The FBI Censorship of American Citizens
- Matt Taibbi's analysis of FBI-related internal Twitter documents and the Missouri Attorney General’s release of the deposition transcript of FBI censor Elvis Chan have revealed shocking interference by the bureau in the most sensitive political debates leading up to elections.
- Using a huge team of 80 agents, a joint task force of censors from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI flagged multiple posts for censorship on Twitter in 2020.
- Were these rogue agents operating in violation of the FBI's long-standing policy against interfering in elections?
- The FBI's censorship of American citizens enjoyed the approval and ratification of FBI Director Christopher Wray himself.
Sometimes reports lead to more takedowns than the accounts you have flagged.
- How confident are you that they are not making mistakes in taking down real user accounts?
- In my experience, they take account takedowns very seriously because this affects their bottom line.
- And to the best of their ability, they are very careful before doing a takedowns.
The FBI would notify social media companies of content it found objectionable
- The companies would occasionally apply the FBI's recommendations to additional accounts that, while not flagged by the FBI, had the same characteristics that the FBI found objectionable.
- In many cases, the FBI sought censorship of supposedly foreign-originating posts after significant engagement.
The accounts- I suppose you have talked about account takedowns earlier. If this account that posted this ad is taken down, do all those comments get taken down with it? I don't know.. Oh, so you think that the comments may stay up with the account gone?. I-to be honest with you, I do not use any social media.
- Incredibly, Chan failed to inform himself, or even care, whether censoring a supposedly foreign-originating post would also delete the many comments and reactions by legitimate Americans expressing protected political speech.
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