According to a shocking Twitter data dump, the FBI paid Twitter for a long length of time to conceal bad posts about the Biden family, and there will be more investigations into this matter.
These statements and others were recently discovered in business communications known as the “Twitter files.” Republicans on Capitol Hill are horrified by the evidence and want to make the voter suppression issue a primary priority for the GOP majority in January.
The’smoking gun’ emails were obtained by Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, and they reveal that the FBI paid Twitter at least $3.5 million over the course of two years to suppress embarrassing posts about Joe, Biden, and the Democrats.
The records expose how the FBI approached Twitter, as if it were a bureau division instructing the social media giant on which tweets and accounts to monitor.
In one of the several emails, FBI agent Elvis Chan submitted the following list of accounts to be blocked to Twitter staff:
Oh my. A "third party vendor" wanted access to Twitter's firehose & FBI agent Elvis "Block Around The Clock" Chan appears to be attempting to directly influence Twitter corp. Man, I bet the FBI won't rush to crack open the forensic accountant wallet on his accts. Can u imagine!? https://t.co/1fZeQwtjdQ
— Laura Love (@Panopticonomy) December 19, 2022
Over a dozen former FBI personnel are currently employed at Twitter. Despite the fact that Musk removed former FBI general counsel James Baker, Twitter’s counsel, for his suspected participation in information suppression in the days preceding the 2020 presidential election, Baker became Twitter’s lawyer.
It appears Twitter staff blocked news and tweets concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop, which was revealed to include emails demonstrating influence-peddling by then-Vice President Joe Biden and probable criminal activity by his son Hunter.
Mark Meckler, CEO of the social media platform Parler and president of the Convention of States action, stated to the media: “when the media itself becomes an instrument of government, which it seems like it has been doing now with the release of the Twitter files, that’s very dangerous because the media is now controlling the narrative that the government wants it to control.”
James Comer, the incoming head of the House Oversight Committee, stated to the media on the Twitter issue, “anyone that cares about Free Speech, should be outraged. Whether you identify as a Republican or a Democrat. This must end; this will be a high priority for the new Republican majority in the house in January.
Mike Turner, head of the intelligence committee, also addressed the media and said, “who is it that’s coordinating this? How can we cut off the money and prohibit this in the future and we will use our subpoena power to track that down to make certain that this doesn’t happen again.”
This short tweet on the website of the Republican House Judiciary Committee captures the essence:
Does anyone still trust the FBI?
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) December 16, 2022
Meckler feels Twitter has exposed itself to a First Amendment lawsuit by basically acting as a government arm. Likewise, so has the FBI.
According to the leaked emails, the government exerted such pressure on Twitter and collaborated so closely with Twitter that Twitter can be seen as a government actor, in accordance with the state actor theory, and is possibly accountable for First Amendment breaches.
The Republicans in the House have threatened to use their financial authority against the FBI. By denying it financing, while the Omnibus spending package would finance the FBI for the whole year.
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