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2023-05-20 -Land of the Free

FBI REFUSES to reveal how many social media firms it is secretly influencing

[MAIL] The FBI has refused to say how many social media companies it works with, defending their actions after it emerged that agents from the bureau regularly met with Twitter executives and handed over lists of accounts they found questionable.

Officials from the bureau even asked for Twitter to hand over the locations from where the Twitter accounts were being operated, in a disturbing move that many saw as an attack on the First Amendment.

One user targeted by the FBI, who goes by @Lexitollah, said: 'Seems like prima facie 1A violation.'

Charlie Hurt, the opinion editor of The Washington Examiner, said it was 'a clear violation of the First Amendment.'

He told Tucker Carlson: 'They were actually opening up new back channels on platforms I've not heard of before, in order to keep in touch with one another.

'If this was happening during the Pentagon Papers, and we were seeing this level of collusion between the federal government and news, there would rightly be an outcry.'

Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-20 06:30|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 How many? How about we just assume all ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-20 06:38|| 2023-05-20 06:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I saw this morning that a lawsuit alleges that the FBI surveilled Americans over 278,000 (not a typo) times without the proper warrants.

If this is true (and the FBI response was not to deny it), it indicates that this goes to the very highest levels. Management might miss 1 or 200 such abuses...but there is no way in the world that they could have missed 278,000.

Posted by Tom 2023-05-20 12:31|| 2023-05-20 12:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Missed Tom? I think it shows their "excellent" marksmanship,
They're aiming at all of us.

Posted by AlanC 2023-05-20 16:12|| 2023-05-20 16:12|| Front Page Top

#4 @#1 - Like the question, "Can you guess how many people in that cemetery are dead?"

-- I don't know.

All of them.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-20 16:25|| 2023-05-20 16:25|| Front Page Top

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