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46. The FBI’s influence campaign may have been helped by the fact that it was paying Twitter millions of dollars fo… https://t.co/EYHfeDvakd

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45. In the end, the FBI's influence campaign aimed at executives at news media, Twitter, & other social media compa… https://t.co/kimiY…

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44. Notably, then-FBI General Counsel Jim Baker was investigated *twice,* in 2017 and 2019, for leaking information… https://t.co/42lV8UxUxB

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43. “The unnecessary FBI briefing provided the Democrats and liberal media the vehicle to spread their false narrat… https://t.co/S6G1jtXilk

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42. In 2020, the FBI gave a briefing to Senator Grassley and Johnson, claiming evidence of “Russian interference” i… https://t.co/CKZAe2DWbv

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41. There is evidence that FBI agents have warned elected officials of foreign influence with the primary goal of l… https://t.co/8TQBRdoaDX

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40. The influence operation persuaded Twitter execs that the Hunter Biden laptop did *not* come from a whistleblowe… https://t.co/4c6n8sAYEe

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39. At 3:38 pm that same day, October 14, Baker arranges a phone conversation with Matthew J. Perry in the Office o… https://t.co/vlXoXuB69I

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38. By 10 am, Twitter execs had bought into a wild hack-and-dump story “The suggestion from experts - which rings… https://t.co/TeKYIQuuAE

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37. As for the FBI, it likely would have taken a few *hours* for it to confirm that the laptop had belonged to Hunt… https://t.co/4GnaTr9ZdY

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36. And yet it's inconceivable Baker believed the Hunter Biden emails were either fake or hacked. The @nypost had i… https://t.co/7gHNjx1XfQ

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35. In response to Roth, Baker repeatedly insists that the Hunter Biden materials were either faked, hacked, or bot… https://t.co/mME0KYK6z0

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34. On Oct 14, shortly after @NYPost publishes its Hunter Biden laptop story, Roth says, “it isn’t clearly violativ… https://t.co/m1fEgu9nR5

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33. Then, on Sept 15, 2020 the FBI’s Laura Dehmlow, who heads up the Foreign Influence Task Force, and Elvis Chan,… https://t.co/RpsVXIFHlq

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32. By mid-Sept, 2020, Chan & Roth had set up an encrypted messaging network so employees from FBI & Twitter could… https://t.co/PU…

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31. The organizer was Vivian Schiller, the fmr CEO of NPR, fmr head of news at Twitter; fmr Gen. mgr of NY Times; f… https://t.co/UGlPkUvq5W

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30. Efforts continued to influence Twitter's Yoel Roth. In Sept 2020, Roth participated in an Aspen Institute “ta… https://t.co/vSiVqxhGeS

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29. As of 2020, there were so many former FBI employees — "Bu alumni" — working at Twitter that they had created th… https://t.co/dVWDGFHdrJ

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28. Baker wasn't the only senior FBI exec. involved in the Trump investigation to go to Twitter. Dawn Burton, the… https://t.co/x7LeAYYDZA

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27. As general counsel of the FBI, Baker played a central role in making the case internally for an investigation o… https://t.co/uPBorw9W7w

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26. Who is Jim Baker? He's former general counsel of the FBI (2014-18) & one of the most powerful men in the U.S. i… https://t.co/IGnA8…

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25. In Aug, 2020, FBI’s Chan asks Twitter: does anyone there have top secret clearance? When someone mentions Jim… https://t.co/c9iJ5z6ReH

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24. Recently, Yoel Roth told @karaswisher that he had been primed to think about the Russian hacking group APT28 be… https://t.co/EazDIvbexP

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23. On August 11, 2020, the FBI's Chan shares information with Twitter's Roth relating to the Russian hacking organ… https://t.co/C18EHY6ze5

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21. Despite Twitter’s pushback, the FBI repeatedly requests information from Twitter that Twitter has already made… https://t.co/MiIEoYxgFr

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20. Time and again, FBI asks Twitter for evidence of foreign influence & Twitter responds that they aren’t finding… https://t.co/HkFKdd…

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19. Pressure had been growing: “We have seen a sustained (If uncoordinated) effort by the IC [intelligence commun… https://t.co/S7vjhIznOg

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18. It's not the first time that Twitter's Roth has pushed back against the FBI. In January 2020, Roth resisted FBI… https://t.co/3fVYMDOzqw

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17. After FBI asks about a WaPo story on alleged foreign influence in a pro-Trump tweet, Twitter's Roth says, "The… https://t.co/m3cZJeY4SA