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Congressman Ted Lieu defends FBI after Twitter Files revelation
Lieu says the FBI was only flagging “foreign influence operations” and “misinformation.”
After Twitter revelations, Rep. James Comer says Google and Facebook need to be investigated for similar censorship collusion
Congressman Comer says there will be “several committees” focussed on this.
FBI responds after revelations it flagged tweets for censorship
The statement put out by the FBI doesn’t answer to the depth of the allegations against the agency.
FBI flagged jokes and satirical accounts to Twitter for censorship
More evidence of the agency’s pervasive and secret online speech policing.
President Trump outlines free speech policies for 2024 campaign
“If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country.”
How Twitter stretched its own rules to ban President Trump
By relying on wider “context,” published conversations reveal.
Twitter had regular meetings with FBI, allowed them to flag tweets
New published chats reveal.
Musk fires Twitter lawyer Jim Baker, former FBI lawyer involved in censoring Hunter Biden laptop story (and the Trump-Russia investigation)
Baker was fired on Tuesday, when it was found he was involved in vetting which information gets released to the public.
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan testifies on weekly disinformation meetings with tech platforms prior to elections
Insight into the FBI’s request to remove content from social media.
FBI Director pushes for “lawful access” to encrypted messages
The FBI wants decryption keys to all “private” messages.
Google’s handing over of location data on January 6th protesters was a new record
The biggest geofence investigation ever – and also the biggest challenge to them.
“You won’t answer the question” – Senator Rand Paul confronts FBI on scooping up online user data
Wray refused to give a direct answer.