FBI agent says bureau 'met weekly' with social media giants before 2020 ... trends now
The FBI met with representatives from the top social media companies on a weekly basis in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, it was reported on Saturday.
Agent Elvis Chan reportedly made the revelation during a sworn deposition for a Republican-led case against the Biden administration charging alleged social media 'censorship,' according to Fox News.
The GOP Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana are accusing White House officials of colluding with Big Tech on removing unfavorable coverage 'under the guise of combating misinformation.'
It comes amid fallout from the Elon Musk-promoted Twitter 'exposé' that was apparently meant to show proof that the platform - which he recently acquired for $44 billion - worked in tandem with Democrats to tip the scales in the 2020 election.
It was centered around correspondences mainly between top employees at Twitter about the site's suppression of the infamous New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop that was published in October 2020.
But while Donald Trump and many of his allies cried foul in response to the so-called 'Twitter files,' others in his camp surprisingly shrugged it off.
'So far I'm deeply underwhelmed. We know the Dems in DC collude with the Dems in Palo Alto,' former Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka wrote on Twitter after journalist Matt Taibbi published the findings.
'Big Whop. Need a paper trail of felonies. Elon better have that.'
Former Trump administration aide Sebastian Gorka said Elon Musk 'better have' stronger evidence of collusion to censor stories on Twitter after he hyped up Matt Taibbi's 'Twitter exposé'
Gorka was one of a few current or former Trump allies shrugging off the findings which Musk promised would be revelatory in nature
Tesla billionaire Musk had promised another exposé to come on Saturday, after Taibbi's, but he backpedaled at the 11th hour that night - literally - writing: 'Looks like we will need another day or so.'
The published correspondences show Twitter employees going back and forth trying to justify their censorship of the story under the site's hacked materials rules. It appears that many top officials at the platform were hesitant about whether Hunter Biden's
