Outrageous censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story and Biden family influence-peddling businesses by social media giant Twitter came after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned it during weekly meetings to expect “hack-and-leak operations” by “state actors” involving Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family. This was revealed by Twitter’s former head of site integrity, Yoel Roth, the New York Post’s Miranda Devine reported.
On November 2, 2022, Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner began releasing internal communications between the social media platform and Team Biden documenting the company’s suppression of the New York Post’s bombshell reports before the 2020 presidential election presenting evidence from a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden that Joe Biden was covering up his family’s sale of access to the White house to foreign companies and individuals, including Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.
According to released documents it is proved that the Twitter officials were having direct communication with the Team Biden for removing information Biden’s people didn’t like.
In her report on December 4, 2022, Miranda Devine pointed to the testimony on November 29, 2022 of FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan in a lawsuit against the Biden administration brought by Republican attorneys. Elvis Chan said he organized weekly meetings with Twitter and Facebook in San Francisco for as many as seven Washington-based FBI agents in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
Twitter’s Roth was testifying in a separate lawsuit in which the Tea Party Patriots Foundation claimed the censorship of the Post was an “in kind” campaign contribution to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign.
“I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter” said Roth in a December 21, 2020, declaration to the Federal Election Commission.
“I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden”.
It was Twitter’s policy of banning “hacked materials” that was cited October 14, 2020, when it locked the New York Post’s account for two weeks and censored the reports of evidence that Joe Biden was lying about his knowledge of the family influence-peddling business.
Facebook also was warned by the FBI to be prepared for a “dump” of “Russian propaganda”, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told podcast host Joe Rogan in August. Facebook joined Twitter in censoring the Post’s stories.
Miranda Devine reported the FBI was aware of the upcoming Post stories because the bureau was spying on Trump’s then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s online cloud. The FBI’s pretext was that it was investigating alleged foreign agent registration violations. But the probe was disbanded this year.
The FBI, through the warrant to spy on Giuliani, had access to emails in August 2020 from the owner of the computer repair shop where Hunter Biden abandoned his laptop in April 2019, John Paul Mac Isaac.
Mac Isaac had come to the FBI in the fall of 2019, expressing concern that the laptop contained matters of national security. He pointed to evidence of payments to the Biden family from Ukraine and China.
Two FBI agents came to Mac Isaac’s door with a subpoena on Dec. 9, 2019, and took the laptop and a copy of the hard drive. Since then, bureau whistleblowers have told congressional Republicans that officials in the FBI’s Washington Field Office buried derogatory information prior to the 2020 election that had been discovered in the investigation.
Musk weighed in on the findings in a Q&A on Twitter.
“If Twitter is doing one team’s bidding before an election, shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election, that is the very definition of election interference”, he said.
“Frankly Twitter was acting like an arm of the Democratic National Committee. It was absurd”.
