The disgraced FBI official-turned-twitter general counsel signed Jim Baker a letter THANKING Bureau officials for helping him suppress Hunter Biden’s laptop story like the reveal latest twitter files
- The latest batch of “Twitter files” showed how former FBI official and then-Twitter attorney Jim Baker helped suppress the Hunter Biden story
- Baker and the FBI worked together to convince Twitter that the laptop story was misinformation planted by foreign agents to disrupt the presidential election
- After they managed to ban the New York Post from covering the story, Baker and his team signed a letter thanking the FBI for their efforts
The latest “Twitter files” revealed how an FBI official-turned-Twitter attorney sent a letter thanking the FBI for its help in suppressing Hunter Biden’s laptop story.
Jim Baker, who held a similar role for the FBI before becoming Twitter’s deputy general counsel, worked closely with the FBI as it partnered with the social media company to combat so-called electoral interference by foreign nations .
Baker and the FBI worked together to try to advance the narrative that the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop had been hacked by Russian agents from another source and placed on the laptop later found at a Delaware repair shop, and that the laptop had never belonged to Biden at all.
As a result of those efforts, Twitter blocked the New York Post’s coverage of the story on the social media site. At the end of the trial, the latest Twitter files revealed that Baker and his team agreed to sign a letter to the FBI agents working on the project, thanking them for their efforts.
The revelations are the latest from the Twitter files that Elon Musk released to show off the social media company’s past censorship initiatives.
Jim Baker, who served in a similar role for the FBI before becoming Deputy General Counsel for Twitter
Elon Musk continues to look for all kinds of ways to cut costs at the social media company he acquired for $44 billion in October
Today’s stack of Twitter files was reviewed and published by journalist Michael Shellenberger, who, along with journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, has been combing through stacks of internal Twitter communications from before Musk’s acquisition.
Shellenberger found that less than two hours after Hunter Biden’s attorney learned of the New York Post story about the laptop, FBI agent Elvis Chan sent a collection of documents to Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then head of site integrity, had sent.
Hours after The Post published her laptop story the next day, it was almost immediately censored by Twitter and thus publicly undermined.
The files showed that the FBI had advised Twitter to be on the lookout for Russian misinformation about him since Hunter Biden was making millions from foreign deals.
“Throughout 2020, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly primed Yoel Roth to dismiss reports of Hunter Biden’s laptop as a Russian ‘hack and leak’ operation,” Shellenberger wrote.
Despite these FBI efforts, Twitter executives noted that there was “very little” Russian activity that raised any suspicions.
In fact, Twitter executives *repeatedly* reported very little Russian activity. For example, on September 24, 2020, Twitter told the FBI that it had removed 345 “largely inactive” accounts “linked to previous coordinated Russian hacking attempts.” They “had little reach and few follower accounts,” he wrote.