FBI met weekly with Big Tech ahead of the 2020 election, agent testifies

[multivita-man]

The FBI is now a part of the Biden Administration. Even though this happened during the Obama administration.

The vast majority of people in the federal bureaucracy were hired before Biden and will be there after he's gone.

 

[multivita-man]

The FBI is now a part of the Biden Administration. Even though this happened during the Obama administration.

Kun-spEEr-uh-seh!

 

[CaughtInThe]

Darth Biden controlling the FBI while trump was prez!!!!!!!

 

[Jay Falcon]

The laptop has the evidence of Biden Inc influence peddling

 

[Jay Falcon]

Your right, my mistake. So much news being supressed by social media and the news, it's hard to keep up.

What you mean to say is, it's hard to keep up with all the bullshit you're being fed (and believing).

 

[anatta]

Explain why it's wrong for FBI or other law enforcement to meet with tech companies before an election. Where's the wrongdoing?

the FBI was knowingly peddling the idea of a "Russian info dump", when they knew the laptop was authentic
In their usual Swampish manner they were already enabling/encouraging FB ( and who knows whom else) to suppress it
= meddling in our election

 

[multivita-man]

the FBI was knowingly peddling the idea of a "Russian info dump", when they knew the laptop was authentic
In their usual Swampish manner they were already enabling/encouraging FB ( and who knows whom else) to suppress it
= meddling in our election

You're just vaguely tying random things together now without any coherence.

If federal law enforcement becomes aware that foreign actors may try to infiltrate networks or manipulate platforms, you're saying that they should just keep it to themselves? Government agencies shouldn't let TikTok users know that they're being manipulated by the CCP? I'm guessing most people would want to know that information.

That being said, it's ultimately the platforms that decide whether to allow misinformation, which Facebook, Twitter, and others knowingly did do back in 2016 and continued to do until they began to feel the sting of public criticism. Law enforcement or the military can't really stop platforms from allowing trolls or bots or otherwise shut down discourse they don't like.

Twitter and FB could have told the feds to go eff themselves and they have armies of lawyers that can defend them. The reason they didn't is because they got bad press and a lot of public scrutiny and more or less pledged to do a better job of policing themselves.

 

[BlueTex]

the FBI was knowingly peddling the idea of a "Russian info dump", when they knew the laptop was authentic
In their usual Swampish manner they were already enabling/encouraging FB ( and who knows whom else) to suppress it
= meddling in our election

Are you aware that the FBI regularly briefs all kinds of businesses?

 

[SCrider]

So I gather that Hunter Biden’s laptop has the information about how the FBI worked to swing the election? Which paranoia highway are we on here?

it's the obvious pivot away from the lies about the election being stolen. It is the FBI's fault.

 

[anatta]

You're just vaguely tying random things together now without any coherence.

If federal law enforcement becomes aware that foreign actors may try to infiltrate networks or manipulate platforms, you're saying that they should just keep it to themselves? Government agencies shouldn't let TikTok users know that they're being manipulated by the CCP? I'm guessing most people would want to know that information.

N o im saying the FBI should not deliberately/knowigly mislead that "Russian data dump" is not a Russian data dump at all

That being said, it's ultimately the platforms that decide whether to allow misinformation, which Facebook, Twitter, and others knowingly did do back in 2016 and continued to do until they began to feel the sting of public criticism. Law enforcement or the military can't really stop platforms from allowing trolls or bots or otherwise shut down discourse they don't like.

....

Twitter and FB could have told the feds to go eff themselves and they have armies of lawyers that can defend them. The reason they didn't is because they got bad press and a lot of public scrutiny and more or less pledged to do a better job of policing themselves.

so which is it? listen to FBI "warnings" or not? i assume you are against "disinformation"
The FBI was peddling such

 

[anatta]

Are you aware that the FBI regularly briefs all kinds of businesses?

of course. Are you aware they deliberately misrepresented the "Russian news dump" to manipulate social media?

 

[multivita-man]

N o im saying the FBI should not deliberately/knowigly mislead that "Russian data dump" is not a Russian data dump at all

This isn't even a coherent thought.

so which is it? listen to FBI "warnings" or not? i assume you are against "disinformation"
The FBI was peddling such

You know...never mind.

 

[anatta]

This isn't even a coherent thought.

then you dont understand the FBI "warning" to FB Zuckerman iterated

You know...never mind.

sure. no biggie having the FBI manipulate social media to suppress what they knew was a legit story

 

[BlueTex]

of course. Are you aware they deliberately misrepresented the "Russian news dump" to manipulate social media?

Interesting... Say, isn't Elvis Chan the guy they just deposed?

 

[multivita-man]

Interesting... Say, isn't Elvis Chan the guy they just deposed?

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Kun-spEER-uh-seh!

 

[j brown's body]

just to be clear the FBI had the Hunter laptop, and knew it was real.
if you are still pre-2016 thinking the FBI isn't interfering in elections
this show suppression is an ongoing thing and was ramped up even more closer to the election

FBI met weekly with Big Tech ahead of the 2020 election, agent testifies

An FBI agent testified to Republican attorneys general this week that the FBI held weekly meetings with Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

www.foxnews.com

During the deposition, Chan said that he, along with the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and senior Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials, had weekly meetings with major social media companies to warn against Russian disinformation attempts ahead of the 2020 election, according to a source in the Missouri attorney general's office. That suit accuses high-ranking government officials of working with giant social media companies "under the guise of combating misinformation" to achieve greater censorship.

