Information Laundering Cycle Report Document Database

The Information Laundering Cycle (ILC) Document Database serves as a comprehensive resource for all stakeholders examining attacks against disinformation researchers and institutions. The document database contains 162 sets of primary source documents, totaling more than 2,000 pages of publicly available material, including those examined in Murthy v. Missouri and Hines v. Stamos, transcripts of depositions of disinformation researchers conducted by the House Judiciary Committee majority, and all publicly available documents pertaining to the formation of the Disinformation Governance Board. The majority of documents consist of emails, text messages, and other written communications between researchers, social media platforms, and government agencies. Omitted from the database are transcripts, reports, and other primary source documents which don’t primarily consist of interactions between researchers, social media platforms, and the federal government, and which are easily accessible elsewhere online. For example, the ILC Document Database does not contain the publicly available reports of the Virality Project, nor social media content posted by Virality Project researchers about such reports . The contents of the ILC Document Database showcase the truth: That communication between academia, the private sector, and government about online harms does not constitute censorship. These documents set the record straight in regard to the myriad fictitious claims levied by bad actors against disinformation researchers over the past four years. The database acts as a companion publication to ASP’s report, “The Information Laundering Cycle: How A Coordinated Effort Weaponized the American Political System In Favor of Disinformation.” As additional documents become available – whether via litigation, records requests, or other means – ASP will continue populating this database and increasing the cost of lies that undermine democracy.