The FBI’s efforts to limit the free expression of speech on Twitter calls for a “thorough investigation” from the new Congress in January, according to longtime bureau agent Marc Ruskin.
The fact that the FBI is flagging accounts for Twitter to take action against, as shown in the sixth batch of Twitter disclosures, seems a government overreach and counter to FBI standard practice, Ruskin, author of the book “The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI” and a contributor to The Epoch Times, said in an interview.
The emails released on Dec. 16 show that officials from the bureau and the Department of Homeland Security regularly sent social media content to Twitter requesting its suppression. The volume of exchange was “constant and pervasive,” according to journalist Matt Taibbi, who reported that Twitter seems no different from an FBI subsidiary after being given access to the internal files by Twitter owner Elon Musk. A portion of the accounts that the FBI marked for Twitter to review involved satirical posts with relatively low engagement….