heavily male-dominated careers in STEM. (Read more from “Stanford’s Class of 2026 Doesn’t ‘Look Like America’” HERE)

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‘Flawed’ COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Leads to Protests

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Dozens of medical residents and fellows at Stanford University’s affiliate hospital held a protest Friday after they were shunted to the back of the COVID-19 vaccination line — leaving red-faced administrators to admit the rollout had “flaws.”

“First in the room, back of the line!” residents and fellows chanted at a protest held at the Bay Area hospital, Stanford Medical.

“We came out here after we learned that only seven out of 1,349 residents were selected for the first wave of vaccinations,” third-year resident Charles Marcus told NBC during the protest. . .

“Our intent was to roll out an ethical and equitable plan for the entire organization, and there were flaws in that plan that we are actively trying to repair,” administrators said in a statement. (Read more from “‘Flawed’ COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Leads to Protests” HERE)

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Stanford Doctors: It’s Time to Ban All Semi-Automatic Firearms

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Over 2,500 medical students and healthcare professionals at over 30 leading medical centers held events on Monday urging the public to treat “gun violence” as a public health crisis, The Mercury News reported.

The events were part of Scrubs Addressing the Firearms Epidemic (SAFE), a non-partisan action co-founded by Stanford’s Professor of Medicine Dr. Dean Winslow, a Republican, and fourth year medical student Sarabeth Spitzer, a Democrat. Winslow is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and flight surgeon who was deployed six times to Iraq and Afghanistan.

At Stanford, healthcare professionals spoke about the health risk associated with guns, the gun epidemic and trauma care. At the University of California San Francisco, two panels discussed California’s firearms laws and recommended ways to talk to patients about firearm access, safety, and risk. . .

“If this were any other public health problem, we wouldn’t stand for it. But it’s such a hot button political topic that we lose the ability to talk about it,” Spain told The Mercury News. “We’ve been a little slow. We’re politically adverse. Our mission is education and research. This is advocacy.”

Medical associations and groups have become involved in the gun control debate. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and the American Medical Association are just a few who have thrown their hat into the arena. (Read more from “Stanford Doctors: It’s Time to Ban All Semi-Automatic Firearms” HERE)

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Stanford Study Finds Conservative Professors Shunned by Law Schools

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A researcher at Stanford University has confirmed what many have suspected for some time: conservative law professors are being discriminated against at the nation’s most elite law schools.

The study was recently published by James C. Phillips, a non-resident Fellow with the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. The findings seem to indicate that conservative-leaning law professors are facing discrimination at top-tier law schools in ways distinct from their liberal counterparts.

Titled “Testing a Beckerian-Arrowian Model of Political Orientation Discrimination on the U.S. Law Professor Labor Market: Measuring the ‘Rank Gap’, 2001-2010”, Phillips’ research concludes that “conservative and libertarian law professors are underrepresented in top-tier legal academia, whether compared to the American population overall, those who graduate from law school, or elite lawyers who look like most law professors.”

Phillips went on to add that the core issue is most likely “not discrimination against conservatives and libertarians so much as discrimination against anyone who is not liberal.”

The study demonstrates that, when looking at the hiring practices of law schools between the years of 2001 and 2010, the three categories of professors labeled “conservative/libertarian”, “liberal”, and “unknown” appear to be unevenly distributed. (Read more from “Stanford Study Finds Conservative Professors Shunned by Law Schools” HERE)

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Stanford PhD Cancer Researcher ‘Poisoned’ Classmates’ Water With Carcinogenic Embalming Fluid

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studentA PhD student from Stanford has been caught trying to poison her classmates by putting a known carcinogen in their water bottles.

Police have charged 26-year-old Xiangyu Ouyang with four felony counts of poisoning after investigators say the student put paraformaldehyde – which could cause death if consumed in large amounts – in her classmates water bottles beginning last September, according to Daily Mail.

Ouyang was at Stanford on a prestigious Agency for Science, Technology and Research scholarship that Singapore gives out to top students. She will now face up to eight years behind bars.

“I am truly sorry for what happened, but I really didn’t mean to harm people,” she told police. “It was me crying out for help.”

Ouyang was described by fellow classmates as shy and insecure, with one of her victims telling authorities that the girl “had never had a boyfriend, and envied those who had.” (Read more from “Stanford PhD Cancer Researcher ‘Poisoned’ Classmates’ Water With Carcinogenic Embalming Fluid” HERE)

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