A Zoom call from the 2020 presidential election reveals that the Biden/Harris campaign used technology, psychology, and manipulation to sway voters, RedState reported. The recently surfaced video recording outlined these tactics.
The call, which occurred on Nov. 18, 2020, was a postmortem of the election strategy. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were voted into office, and the team spoke openly about their underhanded techniques that made it happen.
Internet personality Matt Orfalea leaked the footage on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday. It provides insight into just what the campaign was willing to do to get the Democrats elected, as well as what it did once Biden was in the White House.
EXCLUSIVE: In a newly discovered Zoom recording, the Biden/Harris team reveals how they manipulated voters to think Biden's mental decline was "disinformation". 🧵/1 pic.twitter.com/i5Spfxtjkb
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
Rob Flaherty, the campaign's director for digital strategy, touted the focus on steering internet users away from "misinformation." Once someone was exposed to whatever they considered misinformation online, the manipulation would begin.
Although he would later be cagey about its definition during a Congressional hearing, Flaherty said "conversation online about corruption or mental fitness" and other narratives that would hurt Biden were misinformation. Regardless of the fact that these were serious and true concerns, Flaherty and his team were determined to suppress the information while pushing their own narrative.
He carried the same strategy into the White House. According to emails included in Orfalea's post, Flaherty strongarmed Facebook to censor opinions the administration didn't like, such as Tucker Carlson and Tomi Lahren's vaccine hesitancy.
He was unhappy when the platform allowed those opinions to be amplified. Flaherty made it known to someone at Facebook, whom he seemed to admonish for failing at the "reduction" of these opinions.
Emails show Flaherty carrying out the (supposedly) counter-misinformation program in the White House, pushing Facebook to censor Tucker Carlson for correctly saying the COVID-19 vaccine didn't stop transmission, and Tomi Lahren for her strong "my body, my choice" stance. /3 pic.twitter.com/QgtATjqI2Z
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
Leaning on social media platforms and manipulating online information isn't the worst of what the Biden/Harris campaign engaged in to get elected. One of the more frightening tactics dealt with what's known as "microtargeting."
Data mining allowed them to create profiles of types of individuals and tailor messaging to them. "So we would know what kinds of messaging you would be susceptible to..., where you’re going to consume that, and then how many times we need to touch you in order to change how you think about something," Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie explained in one of the clips.
One example of this strategy included changing the minds of people who were concerned about Biden's mental acuity. By manipulating what those users would see, about 200,000 voters changed their minds about Biden.
Incidentally, Biden won by fewer than 200,000 votes in several key states. This means that these tactics translated to real votes and real results, while the people exposed to them had no idea it was orchestrated just for them.
Rather than changing minds with facts, the Biden/Harris campaign used underhanded tactics. Support for this regime was manufactured, and they're likely attempting to do the same for Harris.
