FBI’s Suppression of Speech on Twitter Calls for Congressional Investigation: FBI Veteran

The FBI’s efforts to limit the free expression of speech on Twitter call for a “thorough investigation” from the new Congress in January, according to longtime bureau agent Marc Ruskin.
That the FBI is flagging accounts for Twitter to take action against, as shown in the sixth batch of Twitter disclosures, seems a government overreach and runs counter to FBI standard practice, Ruskin, author of the book “The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI” and an Epoch Times contributor, said in an interview.
The emails released on Dec. 16 show that officials from the bureau and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regularly sent social media content to Twitter requesting its suppression. The volume of exchange was “constant and pervasive,” according to journalist Matt Taibbi, who after being given access to the internal files by Twitter owner Elon Musk reported that Twitter appears no different than an FBI subsidiary. A portion of the accounts that the FBI marked for Twitter to review involved satirical posts with relatively low engagement….}