Posted on 12/18/2022 10:27:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Part Six of the Twitter Files was released by journalist Matt Taibbi on Twitter Dec. 16, revealing just how closely the platform worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to censor Americans prior to Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform. “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,” Taibbi tweeted.
As PJ Media’s Chris Queen reported, most FBI emails to the platform “consisted of requests for Twitter to review and take action on” election content that supposedly qualified as “misinformation.” However, the FBI seems distinctly unrepentant about its “master-canine” relationship with Twitter, where it would “pre-flag” content for moderation.
In response to the damning revelations, an FBI spokesperson gave the following exculpatory statement to Fox News Digital:
”The FBI regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities. Private sector entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their customers after the FBI has notified them.”
This seems ridiculously insufficient to address the serious, potentially Constitution-violating actions revealed in the Twitter Files. According to Taibbi, Twitter and the FBI planned to have weekly meetings and coordinated to quash accounts whose humorous posts the government disliked. That’s hardly routine procedure.
In fact, Taibbi called the FBI statement “disingenuous on multiple fronts” in a Dec. 17 tweet and noted that “flagging the silly jokes of ordinary Americans with low follower counts” has nothing to do with crime, only with “domestic intelligence and opinion control.”
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They’ve been doing it so long in so many places it’s like nothing to subvert information to them
They think it’s impossible. But in world history, every secret police faces the day when people are wandering the halls of their HQ, looking at their own files, and researchers pore over everything. Happened to the Gestapo, the Czar’s secret police, the NKVD, KGB, Stasi, etc...
The FBI’s day is coming. Just watch. Maybe in 6 months, 6 years, or 16 years. But it is coming. So watch what you do agents. It WILL be known someday.
“For nothing is concealed that will not become evident, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.”
Luke 8:17
Like a bully who is never challenged.
Election interference. They were the ones putting America at risk by covering up Hunter’s laptop and lying about it.
Post 2- Bingo.
The problem with cutting the FBI’s budget would be that they would “allow” more crimes to happen and then blame their budget cuts on not being able to stop it.
Sounds more and more like anyone above buck-private in the
FBI should be behind bards for at least three decades.
Exactly. Wray thinks the FBI is bullet proof and above the law. J Edgar behaved the same way. No doubt they collected dirt on everyone.
That is NOT what happened here. There was absolutely no specificity. There were no persons identified. It was all a politically-motivated fiction, and everyone knows it. So the FBI has joined the CDC, et al., in having zero credibility.
Well how does one expect them to react? Suppose one should give them the chance to admit wrong doing and mend their ways, but its not like one would expect them to.
It does no good to merely reduce the Feebs’ budget. The bureau must be scrapped entirely.
The FBI can never be reformed. It is too corrupted. 97% of the FBI agents give the other 3% a bad name.
Remember when James Comey testified ‘I don’t remember’ like over 200 times?
That’s how much ‘respect’ the FBI has for the American process of law. It’s a joke to them.
I agree but I think it would easier for congress to cut back their budget.
Easier? yes.
Effective? You say yourself it wouldn’t work ...
FBI Guilt is irrelevant if none have the courage to prosecute.....
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