{"id":1795195,"date":"2023-01-04T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795195"},"modified":"2023-01-04T15:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T20:49:30","slug":"twitter-fbi-agent-thinks-fewer-blacks-voted-after-2012-because-of-russians-not-obamas-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-fbi-agent-thinks-fewer-blacks-voted-after-2012-because-of-russians-not-obamas-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter FBI Agent Thinks Fewer Blacks Voted After 2012 Because Of Russians\u2013Not Obama\u2019s Departure"},"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\">28<\/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-fbi-agent-thinks-fewer-blacks-voted-after-2012-because-of-russians-not-obamas-departure%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=1795195&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-->\n<p>Internal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-twitter-files-twitter-and-the-fbi-belly-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> materials released by Elon Musk and a bombshell lawsuit brought against the U.S. government by Louisiana and Missouri\u00a0have revealed the key role an FBI agent named\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/five-takeaways-from-twitter-fbi-agents-deposition-in-censorship-lawsuit-brought-by-conservative-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elvis Chan<\/a>\u00a0Contributed to the push for the platform that would censor speech from conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>But Chan, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI\u2019s San Francisco Division cyber branch, also made some remarkable statements on the topic out in the open, as part of a 149-page academic thesis he wrote on \u201csocial media companies and U.S. government efforts to combat Russian influence campaigns during the 2020 U.S. elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chan\u2019s thesis, submitted to The Naval Postgraduate School, in Monterey, California, in September, 2021, reveals an animus toward former President Trump, a disregard for the First Amendment, and a blindness toward the bureau\u2019s well-chronicled transgressions in investigating the 45th president.\u00a0Here are some key takeaways. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsdl.org\/c\/abstract\/?docid=861226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thesis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Chan\u2019s best evidence that the Russians made a difference in the 2016 presidential election is that the black voting rate declined from 2012\u2014which is more readily explained by the fact that in 2012, the nation\u2019s first black president was on the ballot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chan repeatedly referred to the fact that more blacks were present at the 2016 election than in 2012 as proof that the Russians had manipulated them. He only once mentions in passing that in 2012, Barack Obama, the nation\u2019s first black president, was on the ballot; in 2016, he was not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnalysis of voter turnout revealed a relatively high overall high voter turnout but low Black voter turnout in the 2016 elections. This combination of factors may have led to Vladimir Putin achieving his desired goals of eroding American faith in its democratic process and the election of Donald Trump,\u201d He wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He tries to make sense of why the 2020 election favoring Joe Biden was more clean than the 2016 election for Trump. He suggests that this was due to Russian propaganda. In 2016, non-black voters showed high turnout. He says that 2020 will see high turnout across all groups, which he believes is evidence that the Russian propaganda played a role. <em>Not<\/em> work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ultimate proof was the record turnout of voters across all demographic groups, including Black voters\u2026 Ultimately, the American actions appeared effective in mitigating the Russian online tactics because voters were undeterred and turned out in record numbers.\u201d By Chan\u2019s logic, the FBI\u2019s proof of whether Russia interfered in an election or not was seemingly whether blacks, a reliably Democrat voting bloc, came out to the polls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Chan\u2019s thesis laid out why the FBI needs to work with social media companies: As an end-run around the First Amendment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to First Amendment constraints, federal agencies have little involvement in Americans\u2019 usage of social media,\u201d He wrote. The FBI could however \u201ccommunicate\u201d with social media companies, and share information\u2014the goal of which was having the social media companies take down posts that did not necessarily violate the law.<\/p>\n<p>Chan suggested that the U.S. government create a \u201cNational Counter Information Operations Center as an interagency fusion center and focal point for countering disinformation campaigns\u2026 This center could be modeled after the National Counterterrorism Center, which also operates under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence,\u201d He wrote. \u201cAn effective strategy would involve providing counter-narratives using factual information across various mediums to ensure the public received it, such as through news media and social media outlets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) \u201cMisinformation\u201d Critique of the FBI was included that was true.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chan celebrated that in 2019, Twitter removed 422 accounts allegedly controlled by Russia\u2019s Internet Research Agency that \u201cfocused on promoting Trump, a right-wing meme that accused the FBI of misusing the Steele dossier to obtain a surveillance order on Trump associate, Carter Page, and Islamophobic rhetoric. The themes promoted by the IRA on Twitter showed its continued acuity in determining the hot-button issues that would agitate right-wing voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why are the topics so popular? \u201cagitated right wing voters\u201d The FBI relied on the discredited Steele dossier, which was funded by Democrats, to obtain a warrant for Page&#8217;s surveillance as part of its ill-fated attempt to link Trump with Russia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-ex-fbi-lawyer-to-plead-guilty-in-durham-criminal-investigation-for-allegedly-falsifying-evidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Clinesmith<\/a> I pleaded guilty for falsifying documents related to the warrant application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Chan claimed that some examples of misinformation campaigns had very little engagement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He used an outside researcher as a source to prove that 59% were exposed to Russian misinformation in his dissertation. However, he didn&#8217;t find any examples that were worthy of being highlighted when it came time to highlight actual examples.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate, he gave an example. \u201cFacebook Political Ads Targeting Black Voters\u201d Only 223 views. He claimed that Twitter and other social networking companies didn&#8217;t act aggressively enough. However, this is often because social media companies were pointing to the fact that the activity was small.<\/p>\n<p>He chose one. \u201cPeaceData\u201d as a notable Russia-linked campaign, but acknowledged that \u201cTwitter noted that the PeaceData-associated Twitter accounts were \u2018low quality and spammy,\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Agent Chan\u2019s thesis on Russian social media activity contains remarkable assertions, such as celebrating that accurate criticism of the FBI was taken down, and that American schools should \u201cindoctrinate\u201d youth so they are more like Soviet ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1795198,"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":[541],"tags":[13282,3695,8432,6202,10045,5591,12567,13281,4253,7270,6195],"class_list":["post-1795195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-13282","tag-agent","tag-blacks","tag-daily","tag-departure","tag-fbi","tag-obamas","tag-russians-not","tag-twitter","tag-voted","tag-wire"],"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\/1795195","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1795198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}