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Musk Signals Support for Congressional Probe Into FBI’s Alleged Censorship Efforts

December 21, 2022
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Following the latest revelations from the “Twitter Files,” Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk indicated on Dec. 20 that he would support a congressional investigation into the FBI’s alleged efforts to censor social media users. On Monday, author Michael Shellenberger presented the seventh installment of the Twitter Files exposé, sharing internal documents from the social…

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How the FBI Copied Parts of the Debunked Steele Dossier Directly Into Its Spy Requests

December 21, 2022
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The FBI relied more extensively on Christopher Steele’s debunked dossier in their Russiagate investigation than has been revealed, inserting key parts from it into their applications for warrants to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign. Agents did this without telling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the precise wording was plucked directly from a political…

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Seth Rich Case Exposes How FBI Shields Records From Public: Lawyer

December 20, 2022
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The FBI is undermining the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by shielding items that should be disclosed to the public under nebulous categories such as digital evidence, according to a lawyer working on a high-profile FBI records case. “The FBI can say anything is digital evidence and they don’t enter it into their index systems and…

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Soros-Funded Nonprofit Played Key Role in Twitter’s Preparation for Dealing With Hunter Biden Story, Docs Reveal

December 20, 2022
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First Draft News, a now-defunct nonprofit that left-wing billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations funded, played a key role in Twitter’s preparation to shut down the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, according to internal documents published by author Michael Shellenberger as part of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files.” The Aspen Institute hosted a September 2020 training…

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FBI’s Suppression of Speech on Twitter Calls for Congressional Investigation: Analysts

December 19, 2022
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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…

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FBI’s Suppression of Speech on Twitter Calls for Congressional Investigation: FBI Veteran

December 19, 2022
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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…

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FBI Issues ‘National Public Safety Alert’ on Widespread Child Extortion Schemes

December 19, 2022
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The FBI on Monday issued a “national public safety alert” due to an increase in extortion scams aimed at thousands of children and teenagers, warning about the possibility that more Americans could be targeted over the Christmas holiday season. In a news release, the bureau said that more than 3,000 minor victims were targeted in…

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Tennessee Men Allegedly Planned Attack on Jan. 6 Investigators, FBI Field Office

December 19, 2022
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Two Tennessee men were arrested after allegedly planning to kill law enforcement personnel and attack the FBI’s field office in Knoxville, Tennessee, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee. In a criminal complaint filed on Friday, Edward Kelley, 33, and Austin Carter, 26, were charged with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal…

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New Twitter Files Show FBI Tried to ‘Discredit’ Information About Hunter Biden Laptop

December 19, 2022
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The seventh installment of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files” was released Monday morning, showing there was an “organized effort” by federal law enforcement agents to target social media and news companies that reported on the explosive 2020 Hunter Biden laptop report. “In Twitter Files #7, we present evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives…

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Internal Twitter Records Show FBI Questioned Twitter on State Propaganda

December 19, 2022
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Independent journalist Matt Taibbi published a supplemental thread to Part 6 of the “Twitter Files” on Sunday, bringing to light documented exchanges between the FBI and Twitter’s executive discussing the topic of state actors on the social media platform. In July 2020, an FBI agent with the San Francisco office told the head of Twitter’s…

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