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SCOOP! F.B.I. Crumbles Away, Facilitates Kyiv’s “Takedown Requests”

SCOOP! F.B.I. Crumbles Away, Facilitates Kyiv’s “Takedown Requests”

The F.B.I. colluded with a Ukrainian spy agency to pressure American Soc. Media into taking down accounts accused of spreading Russian disinformation.

The report issued by the House Judiciary Committee alleges that the Bureau “violated the First Amendment rights of Americans and potentially undermined our national security.” F.B.I.’s actions are regarded as civil liberties abuse, which “raises grave concerns about the Bureau’s credibility as the nation’s premier law enforcement organization”

Moreover, several F.B.I. whistleblowers told the Committee on Monday that the Bureau’s leaders failed to take steps to abide by a U.S. District judge’s temporary injunction against the Biden administration working with Soc. Media to censor speech.

FBI worked with Ukraine intelligence agency to remove social media accounts: House Judiciary report

The FBI colluded with a Ukrainian intelligence agency in an effort to disrupt Russian disinformation campaigns by flagging social media accounts in a failed effort that ensnared a verified Russian-language U.S. State Department account and others, the House Judiciary Committee said in a report released Monday.

The report said the FBI partnered with the SBU, one of Ukraine’s intelligence agencies, to flag the accounts believed to have spread Russian disinformation. Both agencies flagged American accounts for removal, as well as those belonging to American journalists, the report said.

The FBI and SBU requested the removal or suspension of the accounts expressing pro-Ukrainian views or criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the report said.

“Regardless of its intended purpose in endorsing the SBU’s requests, the FBI had no legal justification for facilitating the censorship of Americans’ protected speech on social media,” the report said. “In contrast to the Biden Administration’s stated support for Ukraine, the FBI, on behalf of the SBU, flagged Americans’ accounts and posts that were critical of Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

The SBU was previously infiltrated by a network of Russian collaborators, sympathizers, and double agents, according to the report. Furthermore, the FBI appeared to not vet the American social media accounts or did so and carried out the requests anyway, the panel said.

The committee said the SBU’s motives for flagging the accounts came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s decision to fire the head of SBU in 2022 as the agency was “compromised by a network of Russian collaborators, sympathizers, and double agents.”

The FBI relayed censorship requests from the SBU to Google and YouTube, the report said, with senior employee on Google’s cybersecurity team saying they were “deluged with various requests” for the removal of content following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“The employee testified that the primary sources of these requests for censorship were the Ukrainian government, other Eastern European governments, the European Union, and the European Commission,” the report said. “The employee further testified that the U.S. ‘Department of Justice would route [censorship] requests from foreign governments.’”

An employee for Meta, the parent of Facebook, spoke with the FBI about establishing “a 24/7 channel” for emergency requests.

“The censorship requests appear to have been driven, at least in part, by the SBU’s quest for self-preservation,” the report said.

The report came two days before FBI Director Christopher Wray is expected to testify before the GOP-controlled Judiciary Committee.

The hearing will put Wray face-to-face with several Republican lawmakers who have accused him of politically weaponizing the FBI against churches, parents and political opponents of the Biden administration.

 

Federal judge blocks Biden administration officials from communicating with social media companies

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered some Biden administration agencies and top officials not to communicate with social media companies about certain content, handing a win to GOP states in a lawsuit accusing the government of going too far in its effort to combat Covid-19 disinformation.

In a preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Terry Doughty, the judge ordered a slew of federal agencies and more than a dozen top officials not to communicate with social media companies about taking down “content containing protected free speech” that’s posted on the platforms.

The injunction notes that the government can still communicate with the companies as part of efforts to curb illegal activity and address national security threats.

The order applies to agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Justice Department and FBI as well as officials such as US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

The agencies and officials, Doughty said, are prohibited from “specifically flagging content or posts on social-media platforms and/or forwarding such to social-media companies urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.”

Doughty, a Donald Trump appointee, noted in the lawsuit that social media companies “include Facebook/Meta, Twitter, YouTube/Google, WhatsApp, Instagram, WeChat, TikTok,” as well as a number of other online platforms.

A White House official said the Department of Justice is “reviewing the court’s injunction and will evaluate its options in this case.”

“This Administration has promoted responsible actions to protect public health, safety, and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly pandemic and foreign attacks on our elections. Our consistent view remains that social media platforms have a critical responsibility to take account of the effects their platforms are having on the American people, but make independent choices about the information they present,” the White House official said.

Meta declined to comment. CNN also reached out to Twitter, Google and TikTok for comment.

The lawsuit brought by the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general in 2022 represents a novel way to pursue “censorship” claims accusing the Biden administration of effectively silencing conservatives by leaning on the private social media companies.

Though Doughty hasn’t yet ruled on the merits of the two states’ claims, his order Tuesday represents their most significant victory yet in the ongoing lawsuit. The judge had previously ordered the administration to produce documents identifying government officials and the nature of their communications with social media platforms.

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Resources:
https://t.me/uinhurricane/4525
https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-worked-ukraine-intelligence-agency-013753517.html
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/fbi-sbu-staff-report-7.10.23-sm.pdf
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/tech/biden-administration-social-media-companies-communication-covid-censorship/index.html

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