UPDATE: Missouri v. Biden, Part 6, by Tracy Beanz
In our final installment of this series, we detail what we've uncovered on discovery about the FBI's role in the unconstitutional government-run Censorship-Industrial Complex.
In case you missed it, see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 of this story. Here we continue with a lightly edited version of reporter Tracy Beanz coverage of the case and our activities in court last week.
We will now spend some time delving into the FBI role in domestic widespread censorship. The FBI tries to hide behind of the guise of “fighting back against foreign information warfare” as it censors Americans. And as our lawyers point out, there is no “information warfare” exception to the First Amendment right of free speech. The FBI engages in mass flagging operations—sharing tactical information with platforms—things like IP addresses, email accounts, website domain names and file hash values. The accounts of American citizens that are “flagged” by the censorship apparatus are then targeted by the FBI for “account takedowns.” Even their own language suggests the aggressive nature of this lawless domestic censorship machine.
The FBI uses an encrypted app called “Teleporter” to communicate with social media companies. They send censorship lists at least 1-5 times a month (likely more, in my opinion). Each one of those lists could contain hundreds of social media accounts targeted for censorship. The FBI demands that seven major social media platforms report back to them quarterly on what action they have taken on the targeted accounts.
The FBI doesn’t care who gets swept up in its censorship of supposedly “foreign” accounts. I started the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag and they pretended I, and all of you, were Russian. The FBI made platforms take down a supposedly Russian “Secure the Border” post, a pro second amendment post, and a Black Matters post. All of the million “likes” on these posts were an act of First Amendment protected expression. They also had platforms block a supposedly Russian website that hosted journalists—many of them American journalists.
The FBI also ran a “Command Post” around Election Day that specifically flagged domestic “disinformation” for removal. The FBI has a 50% success rate getting content removed from platforms, as per evidence produced in this case.
Here, FBI Agent Elvis Chan, who the government fought to keep from being deposed, testified that there was no basis to think there was any impending “Hack and Leak” operations coming from Russia. But this didn’t stop them from using that fictional narrative to stop the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 election. Social media banned journalists and entire newspapers at the behest of the FBI.
The government strongly leans on the congressional testimony of former Twitter executive Yoel Roth about the Biden laptop story, but his testimony actually corroborates the Plaintiffs pleadings: the FBI pressured Twitter and other social media companies to remove the Hunter Biden laptop story and ban anyone who shared it. All the while the FBI knew the laptop’s contents were not Russian hacked materials, contrary to what they told social media companies. Orwellian levels of manipulation and lies for nakedly political ends.
Back to the “#ReleaseTheMemo” incident. Matt Taibbi exposed this during the #TwitterFiles: There was NO indication that this was something nefarious and foreign in nature, but that didn’t stop leftist politicians from writing threatening letters to Twitter about the hashtag. But at the time, Twitter’s Global Policy Communications Chief Emily Horne wrote privately that this hashtag and a related hashtag “appear to be organically trending,” and that Twitter “ha[s] not seen any indications that the accounts engaging in this activity for either hashtag are predominately Russian, or that Russian accounts are driving the engagement. The vast majority of what we’re seeing here... appears to be organic in nature.”
The rest of the plaintiffs’ filing for a preliminary injunction is a sustained legal argument that the actions described herein violate the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment. In other words, the federal government has violated on a massive scale the highest law of the land for years with nothing to rein them in.
That is, until this case was brought to court. This is the ultimate remedy sought in the case:
That is all for now. I will keep you posted on this case and let you know when the court issues its ruling on our petition for an injunction. If you enjoyed this series consider following and subscribing to reporter Tracy Beanz on Twitter.
It's kinda killing me and baffling me (utterly) that there's not going to be any criminal prosecutions for this. How can they just get away with this? Their crimes seem far greater than what Nixon did. Why are they not being criminally prosecuted? Just being told to knock it off? That's the big win? the law already states that, so that doesn't change anything except they got to do it. They should all be punished severely. I don't get why that's not an option.
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