The FBI and other law enforcement organizations treated Twitter as a “subsidiary,” flagging numerous accounts for purportedly harmful “misinformation” since January of 2020, according to the sixth installment of the “Twitter Files” released Friday.
Independent journalist Matt Taibbi described the FBI’s relationship with Twitter as having a “master-canine quality” with “constant and pervasive” contact between the bureau and the social media giant.
“Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth,” Taibbi wrote, referring to the executive who helped suppress The Post’s reporting on first son Hunter Biden’s extensive overseas business interests.
Read more at the NY Post
Twittergate deepens: FBI REFUSES to reveal how many social media firms it is secretly influencing – amid accusations it broke the law by pushing Twitter to remove accounts and hand over user location details, new trove reveals
The FBI has refused to say how many social media companies it works with, defending their actions after it emerged that agents from the bureau regularly met with Twitter executives and handed over lists of accounts they found questionable.
Officials from the bureau even asked for Twitter to hand over the locations from where the Twitter accounts were being operated, in a disturbing move that many saw as an attack on the First Amendment.
One user targeted by the FBI, who goes by @Lexitollah, said: ‘Seems like prima facie 1A violation.’
Charlie Hurt, the opinion editor of The Washington Examiner, said it was ‘a clear violation of the First Amendment.’
— Read More at the Daily Mail
The following link takes you to the entire thread of yesterday’s release by Matt Taibbi:
1. THREAD: The Twitter Files, Part Six
TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
Some GOP response to the latest revelations:
.@FBI has a lot to answer for after the latest drop of #TwitterFiles6 @Jim_Jordan @RepMikeJohnson @RepAndyBiggsAZ @RepDanBishop and I will be asking the questions.
Clear your calendar.
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) December 16, 2022
Does anyone still trust the FBI?
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) December 16, 2022
And if FBI used Twitter to censor, you bet they also used Google and Facebook
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) December 16, 2022
Government Democrat party 5th columnist plants using the powers of their offices to take down a duly elected President who they sought to cripple with TWO phony impeachments is Treason of the first order deserving Jail time or outright death sentences. The amounts of Divisive human life force and money wasted at a Nationwide level, perpetrated and planned to come out with a corrupt election result ,is social theft on the same scale of trillion dollars Student loan forgiveness. Unless these people are stopped in their tracks and prosecuted to the fullest you van kiss your Democracy goodbye.
Unfortunately, i fear, NOTHING WILL ever, get done to them. EVEN IF some how in 2024, the GOP wins both the white house AND the senate, while keeping the majority in the house, the libtard commies, WILL STILL NOT get punished..
The corrupt, treasonous Democrat elite and the Democrat Party never take responsibility or are held accountable for their own treasonous, unlawful, destructive, dishonorable, immoral actions and agendas. Democrats always Lie and blame someone or something else for their own actions and policies. Even if the Democrats are caught “red handed”.
As many domestic and foreign threats as our country faces who legitimately want to do us great harm—and our own government with the help of weaponized agencies within it chooses to target its own people who pose no such threats;
If our forefathers could be here now.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for our corrupt justice department to be held accountable. We already know they attempted to fraudulently oust our 45th president, but who is special counsel John Durham going after? Anyone who is not FBI. This is how governments turn into tyrannical totalitarian regimes, there is no one to police the federal police and elected offices form an unholy alliance with them. Yes, a republican congress can ask some tough questions, but they can’t prosecute anyone. The only real way for them to force accountability is to defund the corrupt agency, but that would take real guts.