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FBI Now Going After Its Critics as ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Spreading ‘Misinformation’

Be very afraid. It just keeps getting worse. Under Joe Biden, the FBI is daily being further weaponized against its critics and critics of the administration’s chosen narratives.

Following the disclosures that the FBI was in regular contact with Twitter employees to ensure they censored speech they designated ‘misinformation,’ the Bureau attacked anyone who criticized them by, you guessed it – calling it ‘misinformation.’

It also called these FBI critics – ‘conspiracy theorists.’

This is a favorite leftwing buzz phrase often used to smear conservatives. 

The most recent outrage came when the FBI made a statement to FOX News this week after journalists posted screenshots of messages showing how FBI agents communicated with top Twitter officials relating to reports and potential posts about Hunter Biden.

In its response statement, rather than addressing those valid concerns, the Bureau slammed its critics as ‘conspiracy theorists’ spreading misinformation.’

And one legal expert, constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley, is sounding the alarm.

He told FOX News that it is a “menacing thing” for the nation’s largest law enforcement agency to declare that “combatting disinformation” is one of its top priorities, and then attacking free speech advocates for criticizing them.

The Epoch Times reports:

A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE FBI TOLD FOX NEWS, IN RESPONSE TO SEVERAL “TWITTER FILES” INSTALLMENTS, THAT “CONSPIRACY THEORISTS” ARE “FEEDING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC MISINFORMATION” AND SAID THEY ARE TRYING TO DISCREDIT THE BUREAU AND ITS AGENTS.

THAT STATEMENT, TURLEY TOLD FOX NEWS, IS “DISTURBING” BECAUSE THE FBI HAS ALLEGEDLY “ATTACKED MANY OF US WHO WERE RAISING FREE SPEECH CONCERNS AND CALLED ALL OF US COLLECTIVELY ‘CONSPIRACY THEORISTS SPREADING DISINFORMATION.’

“IT WAS HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE, BECAUSE THE FBI HAS SAID THAT COMBATTING DISINFORMATION IS ONE OF ITS PRIORITIES. SO, IT IS A VERY MENACING THING WHEN YOU HAVE THE LARGEST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY ATTACKING FREE SPEECH ADVOCATES,” TURLEY, A PROFESSOR OF LAW AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY WHO SERVED AS AN EXPERT WITNESS DURING FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S FIRST IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY, TOLD THE OUTLET.

The FBI’s outrageous response comes after journalist Michael Shellenberger wrote about the outrageous FBI-Twitter collusion:

“What I quickly put together is a pattern where it appears that FBI agents, along with former FBI agents within the company [Twitter], were engaged in a disinformation campaign aimed at top Twitter and Facebook executives, as well as at top news organization executives to basically prepare them, prime them and then get them set up to dismiss Hunter Biden information when it would be released.”

Turley noted that Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk “has confirmed that the FBI paid social media companies to help them deal with what they called disinformation, which sensible and the intelligent of us call censorship.”

Turley added to FOX that the FBI “were in continuous communication [with Twitter], as were other agencies, targeting specific citizens and specific posters to be banned or suspended.”

“That really does smack of an agency relationship and that could violate the first amendment,” he warned.

But be very afraid, because things are now getting worse.

Now the FBI may also be coming after anyone who points out this clear and demonstrated FBI-Big Tech collusion for being a “conspiracy theorist” spreading “misinformation.”

I’ve now got all of my senses on high alert!

Elon Musk Says “Every Conspiracy Theory That People Had About Twitter Turned Out To Be True”

BY TYLER DURDEN

Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times,

Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, claimed on Dec. 24 that nearly every conspiracy theory about the social media platform has turned out to be true.

Elon Musk
“To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true.” pic.twitter.com/zBDY3AcrRq— Gretchen 🇺🇸 (@GretchenOO8) December 25, 2022

Musk made the comments during an interview on the “All-In” podcast, where he also discussed the so-called “Twitter files” that were initially released earlier this month via independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss.

“To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true,” Musk said.

“Is there a conspiracy theory about Twitter that didn’t turn out to be true? So far, they’ve all turned out to be true. If not more true than people thought.”

While speaking of the Twitter files, the Tesla CEO was asked if there is “a part of the files that really shocked you,” to which he responded that the “FBI stuff is pretty intense.”

The Twitter files contain multiple documents, including internal conversations among employees at the social media platform, detailing the company’s attempts to censor tweets from conservative commentators and suppress a New York Post article about Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 election.

