Russian-infiltrated Ukrainian intel used FBI to censor social media, House investigators allege – IOTW Report

Russian-infiltrated Ukrainian intel used FBI to censor social media, House investigators allege

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As the FBI worked with social media companies to remove alleged Russian disinformation, it appears to have also applied the label to American journalists, anti-Putin activists, and even an official U.S. government account while taking requests from the Ukrainian Security Service, an organization known to have been pervasively infiltrated by pro-Russian actors, lawmakers report.

The House Judiciary Committee’s select panel on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Monday released an interim staff report outlining a censorship pipeline wherein social media platforms fielded requests to block accounts from the bureau, which in turn received the takedown requests from the SBU, which was full of Russian agents at the time. more

2 Comments on Russian-infiltrated Ukrainian intel used FBI to censor social media, House investigators allege

  1. And of course, the ultimate string-pullers were the Russians, because the Ukrainian SBU is “an agency widely known to be infiltrated by Russian-aligned forces…” Really? If the FBI knows this, then why does it let Russia pull the strings here? Or is this alleged Russian skullduggery “widely known” to everybody but the FBI? Something is not adding up in this blame game.

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