It is very well known by now that FBI agents worked within social media networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram through direct portals connecting the government to the backdoors of the networks. The Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) continue to operate in partnership with various tech systems and platforms to monitor content.
During a deposition this week the FBI admitted to giving instructions to tech companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft to block URLs without a basis in legality. Essentially the ideology of the FBI and DHS determines the targets of the content removal, blockage and/or censoring.
To repeat, these are not FBI and DHS instructions based on defined criminal activity, these are government instructions based on disagreements over ‘information’ as espoused by the content provider.
Information the government agrees with is safe; however, information the U.S. government doesn’t agree with is targeted. Obviously, a person of reasonable intelligence can see the problem with allowing law enforcement to determine which information is valid and which information is invalid.
(Fox News) – On Tuesday, lawyers from the offices of Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana deposed FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan as part of their lawsuit against the Biden administration. That suit accuses high-ranking government officials of working with giant social media companies “under the guise of combating misinformation” to achieve greater censorship.
Chan, who serves in the FBI’s San Francisco bureau, was questioned under oath by court order about his alleged “critical role” in “coordinating with social-media platforms relating to censorship and suppression of speech on their platforms.”
During the deposition, Chan said that he, along with the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and senior Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials, had weekly meetings with major social media companies … Fox News Digital also learned that, according to Chan’s testimony, the FBI regularly sends social media companies lists of internet URLs and social media accounts that should be taken down because they are “disinformation” from “malign foreign influence operations.” The FBI then inquires whether the platforms have taken down the content. On many occasions, the platforms take down the accounts flagged by the FBI.
“Since filing our lawsuit, we’ve uncovered troves of discovery that show a massive ‘censorship enterprise,'” Attorney General Eric Schmitt told Fox News Digital. “Now, we’re deposing top government officials, and we’re one of the first to get a look under the hood — the information we’ve uncovered through those depositions has been shocking to say the least. It’s clear from Tuesday’s deposition that the FBI has an extremely close role in working to censor freedom of speech.” (read more)
[DISCLAIMER: CTH has a heightened awareness on this issue because I received a congressional subpoena based entirely on a Tweet that was discovered to have been attributed to an account set up by a Twitter employee to create CTH as a target. What we discovered was that Twitter employees have the ability to manipulate the platform to create real world outcomes. A variation on “swatting” by Twitter. As a result, knowing that FBI and DHS officials target user accounts based on content, and knowing that Twitter employees have the ability to create content with false attribution to targeted user accounts, it’s worth an even larger pause when considering the relationship. /SD]
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Police state institutions giving orders in real time.
Media control is SOP for intel agency coups.
May I submit that agents of the State are now admitting their malfeasance, because agents of the State think they have won the battle. At least they think that they have crossed the Rubicon, where their illicit behavior will no longer be questioned.
Champions of liberal democracy and the Constitution will now be playing constant defence.
The State is forever right.
The battle is nearly lost.
True. And they are under oath…
We are on defence, Joe.
Citing the Constitution is a fool’s errand.
Donald Trump was informed by the legal system, multiple times, after his raid that he was wrong because the State said so.
The path to promotion within the legal system, the path to nomination to the Supreme Court, will be finding clever justifications of why the Constitution is wrong. No more.
This is fascism. The State is always right, and going forward, the Constitution will be a constant nuisance. No more.
Defense ? Fool’s errand ?
You’re correct if you want to remain lost to Freedom and remain a slave.
I snarl in the face of the dragon, and the dragon winces.
It appears to have been a problem for any number of years already to some of them. Certainly not something they (the rulers) want to live by or with. The biggest part that bothers me is the fact that they all swear to do what the Constitution says when they take their “oath of office”.
Anyone taking an oath of office, from a politician to the military to any number of feral bureaucrats, who also actively pushed punishment for refusing the experimental clotshot also violated their oath.
And nothing has been done about that, so their oaths clearly mean nothing.
It’s like the Devil swearing upon the Bible.
Under oath, so what? They swore or affirmed an oath when they were hired. Oath is laughable in clown world.
Unless and until the full force of law is enacted against them, oath means nothing.
Yes, you need to be honorable enough to believe your oath means something and then act in accordance with it. It’s clear that oaths for many of these people are just proforma theater.
…and deplorables are under oafs.
As if they cared.
Yes, their battle is nearly lost. As Woods said tonight, and I keep repeating too, is never give up.
Meaning?..