President Joe Biden waves alongside his son Hunter Biden after attending mass at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Johns Island, South Carolina, on Aug. 13, 2022. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)

Twitter ‘Worked With Pentagon’

Files released earlier this month showed how the FBI worked to discredit the Biden laptop report and prevent it from spreading on the platform in October 2020, just weeks ahead of the general election that year.

Others showed how the FBI pressured Twitter to find evidence of foreign influence and sources of disinformation and to take action against specific accounts.

Files released on Dec. 21 and reported on by journalist Lee Fang detailed how Twitter had “quietly aided the Pentagon’s covert online psyop campaign” aimed at swaying opinion in the Middle East, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

According to those files, Twitter worked with the Pentagon despite claiming that it makes “concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed platform manipulation.”

“Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations,” wrote investigative journalist Fang of The Intercept.

“Behind the scenes, Twitter gave approval and special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological influence ops,” Fang continued, pointing to social media accounts and online personas created by the U.S. military.

Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, Calif., on April 27, 2022. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

FBI Weighs in on Twitter Files

In a statement following the release of the Twitter files, the FBI said: “The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding, and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers.”

“The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public,” the statement continued. “It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”

Further files were published on Dec. 25 by Taibbi detailing how the FBI allegedly acted “as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government—from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.”

Taibbi explained that Twitter had “so much contact with so many agencies” that executives lost track of the communications. The meetings usually centered on “foreign matters,” according to Tabbi, including topics such as misinformation regarding Ukraine and COVID-19 vaccines.

“Despite its official remit being ‘Foreign Influence,’ the FITF [the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force] and the [San Francisco] FBI office became a conduit for mountains of domestic moderation requests, from state governments, even local police,” Taibbi said.

House Republicans have since suggested they will launch an investigation into the FBI’s interactions with Twitter.

When Musk was asked on Saturday if he suspected that the FBI played a role in flagging content for companies to take down, he noted that the content that was being flagged had “nothing to do with like, terrorism,” adding that “they literally flagged satire.”

Broken Record! Liberals Once Again Say Donald Trump Will “Never Be President”

It’s all over. The Liz Cheney January 6 Committee has referred criminal charges to the Department of Justice because President Trump did an insurrection. (Full disclosure: We didn’t even read the list of recommended charges, because we know it’s all fake.) So, that’s it. Donald Trump will Never Be President. Again.

If it feels like you’ve heard someone mention that before in the past, you have. Many times. Which probably means it’s only a matter of time before we start hearing that “the walls are closing in” and that it is “the beginning of the end” for Donald Trump.

The Conservative Treehouse had a very good take on this when the news from Liz Cheney’s soon-to-be-defunct committee. The entire mainstream media and the Democrat Party already declared Donald Trump to be an enemy of the state. And that’s why we elected him!

Most Americans have already shrugged and moved on from this latest fake news about the most popular American president since Teddy Roosevelt. We already know that Merrick Garland – a partisan hack who was thankfully kept off the Supreme Court – is going to arrest President Trump at some point in 2023. This will happen live and on camera, with CNN broadcasting it to the world.

On the one hand, this will further cement America’s descent into Third World banana republic territory. On the other – and it always amazes us that the Democrats don’t see this coming – it will make a martyr of President Trump and only increase his chances of reelection in 2024. If anyone thinks that this fake news is going to be the end of Donald Trump, let’s review some of the previous ridiculous attempts to get rid of him.

Trump was impeached for a phone call with the president of Ukraine. There was nothing wrong with that phone call, obviously. The shocking part was that the Deep State spied on Trump’s phone call and released it to the world. That attempt was a failure.

Trump was impeached again for supposedly fomenting an “insurrection” with no firearms. Mitch McConnell repeated this lie again this week, stating, “We all know who was responsible for January 6th.” That attempt was also a failure. (Oddly, McConnell voted against that impeachment when he thought the political winds were in his favor.)

But even prior to that, there were just so many fake news “scandals” that were supposed to be the beginning of the end for Trump.

After his first state dinner, CNN breathlessly reported that all the dinner guests got one scoop of ice cream for dessert. But President Trump got TWO SCOOPS. He was lucky to dodge another impeachment there.
When the president bragged that his 5-year-old grandson Jacob had assembled a LEGO White House replica all by himself, The Atlantic magazine dispatched a team – a team! – of reporters to see whether Trump was lying. “Did 5-year-old Jacob Trump REALLY assemble that LEGO White House replica by himself? Did he?!” Somehow, Trump’s political career survived that scandal.

How about Stormy Daniels, the porn starlet who claimed she had successfully extorted money from Trump ahead of the 2016 election? In 2022, Stormy finally admitted in court and under oath that she never slept with Donald Trump back in 2006 like she had claimed all along. (How stupid was Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen to pay her off in the first place?) Not even Stormy’s fake allegations were able to stop the Trump Train back in 2016.

