{"id":1681959,"date":"2022-10-10T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T18:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1681959"},"modified":"2022-10-10T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T18:50:17","slug":"fbi-officials-who-briefed-facebook-before-censorship-of-hunter-biden-story-gave-money-to-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-officials-who-briefed-facebook-before-censorship-of-hunter-biden-story-gave-money-to-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Officials Who Briefed Facebook Before Censorship of Hunter Biden Story Gave Money to Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-officials-who-briefed-facebook-before-censorship-of-hunter-biden-story-gave-money-to-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1681959&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two FBI officials who briefed Facebook ahead of its decision to censor news stories about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop donated to Democrats in 2020, according to court filings and campaign finance records.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Dehmlow, the unit chief for the FBI\u2019s Foreign Influence Task Force, and Elvis Chan, the head of the FBI\u2019s San Francisco cyber division, were &#8220;involved&#8221; in the communications between the FBI and Facebook that led to the social media giant\u2019s &#8220;suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story,&#8221; according to a court filing on Thursday. The FBI\u2019s interactions with Facebook have been of interest since Mark Zuckerberg said in August that Facebook blocked access to an October 2020 <em>New York Post<\/em> article about Biden\u2019s laptop because the FBI had earlier warned the company to be on &#8220;high alert&#8221; for Russian efforts to release derogatory information about the Bidens before the election.<\/p>\n<p>According to campaign finance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/?data_type=processed&amp;contributor_name=chan%2C+elvis&amp;contributor_name=dehmlow%2C+laura\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records<\/a>, Dehmlow gave $60 to the Democratic National Committee in 2020. Chan contributed $50 each to Democratic Georgia Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock for their runoff campaigns in November 2020. According to the court filing, Facebook parent company Meta identified Dehmlow and Chan in response to a subpoena for records of interactions with the Biden administration. The filing, released by the Missouri attorney general\u2019s office on Monday, does not detail Dehmlow and Chan\u2019s interactions with Facebook or any other social media companies. The attorney general\u2019s office is suing the Biden administration for allegedly colluding with social media companies to &#8220;censor free speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The contributions are likely to revive longstanding concerns about political bias in the FBI\u2019s probe of Hunter Biden, who is under federal investigation over his taxes and foreign business dealings. Republican lawmakers have accused the FBI of shutting down aspects of the investigation into Biden and of inaccurately referring to reports about the Biden family\u2019s business dealings as Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R., Wisc.) have for months pressed the FBI for information about who met with social media companies to warn them about the <em>Post\u2019s<\/em> laptop story, which cited Hunter Biden\u2019s emails with his Ukrainian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two FBI officials who briefed Facebook ahead of its decision to censor news stories about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop donated to Democrats in 2020, according to court filings and campaign finance records.<br \/>\nThe post FBI Officials Who Briefed Facebook Before Censorship of Hunter Biden Story Gave Money to Democrats appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}