into twitter s mailbox the night before the post released itenne, poof, twitter censored the biggest of the election. the fbi gave him orders and they followed. they had nothing to base it off of, either. they are on record telling the feds they couldn t find any russian activity on twitter. just a few bots. but twitter censorship chief still did it anyway. why? let s ask him. i didn t need to do it if it s a question of people getting killed that s one thing. this is just hunter biden, right? so why did they act then? look, when you re when you re weeks out from an election, when you seen what happened in 2016 and seen the immense political and regulatory pressure to focus on election integrity to address maligned interference and when you feel a responsibility to protect the integrity of the conversations on the platform from foreign governments expending their resources to interfere in an election, um, there were lots of reasons why the entire industry
was on alert. jesse: yeah. but the fbi wanted more. they started asking twitter to give update that on the users. they wanted people s locations in real time. it was at this point twitter pushed back saying they couldn t share it outside the normal legal channels without a warrant but the fbi just kept hammering forward anyway. even twitter censorship chief felt a little uncomfortable about the whole thing. he was telling other executives he was frankly perplexed by the fbi s request. didn t matter twilter was swarming with feds. they had 80 fbi agents in and out of their offices, plus, 15 former fbi agents working for them like their top lawyer, james baker, a former fbi lawyer who had his hands all over the russian collusion hoax and tried to white wash any of these documents for coming out. he got caught and got canned but basically, the fbi owned