I cannot speak for Eric, but I can enumerate some things that “never give up” means to me:
-do not give into despair when surrounded by contrarian views and actions
-have hope in something greater than government (for me this would be God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth and the creed that follows)
-continue to live in accordance with your values
-continue to pass on your values to the next generation
-help your neighbor
-be kinder than necessary
-be able to articulate why you believe what you believe and do so when able
-keep beloved friends and family close at hand
-meditate on that which is beautiful
-if you are able, put aside some items to get you through tough times. As an example, my father (European WWII survivor) always had his passport at hand, along with a wad of cash and a small suitcase of items of intrinsic value. Think about what “tough times” means to you and plan for it.
I’m sure there is much more and will be eager to see what other Treepers have to offer.
Peace to all reading this post.
Great post. Thanks for that.
The National Security State. They announce themselves.
Economic security is national security?
ymmv
Challenge an election…become a National Security threat…challenge a school board…a pronoun…the same
…support a former President for President?
I guess no one should really be surprised. The CIA has been known as the company and uses all kinds of private-sector businesses to carry out its own business of gathering intelligence worldwide. With the end of the Cold War they simply turned their focus inward.
The IC has just done to Americans what they have been doing to the rest of the world since Hoover and Wild Bill Donavan. Can’t let all that nifty spy gear go to waste.
Corporate Investment Agency
It’s getting real obvious that the Feds interfered with our elections. It would be nice to see some indictments/prosecutions/convictions and severe punishments for those involved. That doesn’t seem to be on the horizon. That would take an honest uncorrupted/ethical justice system.
Whoever is choosing the President now, is not the people.
We must make preparations for the post-democratic America.
Will the ceremony of democracy be honored much longer?
At the federal, national level surely not.
I’ve seen articles for years advocating for a transformation of election to opinion polls. No more.
Democracy will survive at the local level, at least. At best.
Please note: Say the pledge of allegiance and pay attention to the word republic. Do you know the difference between a republic and a democracy? Please look it up since, if you live in the USA, then you live in a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC
Thank you so much for saying that in such a great way….I’ve thought it every time I see someone talking about “our democracy” and want to say something, but it wouldn’t be as nice as yours was. Some of the readers don’t realize there is a big difference and they need to look it up.
The Real Reason They Love the Word “Democracy” (50 secs)
https://rumble.com/v1wim0e-the-real-reason-they-love-the-word-democracy.html
Woodrow Wilson, the original world, fascist dictator began the assault on our republic simply by referring to her as a democracy.
Words are splendid things.
It’s a splendid luxury to live in a time and place where humans have the luxury to depend on words.
Were any laws violated by the Nazis when carrying out the holocaust?
Fascism, peace. We are entering a time of fascism.
Mussolini was a socialist longer then fascist.
The NAZis were national socialists.
They used newspeak to dupe Good Germans.
LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii
The Language of the Third Reich is a book by Victor Klemperer, a Jew that converted to Protestantism that wasn’t sent to a camp. Due to his background in literature, he kept a diary of phrases, combinations, and new words created by Goebbels propaganda ministry he heard on the radios, papers, speeches, etc.
goodreads.com/book/show/190562.The_Language_of_the_Third_Reich
And what new words are we hearing here now?
We USED to live in a constitutional republic. We now live under fascism! We were never a democracy! Drives me nuts how many people claim we are a democracy! The founders hated democracy which is mob rule and always leads to totalitarianism.
I think he used the word democracy in the sense of voting or electing our representatives in our constitutional republic. For example, he said, “the ceremony of democracy” and “democracy at the local level.” I don’t think he intended to use it in the sense the left uses it, to describe our system of government. Just my two cents.
Only if there are localities willing to aggressively pursue nullification tactics. Some of the states and cities have used nullification to legalize drugs and to counter federal immigration enforcement. Some of the states have nullified the federal attempt to mandate lockdowns and vaccines but notice how they only go so far and then stop. Examples, Florida’s halfway attempt to stop teachers from pushing transgenderism on malleable young minds – why stop at 3rd grade when we all know how impressionable children are until the age of maturity? I understand there is one county in AZ refusing to certify its election results (unless they have no folded under threats).
Localities with strong sheriffs can counter federal policing in their areas by refusing to cooperate. Local mayors, commissioners, etc can expand the pushback efforts. But first the people must be willing to support those efforts.
The real solutions to bringing many state and local criminals to trial, can be achieved by County Sheriffs and prosecutors to convene common-law grand juries.
Present witnesses, evidence and get an order to indict. Then charge and serve the bastards arrest them and have a speedy trial. Convict and let em appeal.
Every time a court outside the county common pleas court challenges the findings of the jury, tell em they have no standing. Then let the hangings begin.
It’s not what they say, but what they don’t say.
