FBI agent admits agency held weekly meetings with Big Tech ahead of the 2020 election

Fox News reports, “An FBI agent testified to Republican attorneys general this week that the FBI held weekly meetings with Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley ahead of the 2020 presidential election to discuss 'disinformation' on social media and ask about efforts to censor that information.

The FBI met weekly with Big Tech platforms & flagged accounts for them to remove.

This is government censorship. Officials who push these censorship schemes should face criminal penalties - I'm introducing legislation next Congress to do exactly that. https://t.co/76mK6Gqil7 — Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) December 2, 2022

On Tuesday, lawyers from the offices of Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana deposed FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan as part of their lawsuit against the Biden administration. That suit accuses high-ranking government officials of working with giant social media companies 'under the guise of combating misinformation' to achieve greater censorship.

Chan, who serves in the FBI’s San Francisco bureau, was questioned under oath by court order about his alleged 'critical role' in 'coordinating with social-media platforms relating to censorship and suppression of speech on their platforms."

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