Posted on 05/08/2024 2:05:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On Monday, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters that federal agencies such as the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) restarted discussions with Big Tech platforms. According to NextGov/FCW, this coordination will focus on “removing disinformation on their sites as the November presidential election nears.” Warner claimed these talks resumed in March, around the same time oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri — which centers on the feds’ censorship efforts — were heard before the U.S. Supreme Court.
When pressed on the validity of Warner’s remarks, an FBI representative confirmed to The Federalist that the agency has resumed communications with social media companies ahead of the 2024 election.
“The FBI remains committed to combatting foreign malign influence operations, including in connection with our elections. That effort includes sharing specific foreign threat information with state and local election officials and private sector companies when appropriate and rigorously consistent with the law,” the representative claimed. “In coordination with the Department of Justice, the FBI recently implemented procedures to facilitate sharing information about foreign malign influence with social media companies in a way that reinforces that private companies are free to decide on their own whether and how to take action on that information.”
CISA External Affairs Specialist Tess Hyre declined The Federalist’s request for comment on whether the agency has resumed discussions with social media companies to combat what it claims to be “disinformation,” but she said that CISA Director Jen Easterly will be participating in an “Election Security” hearing in “the coming weeks.”
Neither the FBI nor CISA responded when pressed on when they restarted communications with social media companies on efforts to remove posts containing so-called “disinformation” from their platforms. The FBI and CISA...
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Thus, they ass-ume, sometimes correctly, republican constituents are oblivious as well.
The FBI needs to be brought up on RICO charges when Trump is elected.
The “disinformation” of the 2020 campaign turned out to be far more reliable than the “information” the commies put forth.
Russia Russia Russia...
He is not related to john
Welcome to 1984
Removing what we say disinformation is
If the MSM gives them a problem about this they'll get cut off...
“Malinformation” is the worst, information that is true but contradicts the official feral government narrative.
There should be no censorship in a free society.
Official feral government narrative
That’s what makes me concerned abut facts = DEEP STATE
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