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Apr 27, 2023Liked by Andrew Lowenthal

Andrew, I just read your "An Insider's Guide to "Anti-Disinformation" version of this story and have this to add from my own research. Perhaps you'll be able to make actual the connection that I believe has a very high probability of existing.

In the trail you share the name Elliot Schrage appears in several communications. Schrage was Facebook's VP of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy, where he directed the company's government affairs and PR efforts. Then served as VP of Special Projects for Facebook. At the same time a former Obama administration official was serving as Facebook's Associate Counsel for Regulatory Affairs, Jessica Hertz.

Hertz had worked in the Obama administration as Counselor to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), then as Principle Counsel to VP Joe Biden.

She went from Facebook senior regulatory lawyer working with government policymakers and regulators (censorship orders, i.e. Twitter Files, Hunter's 'Laptop from Hell'?) in early September/October, 2020 to head up Biden's transition team, then as the new administration's staff selection oversight:

https://nypost.com/2020/10/01/joe-biden-hires-facebooks-jessica-hertz-for-transition-team/

Then Hertz became the Biden administration's Staff Secretary, arguably the most powerful role in an administration - a role once held by John Podesta in the Clinton administration:

https://www.vox.com/recode/22206646/joe-biden-jessica-hertz-facebook-staff-secretary-big-tech

Holding that position until the administration was up and running:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10086113/Bidens-staff-secretary-quits-Former-lawyer-Facebook-leave-White-House-coming-days.html

Later taking a cushy Big Tech gig again, now she working for Shopify as Counsel and on their DC lobbying team. And oh, Justice Sotomayer presided over her wedding:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/ex-biden-facebook-attorney-joining-shopify-as-general-counsel-1

There is no way, No way on God's green earth, that Hertz and Schrage didn't know and work closely with one another. Not with those positions at Facebook. And not in her role on the Biden pre-election transition team at the same time that Facebook was squashing stories like the Laptop From Hell story at the direction of government and quasi-government censorship authorities. No. Stinking. Way.

This is strong evidence that Jessica Hertz is neck deep in this story, and her campaign/transition/administration role would've made her the conduit for official election interference for candidate, president-elect and president Biden. Among the many names redacted with @facebook email addresses there is no doubt in my mind that she is one of them. A smoking gun. Who needs to be investigated for her essential collaborative role. All of her communications while in government and into government when out of it need to be FOIA'd and reviewed. She's a keystone in unraveling these crimes against the American people.

There are many strands of a tangled web that connect her to many other important, powerful and well-placed officials who have served in outsized roles under both Obama and Biden, in the "Information Disorder" censorship and propaganda community that permeates Big Tech she works for when not inside government itself. More on that in comment thread below.

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Apr 26, 2023Liked by Andrew Lowenthal

Thank you! On the way to read your longer piece! So glad to see another TF released!

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Speaking of networks and cartels, consider the liberal-fascist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which has controlled the US govt and the media since WW2. See chart: swprs.org/the-american-empire-and-its-media/

Allen Dulles, who ran the CIA "Operation Mockingbird", was a CFR director for 40 years. The media barons of the period were also CFR members, including Paley (CBS), Sarnoff (NBC), Luce (Time-Life), Meyer/Graham (WashPost), and Sulzberger (NYTimes). Most of the CIA directors from Dulles to Burns have been CFR members. Same stuff, different decade.

Facebook and Google are CFR corporate partners. Elliot Schrage, Sheryl Sandberg and Eric Schmidt are long-time CFR members. Former Facebook director Jeffrey Zients is a CFR member. He was Biden's "covid coordinator", and now his Chief-of-Staff.

Other CFR members on the "Biden team" include the secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Commerce and 'Homeland Security'. Also the CIA director, Fed chairman, and dozens of deputies, advisors, ambassadors, etc.

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