Why is Facebook censoring news about Project 2025? Ask the Republican operatives working there!
Facebook does not want you to know about Project 2025 and the people behind it.
Democracy Labs created this app to make it easy to spot the Republican operatives behind Project 2025. The app uses data on 250 contributors to Project 2025 from Andra Watkin’s Substack newsletter “How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life”. It was carefully researched with links to more information.
Facebook censored sharing the list on Facebook. Why? Who at Facebook blocked it? Who is Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s vice president of global public policy? Why does Facebook not want people to know about the people scheming to overthrow American democracy with Project 2025. Judge for yourself, what is objectionable about the list Republicans behind Project 2025?
Joel Kaplan
Facebook spreads Republican disinformation and promotes right-wing conspiracy theories. Meet Joel Kaplan, Republican operative and Zuckerberg fixer.
“Kaplan is Facebook’s vice president of global public policy. He is a former energy company lobbyist and worked in the Bush Administration official. He is a strong conservative voice within Facebook and has helped place conservatives in key positions in the company. He advocates for right-wing websites like Breitbart News and The Daily Caller within the company and has had Facebook’s algorithm changed to promote the interests of right-wing publications. He prevented Facebook from closing down Facebook groups that were alleged to have circulated fake news, arguing that doing so would disproportionately target conservatives.” — Wikipedia
Joel Kaplan quiz
How well do you know Joel Kaplan? Take this quiz. Answers below.
- Joel was the Brooks Brother’s Riot in Miami which demanded an end the recount favoring Al Gore?
- Kaplan helped ‘quarterback’ Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court?
- Zuckerberg changed Facebook’s policies to be more lenient on Alex Jones at InfoWars who claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting was a “giant hoax” carried out by crisis actors?
- Facebook altered the language of its advertising policy to allow political candidates to lie in Facebook ads?
- Rudy Giuliani’s digital strategist worked at Facebook?
- Facebook hired the former Republican Chairman of Federal Communications Commission (FCC)?
- Facebook gives the right wing Daily Wire almost ten times as much engagement as the New York Times and Washington Post?
Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreesen and Jim Breyer
What Facebook does not want you to see
Use this app to see the people and groups behind Project 2025. The list reveals connections to Republican politicians, Republican donors, and Republican judges and justices. Project 2025 is fully embedded within the Republican Party and its partisan enablers. They aim to saddle Americans with their fascism, their gaslighting, their weaponized Christianity, and their relentless pursuit of power long after 45 is gone. — Andra Watkins
Hate groups
Several organizations where contributors work or have worked are classified as Hate Groups by the The Southern Poverty Law Center: Center for Immigration Studies (6 contributors), Alliance Defending Freedom (5 contributors), Federation for American Immigration Reform (3 contributors), Family Research Council (2 contributors), Center for Security Policy (1 contributor), and Family Watch International (1 contributor).
At least one hate group, the Family Research Council, classifies itself as a church for 501c3 purposes to avoid financial reporting requirements. (If one takes nothing else away from this exercise, please let it be that churches, political think tanks, and religious non-profits need to pay taxes.) — Andra Watkins
Koch connections
Multiple contributors have connections to Charles Koch. At least two contributors (Tom Homan, now at the Heritage Foundation; and John Zadrozny, now at Stephen Miller’s America First Legal Foundation) participated in 45’s Family Separation Policy. One contributor (Trent McCotter) authored a legal brief with Ted Cruz and Mike Johnson in the Loper Bright case, also known as the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Chevron, a stated policy goal of Project 2025. — Andra Watkins
The Republican Party and 45 may try to gaslight about their ties to Project 2025, but it is the true platform of the Fascist Republican Party. Its contributors have deep connections to prominent Republicans whose goal is to transform American democracy into fascist theocracy.
Learn more about Project 2025
Stop The Coup 2025 / Listen to podcast
How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life / Listen to podcast
What’s in a Trump dictatorship for you in Project 2025?
TakeAway: Stop billionaire owned media firms and Republican operatives censoring information about Trump’s Project 2025 scheme to overthrow American democracy.
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Answers to quiz: All true (unfortunately). See the Joel Kaplan network map for details.
Resources used to create Joel Kaplan relationship map:
Popular Info
The Guardian
Politico
Gizmodo
BuzzFeed News
Business Insdier
CNN
The Mary Sue
Miami Herald
Popular Resistance
Washington Post
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