Author and reporter Michael Shellenberger who helped release the latest installment of “The Twitter Files” from Elon Musk, said internal documents showed former FBI officials were so intertwined with the social media giant, they practically had their own communications system.
“The deputy chief of staff of the FBI went to Twitter. In fact, there were so many FBI officials at Twitter that they had their own internal messaging system,” Shellenberger said Monday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “They actually had their own cue-card to kind of train people going from FBI to Twitter.”
Shellenberger, a former California gubernatorial candidate, added that the FBI’s influence essentially affected content moderation and information-sharing.
“You had these forces inside Twitter: former FBI officials — particularly Jim Baker — who very strenuously argued for the censorship of The New York Post’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop and the emails which showed these very questionable business dealings with China and other countries,” he said.
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Baker, Twitter’s former deputy general counsel and a key player during the Trump “Russia-gate” timeline, was fired by Elon Musk following revelations regarding his role in handling the Hunter Biden laptop story,
Shellenberger told host Tucker Carlson he and others spent weeks examining internal emails and Slack direct-messaging correspondence among employees at Twitter. He told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” they overall painted a picture of an intertwined relationship between certain elements of federal law enforcement – the FBI – and a private company.
Twitter has put up fact checks on government tweets in recent weeks.
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Shellenberger said the dynamic reminded him of a psychological operation a U.S. government agency like the CIA would conduct within a…
