Robby Mook cofounded the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) at Harvard University's Belfer Center in 2017 and remained a senior fellow there through the 2020 election. He's also an adjunct lecturer in the Harvard Kennedy School (Kennedy School) and an adjunct professor at Harvard Law School.
Mook's project was among several left-of-center "[c]ivil society collaborators [who] submitted tips through the trusted partner tip line and interacted with the EIP research team through briefings, partner meetings, and shared findings," according to the consortium’s after-action report.
- The misinformation reports to tech platforms including Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and Google had a 35% success rate in getting flagged content removed, labeled or "soft-blocked," the consortium said.
Mook’s Role
- Mook was an integral player in the false Russia collusion narrative and the disproven claim that then-candidate Donald Trump had a secret communications channel with Vladimir Putin routed through Moscow-based Alfa Bank
- As Clinton's 2016 campaign manager, Mook testified in this summer's criminal trial of former campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann that Clinton approved taking the allegation of a covert Trump Organization-Alfa Bank hotline to the press
- The campaign wasn't "totally confident" in the allegation and decided to give the information to a reporter so they could look into it and decide whether to publish it
- During cross-examination by the prosecution Mook said that he learned of the allegation from Perkins Coie law partner Mark Elias, whom the campaign had retained as outside general counsel. The former Clinton campaign manager said he then authorized a campaign staffer to go to press with the story and not go to the FBI because he didn't trust the FBI regarding the Trump-Russia allegation
The DHS-backed consortium resembles the Chinese internet censorship described in Freedom House reports a decade ago
- Former State Department official Mike Benz, who was slated to be its first-ever digital freedom ambassador in a second Trump administration, told the John Solomon Reports podcast that federal officials discussed their envy of the China model in "internal meetings and deliberations" in 2017 and 2018.
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