Those meetings were initially quarterly, then monthly, then weekly heading into the presidential election between former President Donald Trump and now President Biden. According to a source, Chan testified that in those multiple, separate meetings, the FBI warned the social media companies that there could be potentially Russian "hack and dump" or "hack and leak" operations.

As noted in the complaint, Zuckerberg stated, "If the FBI… if they come to us and tell us we need to be on guard about something, then I want to take that seriously." Zuckerberg said he could not recall if the FBI specifically flagged the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation, but said that the story "basically fit the pattern" that the FBI had identified.
Zuckerberg added that the FBI said "there’s about to be some kind of dump… that’s similar to that, so just be vigilant."

A Louisiana federal judge ordered Chan's deposition on Nov. 14. "Chan had authority over cybersecurity issues for the FBI in the San Francisco, California region which includes the headquarters of major social-media platforms and played a critical role for the FBI in coordinating with social-media platforms related to censorship," Judge Terry A. Doughty wrote in his court order.

Do they know that everything on it is real?

 

[j brown's body]

The "deep state" (known variously as the Military Industrial Complex, the Administrative Swamp, or simply the "power elite") is always interfering in the socio-political environment.

It's the golden rule, as in those with the gold make the rules.

don't forget colleges, high schools, corporations, media and major league baseball.

 

[element94]

just to be clear the FBI had the Hunter laptop, and knew it was real.
if you are still pre-2016 thinking the FBI isn't interfering in elections
this show suppression is an ongoing thing and was ramped up even more closer to the election

FBI met weekly with Big Tech ahead of the 2020 election, agent testifies

An FBI agent testified to Republican attorneys general this week that the FBI held weekly meetings with Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

www.foxnews.com

During the deposition, Chan said that he, along with the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and senior Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials, had weekly meetings with major social media companies to warn against Russian disinformation attempts ahead of the 2020 election, according to a source in the Missouri attorney general's office. That suit accuses high-ranking government officials of working with giant social media companies "under the guise of combating misinformation" to achieve greater censorship.

Those meetings were initially quarterly, then monthly, then weekly heading into the presidential election between former President Donald Trump and now President Biden. According to a source, Chan testified that in those multiple, separate meetings, the FBI warned the social media companies that there could be potentially Russian "hack and dump" or "hack and leak" operations.

As noted in the complaint, Zuckerberg stated, "If the FBI… if they come to us and tell us we need to be on guard about something, then I want to take that seriously." Zuckerberg said he could not recall if the FBI specifically flagged the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation, but said that the story "basically fit the pattern" that the FBI had identified.
Zuckerberg added that the FBI said "there’s about to be some kind of dump… that’s similar to that, so just be vigilant."

A Louisiana federal judge ordered Chan's deposition on Nov. 14. "Chan had authority over cybersecurity issues for the FBI in the San Francisco, California region which includes the headquarters of major social-media platforms and played a critical role for the FBI in coordinating with social-media platforms related to censorship," Judge Terry A. Doughty wrote in his court order.

This the new Durham?

 

[Jezcoe]

just to be clear the FBI had the Hunter laptop, and knew it was real.

When the FBI started to see copies of the laptop that was turned over to them months before don't you think that some of them would wonder why every right wing asshole seemed to have a copy of it and maybe it was the correct course to treat it as the obvious October Surprise that it was?

 

[Hypothetical]

When the FBI started to see copies of the laptop that was turned over to them months before don't you think that some of them would wonder why every right wing asshole seemed to have a copy of it and maybe it was the correct course to treat it as the obvious October Surprise that it was?

are you suggesting the the FBI SHOULD advise social media to cover up truthful information under the guise of "russian disinformation", because it could harm one of the candidates involved in an election to our highest office?

Is this the equivalent to "as long as it's Trump they are messing with , it's fine" or what am I missing here?

 

[Linuxcooldude]

The right's definition of "suppressed": anything not worthy of being reported but that they want reported on page 1, everywhere.

Anything suppressed by the government and/or media is usually more than worthy of being know by the public.

 

[Linuxcooldude]

Explain why it's wrong for FBI or other law enforcement to meet with tech companies before an election. Where's the wrongdoing?

It usually means illegal collusion to supress information to the public.

 

[multivita-man]

It usually means illegal collusion to supress information to the public.

 

[Nickyjo]

It usually means illegal collusion to supress information to the public.

You or someone else has studied this? Do you have a link that shows what percentage of such meetings results in illegal collusion?

 

[Jezcoe]

are you suggesting the the FBI SHOULD advise social media to cover up truthful information under the guise of "russian disinformation", because it could harm one of the candidates involved in an election to our highest office?

Is this the equivalent to "as long as it's Trump they are messing with , it's fine" or what am I missing here?

I am saying that when the FBI sees material that was turned over to them as part of an investigation and a couple weeks before the election the President’s lawyer shows up with that very information I think that it would be wise to question the legitimacy and the intent of distributing that material.