This is why most Trump supporters didn’t even take the time to yawn or blink after the Liz Cheney Committee made its big announcement. We can already write the script. Trump’s enemies lied and the whole case will fall apart, and then we’ll elect Trump for a third time in a landslide in 2024.

The Mainstream Media’s Tentacles Reach Further Than You Realize

Would you continue to watch our nation’s favorite pastime baseball if you knew every call by the umpires was only going to favor one team? Of course not. Nobody wants to watch a fixed game when they know the result has already been determined before the game was played.

But that’s how it is with the nation’s news media. It is one of the numerous reasons no one is watching the news anymore and it is also the cause behind the rising national discord.  Viewers know the stories are rigged for a liberal point of view. So, regardless if a news story is true, the information is not being trusted. With the press putting not only their thumb, but their entire body weight on the scale in favor of the far-left Democrats, there are no more umpires holding both teams accountable. That was the traditional role of the media and why both parties hated the media. But, not any longer. There stems the growing anger and vitriol we see daily.

Long gone are the days of news anchors like Walter Cronkite being called the “most trusted man in America.” With no umpires calling balls and strikes fairly, Democrats are allowed to get away with anything and everything while Republicans are tarred and feathered for jaywalking. There is no way to return to a civil debate over policy differences when one side is always favored and supported by the media, who are supposed to be our political umpires and be totally neutral.

The media has always had a left-leaning tilt, but now reporters have become Democrat operatives with absolutely no journalistic integrity. Since the days of Bill Clinton’s presidency, this problem has mainly been with the major media outlets and daily newspapers. But now, even the local media outlets are in the tank for the Democrats. For example, last fall in the Massachusetts’ Bristol County sheriff’s race, George Soros and his allies pumped in hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat a pro-borders and pro-law and order sheriff. They worked hard to circumvent the Commonwealth’s financial disclosure laws. But when the dots were connected, the media turned a blind eye. Can you imagine if the Trump PAC had targeted the Democrat and funneled the money through four different organizations to avoid the exposure? We all know too well the media wrath the Republican would have faced. In response to the dead silence from the media on the Soros funding, the sheriff’s campaign launched ads exposing it. Liberals like Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren, who have a major problem telling the truth, called it a “dog whistle” ad.  What was the dog whistle? According to Democrats mentioning George Soros’ name is now considered anti-Semitic. With Warren and Markey making their phony allegations, of course, The Boston Globe jumped all over the story of antisemitism going even so far as to refer to Soros as a “Jewish philanthropist” as if he has had nothing to do with funding the progressive political movement here in the United States and abroad. They never mention his far-left activities are considered so extreme that both Poland and Hungary outlawed his ability to make donations in those nations or that many of his candidates here face recalls.

While the Globe’s leanings are well known, calling Soros a “Jewish philanthropist” really took the cake. They proved once and for all, there is absolutely no glimmer of hope of ever having a rational conversation or a reasonable story from that paper.

But the problem did not end with the Globe. The left-leaning has now infiltrated small-town papers where they hide stories from the public like it is Hunter Biden’s laptop. In that same sheriff’s race, his Democrat challenger was found by the Massachusetts Labor Board to have harassed a firefighter’s wife as mayor. The decision against the Democrat mayor arrived 15 days before the election and during the middle of early voting, so it should have been front-page news. Rather than the media doing their jobs, the local papers ignored the story! Now had that been a Republican, what do you think would have happened? Wall-to-wall coverage of course. Fortunately, one radio station ran with the news. When it was brought to the attention to the local papers, they still did not cover it. We are left to conclude the media is only concerned when a woman says a Republican harassed her. It is OK when a Democrat does it. Being persistent, the campaign called the papers asking why no coverage? One of the reporters said they had no clue about the ruling despite it being on the radio. That reporter is sure to win a Pulitzer. However, that same paper picked up Warren’s and Markey’s dog whistle allegations about George Soros on Twitter within 30 minutes. So, the sheriff was falsely labeled anti-Semitic for exposing the truth on Soros while the Democrat mayor was given a free pass on threatening a woman.

Unfortunately, the heavy slant doesn’t end in the news department for the local papers. In another race, Democrats were allowed to run attack ads while the Republicans were only allowed to run positive ads. That’s right, GOP candidates were not allowed to attack their Democrat opponents even with paid advertising. How is that for freedom of speech? And being unbiased?

We all know the media bias, but we can no longer just say that’s the way it is. We need to take action on many different fronts to level the playing field with earned media.