It was the Get Joe Biden elected Division.
As opposed to the Get Joe’s Druggie Daughter’s Diary Division
And the Clean up Hunter’s Financial Crimes Division.
Posted on 10/07/2022 10:55:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
The FBI team that was in communication with Facebook before the social media company censored the original Hunter Biden laptop story has been identified, according to a new court filing.
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, identified the team as the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), according to an updated complaint entered late on Oct. 6.
Meta named the team after receiving a subpoena in a case alleging the federal government pressured Big Tech firms to censor users.
“Pursuant to the third-party subpoena, Meta has identified the FBI’s FITF, as supervised by Laura Dehmlow, and Elvis Chan as involved in the communications between the FBI and Meta that led to Facebook’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story,” the updated complaint states.
Mark Zuckberg, Meta’s CEO, said in August that Facebook reduced the reach of posts about Hunter Biden’s laptop in response to advice from the FBI.
“The background here is the FBI I think basically came to some folks on our team [and] were like, ‘Hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump similar to that, so just be vigilant,’” Zuckerberg said on Joe Rogan’s podcast. He made similar comments before the Senate in 2020.
“One of the threats that the FBI has alerted our company and the public to was the possibility of a hack and leak operation in the days or weeks leading up to this election,” Zuckerberg said then. Those alerts “suggested we be on high alert and sensitivity if a trove of documents appeared that we should view that with suspicion that it might be part of a foreign manipulation attempt,” he added.
The FBI did not respond to a request for comment on the updated lawsuit, which now names the FBI as a defendant. The bureau said previously that it is routinely in touch with U.S. companies but “cannot ask, or direct, companies to take action on information received.”
2 Officials The FITF was established by FBI Director Christopher Wray in 2017 “to identify and counteract malign foreign influence operations targeting the United States,” according to the bureau’s website. Such operations include covert actions by outside governments aimed at influencing the American political scene or discourse, the bureau has said.
Laura Dehmlow is a supervisor of FITF. She has been named as a defendant in the case along with Elvis Chan, a special agent who manages the cyber branch at the FBI’s San Francisco Field Office.
According to new documents produced by the government as part of discovery in the case, Dehmlow briefed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Cybersecurity Advisory Committee on March 1, 2022. Minutes of the meeting show Dehmlow telling members that the FITF actually started in 2016 and has since grown to 80 workers.
Asked about goals for approaching mal-, mis-, and disinformation, Dehmlow said that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable; we need to early educate the populace; and that today, critical thinking seems to be a problem currently,” according to the minutes.
Chan, meanwhile, bragged on a recent podcast that the San Francisco office “was very involved in helping to protect the US elections in 2020” by working with private companies and election officials. He also indicated he works closely with CISA Director Jen Easterly, who has been revealed to have taken part on pressuring Big Tech companies to crack down on alleged misinformation.
“We talked with all of these entities I mentioned regularly, at least on a monthly basis. And right before the election, probably on a weekly basis. If they were seeing anything unusual, if we were seeing anything unusual, sharing intelligence with technology companies, with social media companies, so that they could protect their own platforms. That’s where the FBI and the US government can actually help companies,” Chan said.
Plaintiffs in the case said that helping social media companies protect their platforms “includes censorship and suppression of speech at the FBI’s behest.”
Chan also organized meetings with LinkedIn from 2020 through the present, with agendas provided indicating the meetings included going over censoring election-related posts on social media. Chan organized similar meetings with other Big Tech firms, plaintiffs said.
From The Epoch Times
Their pension funds should be sucked dry to help pay for the budget deficits that their coverup helped to cause as a result of the 2020 election fraud.
Foreign Influence Task Force???? Does this mean that they think the Russians are behind the Hunter Biden laptop story.
The government, using law-breaking thugs, forces social media to do its bidding. One does not say no to people who show up with guns, clubs, mace and handcuffs.
So the government is practicing censorship and is breaking the law. Since is has its law-breaking thugs on its side, the government will not be going to jail.
Obviously the FBI has become the antithesis of law and order. It needs to be torn out by the roots and destroy the JEH building that houses it. And ditto for the DOJ. Just my opinion.
The ONLY thing ANY Government ever protects is ITSELF........................ 😒
The UN-SAID part: ...to us...................
Forget about Hunter Biden, he got away with it and his old man will pardon him to be sure.
Of course you haven't seen it.
Durham did one thing at least - he laid out exactly how it was manufactured FRAUD, perpetrated by the FBI, Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and America's MSM.
I’ll bet Al Capone wished many times that he had the FBI to “watch his back.” Hunter has it made. One thieving, lowlife bass turd who will never see the inside of a prison cell,
“...critical thinking seems to be a problem...”
Interesting...so FITF was created and up and running in 2016 before Chris Wray officially created it in 2017.
Who really created it, then?
Probably Obama’s people..............
The only reason the fan racial animosity is to influence elections.
San Francisco is Nancy Pelosi’s cesspool. Certainly she is cozy with the Chinese.
Babak Broumand, 56, of Lafayette, was found guilty in Los Angeles of conspiracy, bribery of a public official and monetary transactions in property derived from unlawful activity, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. He could face 15 to 45 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in January. Broumand, who joined the FBI in 1999, worked until 2018 in the bureau's San Francisco office, where he was responsible for national security investigations, prosecutors said.----- Fox News
This agent in my earlier post worked out of the San Fran office too, and this bribery scandal connects to the Clintons.
Next week conference of the deep staters, only true believers in the Schiff theories allowed:
https://www.tcbconference.com/
Another person from the San Francisco area is the J6 protester - not a follower but an activist who agitated for violence in the Capitol Riot- was the guy who somehow managed to flee the US while wanted for J6 and land in Belarus where he was given asylum.
Don’t apologize. Trump made many errors. Wray, Fauci, That black lady from the Apprentice, his constant tweets attacking people.
He isn’t perfect, but way better than the alternatives.
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