FBI Confirms It’s Restarting Online Censorship Efforts Ahead Of 2024 Election

[mountaineer]

FBI Confirms It’s Restarting Online Censorship Efforts Ahead Of 2024 Election
The FBI has resumed collusive efforts with social media companies to censor posts it claims are “disinformation,” The Federalist has learned.
 By: Shawn Fleetwood
May 08, 2024
The Federalist

On Monday, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters that federal agencies such as the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) restarted discussions with Big Tech platforms. According to NextGov/FCW, this coordination will focus on “removing disinformation on their sites as the November presidential election nears.” Warner claimed these talks resumed in March, around the same time oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri — which centers on the feds’ censorship efforts — were heard before the U.S. Supreme Court.

When pressed on the validity of Warner’s remarks, an FBI representative confirmed to The Federalist that the agency has resumed communications with social media companies ahead of the 2024 election.

“The FBI remains committed to combatting foreign malign influence operations, including in connection with our elections. That effort includes sharing specific foreign threat information with state and local election officials and private sector companies when appropriate and rigorously consistent with the law,” the representative claimed. “In coordination with the Department of Justice, the FBI recently implemented procedures to facilitate sharing information about foreign malign influence with social media companies in a way that reinforces that private companies are free to decide on their own whether and how to take action on that information.”

CISA External Affairs Specialist Tess Hyre declined The Federalist’s request for comment on whether the agency has resumed discussions with social media companies to combat what it claims to be “disinformation,” but she said that CISA Director Jen Easterly will be participating in an “Election Security” hearing in “the coming weeks.”

Neither the FBI nor CISA responded when pressed on when they restarted communications with social media companies on efforts to remove posts containing so-called “disinformation” from their platforms.  ...

"Foreign malign influence," my Aunt Fanny.

[Kamaji]

So the government is suppressing free speech again.

[Smokin Joe]

What? they stopped?

[mountaineer]

What? they stopped?

Never.

[LMAO]

Our federal alphabet agencies are beyond corruption

Maybe some can understand why us crazy conservatives want to limit the size and scope of the federal government. This is one reason

[catfish1957]

Have said for years, our government is more a present danger to our freedoms than any foreign power.

Crazy thought....   I can remember much of my childhood and early adulthood was in Cold War mode,  fearing USSR Communism.   Who'd ever dream it would end up being an inside job.

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

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