That’s how they announce themselves.
Government intervention is required in all purple finger democracies.
“[When] the principle that force is right is become the principle of the nation itself, they would not permit an honest minister, were accident to bring such a one into power, to relax their system of lawless piracy.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Rodney, 1810
Hanging the outcome of change on indictments/prosecutions/convictions is stupid in my opinion (not an attack against you, just a generalization).
I don’t care if these people are held accountable, I want to WIN. By winning, we remove them from power and can change the rules to ensure actual 1 person, 1 vote elections. At the point you win control and make changes the previous malfeasance becomes irrelevant, like Hillary would say: what difference does it make?
I’m not being flippant about election crimes, but please name one single court, law enforcement agency or Uniparty member that’s done anything about the fraud in 2020 and 2022………….exactly!!!!
So how do we expect these people to be “prosecuted”??
We need to focus on winning (overcoming the ballot fraud by all means), then changing the rules to eliminate ballot fraud and then move on.
Trying to “punish” the cheaters is a waste of time and energy. You can see where we got in 2022 by demanding that 2020 be fixed. Their punishment comes from losing power and control while watching everyone live happy, prosperous lives.
The system has slowly been pushing out any honorable and ethical people. Time to reverse the trend.
This plus the Twitter files IMO should be enough for 20+ Red State AG’s to file massive lawsuits and open up investigations to secure ALL communications, texts, emails and phone calls via discovery to expose those who may have conspired and violate millions of Americans 1st amendment rights and possibly violate election laws.
I wonder if ACB will reconsider her “No Standing” ruling?
There is a very important legal case coming up about Section 230. Jason Fyk is not giving up, and it is reported that social media platforms are even contacting him to try to settle.
https://socialmediafreedom.org/
I can think of at least a couple of people who should be IMMEDIATELY considered for impeachment.
Can 100M Americans file a class action lawsuit at this point?
A snarky answer would be some random court somewhere would say that they don’t have standing?
Sort of telling when one can’t even get the courts to agree what is right….each wants what that court wants.
Maybe we can get James Wood to help lead the way for Americans to file a class action lawsuit.
No way could ‘we the people’ get that many of “us” to agree on something like that. Good try, but don’t see it happening any time soon…..or ever. We are to used to having our own way, don’t want to have both sides of any action.
“As a result, knowing that FBI and DHS officials target user accounts based on content, and knowing that Twitter employees have the ability to create content with false attribution to targeted user accounts, it’s worth an even larger pause when considering the relationship. /SD]”
We have been talking all night about what content is allowed to be seen and what content is not allowed to be seen. Now Sundance has added another dimension, made up or false content that could ruin one’s reputation, make them a target of the violent left, or even worse make them into a criminal with the possibility of being thrown into the gulag.
Exactly 💯 💯
👉The Powers That Be will do whatever nefarious antiConstitutional action they think will advance their attack on us 👈
I’m sure Wray is preparing his I promise to fix through required first amendment virtual training.
They are destroying the Constitution.
Yuup, just ask Killery, she has thought for a long time it should be tossed out. It’s too old.
Almost as old as her.
It’s too republican(small R) for global governance gangsters.
So should/is she.
It’s as if they have won. I’d love to say you all have a chance but you’re all so busy reacting to them that it’s impossible. It’s nice to see Brazil form a cohesive response. So pathetic to watch all the theatrics and those throwing a hissy fit when the GOP RINOS and traitors that always double cross us do it yet again. Carry on folks.. don’t let me get in your way..
You’re not getting in my way.
Did WRay Eppes lead the insurrection in Brazil?
Keep calm and MAGA on.
If by ‘epps’ you mean the thousands of oath breakers that either helped him or did nothing and watched. Next week will determine how much honor the Brazilian military has.. Ours already cucked themselves when they did nothing. I’ve been MAGA for decades.. long before half of you had any idea what was happening. Doesn’t matter how hard you MAGA now, this Cadillac is headed for a cliff.
Elvis Chan
Facebook and Twitter
IARPA is DARPA for intelligence.
Nobody joins
political groupssocial media except the FBI.If you agree to terms and conditions, click here.
/s
and maybe Ghosts
First item for a Republican House should be to completely defund the FBI (and DOJ).
This world does not need another Gestapo.
The problem with the CIA Is that we don’t really KNOW how much money they have. It’s secret. For all we know, they steal it or print it or extort for it.
Yeah, I guess you can fire the whole agency and refuse to print checks but all you’re getting rid of is probably secretaries.
CIA are the City of London Privateers
Marc Richt, Boesky, Robert Maxwell, Epstein are Crown Corp Pirates.
