Quote:The Federal Bureau of Investigation was doing far more to silence the Hunter Biden laptop story on social media networks than previously acknowledged, according to knew information being released by Twitter through journalists who have been covering the “Twitter Files.”

In a new “Twitter Files” thread released Monday, journalist Michael Shellenberger, new evidence is coming to light detailing what could be generously called a “proactive” approach to silencing the story before it even came out. According to Shellenberger, the FBI warned Twitter and other social media networks about a Russian “hack and leak” operation.

“We have discovered new info that points to an organized effort by the intel community to influence Twitter & other platforms,” Shellenberger wrote in one of the tweets.

According to the information coming out, despite the fact that people were discovering Hunter Biden was getting tens of millions of dollars, he was doing very little work for the money, and yet, the FBI seemed more concerned that the information that was on Biden’s laptop would get out.

Shellenberger also noted that Mark Zuckerberg mentioned the same thing was happening at Facebook. Unprompted, the FBI was coming in and saying “This is a Russian operation and you need to fight back against it.”

It raises several questions about what the FBI thought was going on. By their own admission, they did not see the same level of foreign actors using social media to influence the election as they saw in 2016. FBI investigator Elvis Chan, who was also featured in last night’s Twitter Files, admitted as much.

“Through our investigations, we did not see any similar competing intrusions to what had happened in 2016,” admitted FBI agent Elvis Chan in November, according to Shellenberger’s thread.

And Twitter itself claimed that it saw very little such activity.

“[O]n Sept 24, 2020, Twitter told FBI it had removed 345 ‘largely inactive’ accounts ‘linked to previous coordinated Russian hacking attempts.’ They ‘had little reach & low follower accounts,'” Shellenberger wrote.

“It’s not the first time that Twitter’s [Yoel] Roth has pushed back against the FBI,” he continued. “In January 2020, Roth resisted FBI efforts to get Twitter to share data outside of the normal search warrant process.”

Another Twitter official wrote to Roth, saying “We have seen a sustained (If uncoordinated) effort by the IC [intelligence community] to push us to share more info & change our API policies. They are probing & pushing everywhere they can (including by whispering to congressional staff).”

Roth’s skepticism is especially noteworthy, given how quickly his own partisan leanings led him to make rash decisions when it came to content moderation at the company. He and the rest of Twitter’s leadership repeatedly told the FBI that they were not finding major instances of foreign actors spreading disinformation in an attempt to influence anything, yet the FBI kept pushing.

Then, the FBI gave information on a Russian hacking group to Roth, and that seems to have influenced his future decision-making on the Hunter Biden laptop story. Again, this is all without evidence that any such dump of information on the laptop was a Russian operation. This seems more and more like an attempt to make Roth believe that anything that was about to come out was Russian disinformation. A lot of effort to undermine what we now know was a very credible story.

As more of this information continues to roll out, it becomes clear that, indeed, something really needs to be done about the FBI’s actions in recent years.

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Defund the FBI and actually put consequences on people who peddle political influence for cash. I'm fine with making Hunter the first scape goat for this, someone has to be first and there's plenty more do nothing family members of politicians getting fat checks for absolutely nothing. I'm all for making that illegal!

That's all well and good but I'd go farther. I want IRS audits of all members of Congress AND their families. Let's find out where all the $$ goes.

Yoel Roth got groomed by the FBI, and was stupid enough to be groomed by the fbi.

Just you wait, the leftists will be here to finally get behind investigations in the federal collusion with social media companies.

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(12-19-2022 01:36 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Defund the FBI and actually put consequences on people who peddle political influence for cash. I'm fine with making Hunter the first scape goat for this, someone has to be first and there's plenty more do nothing family members of politicians getting fat checks for absolutely nothing. I'm all for making that illegal!

Good for you, this shows you can actually think for yourself.

(12-19-2022 06:48 PM)maximus Wrote:  Just you wait, the leftists will be here to finally get behind investigations in the federal collusion with social media companies.

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Once it becomes tres chic, absolutely. And then they'll claim they were for it all along.

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Re-posted to the correct thread:


I don’t know if this was specific to Norfolk or is part of a national marketing initiative by the FBI, but in Saturday’s paper the Special Agent in Charge of our local FBI office was given commentary space to tout the 2022 successes and achievements of his office:

Link: https://www.pilotonline.com/opinion/colu...story.html

It is behind a paywall, but the gist is that we in the FBI are part of the community and just like you.

Maybe so. But the core problem that goes unmentioned is that, no matter how honest and well intentioned our local agents may be, I (and I am, sure many others) will forever after view them with level of suspicion and distrust that did not formerly exist - - thanks to the manipulations and lies of their national executives.

There is a massive amount of housecleaning needed in the FBI. A high-school-level puff piece in the local paper ain’t going to change that.

The upper levels of the FBI (and DOJ) need to be absolutely cleaned out with prejudice. Good luck with that, LOL. The rank and file agents in the field are not overtly involved with all the BS political manipulation.

Killing the Hunter Biden laptop issue is just ONE of many key deliverables made possible by USG federal agencies in that national election.

The collaboration by key parts of the federal government (including CDC and NIAID with the COVID19 escalation) and about 90% of the media coordinating with external players Antifa and BLM to keep Trump from winning the 2020 election is breathtaking in scope and effort.

The entire effort was well planned and superbly executed. The 130am Nov 3 ballot dumps by the paid mules in the key swing states was tactical brilliance.

Again, all a person has to do is read the Time magazine article from Feb 2021 that essentially bragged about how it was pulled off.