THE FACEBOOK FILES PART 4. FBI LIED ABOUT MEETING WITH BIG TECH REGARDING NY POST’S HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY
Internal FB docs reveal that an FBI Special Agent made false statements in testimony about the FBI’s role in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story
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FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan is the main conduit between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and Big Tech.
Agent Chan was in the meeting between the FBI and Facebook on Oct. 14, 2020—the day the @nypost published its story on the Hunter Biden laptop.
Laura Dehmlow is the current Section Chief of the Foreign Influence Task Force.
On Oct. 14, when Facebook asked if the laptop was real, she responded “no comment” even though the FBI had the laptop and knew it was real.
In July, @JudiciaryGOP and @Weaponization interviewed Laura Dehmlow.
Her testimony was shocking, revealing that the FBI deliberately withheld critical information from social media companies about Hunter Biden’s laptop the day that the @nypost story broke.
In her interview, we learned, for the first time, that the FBI met with Twitter on October 14 before meeting with Facebook the same day.
When Twitter asked if the laptop was real, an FBI agent said “yes.” But a second FBI agent—a lawyer—jumped in, cut him off, and said, “no further comment.”
Read the transcript for yourself:
But it gets better. Dehmlow revealed that the FBI then had emergency internal deliberations to decide how to answer that same question going forward.
Someone at the FBI—the FBI refuses to say who—ordered that the FBI would say “no comment” going forward.
Later that same day—October 14—Facebook met with the FBI, including Chan and Dehmlow.
Facebook asked the same question: is the laptop real? Now having its story straight, the FBI responded, “no comment.”
Did Dehmlow know that the FBI had the laptop and it was real? Yes.
Did other key members of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force know? Yes.
The FBI knew the laptop was real and yet decided it would say “no comment.”
We know what happened next.
Twitter and Facebook censored the @nypost story.
The Biden campaign secretly set in motion the events that led to the 51 former intel officials discrediting the story as Russian disinformation.
So, just weeks before the 2020 election, most Americans either did not hear about the story or were misled to believe that it was the product of Russian disinformation.
Fast forward to November 2022. Elvis Chan is being deposed as one of the key figures in the government’s censorship regime.
He is obligated to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
You can watch the whole deposition here:
Chan first testified about the October 14 Facebook-FITF meeting where Dehmlow said “no comment” when Facebook asked if the Hunter Biden laptop was real.
Chan was then asked if the FBI had any meetings with companies, other than the Facebook meeting, about the Hunter Biden story?
Chan responds that he is “confident” that he was not part of any meetings with Big Tech about Hunter Biden.
Chan was asked again if, other than the October 14 Facebook-FITF meeting, he was “aware of any communications between anyone at Facebook and anyone at the FBI related to the Hunter Biden laptop story?”
He answered: “No.”
COMPLETELY FALSE.
The Committee has recently obtained an internal Facebook document PROVING that Agent Chan had a secret “follow up” call with Facebook about the Hunter Biden laptop story on October 15, just one day after the @nypost story and the first Facebook meeting!
Those weren’t Agent Chan’s only inconsistent statements. Agent Chan also claimed in the deposition that he had “no internal knowledge of [the FBI’s] investigation” involving Hunter Biden’s laptop.
But the Facebook employee, an ex-FBI agent, wrote—the day after the story broke—that “Chan advised that he was up to speed on the current state of the matter within the FBI.”
Chan also told FB that “there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign connection...of the leaks.”
Of course, there was “no evidence” of “any foreign connection.”
Is there any wonder why the Biden DOJ has so far stonewalled the Committee’s efforts to interview Agent Chan?
Our investigation remains ongoing and we will continue to update the public with our findings as we prepare and consider legislation to fight the censorship-industrial complex and protect the First Amendment.
Newly subpoenaed internal notes of meetings between Facebook executives and Biden Admin officials reveal more about the lengths the Biden White House wanted to go to control true speech on Facebook.
In summer of 2021, the White House was mounting a nationwide push for Americans to get vaccinated for Covid-19.
Part of that push included a public and SECRET campaign to get Facebook to more aggressively police vaccine-related content, including TRUE information.
This wasn’t the Biden Admin's first pressure campaign.
In July 2021, FB’s head of Global Affairs asked why FB had been censoring the COVID lab leak theory. The answer was clear: “Because we were under pressure from the administration . . . We shouldn’t have done it.”
THE FACEBOOK FILES, PART 1: SMOKING-GUN DOCS PROVE FACEBOOK CENSORED AMERICANS BECAUSE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE
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Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House.
During the first half of 2021, social media companies like Facebook faced tremendous pressure from the Biden White House—both publicly and privately—to crack down on alleged “misinformation."
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register.
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
H.R. 4 is a radical and unconstitutional power grab that will politicize commonsense election integrity efforts, and give the Biden Administration veto authority over voter ID laws implemented by states.
It’s never been easier to vote in America, as the evidence shows, but Democrats continue to push a false narrative of ‘voter suppression’ in Republican states, while ignoring restrictive voting laws in Democrat states, like President Biden’s home state of Delaware.
Instead of pursuing far-left federal takeovers of elections, Democrats should focus on real problems facing Americans, like the crisis at the southern border, rising gas prices, crime, inflation, and President Biden’s failed leadership in Afghanistan.