On Wednesday, the FBI responded to the publication of Elon Musk’s Twitter files that focused on the agency’s collusion with Big Tech to censor information.
The bureau issued a statement calling the journalists behind the Twitter files ‘conspiracy theorists’ attempting to ‘discredit the agency.’
Recall that Matt Taibbi published the sixth Twitter file on Friday, December 16th, exposing the agency’s constant contact with Twitter.
“Instead of chasing child sex predators or terrorists, the FBI has agents — lots of them — analyzing and mass-flagging social media posts. Not as part of any criminal investigation, but as a permanent, end-in-itself surveillance operation,” Taibbi wrote.
“Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,” he added.
The FBI on Friday released a statement following the Twitter Files release.
Fox News previously reported:
Substack writer Matt Taibbi dropped his latest installment of the “Twitter Files” on Friday that detailed the FBI’s ties with the tech giant.
“The #TwitterFiles are revealing more every day about how the government collects, analyzes, and flags your social media content. Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,” Taibbi began the thread on Friday. “Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth… a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.”
In response to the “Twitter Files,” a spokesperson for the FBI told Fox News Digital, “The FBI regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities. Private sector entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their customers after the FBI has notified them.”
Michael Shellenberger on Monday published the seventh Twitter file about the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop.
The Gateway Pundit noted:
“In Twitter Files #7, we present evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community (IC), aimed at senior executives at news and social media companies, to discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published,” Shellenberger wrote.
The FBI paid Twitter $3.4 million in tax dollars to censor, suspend and harass Twitter users who only wanted to share the truth.
Shellenberger wrote that the FBI paid Twitter millions for their work censoring free speech.
On Wednesday's episode of America Reports on Fox News, Sandra Smith read this statement from the FBI:
“The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”
WATCH:
FBI statement on The Twitter Files:
"It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency."pic.twitter.com/CjjPVlM1Eq
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 21, 2022
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