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FBI Official Admits Agency Colluded Weekly With Facebook To Flag, Take Down Posts
Daily Caller ^ | ALEXA SCHWERHA

Posted on 12/04/2022 3:38:15 PM PST by NoLibZone

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) met weekly with large social media platforms to collaborate on moderating content, according to a deposition this week from FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan.

Chan, who was one of the two FBI agents who contacted Facebook ahead of its censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop warning of potential Russian disinformation operations, said that the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officials met weekly with social media companies to remove specific accounts ahead of the 2020 presidential election, according to his deposition cited by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. The deposition was part of a lawsuit filed against the Biden administration for allegedly censoring Americans’ speech in the name of “misinformation” led by Schmitt and Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana.

BREAKING: In our deposition of FBI agent Elvis Chan on Tuesday, 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.

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) December 2, 2022

“Since filing our lawsuit, we’ve uncovered troves of discovery that show a massive censorship enterprise,” Schmitt told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “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.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; censorship; cisa; constitutionalcrisis; csis; dgb; eiisac; elvischan; facebook; fbi; fit; fitf; geoffehale; geoffhale; hale; hunterbiden; hunterbidenslaptop; katestarbird; msisac; spaulding; starbird; suzannespaulding; votersuppression; waronfreespeech; warontrump
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To: ClearCase_guy

Agree. The FIB will acknowledge that they helped ‘moderate’ content’, simply helping to avoid disinformation…. They’re hoping this will have a minimal or nonexistent news cycle. Big test for the House next year is how vigorously they pursue this collusion and crime.


21 posted on 12/04/2022 4:55:03 PM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good By Ellen)
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To: NoLibZone

I saw a FBI blowjob special on that schoolgirl who ran off with that teacher on msm tv last week and thought

” that was YEARS ago, why the tv special lauding the FBI now ?”

It was obvious it was pure image rehab .

That was then.

Thus is now.

The FBI is now just another cartel imho.


22 posted on 12/04/2022 4:56:09 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: frank ballenger

FBI delenda est.


23 posted on 12/04/2022 4:59:07 PM PST by glorgau
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To: NoLibZone

I posted this story on my FB feed. I’m sure I’ll be suspended because of it.


24 posted on 12/04/2022 5:01:28 PM PST by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: NoLibZone

They’re basically saying “What are going to do about it?”


25 posted on 12/04/2022 5:08:48 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: NoLibZone

Something that I just heard is that Elvis Chan is a first generation American. His parents came from China and he still has family there. Hmmmm.


26 posted on 12/04/2022 5:11:11 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: garjog

You must be educated...


27 posted on 12/04/2022 5:11:21 PM PST by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: NoLibZone
State actors -- embeds from the Obama-Biden administration -- ordered public companies to deprive the NY Post and a sitting President, from their respective Constitutional rights.
28 posted on 12/04/2022 5:17:15 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: frank ballenger

Exactly!


29 posted on 12/04/2022 5:17:15 PM PST by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: NoLibZone

When do the jail terms begin for blatant violation of the Constitution? I mean for the fbi agents, the chief, and his boss.


30 posted on 12/04/2022 5:17:35 PM PST by I want the USA back (Our news media isn't worth camel spit. Neither is the democrat party. )
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To: NoLibZone

No wonder I got put in timeout several times for making posts on FB that were disparaging to Biden and Hunter. I knew that they were watching me closely about my posts but my shiv a git about FB censors was in gear. It all makes sense now.


31 posted on 12/04/2022 5:20:58 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Signalman

“ Efram Zimbalist Jr. would be saddened by today’s FBI.”

Why?

He was an actor, portraying an imaginary agency.

The REAL FBI, while that fake show was running, was engaged in all sorts of nasty work violating people’s rights and influencing the outcome of elections.


32 posted on 12/04/2022 5:22:23 PM PST by Jim Noble (The Decline of America is a Choice )
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To: NoLibZone

Disgraceful.


33 posted on 12/04/2022 6:35:24 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: mass55th

34 posted on 12/04/2022 7:20:44 PM PST by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: Signalman

obama


35 posted on 12/04/2022 9:13:40 PM PST by rolling_stone (cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war )
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To: NoLibZone

there better be a whole lot more of fbi whistleblowers immediately....how about doj, homeland insecurity, etc?

barr graham etc should be called to answer...


36 posted on 12/04/2022 9:21:25 PM PST by rolling_stone (cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war )
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To: Signalman

The FBI has always been anti-citizen as far as I know.


37 posted on 12/05/2022 5:48:56 AM PST by GingisK
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To: NoLibZone
We cannot have State actors -- embeds from the Obama-Biden administration -- ordering Public companies to deprive the NY Post and a sitting President, from their respective Constitutional rights.

That is fascism, straight up, no chaser. These cabalists are fearful, they are playing with fire, and they know it. They know just a mere fraction of Trump's voters -- 5% -- would represent the largest standing army in the world.

“Fascism requires militant journalism.” - Mussolini

38 posted on 12/05/2022 8:42:26 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: StAnDeliver
"We cannot have State actors -- embeds from the Obama-Biden administration -- ordering Public companies to deprive the NY Post and a sitting President, from their respective Constitutional rights.

Its more like "We cannot have State actors -- embeds from the Obama-Biden administration -- ordering Public companies to deprive US citizens, from their respective Constitutional rights."

39 posted on 12/05/2022 8:48:46 AM PST by jpp113
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To: Signalman

Simple. The 2008 election did it,


40 posted on 12/05/2022 8:50:21 AM PST by jpp113
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