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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
From BBC. Bold is my emphasis.
Zuckerberg told Rogan: "The background here is that the FBI came to us - some folks on our team - and was like 'hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump that's similar to that'."
He said the FBI did not warn Facebook about the Biden story in particular - only that Facebook thought it "fit that pattern".
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The "pattern" was crafted by the FBI and fed to the news agencies.
From Twitter Files release #7 by Michael Schellenbeger:
Yoel Roth (Twitter’s former head of trust and safety) admitted in a sworn declaration that the feds had primed him to view any reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop as a “Russian ‘hack and leak’ operation.
The FBI via it's special agent Elvis Chan shared information with Twitter's Roth relating to the Russian hacking organization, APT28, through the FBI's secure, one-way communications channel, Teleporter.
Yoel Roth told @karaswisher that he had been primed to think about the Russian hacking group APT28 before news of the Hunter Biden laptop came out.
In Sept 2020, Roth participated in an Aspen Institute “tabletop exercise” on a potential "Hack-and-Dump" operation relating to Hunter Biden
The goal was to shape how the media covered it — and how social media carried it
The organizer was Vivian Schiller, the fmr CEO of NPR, fmr head of news at Twitter; fmr Gen. mgr of NY Times; fmr Chief Digital Officer of NBC News
By mid-Sept, 2020, Chan (FBI) & Roth had set up an encrypted messaging network so employees from FBI & Twitter could communicate.
They also agreed to create a “virtual war room” for “all the [Internet] industry plus FBI and ODNI” [Office of the Director of National Intelligence].
Then, on Sept 15, 2020 the FBI’s Laura Dehmlow, who heads up the Foreign Influence Task Force, and Elvis Chan, request to give a classified briefing for Jim Baker (the disgraced former FBI agent who was now working for Twitter [well wasn't that just ducky?] and was eventually tasked with choosing what files would be released to the journalists that Musk allowed to report on the files and was then fired by Musk because he only released files that would not show negative FBI influence), without any other Twitter staff, such as Yoel Roth, present.
When Roth repeatedly didn't see any actual violation of Twitter policy in the Hunter story, Baker repeatedly insists that the Hunter Biden materials were either faked, hacked, or both, and a violation of Twitter policy. Baker does so over email, and in a Google doc, on October 14 and 15. (Shellenberger says "And yet it's inconceivable Baker believed the Hunter Biden emails were either fake or hacked. The @nypost had included a picture of the receipt signed by Hunter Biden, and an FBI subpoena showed that the agency had taken possession of the laptop in December 2019.
The FBI, as are all intelligence agencies, is well tasked in cloaking what it does illegally in bureaucratic ways that make it appear legit. It didn't "order" or directly tell Twitter and other news orgs. and social media to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. It primed them well to perceive the story as "potential" or actual Russian disinformation. It knew the story was about to be released, and timed its misinformation campaign to "debunk" the story before the election.
And, BTW, since it was in such direct communication with Twitter and all the rest of the news and social media orgs. and certainly knew that it's direct efforts to "warn" them about Russian hacking and disinformation which was about to happen shortly would very likely influence them to bury the Hunter laptop story and have an effect on the election, it should have, in the interests of not influencing the election, told them that the laptop story was, as they knew, not Russian disinformation.