The F.B.I./Biden/Twitter Files

Justin Trouble

Dec 21, 2022

updated feb 19, 2023

This image is included in *DHS Censorship Agency Had Strange First Mission: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt On ‘Red Mirage, Blue Shift’ Election Events* by Mike Benz for The Foundation for Freedom Online (November 9, 2022) wherein the following is included, “EIP specifically sought out that exact image above to censor from social media.”

C O N T E N T S

The Tip of the Iceberg - Facebook Colludes With the Feds

Leading Up to The Twitter Files

Elon’s Intro

The Twitter Files Part 1

Side Notes

The Twitter Files Supplimental 1

Lee Fang Tweets

The Twitter Files 2

Elon Interlude 1

The Twitter Files 3

Note to Readers on the "Twitter Files"

Elon Interlude 2

The Twitter Files 4

The Twitter Files 5

Matt Taibbi Discusses the Twitter Files & More

The Twitter Files 6

Side Notes 2

The Twitter Files Supplimental 2

Side Notes 3

The Twitter Files 7

The Twitter Files 8

The F.B.I.’s Pathetic Denial

Satire About Former CEO Parag Agrawal Being Arrested for Child Porn Misaken for Real News

The New York Times Asks For Access to Twitter Files

The Twitter Files: Twitter & “Other Government Agencies”

Twitter Files Thread - The Spies Who Loved Twitter

FBI Buried the Biden Laptop

The Twitter Files: How Twitter Rigged the COVID Debate

The Twitter Files Elon Musk Slams CISA Censorship Network as ‘Propaganda Platform’

The Twitter Files - Why Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In

Twitter and the FBI “Belly Button”

REEEEEE!

#Pfizer Files

Twitter Banning of Scientists, Doctors, Journalists & Activists

White House Pressured Facebook to Censor Accurate Info on Covid ‘Vaccines’

The Twitter Files 14

The Twitter Files - Supplemental - More Adam Schiff Ban Requests, and "Deamplification"

Updated Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary

The Twitter Files 15

More Stuff

The Twitter Files 16

Media Reporting on the Twitter Files

Perhapse the best summary of this matter can be found in…

Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary - For those who haven't been following, a compilation of one-paragraph summaries of all the Twitter Files threads by every reporter. With links and notes on key revelations

by Matt Taibbi

On October 27, 2021, CISA, a subsection of the DHS published this video…

The Tip of the Iceberg - Facebook Colludes With The Feds

On October 31, 2022, The Intercept published Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation by Ken Klippenstein and Lee Fang. This would be referred to as, “just the tip of a much larger iceberg” by The FFO as we’ll see below. At any rate, The Intercept included the following in the report,

Key Takeaways
Though DHS shuttered its controversial Disinformation Governance Board, a strategic document reveals the underlying work is ongoing.
DHS plans to target inaccurate information on “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”
Facebook created a special portal for DHS and government partners to report disinformation directly.
The work is primarily done by CISA, a DHS sub-agency tasked with protecting critical national infrastructure.
DHS, the FBI, and several media entities are having biweekly meetings as recently as August.
DHS considered countering disinformation relating to content that undermines trust in financial systems and courts.
The FBI agent who primed social media platforms to take down the Hunter Biden laptop story continued to have a role in DHS policy discussions.

Leading Up to The Twitter Files

On November 9, 2022, The Foundation for Freedom Online published, DHS Censorship Agency Had Strange First Mission: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt On ‘Red Mirage, Blue Shift’ Election Events by Mike Benz.

In an opening summary, Benz writes about Twitter that the…

Network throttled millions of posts ahead of 2020 election, blocked “emerging narratives” from reaching “virality threshold.”
Censors boast on video of getting tech companies to ban entire categories of election speech under threat of “huge regulatory pressure.”
Months before the 2020 election, censors systematically targeted all speech categories that could challenge a future “red mirage, blue shift” election scenario.

Next, referring to the article above, Benz writes,

Last week, The Intercept published a set of leaks that drew broad interest in perhaps the most undercovered scandal inside the US government today: the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) quiet move to establish, for the first time in US history, an explicitly inward-facing domestic censorship bureau.
What The Intercept glimpsed, however, is just the tip of a much larger iceberg.
The size, scale and speed of DHS's censorship operation are vastly larger have been reported. Based on our investigation, below are seven bottom-line figures summarizing the scope of censorship carried out by DHS speech control partners, as compiled from their own reports and videos:
22 Million tweets labeled “misinformation” on Twitter;
859 Million tweets collected in databases for “misinformation” analysis;
120 analysts monitoring social media “misinformation” in up to 20-hour shifts;
15 tech platforms monitored for “misinformation” often in real-time;
<1 hour average response time between government partners and tech platforms;
Dozens of “misinformation narratives” targeted for platform-wide throttling; and
Hundreds of millions of individual Facebook posts, YouTube videos, TikToks, and tweets impacted, due to “misinformation” Terms of Service policy changes that DHS partners openly plotted and bragged tech companies would never have done without DHS partner insistence and “huge regulatory pressure” from government.
The citations above are from just the DHS censorship network’s impact on the 2020 election cycle alone. That was two years ago, when the narrative management machine referenced by The Intercept was first getting formed. Even the above figures, however, just scratch the surface of the full story.
While The Intercept rightly noted that DHS's “truth cops“ now take on a range of other topics – such as Covid-19 and geopolitical opinions – it all started from, and grew out of, DHS's speech control infrastructure set up to censor speech about elections.
That started with the 2020 election. But it continues, importantly, with the 2022 midterm elections, which are ongoing this week.
At Foundation for Freedom Online, for more than six months, we have been publishing and sharing research findings about a wide span of shocking components to DHS's speech control operations. Our investigation has spurred multiple members of Congress to vow aggressive probes into DHS's “government censorship by proxy.”
The whole story, however, has not all been published in one place. In this report, we seek to provide a comprehensive history and network map of DHS's public-private censorship network, as told through a deep dive into its first mission — the censorship of the 2020 election.
Along the way, we will highlight the network's role in censoring the ongoing 2022 midterm elections.
In the final section of this report, we will cover a particularly disturbing aspect of this story — DHS's pre-censorship of speech that could “cast doubt” on a so-called “red mirage, blue shift” election scenario, months in advance of such an exact sequence playing out.