By yourNEWS Media Staff
Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly known as Twitter), revealed in a conversation with Texas Lindsey that the FBI operated a special portal on Twitter designed to automatically erase all communications after two weeks. Musk suggested this function was likely implemented to conceal the agency’s questionable requests, effectively making it impossible for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) inquiries to uncover these communications after the deletion period.
According to Musk, this issue was not confined to a single government agency; multiple sectors including the State Department, the FBI, and Homeland Security were involved. He pointed out that the automatic deletion of such communications could be in violation of FOIA, given that it systematically removes potentially discoverable records.
Elon Musk: And this is coming from multiple parts of the government, from the State Department, the FBI, Homeland Security, from really many parts of the government. It wasn’t just one arm of the government. There was this FBI portal that auto-deleted all communications after two weeks. So we actually don’t know what was said there. In fact, this strike me as a FOIA violation, freedom of Information act violation, because you shouldn’t be able to delete, orderly delete things after two weeks.
There’s a little known agency in the State Department called the Global Engagement Center, which most people have never heard of, but they might have been the single worst offender because they demanded the suspension of, at one point, over 250,000 accounts, which I think all Twitter largely complied with. But the suspension demands were so broad that they accidentally demanded a suspension of a journalist on CNN and an elected Canadian politician. It was just an incredibly broad sweep.
Musk highlighted the involvement of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, an entity unknown to many, which demanded at one time the suspension of over 250,000 accounts. Twitter largely complied with these requests, even though they were so extensive that they mistakenly included demands to suspend a journalist from CNN and an elected Canadian politician.
This revelation aligns with previous reports by The Gateway Pundit on Twitter’s “partner support portal” for government entities. This portal enabled officials to flag and delete content they disapproved of under what was termed “Twitter Partner Status.” It was also disclosed that tweets from Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts, were deleted by Twitter following directives from government employees of the Massachusetts Secretary of State’s office, as Ayyadurai made allegations of voter fraud.
Moreover, journalist Matt Taibbi, in the sixth part of the Twitter Files investigation dubbed “Twitter, The FBI Subsidiary,” uncovered the FBI’s role in targeting Twitter accounts for suspension and moderating content deemed as “election misinformation.” Taibbi’s investigation revealed the expansive reach of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FTIF), established post-2016 election, which grew to involve 80 agents dedicated to identifying and mitigating foreign influence and election tampering, indicating a substantial government effort aimed at overseeing and potentially censoring discourse on American platforms.