They con legitimates out of Fiat and buy Gold with their ill gotten gains -Financial Pirates. Their gig is so up now.
The C.EYE.A have been perfectly capable of funding themselves for decades. They’re one of the largest drug cartels in history. I can only wonder what other international crimes they’re involved in.
Dark money brings about dark deeds.
Elvis Chan sounds like he could be a CCP operative.
And looking at his picture he looks like he just came out of China.
This could never be resolved by civilians. If we are to see justice it will have to delivered by military
Military is no longer on our side. Obama and Biden took care of that.
Special Forces v Special Ops
Will the DOJ investigate the FBI ?
There’s much already known, but now there’s a “paper trail.”
The greater fault are the comments here with too much talk of losing or being on defense. Posh !
Yeah just like the Ballot recounts, Nothing here to see.
Men without chests will lead the charge.
DoJ is FBI. FBI is HHS or FBI as needed
Sorry FBI is managed by DoJ and Homeland Security (Bush)
Sundance, I’m very sorry about the problems that you had as a result of the congressional subpoena. (Having to testify in Washington, D.C., or whatever you had to do.)
I hope they’re not bothering you any more. Best wishes to you. Thank you for everything that you do.
And we are to believe that the same Democrat political machine that has ordered mass censorship of Americans through the Big Tech apparatus to impose their will on America does not also cheat in elections?
The Democrat political machine is caught engaging in actions detrimental to our democracy through censorship, but we are to believe that they are winning elections fairly and honestly?
We are supposed to be a Constitutional Republic. We are NOT a democracy. The constant mislabeling by the MSM is real and has a great affect on most.
Rasmussen: 71% Of The American People Believe Election Fraud Affected Arizona’s Results
https://rumble.com/v1yavoa-71-of-the-american-people-believe-election-fraud-affected-arizonas-results-.html
Your disclaimer is reminiscent to testimony by the journalist Sharyl Attkisson when she discovered her computers had information that was being altered on it by outside sources and that someone of those outside sources (presumably the FBI or some other government agency) was planting child porn type information onto her husband’s computer, in some crazy attempt to get her by going after her husband.
In James Woods interview with Tucker Carlson, he mentions that perhaps there will be enough people caught up in this mess as he is could unite into one large class action lawsuit.
Perhaps it will take something of that caliber, something the media cannot ignore, that will be the channel to get the rest of American citizens to stop pretending.
The experience your disclaimer speaks of is quite frightening. May you and yours continue to be sheltered by the guiding wings of Angels.
Personally, I’ve never heard of a computer that couldn’t be hacked yet, have any of you?
If it’s not hooked to the internet and is wired.
The fact that the DNC/RNC tried to censor through Twitter isn’t a revelation but it likely isn’t enough of a government nexus to be actionable. Chan’s testimony, however, is. Game on.
SBF has nothing on the US Government. It takes a lot of coordination between, Gov and private industry to keep the 31 Trillion ponzi scheme going. The collapse will be epic. So many people to never get any rest for the remaining days of their lives after the fall. Until then, more wars, stolen elections, raiding of the Treasury to launder money back to themselves, family and friends. Sad.
And so it turns out that it was the FBI that “hacked our democracy.”
And doing it while under Bagpipe Bill Barr’s watch!
Which time? /s
The FBI nor the government directed tech companies to block or censor. Precisely, it was certain individuals within government who did so. Those people have names.
It is maddening that Congress, or its committees, or media be satisfied in finding the government acted thus.
I want names! I want thise certain persona identified. I want the full force of law held against them. As a citizen of the United States of America, I demand it.
Communist liberals!
No need for political “parties” if one has total control.
Their totalitarianism will never succeed as long as hope exists in one person.
History DOES repeat itself.
Valley Forge
Gettysburg
Flanders Fields
Omaha Beach
49th Parallel
Hungary
September 11
Unarmed Chinese People
Would it be nieve of me to think this is purely an issue in America???? As these stinkin antisocial media monoliths are international and are widely used here in Britain.
“What we discovered was that Twitter employees have the ability to manipulate the platform to create real world outcomes.”
Sundance, it would do all accessing the internet to know more details on this.
Many are on social media of one type or another. Some just access the internet for other things.
If Big Tech has the ability to manipulate accounts on their platforms like this, it would help everyone to know what was done, and how you fought back.
If Big Tech is acting on orders from the government to target someone, or just some leftist with their panties in a bunch, how does one prove a death threat did not come from your account? If Big Tech, acting on orders from the government to target someone, how does one prove child porn was not sent by your account?
