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att Masterson – a former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official spearheading the campaign to discredit accusations that the 2020 election was plagued with fraud – is a member on the Advisory Committee of the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a group infamous for using hundreds of millions of dollars from Mark Zuckerberg to covertly influence the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden.
Masterson, who now works as Microsoft’s Director of Information Integrity, also stirred controversy following revelations from a report by The Interceptthat he texted Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly in February: “Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain.”
Easterly also texted Masterson, indicating a close relationship on censorship matters between the two, that she is “trying to get us in a place where Fed can work with platforms to better understand mis/dis trends so relevant agencies can try to prebunk/debunk as useful.”
A former Senior Cybersecurity Advisor at CISA until December 2020, Masterson led a team responsible for “reassuring the public that the 2020 election was secure” despite well-documented concerns about mail-in vote fraud.
The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) used the hundreds of millions of dollars it received from the Facebook founder’s organization, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, to overrule local election officials and increase turnout in favor of – almost exclusively – Democrats. As a testament to the partisan conflict of interest, leaders from CTCL often overpowered and overruled local election authorities and, through coercion, accessed mail-in ballots ahead of the election.
