‘Not Just Twitter’: Elon Musk Alleges FBI, Govt Paid Other Social Media Companies

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk alleged this morning that the FBI and the government paid other social media companies to censor information.

Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger released the latest Twitter Files, which mostly covered the FBI and Hunter Biden’s laptop.

But buried in the dump, Shellenberger posted an email from an unnamed Twitter employee telling then-deputy general counsel Jim Baker and then-general counsel Sean Edgett the company got over $3 million from the FBI.“Prior to the start of the program, Twitter chose not to collect under this statutory right of reimbursement for the time processing requests from the FBI,” wrote the employee.46.

“I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!” reports an associate of Jim Baker in early 2021.

 

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He makes a lot of unsupported accusations. Only the wingnuts believe him.

Am I off base?

If I recall correctly, that legally made them agents of the FBI, and bound them to the same restrictions. Same principal as if the cops had a burglar that they knew who could break into a house to 'find and report' whether there was something to justify a search warrant.

Let the dominos fall…

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