Censorship-Pushing Federal Agency Teams Up With Tech Company Trump Feuded With

A U.S. government agency is Anthropic’s Mythos to audit government software despite the Trump administration’s recent feud with the artificial intelligence company.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Mythos to scan code in government systems that may be leaving doors open for foreign spies and cybercriminals, according to Reuters who cited three anonymous sources.

CISA, which formed in 2018, came under scrutiny after it became a tool for cracking down on “misinformation” through its facilitation of the Election Integrity Partnership. This group that worked closely with the agency flagged content to be removed from various social media sites during the 2020 election.

The scanning is carried out by CISA’s Attack Surface Evaluation team which conducts digital security assessments and hacking exercises across the government. The audits have already uncovered a large number of vulnerabilities but did not elaborate, the outlet reported, citing the anonymous sources.

Anthropic and CISA did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comments. CISA is an agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Reuters was not able to establish how much of the government code the team had gone through or how serious the vulnerabilities were, the outlet reported.

“Given how the Biden administration has perverted the purpose of CISA to collude with Big Tech to establish a domestic censorship regime, the next Congress will need to reform the existing program, reassign authorities, and provide greater oversight, while holding accountable all government officials who used this government power improperly to target Americans with disinformation campaigns,” now-FBI Director Kash Patel