{"id":1780713,"date":"2022-12-19T18:47:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780713"},"modified":"2022-12-19T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:48:09","slug":"with-russia-hoaxer-jim-baker-on-the-inside-the-fbi-primed-twitter-to-kill-hunter-biden-story-long-before-it-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-russia-hoaxer-jim-baker-on-the-inside-the-fbi-primed-twitter-to-kill-hunter-biden-story-long-before-it-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"With Russia Hoaxer Jim Baker On The Inside, The FBI Primed Twitter To Kill Hunter Biden Story Long Before It Broke"},"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\">42<\/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-russia-hoaxer-jim-baker-on-the-inside-the-fbi-primed-twitter-to-kill-hunter-biden-story-long-before-it-broke%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=1780713&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, with the help of insiders at Twitter, led a domestic intelligence coup against Americans during the 2020 election by priming the lead censors at Twitter to discredit reports of the legitimate Hunter Biden laptop under the guise of hacked materials. <\/p>\n<p>The use of an intelligence reimbursement program means the taxpayer-funded FBI was paying Twitter nearly $3.5 million while the Big Tech company was aiding its election-rigging operation, writer Michael Shellenberger confirmed on Monday in the seventh installment of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/twitter-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter Files<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>By the time the New York Post reported on the Biden family business \u2014 a revelation that had the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/24\/poll-one-in-six-biden-voters-would-have-changed-their-vote-if-they-had-known-about-scandals-suppressed-by-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">potential to change<\/a>\u00a0Americans\u2019 votes in the 2020 election \u2014 the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/18\/exclusive-fbi-knew-of-hunter-bidens-missing-laptop-as-early-as-december-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">knew<\/a> the laptop and accounts of Hunter\u2019s sketchy overseas dealings were legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>A previous batch of \u201cTwitter Files\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/03\/twitter-files-confirm-big-tech-leftists-suppressed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-ahead-of-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicated<\/a> that the Big Tech platform used a manufactured \u201chacked materials\u201d policy to suppress the New York Post\u2019s reporting about Hunter\u2019s laptop for political reasons mere weeks before the 2020 presidential election. <\/p>\n<p>The driving force for that censorship, Shellenberger revealed in his new thread, was James Baker, Twitter\u2019s deputy general counsel who served as lead counsel for the FBI from 2014 to 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Baker, who played a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/07\/elon-musk-fires-former-fbi-lawyer-behind-russiagate-hoax-following-unconvincing-explanation-for-hunter-biden-laptop-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">key role<\/a> in the FBI\u2019s attempt to undermine former President Donald Trump via the Russian collusion hoax, was recently fired by Twitter CEO Elon Musk after his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1600237095364096000?s=20&#038;t=VRz8WbQMwC515reaxfZulQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cunconvincing\u201d<\/a> explanation about his part in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story. <\/p>\n<p>The FBI and Baker, documents suggest, worked to discredit reporting about the Biden family business both before and after it went public. <\/p>\n<p>One month before the New York Post published its story, the FBI requested to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShellenbergerMD\/status\/1604899876508028928?s=20&#038;t=xC7W6BZZdOcrZpRsMvSuxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">classified briefing<\/a> with someone at Twitter who had a top security clearance. Baker, out of the many former FBI officials who had infested Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShellenbergerMD\/status\/1604895371360374784?s=20&#038;t=xC7W6BZZdOcrZpRsMvSuxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over the years<\/a>, got the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>One month later, Baker was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShellenbergerMD\/status\/1604902028852924416?s=20&#038;t=7z3b8e24rYEyfAzJjUJ1UA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documented<\/a> discouraging Yoel Roth, former safety head at Twitter, from allowing the Post\u2019s reporting to circulate on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>Roth <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShellenbergerMD\/status\/1604900581809614848?s=20&#038;t=xC7W6BZZdOcrZpRsMvSuxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> that the Post\u2019s reporting \u201cisn\u2019t clearly violative of our Hacked Materials Policy, nor is it clearly in violation of anything else\u201d but admitted, after months of grooming by the FBI about hacks, that \u201cthis feels a lot like a somewhat subtle leak operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though Baker\u2019s former employer <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/18\/exclusive-fbi-knew-of-hunter-bidens-missing-laptop-as-early-as-december-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was aware of<\/a> the veracity of Hunter\u2019s laptop, Baker insisted on the possibility that the contents were obtained in unsavory ways that violated Twitter\u2019s policies. The FBI veteran sourced some of his skepticism from what he said were \u201creliable cybersecurity folks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the years leading up to the 2020 election, Twitter reported there was \u201cvery little Russian activity\u201d on its platform. The FBI also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShellenbergerMD\/status\/1604881305178497024?s=20&#038;t=xC7W6BZZdOcrZpRsMvSuxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> it \u201cdid not see any similar competing intrusions to what had happened in 2016.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Yet, the corrupt agency spent months <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShellenbergerMD\/status\/1604888429816209409?s=20&#038;t=xC7W6BZZdOcrZpRsMvSuxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pressuring<\/a> and priming Twitter with secret meetings, which focused on encouraging censorship ahead of the 2020 election, and encrypted conversations about the potential for Russian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The FBI&#8217;s influence campaign aimed at executives at news media, Twitter, &#038; other social media companies worked,&#8217; Shellenberger reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1780716,"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":[7860,3620,10060,5591,6919,10429,3822,4152,6239,3759,10430,4280,4178,4253],"class_list":["post-1780713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-baker","tag-biden","tag-broke","tag-fbi","tag-federalist","tag-hoaxer","tag-hunter","tag-inside","tag-jim","tag-kill","tag-primed","tag-russia","tag-story","tag-twitter"],"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\/1780713","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=1780713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}