{"id":1780487,"date":"2022-12-19T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T20:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780487"},"modified":"2022-12-19T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T21:02:32","slug":"new-twitter-files-show-fbi-paid-twitter-millions-influenced-execs-to-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-twitter-files-show-fbi-paid-twitter-millions-influenced-execs-to-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018Twitter Files\u2019 Show FBI Paid Twitter Millions, Influenced Execs To Censor Hunter Biden Laptop Story"},"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\">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%2Fnew-twitter-files-show-fbi-paid-twitter-millions-influenced-execs-to-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story%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=1780487&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 bombshell story about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hunter-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a> from the New York Post was censored after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI<\/a> had repeatedly warned <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> executives about foreign election interference campaigns, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShellenbergerMD\/status\/1604871630613753856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seventh installment<\/a> of the Twitter Files released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Previous editions of the project, revealed by independent journalists based on emails and other internal company documents provided by Twitter CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>, have shown that federal law enforcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-new-twitter-files-shows-how-federal-state-governments-monitor-americans-social-media-posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policed content<\/a> on the platform and asked executives to remove certain posts. Even before the New York Post released the now-infamous October 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>, which included evidence that Hunter Biden introduced his father to a Ukrainian businessman, FBI officials pressured Twitter management to censor the story.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, there existed \u201can organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community\u201d aimed at \u201csenior executives at news and social media companies\u201d to discredit \u201cleaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published,\u201d according to independent journalist Michael Shellenberger.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI also paid Twitter more than $3.4 million for their \u201clegal process response,\u201d apparently referencing the time Twitter executives spent coordinating with the agency.<\/p>\n<p>FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan sent ten documents to former Twitter Head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth on the evening of October 13, hours before the New York Post article would be released. Chan urged Roth that the documents were \u201cnot spam\u201d and asked him to \u201cconfirm receipt.\u201d Two minutes later, Roth replied: \u201cReceived and downloaded \u2013 thanks!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the communications on October 13, Shellenberger pointed to legal testimony from Roth and recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/evidence-of-fbi-meddling-in-2020-election-mounts-after-zuckerbergs-hunter-biden-laptop-revelation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comments<\/a> from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. They indicated that FBI officials had spent months priming Twitter and Facebook leadership to expect \u201chack-and-leak operations\u201d from state actors ahead of the 2020 election, even though Chan had admitted that no new intelligence had prompted them to reach such a conclusion. Twitter executives repeatedly \u201creported very little Russian activity\u201d of concern in the months before the election in emails to the FBI, according to Shellenberger, and told multiple news outlets that negligible election interference had been occurring through Russian accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the FBI worked relentlessly to influence journalists and social media executives. One workshop hosted by the Aspen Institute in September 2020 prepared Roth, the head of security policy at Meta, and the top national security reporters for the New York Times and the Washington Post on how to handle a purported document dump from Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company where Biden provided scant services for enormous paychecks.<\/p>\n<p>Roth had also spurned previous attempts front the FBI to acquire data from Twitter, explaining that the company has a \u201clong-standing policy\u201d barring the use of data for \u201csurveillance and intelligence-gathering purposes.\u201d Another internal email from Twitter Director of Policy Carlos Monje sent to Roth confirmed that the intelligence community had been embarking on a \u201csustained\u201d but \u201cuncoordinated\u201d campaign asking Twitter to share data.<\/p>\n<p>Chan arranged in July 2020 for Twitter executives to receive temporary security clearances one month before the election. Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker had been working at the company, and there were so many FBI alums that they had started a new Slack channel to onboard new arrivals from the law enforcement agency. Roth and Chan eventually created a \u201cvirtual war room\u201d for internet executives, as well as officials from the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, also known as the ODNI.<\/p>\n<p>When the New York Post article was published on October 14, Roth said in an email that the story was not \u201cclearly in violation\u201d of the company\u2019s hacked materials policy or \u201canything else\u201d but added that the story felt \u201ca lot like a somewhat subtle leak operation.\u201d Baker insisted to Roth that the materials from the laptop were either faked or hacked, even though the New York Post had included a receipt from the repair shop signed by Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>A subsequent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/how-the-censorship-of-hunter-bidens-laptop-story-helped-joe-biden-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> of Biden voters in critical swing states commissioned by the Media Research Center found that 45.1% said they were \u201cunaware of the financial scandal enveloping Biden and his son, Hunter,\u201d while awareness of the scandal would have led 9.4% of voters to abandon Biden as their preferred candidate. The current commander-in-chief won states such as Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin by extraordinarily narrow margins, implying that knowledge of the story could have changed the outcome of the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bombshell story about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop from the New York Post was censored after the FBI had repeatedly warned Twitter executives about foreign election interference campaigns, according to the seventh installment of the Twitter Files released Monday. 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