A former CIA officer coauthored a report urging social media companies to reduce your account’s reach based on your connections to OTHER accounts. Yaël Eisenstat, who also ran Facebook’s elections integrity operations for political ads, coauthored the June 2026 report recommending: “Penalizing the distribution of accounts connected to users or pages which repeatedly share violative or borderline content” The next line specifically singles out election and civic content. The proposed penalty extends to connected accounts—without specifying that those accounts must themselves have broken a rule. Who helped develop this blueprint? UNC professor Daniel Kreiss and former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer are listed as contributors. There’s also a recommendation to slow posts spreading beyond an account’s network until they can be reviewed. Ahead of the 2026 midterms: throttle viral posts, penalize connected accounts, and extend enforcement to content platforms consider “borderline.”

EXC: Obama campaign veterans are recruiting lawyers to help get election posts TAKEN DOWN before the midterms. The organization is Voter Protection Corps. Its recruitment notice spells out the attorneys’ role: “lending legal credibility to formal removal requests.” Volunteers flag election content. Attorneys review it and help prepare requests for platforms to remove it. They already tested the process. VPC’s report describes a 2025 operation with platform-specific removal templates and an attorney available to “add his name to post removal requests.” Now the group wants social-media monitoring treated as: “core election infrastructure.” Alongside it: permanent networks of trusted messengers and “prebunking” campaigns designed to reach voters BEFORE they encounter claims the organization expects to challenge. The people behind the operation include founder Quentin Palfrey, who led voter-protection work for Obama’s 2008 Ohio campaign, and strategist Tim Karpoff, an Obama campaign and administration veteran. Recruitment partners include Lawyers for Good Government and We The Action. The latter operates within Civic Nation, whose board is chaired by Valerie Jarrett. The money trail includes a $341,000 grant from Sixteen Thirty Fund to VPC’s advocacy arm in 2020 and a separate $50,000 grant from New Venture Fund to its foundation in 2024. Those filings do not identify the current monitoring program as the grants’ purpose. VPC calls its voter-protection work nonpartisan. Its documents nevertheless establish a concrete operation to monitor election speech, organize responses and enlist lawyers in seeking removals. And the plan extends beyond November: year-round monitoring capacity, with preparations for 2028 beginning after the 2026 results.