{"id":1773155,"date":"2022-12-13T06:47:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773155"},"modified":"2022-12-13T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:22:28","slug":"twitter-files-overshadow-the-bigger-scandal-fbi-lied-to-tech-giants-to-interfere-in-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-files-overshadow-the-bigger-scandal-fbi-lied-to-tech-giants-to-interfere-in-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Files Overshadow The Bigger Scandal: FBI Lied To Tech Giants To Interfere In Election\u00a0"},"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\">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%2Ftwitter-files-overshadow-the-bigger-scandal-fbi-lied-to-tech-giants-to-interfere-in-election%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=1773155&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>Elon Musk\u2019s release of internal communications pre-dating his purchase of Twitter is providing an ever-expanding menu of scandals. From Twitter coordinating censorship decisions with the government and politicians, to the censorship of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/twitter-files-confirm-stanford-professor-dr-jay-bhattacharya-blacklisted-covid-19-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scientists<\/a> discussing the Covid response, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/09\/all-the-times-twitter-execs-lied-to-our-faces-about-their-insidious-shadowbanning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blacklisting<\/a> of prominent conservatives \u2014 including candidates for office \u2014 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/12\/twitter-employees-found-trump-didnt-violate-policies-then-banned-him-anyway-with-corporate-medias-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">banning<\/a> of the president of the United States from Twitter based on a pretext, each edition of the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d launches a new angle of outrage over the tech giant\u2019s politically motivated decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>But the barrage of information is blinding both pundits and the public to the most egregious political scandal in recent history: Our FBI interfered in the 2020 election by lying to tech giants about the Hunter Biden laptop story to induce Twitter, Facebook, and likely others to censor the story.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hacked Materials\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Hunter Biden laptop story, of course, refers to the New York Post\u2019s Oct. 14, 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a>, \u201cSmoking-Gun Email Reveals How Hunter Biden Introduced Ukrainian Businessman to VP Dad,\u201d that details emails, text messages, and videos recovered from the hard drive of a laptop Hunter abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware. In the first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598828932395978752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dump<\/a> of the Twitter Files, independent journalist Matt Taibbi focused on \u201cHow and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Internal communications <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598822959866683394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> that Twitter censored the New York Post\u2019s story based on its \u201chacked materials\u201d policy, preventing users from sharing the story and even suspending the New York Post\u2019s official account. Those same communications showed Twitter staffers questioning the propriety and\/or veracity of the \u201chacked materials\u201d explanation, with both Yoel Roth and Jim Baker defending the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Roth, who at the time was Twitter\u2019s head of trust and safety, acknowledged the situation is \u201cemerging,\u201d as \u201cthe facts remain unclear,\u201d but justified the censorship based on \u201cthe SEVERE risks here and lessons of 2016.\u201d Twitter\u2019s then-Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker agreed that \u201cwe need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked,\u201d but nonetheless concluded that \u201cit is reasonable for us to assume they may have been and that caution is warranted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baker added: \u201c[T]here are some facts that indicate that the materials may have been hacked, while there are others indicating that the computer was either abandoned and\/or the owner consented to allow the repair shop to access it for at least some purposes. We simply need more information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>None of the documents Taibbi released detailed the \u201cfacts\u201d Baker or others at Twitter thought \u201cindicate\u201d the materials may have been hacked. Taibbi added, though, that while \u201cseveral sources recalled hearing about a \u2018general\u2019 warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there\u2019s no evidence \u2014 that I\u2019ve seen \u2014 of any government involvement in the laptop story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether the absence of such evidence stems from the government\u2019s lack of a specific warning about the laptop story, or from a secreting of such communications, is unknown. After the release of part one of the Twitter Files, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/ousted-twitter-counsel-jim-baker-vetted-files-without-elon-musks-knowledge-matt-taibbi-reveals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fired<\/a> Baker reportedly for \u201cvetting the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only did the FBI prompt Twitter and Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, the bureau did so by deceiving the companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1897994,"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":"Twitter Files Overshadow The Bigger Scandal: FBI Lied To Tech Giants To Interfere In Election\u00a0","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8356,3728,5591,6919,5665,8357,7474,5450,8355,4633,4989,4253],"class_list":["post-1773155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-bigger","tag-election","tag-fbi","tag-federalist","tag-files","tag-giants","tag-interfere","tag-lied","tag-overshadow","tag-scandal","tag-tech","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Twitter Files Overshadow The Bigger Scandal: FBI Lied To Tech Giants To Interfere In Election\u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773155","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}