Account hacking and cloning is rampant on Facebook, and possibly on other social media as some of the spoofing on Twitter has shown. Sen. Ed Markey is in quite a pi$$ing match with Elon Musk over someone spoofing Markey’s account. Perhaps Elon let that play out to show how easily that was done.
Perhaps Markey knows it was done to someone innocent.
I say again… when I am king, they (the MSM and social media scum) will be first against the wall*. It can be argued that they are more dangerous than any other entities on earth. Think of Rwanda, one of the worst genocides in history. Think of the radio broadcasters that helped pinpoint locations of the soon-to-be victims of the killers. How many people did those broadcasters physically murder. ZERO. Yet they are every bit as evil as the machete-wielding freaks.
(* HT Thom Yorke)
The dRATS boycotted Trumps inauguration. Were election deniers. In the minority they got an AG- Sessions to recuse himself and have a SC opened against Trump. Tripped up, resisted, interfered during the whole Trump presidency. Then there is Kev McCarthy, going to a state dinner where Hunter is invited, sitting at the head table. That’s the GOPe leadership folks. I bet Kev thought, hmm, free dinner, I will bring a doggy bag home to my roomate, Luntz.
This is why I wouldn’t go back even if they unblocked me.
So what is going to be done about it. My guess, NOTHING.
To suggest these Mao’s Red Army agents of our govt, triggered by a fricken pronoun, are not selecting our president, our representatives is a test of naivety.
Holy crap!
Do events seem as though they are taking a new twist?
Yes. The Long March through the Institutions is just about complete.
The next House should give very serious consideration to completely defunding the FBI and probably DHS.
Bunch of corrupt organizations employee by Government,
DOJ and FBI,
Zero surprises here.
The uniparty is not republican.
Ah, the vaunted fbi doing their best to squash our God given rights and the rights we have under our Constitution. One has to wonder where and when this will all end in what was once known as the United States of America.
The FBI sends 30 armed agents to Roger Stone with CNN informed to be there?
Meanwhile, in the real world, SBF steals billions of dollars of client funds and sits in the Bahamas because he donated millions to political parties? And does interviews detailing his fraud?
We all know what Justice is and somehow the FBI has gone off the rails.
Lock-step with the CCP model as planned by the WEF.
These totalitarians wrap themselves in the flag and then use The Constitution as a facade.
Traitors.
And on cue…………almost ALL “conservative: media (PL, PJ Media, et al) are pitching the story as Twitter interfering with our elections……………
Sundance nails the correct headline and outrage – it was the DNC and government agencies that conspired/intefered in our elections and violated First Amendment Rights.
You do not need a postmortem deposition. Elvis Chan was bragging about this way before the 2020 election. The problem is not him, or the FBI.
The problem is an incurious media, a “non-representative” representative government, and an ignorant population that not only allows but funds and incentivizes these behaviors across all branches of the Federl government.
Anyone listening to this interview and nodding in approval is the problem. How many people helped produce and video tape this interview? How many helped fund it’s production, how many in the security and the IT industry have seen it? All of them nodded in approval. None paused and said wait a minute… what is he saying? That’s not only the problem. It is a real national tragedy
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/fbis-elvis-chan-on-election-cybersecurity-a-13852
“A variation on “swatting” by Twitter. As a result, knowing that FBI and DHS officials target user accounts based on content, and knowing that Twitter employees have the ability to create content with false attribution to targeted user accounts, it’s worth an even larger pause when considering the relationship.”
Whoa, Sundance! Thank you for sharing that bit of information. I knew CTH was being surveilled but felt insulated and protected just the same.
This is stunning. I have to think more about this….but thank you for letting us know.
The O’Biden regime is incorrigibly corrupt and dangerously incompotent, as we all know. They have, in two years, seriously eroded the foundations of the United States of America. To find out that they have used government agencies to censor and supress free speech on social media nerworks like Facebook and Twitter should shock and offend all of us, regardless of political affiliation. As President Donald J. Trump says, if they can do this to me, just think about what they could do to you!
A Twitter employee manipulated the CTH platform??
If so, let Musk know. And, request compensation for damages.
TWTR will NEVER be ‘safe’ until it’s dismantled. Best to stay away.
This isn’t a party issue as much as it’s a government issue… Many want to overlook that the Twitter “discovery” released yesterday flaty stated that even Trump’s Whitehouse was directly and successfully asking Twitter to censor both individuals and subjects.
I contend your going to see a lot of that coming out but the focus will kept in party line perspectives when presented to each audience.
The art of intermixing and confusing government tyranny for social political democracy makes obscuring this too easy.
Our tin foil hats are becoming more fashionable every day.