{"id":1766449,"date":"2022-12-07T13:17:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T18:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766449"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T18:18:31","slug":"with-fbi-supervisors-admission-of-feds-synergy-with-big-tech-the-private-company-defense-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-fbi-supervisors-admission-of-feds-synergy-with-big-tech-the-private-company-defense-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"With FBI Supervisor\u2019s Admission Of Feds\u2019 Synergy With Big Tech, The \u2018Private Company\u2019 Defense Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fwith-fbi-supervisors-admission-of-feds-synergy-with-big-tech-the-private-company-defense-is-dead%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=1766449&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>The FBI successfully meddled in the 2020 election via an influence operation that pushed Big Tech platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube to suppress certain information online, putting to bed defenses that tech giants can suppress whatever speech they want because they\u2019re private companies, not government actors. Confirmation of this meddling came during a <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/docs\/default-source\/press-releases\/doc-144-2---exhibit-a-chan.pdf?sfvrsn=2fc3c6f6_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deposition<\/a> with FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan which stemmed from a Big Tech censorship lawsuit from Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.<\/p>\n<p>In his testimony, Chan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eric_Schmitt\/status\/1600235865078632448\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> that intelligence agencies such as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI hosted weekly meetings with Big Tech ahead of the 2020 election in an attempt to encourage censorship. Chan was present and gave direction at most of these meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I said was although we have not seen any computer intrusions into national-level political committees or election officials or presidential candidates at this time, we ask you to remain vigilant about the potential for hack-and-dump operations, or something to that effect,\u201d Chan testified.<\/p>\n<p>This established pipeline of \u201cstrategic information\u201d gave Big Tech companies a scapegoat to justify their suppression of content they deemed \u201cdisinformation\u201d \u2014 including the Hunter Biden laptop story.<\/p>\n<p>It was around that same time that the FBI began funneling information about \u201cdomestic disinformation campaigns in the 2020 election cycle\u201d to Big Tech censors for removal. According to Chan, the FBI began \u201cpassing information to social media companies\u201d after the Department of Justice advised the agency that \u201cthis type of information was criminal in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the Department of Justice advised you that it\u2019s criminal and there\u2019s no First Amendment right to post false information about time, place, and manner of voting?\u201d the interrogation counsel asked.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief objection from his counsel, Chan affirmed, \u201cThat was my understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chan later admitted that the government was not always successful but still managed to get Big Tech to remove or censor content at least 50 percent of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the deposition Chan, who said he believes Russia could have influenced the 2016 election, claimed the FBI\u2019s warnings were rooted in the fear that a 2016 DNC-style hack \u201ccould happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chan\u2019s revelation confirms what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told podcast host Joe Rogan in August 2022. Nearly two years after Big Tech collectively stifled the spread of Hunter\u2019s sketchy overseas business dealings, Zuckerberg admitted it was the FBI\u2019s regular suppression instructions that inspired Facebook to reduce the distribution of posts about Biden family corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Chan put the censors at Silicon Valley giants on notice \u201cabout a potential for hack-and-dump operations from the Russians and the Iranians on more than one occasion,\u201d but so did several other senior intelligence officials.<\/p>\n<p>It was during one of these routine meetings that Chan said Facebook asked the FBI if it \u201chas any information they could share about the Hunter Biden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tech is so in sync with big brother that the former reliably does the bidding of the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1766452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766449","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}