Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:30 a.m. No.17981317   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1327 >>1333 >>1480 >>1648

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. TWITTER FILES: PART 7

The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop

How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and before The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020

11:09 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604871630613753856

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:33 a.m. No.17981327   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1337 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981317

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

In Twitter Files #6, we saw the FBI relentlessly seek to exercise influence over Twitter, including over its content, its users, and its data.

11:11 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604872112795045888

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:34 a.m. No.17981337   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1351 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981327

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

In Twitter Files #7, we present evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community (IC), aimed at senior executives at news and social media companies, to discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published.

11:13 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604872517927153669

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:37 a.m. No.17981351   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1356 >>1358 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981337

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

The story begins in December 2019 when a Delaware computer store owner named John Paul (J.P.) Mac Isaac contacts the FBI about a laptop that Hunter Biden had left with him

On Dec 9, 2019, the FBI issues a subpoena for, and takes, Hunter Biden's laptop.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/

11:18 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604873916752703491

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:39 a.m. No.17981356   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1371 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981351

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

By Aug 2020, Mac Isaac still had not heard back from the FBI, even though he had discovered evidence of criminal activity. And so he emails Rudy Giuliani, who was under FBI surveillance at the time. In early Oct, Giuliani gives it to @nypost

11:21 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604874457037688832

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:42 a.m. No.17981371   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1382 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981356

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

Shortly before 7 pm ET on October 13, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, George Mesires, emails JP Mac Isaac.

Hunter and Mesires had just learned from the New York Post that its story about the laptop would be published the next day.

11:22 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604874800710660097

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:44 a.m. No.17981382   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1393 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981371

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. At 9:22 pm ET (6:22 PT), FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan sends 10 documents to Twitter’s then-Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, through Teleporter, a one-way communications channel from the FBI to Twitter.

11:25 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604875478749171712

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:45 a.m. No.17981393   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1400 >>1404 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981382

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. The next day, October 14, 2020, The New York Post runs its explosive story revealing the business dealings of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Every single fact in it was accurate.

11:26 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604875873684926466

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:47 a.m. No.17981404   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1414 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981393

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. And yet, within hours, Twitter and other social media companies censor the NY Post article, preventing it from spreading and, more importantly, undermining its credibility in the minds of many Americans.

Why is that? What, exactly, happened?

11:27 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604876064450260994

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:49 a.m. No.17981414   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1419 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981404

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. On Dec 2, @mtaibbi described the debate inside Twitter over its decision to censor a wholly accurate article.

Since then, we have discovered new info that points to an organized effort by the intel community to influence Twitter & other platforms

11:32 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604877235579912192

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:51 a.m. No.17981419   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1437 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981414

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. First, it's important to understand that Hunter Biden earned tens of millions of dollars in contracts with foreign businesses, including ones linked to China's government, for which Hunter offered no real work.

Here's an overview by investigative journalist @peterschweizer

11:36 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604878404486017026

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:55 a.m. No.17981437   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1445 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981419

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. And yet, during all of 2020, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly primed Yoel Roth to dismiss reports of Hunter Biden’s laptop as a Russian “hack and leak” operation.

This is from a sworn declaration by Roth given in December 2020.

https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/murs/7827/7827_08.pdf

11:40 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604879477732831235

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 8:57 a.m. No.17981445   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1449 >>1468 >>1480 >>1648

>>17981437

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. They did the same to Facebook, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “The FBI basically came to us [and] was like, ‘Hey… you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in 2016 election. There's about to be some kind of dump similar to that.'

11:43 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604880181906116608

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 9:02 a.m. No.17981468   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1480 >>1482 >>1648

>>17981445

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. Were the FBI warnings of a Russian hack-and-leak operation relating to Hunter Biden based on any new intel?

No, they weren't

“Through our investigations, we did not see any similar competing intrusions to what had happened in 2016,” admitted FBI agent Elvis Chan in Nov.

11:48 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604881305178497024

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 9:04 a.m. No.17981482   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1529 >>1648

>>17981468

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. Indeed, Twitter executives repeatedly reported very little Russian activity.

E.g., on Sept 24, 2020, Twitter told FBI it had removed 345 “largely inactive” accounts “linked to previous coordinated Russian hacking attempts.” They “had little reach & low follower accounts."

11:57 AM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604883686855299072

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 9:12 a.m. No.17981529   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1542 >>1648

>>17981482

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. In fact, Twitter debunked false claims by journalists of foreign influence on its platform

"We haven’t seen any evidence to support that claim” by @oneunderscore__ @NBC News of foreign-controlled bots.

“Our review thus far shows a small-scale domestic troll effort…”

12:06 PM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604885848398254080

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 9:14 a.m. No.17981542   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1560 >>1648

>>17981529

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. After FBI asks about a WaPo story on alleged foreign influence in a pro-Trump tweet, Twitter's Roth says, "The article makes a lot of insinuations… but we saw no evidence that that was the case here (and in fact, a lot of strong evidence pointing in the other direction).”

12:11 PM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604887121700929541

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 9:17 a.m. No.17981560   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1571 >>1588 >>1591 >>1648

>>17981542

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. It's not the first time that Twitter's Roth has pushed back against the FBI. In January 2020, Roth resisted FBI efforts to get Twitter to share data outside of the normal search warrant process.

12:14 PM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604888013422485505

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 9:21 a.m. No.17981588   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1605 >>1648

>>17981560

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. Pressure had been growing:

“We have seen a sustained (If uncoordinated) effort by the IC [intelligence community] to push us to share more info & change our API policies. They are probing & pushing everywhere they can (including by whispering to congressional staff).”

12:16 PM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604888429816209409

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 9:24 a.m. No.17981605   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1616 >>1648

>>17981588

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. Time and again, FBI asks Twitter for evidence of foreign influence & Twitter responds that they aren’t finding anything worth reporting.

“[W]e haven’t yet identified activity that we’d typically refer to you (or even flag as interesting in the foreign influence context).”

12:21 PM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604889734378967041

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 9:26 a.m. No.17981616   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1626 >>1628 >>1648

>>17981605

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. Despite Twitter’s pushback, the FBI repeatedly requests information from Twitter that Twitter has already made clear it will not share outside of normal legal channels.

12:24 PM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604890339235336192

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 9:28 a.m. No.17981628   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1636 >>1637 >>1648 >>1654

>>17981616

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. Then, in July 2020, the FBI’s Elvis Chan arranges for temporary Top Secret security clearances for Twitter executives so that the FBI can share information about threats to the upcoming elections.

12:25 PM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604890603468120064

Anonymous ID: b608cb Dec. 19, 2022, 9:30 a.m. No.17981636   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1640 >>1648

>>17981628

TWITTER FILES: PART 7

  1. On August 11, 2020, the FBI's Chan shares information with Twitter's Roth relating to the Russian hacking organization, APT28, through the FBI's secure, one-way communications channel, Teleporter.

12:26 PM · Dec 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604891014207901696