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
He made rookie mistakes, but in spite of that, still got a lot done.
You are 1000% right. Prepare to be zotted.
Now we know who organized the “former intelligence officials” to claim the (slut)Hunter Biden laptop was Ruskie misinformation (https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000 sorry for the politico link):
The “Foreign Influence Task Force” (aka “Phhhffft”)
For sure. And Without question, Trump loves America and Americans.
When President Donald Trump learned that Senator Jeff Sessions was going to roll over and play dead as Attorney General, Trump wanted to fire Sessions. Trump was told by the Uniparty that no other nominee would be approved if Sessions was fired, and thus that all political investigations would be run by his political enemies. Of course, that happened anyway.
President Donald Trump was cut out of the information and decision-making loop to the point that the most moderate person he could get for Ambassador to the United Nations was ... John Bolton, who never saw a war he didn’t like. Trump fired Bolton when it became clear that Bolton insisted on conducting his own foreign policy, and refused to back off when ordered to by President Donald Trump.
The FBI and our government is so corrupt. If the tell me nukes are on their way, I would not believe them. CORRUPT POS ALL OF THEM. people who depend on the truth from them, support from them, rule of law from any of them are expecting way too much. You get corruption, lies, interferes (political, enforcement, rule of law) might as well read their tea leaves. The continue to put their weight behind evil, mislead the voting citizens…. The deep state might as well advertise in the yellow pages, Craigslist or meta/Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/google….
We must all resist!
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No. To bring about civil disorder.
FBI Task Force STR, or commonly called Screw Those Republicans, in FBI circles. The scum are being identified by the HQ elements who clearly want this out before the mid-terms so it will be old news instead of The news!
bump for later....
So named because they are under foreign influence, because they enable foreign influence or because they fake foreign influence?
Or is it all three?
More FBI treason. Can’t wait for the treason trials to begin under the new GOP controlled Congress and later the presidency.
American patriots. We’re gonna need a lot more popcorn and rope!
A.k.a. the "Woke Squad".
Another bump?
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