ADL officials caught on tape bragging about efforts to monitor, censor, defund, and jail 'extremists'

Eliyahu Tulshinski

August 11, 2023

In James O'Keefe style, a citizen journalist with a hidden camera captured representatives of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) boasting about the technology they use to scour the internet for what they consider extremist speech. X (formerly Twitter) user Kyle - Undercover posted a series of five video clips exposing the secretive censorship practices of the ADL.

Monitoring Americans

In the first clip, ADL official Courtney Kravitz, on the right of the screen, identifies herself as the organization's Director of Development. Sara Kader, on the left, names her position as Community Manager for Arizona. Kravitz explains that the organization's current strategy is not to have social media companies close the accounts of the people the ADL identifies as those whose “reach” should be diminished, because she fears they'll become more difficult to track and more exposed to opinions the ADL disagrees with on alternative platforms. Rather, she says, keep them on the large social media platforms and monitor them.

You kick people off of some of these platforms like Twitter and Facebook and then they go to other different platforms and so it's kind of this balance of keeping some of these spaces [i.e., large social media platforms] safe but also not having them run to this like dark space where they are just with like minded people … making sure they don't go down this rabbit hole but also they're not spewing hate and disinformation.

We want them to be out in the open because the more they're talking out in the open the more you can stop incidents from happening.

Freedom of speech doesn't include reach?

Speaking as if she controls companies like Twitter, instead of reporting to them as an independent organization, Kader jumps in to the conversation to add what the ADL does with such political enemies:

We're not gonna ban them, we're just probably not gonna engage with them to the same degree. [Emphases added].

Kravitz then agrees with Kader, expressing her preference for shadow banning (blocking the user's content from other platform users without informing them), rather than canceling, those the ADL wants silenced.

Everyone should have freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. [Emphasis added].

The First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech makes no such exception for blocking “reach,” instead assuring all citizens of protection against any actions “abridging the freedom of speech.” Kravitz did not explain how her approach, which is akin to allowing a speaker to address a properly arranged rally, but disconnecting the loud speakers, complies with the Constitution.

Revolver News criticizes the ADL for using “hate" speech claims to infringe on Constitutional rights.

Clearly, the ADL and other groups and private businesses are doing the government’s dirty work. They’re assuming the role of enforcement so the government can control their political enemies from the shadows. Racist hate groups like the ADL are unconstitutionally policing the internet and stifling political dissent based on their distorted interpretation of what constitutes “hate.”

Following political enemies everywhere

What happens when the ADL is not successful in confining a citizen to a shadow banned account? The third clip posted by Kyle captures Kader revealing the depth of the ADL surveillance of Americans, in which secretive software they recently developed scans citizens' podcasts for what they consider “extremism.”

We developed this new technology to, cause a lot of these, uh, a lot of these extremists have podcasts, but like who has the time to listen to like just them groan on and on. Like 99% of what they're saying is like about video games or something and so there's this new software that it can actually like scan the entire podcast for flagged words and like extract like when they talk about some like extremist activity they wanna perform.

Bankrupting political enemies

In the fourth clip, Kravitz reveals that the ADL also flags individuals they consider “extremists” on crowdfunding sites to prevent them from raising the funds they need to continue their independent work.

[A] crowd fund me, a GoFundMe type of place; that's how extremists raise their money, and so bringing awareness to some of these companies [by telling them], "your platform is allowing these extremists to raise money for, you know, their evil stuff.

Calling the cops on political enemies

In the final undercover clip, Kyle exposes the ADL's new efforts to turn the justice system against those who disagree with them, as Kader unknowingly shares on tape.

[W]e just established a law enforcement advisory council which convenes local police departments and other law enforcement agencies all around the state. Sometimes … we loop in law enforcement. Sometimes law enforcement reaches out to us to see what we know.

Kravitz then explains how the ADL works across state lines to ensure that local police are available wherever their political enemies are situated.

And making sure that any of the intel that we got on a national level is given to one of our law enforcement [officials] locally.

Unholy beginnings

The ADL was founded in 1913 by the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, an organization itself founded in 1843 by newly arrived Freemasons from Germany as we will describe in the next article in our series on this anti-American organization.

Please see our previous articles on secret societies and the ADL's subversive plots: