“Officials from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security frequently met with major social media companies ahead of the 2020 election and pointed out users and pieces of content for removal, according to information from a deposition of a senior FBI agent revealed by a state Attorney General.
“We found that the FBI plays a big role in working with social media companies to censor speech—from weekly meetings with social media companies ahead of the 2020 election to asks for account takedowns,” said Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt in a Dec. 2 series of tweets, three days after deposing Special Agent Elvis Chan, who is in charge of cyber affairs at the FBI San Francisco Field Office.
Chan has given major social media companies warnings that have led them to censor information about a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, shortly before the election that put Biden in office, according to a lawsuit against the Biden administration led by Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.
The laptop contained information about Hunter Biden’s overseas dealings that appears to indicate attempts to sell access to his father, who at the time was vice president.
The suit alleges the administration violated the First Amendment by influencing social media to censor speech, including the laptop story. Some survey data suggests Biden might have lost the election if his voters were aware of the information.
Chan testified that he and officials from the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were meeting social media officials on a quarterly, then monthly, and finally, weekly basis as the election approached, Schmitt said in his tweets.
“Chan stated that the FBI regularly sent social media companies lists of URLs and social media accounts that should be taken down because they were disinformation from ‘malign foreign influence operations,’” Schmitt said, adding that “on many occasions, the platforms took down the accounts flagged by the FBI.”
“Since filing our lawsuit, we’ve uncovered troves of discovery that show a massive ‘censorship enterprise,’” Schmitt said in a statement.
“Now we’re deposing top government officials, and we’re one of the first to get a look under the hood—the information we’ve uncovered through those depositions has been shocking, to say the least. It’s clear from Tuesday’s deposition that the FBI has an extremely close role in working to censor freedom of speech. Stay tuned.”
Landry added: “Americans should be angered that during the 2020 election cycle, federal agencies peddled information that has since been disproven. Additionally, agencies like the FBI contacted social media platforms to censor free speech to ‘protect us’ from disinformation. This case is just one of the many steps we have taken to stand up for the First Amendment rights of our citizens. No American should be censored by the government.””
Like Tychicus said above, there are many who owe folks who told the truth an apology, starting with our corrupt FBI and a partisan, lying media.
Adam Schiff was entrusted to lead oversight of the nation’s intelligence agencies at a time when China is aggressing and infiltrating. He lied, from Benghazi to Russiagate, Trump’s impeachment over Ukraine‼️to #LaptopFromHell. He focused US ire away from China onto Russia. Why?
Adam Schiff just kept lying to gullible Chuck Todd of MSNBC. And why wouldn’t he? There never were any consequences, just more invitations to lie to MSNBC’s audience. Here he was last year. His Russiagate lies had been exposed. No regrets. Keep lying. https://t.co/hsLDGitalC
Adam Schiff just kept lying to gullible Chuck Todd of MSNBC. And why wouldn’t he? There never were any consequences, just more invitations to lie to MSNBC’s audience. Here he was last year. His Russiagate lies had been exposed. No regrets. Keep lying. https://t.co/hsLDGitalC
Fauci has always been a lying piece of trash. But again, folks want it to be true, so the truth be damned.
According to the transcript, Dr. Fauci said “I don’t recall” 174 times, including when asked about emails that he sent, interviews that he gave, and other important information.
One of Fauci’s deputies joined a WHO delegation to China in February of 2020, and in talking to Fauci afterwards, was impressed with how the Chinese “were handling the isolation, the contact tracing, the building of facilities to take care of people..” pic.twitter.com/6uxlxEpFxX
They’re still desperately trying to justify their lockstep decision not to report on it in order to help Biden.
The latest excuse is that they don’t report on anything unless they have the original material in their personal possession. Calvinball. https://t.co/uRIX1SIIeF
Glenn, Philip & WaPo were very cautious to give any opinions on the @nypost Hunter Biden laptop story until they could verify it… Oh wait pic.twitter.com/NG3DjUBaxH
Remember the good old days of 2 years ago when CNN and the media had this criminal running for Pres. on the Dem ticket?
Funny, no mention of that, no mea culpa, no self-refection, no examining of their partisan, biased tactics.
This is why I call them trash, they were wrong, they were lying, they knew it then and they know it now, but they hope you’ve conveniently forgotten their behavior.
These acts are the definition of bearing false witness. They know they’re lying.
And keep in mind this clown is teaching tomorrow’s journalist at Harvard now, so don’t be expecting the next generation to be any better.
They’re mostly all the same, just with varying degrees of effort.
Also, it’s December 2022. And here are CNN’s search results for its coverage of former Hunter Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski. pic.twitter.com/BmnKN80oT2
One of the worst parts of CNN's article is it cites the "belief" of Twitter execs and "former intelligence officials" that the Biden docs were "a Russian hack-and-leak operation" without mentioning that this … was a lie, a lie repeated by CNN. Twitter knew it had no evidence. pic.twitter.com/DWU0DV2i4K
Even if CNN's "news story" were just an op-ed written by one of the media's most loyal DNC partisans – say, @ThePlumLineGS or @joshtpm – it would still be outrageous given its recitation of the lie that the Biden docs could've been Russian. That it's a "news story" says it all.
No they saw it as the solution to Trump, and it worked because the true believers lapped it up, many still do, facts be damned. Add in the uninformed and too lazy to check what the news tells them and you get what we got, a senile old fool is in charge now instead of The Bad Orange Man.
And a CONTENT WARNING!!! because the fine Congressman from Cali. has a foul mouth.
It's funny you don't see the fact that the political party, which controlled the House, and the campaign for its candidate, used personal connections with the world's biggest social media company to "fortify an election" & spread mis/dis info as a problem.
Tell us you care nothing about government corruption and the 1st Amendment without saying you care nothing about government corruption and the 1st Amendment.
Oh yes, we can’t forget the “useful idiot/NTER, RINO” faction either, who will now launch their campaign of further misinformation.
The memo has gone out to the grifter Never Trump crowd … call it revenge porn.
Kristol, Lincoln Project, French, Sykes, Rubin, Jonah Goldberg can all get bent. They are horrible scam artists who believe in nothing except promoting their next clickbait article. https://t.co/3jSVBYniOg
Expose it all. Name names. It’s way past time these people take some responsibility for the lies they pushed and the innocent people they’ve slandered along the way.
Looking forward to going through all the tweets complaining about “PR for the richest man on earth,” and seeing how many of them have run stories for anonymous sources at the FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, White House, etc. https://t.co/l0uzwofqPT
The repentant get sympathy, the ones who continue to double down on deception do not.
Don’t delude yourself @davidfolkenflik. NPR didn’t practice journalism. What @EmmaJoNYC@nypost did was journalism. NPR dishonored journalism by saying you don’t waste time on stories that aren’t real stories. You are propped up by taxpayer$$ but deserve to go out of business https://t.co/ydAng06vGW
“Twitter’s former head of trust and safety claimed Friday night that Twitter CEO Elon Musk was putting people’s lives in danger by revealing internal company documents showing how employees censored conservatives and a negative news story about then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son.
Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former Sr. Director, Head of Trust & Safety, complained about Musk’s decision to release internal company communications through journalist Matt Taibbi about the company’s censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election.
Taibbi tweeted out screenshots showing that company officials were in regular contact with Democrats and censored content that Democrats wanted removed.
“Publicly posting the names and identities of front-line employees involved in content moderation puts them in harm’s way and is a fundamentally unacceptable thing to do,” Roth posted on Mastodon.”
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This is like what happens with Libs of Tik Tok, you post their deeds, in their own words, and they cry that you exposed them.
Wandering Views 
More proof of massive, widespread Election Fraud.
The FBI is a disgraced organization – it needs to be dismantled and rebuilt. Every Deep State employee should be terminated.
We the people demand JUSTICE!
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-coordination-with-big-tech-censorship-ahead-of-2020-election-revealed-in-agent-deposition-missouri-ag-says_4903272.html
“Officials from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security frequently met with major social media companies ahead of the 2020 election and pointed out users and pieces of content for removal, according to information from a deposition of a senior FBI agent revealed by a state Attorney General.
“We found that the FBI plays a big role in working with social media companies to censor speech—from weekly meetings with social media companies ahead of the 2020 election to asks for account takedowns,” said Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt in a Dec. 2 series of tweets, three days after deposing Special Agent Elvis Chan, who is in charge of cyber affairs at the FBI San Francisco Field Office.
Chan has given major social media companies warnings that have led them to censor information about a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, shortly before the election that put Biden in office, according to a lawsuit against the Biden administration led by Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.
The laptop contained information about Hunter Biden’s overseas dealings that appears to indicate attempts to sell access to his father, who at the time was vice president.
The suit alleges the administration violated the First Amendment by influencing social media to censor speech, including the laptop story. Some survey data suggests Biden might have lost the election if his voters were aware of the information.
Chan testified that he and officials from the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were meeting social media officials on a quarterly, then monthly, and finally, weekly basis as the election approached, Schmitt said in his tweets.
“Chan stated that the FBI regularly sent social media companies lists of URLs and social media accounts that should be taken down because they were disinformation from ‘malign foreign influence operations,’” Schmitt said, adding that “on many occasions, the platforms took down the accounts flagged by the FBI.”
“Since filing our lawsuit, we’ve uncovered troves of discovery that show a massive ‘censorship enterprise,’” Schmitt said in a statement.
“Now we’re deposing top government officials, and we’re one of the first to get a look under the hood—the information we’ve uncovered through those depositions has been shocking, to say the least. It’s clear from Tuesday’s deposition that the FBI has an extremely close role in working to censor freedom of speech. Stay tuned.”
Landry added: “Americans should be angered that during the 2020 election cycle, federal agencies peddled information that has since been disproven. Additionally, agencies like the FBI contacted social media platforms to censor free speech to ‘protect us’ from disinformation. This case is just one of the many steps we have taken to stand up for the First Amendment rights of our citizens. No American should be censored by the government.””
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Like Tychicus said above, there are many who owe folks who told the truth an apology, starting with our corrupt FBI and a partisan, lying media.
And the media still willingly push the lies.
Why? Because a populace of idiots wants it to be true. Truth is just the first casualty.
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Fauci has always been a lying piece of trash. But again, folks want it to be true, so the truth be damned.
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So what has our media done to address the Twitter release that shows the bias and lies the media pushed?
Nothing, they’re just ignoring it. That seems to be a pattern when folks disagree with the truth.
And who was it that hid the laptop until mid 2021?
The corrupt FBI, who has still done nothing about what it exposed.
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Remember the good old days of 2 years ago when CNN and the media had this criminal running for Pres. on the Dem ticket?
Funny, no mention of that, no mea culpa, no self-refection, no examining of their partisan, biased tactics.
This is why I call them trash, they were wrong, they were lying, they knew it then and they know it now, but they hope you’ve conveniently forgotten their behavior.
These acts are the definition of bearing false witness. They know they’re lying.
And keep in mind this clown is teaching tomorrow’s journalist at Harvard now, so don’t be expecting the next generation to be any better.
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Being a Dem means you never, ever admit the truth if it doesn’t fit your narrative. The media has this problem too, oddly enough… 🙄
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These people are broken.
And so is their industry.
They’re mostly all the same, just with varying degrees of effort.
Lather, rinse, repeat across all headlines and news shows…
Because an uninformed populace is one that’s easy to manipulate.
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Problem?
No they saw it as the solution to Trump, and it worked because the true believers lapped it up, many still do, facts be damned. Add in the uninformed and too lazy to check what the news tells them and you get what we got, a senile old fool is in charge now instead of The Bad Orange Man.
And a CONTENT WARNING!!! because the fine Congressman from Cali. has a foul mouth.
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Oh yes, we can’t forget the “useful idiot/NTER, RINO” faction either, who will now launch their campaign of further misinformation.
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As are we Matt.
Expose it all. Name names. It’s way past time these people take some responsibility for the lies they pushed and the innocent people they’ve slandered along the way.
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“Journalism” needs to own this.
The repentant get sympathy, the ones who continue to double down on deception do not.
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Ya’ think?
I mean cuz’ it clearly is.
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Good.
Just don’t alienate his millions of supporters in the transition, or you’ll never have the votes to actually win.
“DeSantis Holds Massive Lead Over Trump In 2024 Matchup, Poll Shows”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-holds-massive-lead-over-trump-in-2024-matchup-poll-shows
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Own it.
You made this sausage, and now folks can see what you put in it.
“Ex-Twitter Executive: Elon Musk Is Putting Us ‘In Harm’s Way’ By Showing How We Censored Content”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-twitter-executive-elon-musk-is-putting-us-in-harms-way-by-showing-how-we-censored-content
“Twitter’s former head of trust and safety claimed Friday night that Twitter CEO Elon Musk was putting people’s lives in danger by revealing internal company documents showing how employees censored conservatives and a negative news story about then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son.
Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former Sr. Director, Head of Trust & Safety, complained about Musk’s decision to release internal company communications through journalist Matt Taibbi about the company’s censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election.
Taibbi tweeted out screenshots showing that company officials were in regular contact with Democrats and censored content that Democrats wanted removed.
“Publicly posting the names and identities of front-line employees involved in content moderation puts them in harm’s way and is a fundamentally unacceptable thing to do,” Roth posted on Mastodon.”
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This is like what happens with Libs of Tik Tok, you post their deeds, in their own words, and they cry that you exposed them.
Own it.
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Again, own that….
“Twitter Was Permanently Censoring Users At The Request Of The DNC And Biden Campaign…”
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