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FBI Confirms It’s Restarting Online Censorship Efforts Ahead Of 2024 Election
The Federalist ^ | MAY 08, 2024 | SHAWN FLEETWOOD

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 05/08/2024 2:05:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FBI and CISA, look in the mirror you marxist excrement.


2 posted on 05/08/2024 2:06:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I didn’t know they ever stopped


3 posted on 05/08/2024 2:07:30 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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“The FBI remains committed to combatting foreign malign influence operations, including in connection with our elections.

Flush with hypocrisy considering the United States (CIA) history on interfering with other countries elections.

4 posted on 05/08/2024 2:09:51 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It never stopped to be able to restart it.

Big Tech needs to be sued by thousands of people at the same time. They need to be forced to defend themselves coincidentally in endless small claim’s courts.


5 posted on 05/08/2024 2:16:16 PM PDT by Freest Republican
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Got to post all videos in every outlet available. YouTube is enemy territory.


6 posted on 05/08/2024 2:19:58 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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Big Tech needs to be sued by thousands of people at the same time.

The FBI should be abolished. Such action would be more to the point at hand.

7 posted on 05/08/2024 2:20:40 PM PDT by DSH
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FIB performing election interference again. Anyone surprised?


8 posted on 05/08/2024 2:23:09 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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Google and YouTube is already censoring Trump ads.


9 posted on 05/08/2024 2:30:52 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who decides exactly what is disinformation? First amendment be damned. Those Stalinist bassturds.


10 posted on 05/08/2024 2:31:50 PM PDT by lula (1984)
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“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,”

Translation: We’re going to shut up every critic of Biden.


11 posted on 05/08/2024 2:34:01 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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The FIB seem to meet some understandings of the term “Illegal Aliens”.


12 posted on 05/08/2024 2:36:00 PM PDT by Paladin2
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bump for later...


13 posted on 05/08/2024 2:37:04 PM PDT by GOPJ (Takes 6 to 9 months to 'organize' a nationwide protest.This one was organized after October 7th...)
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Do they realize that they will almost completely silence the Biden Administration if the cut off all disinformation? If their lips are moving, they are lying = disinformation.


14 posted on 05/08/2024 2:40:44 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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Somewhere Elon Musk is laughing.


15 posted on 05/08/2024 3:06:23 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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This is why they want to ban TikTok.


16 posted on 05/08/2024 3:10:10 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR’s STEPSON..........


17 posted on 05/08/2024 3:20:12 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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These guys must have nothing to do.


18 posted on 05/08/2024 3:24:20 PM PDT by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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Can I be POTUS for just one day? If so, kiss your derrières goodbye FBI.
19 posted on 05/08/2024 3:27:30 PM PDT by Chgogal (To paraphrase Biden: You vote Democrat? You ain't smart.)
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To: NWFree

Disinformation: stuff the govt doesn’t agree with, even if it’s true.


20 posted on 05/08/2024 3:27:51 PM PDT by jimbug
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