Congressional committees already have determined that the FBI “improperly interfered in presidential elections in coordination with social media companies,” and now U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, chief of the Judiciary Committee, wants to know what the bureau still is doing to monitor Americans’ social media posts in order to “censor lawful speech.”
Jordan has dispatched a letter to the FBI’s Christopher Wray, instructing the FBI to provide a “briefing” on the work of the bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force to use “software” and other means to violate “the civil liberties of citizens of the United States.”
Jordan explained the committee already has heard testimony that under Wray’s leadership, the FBI “played a key role in prebunking a true story concerning the Biden family’s influence peddling ahead of the 2020 presidential election. We have also learned that the FITF continues to coordinate efforts with social media companies leading up to the 2024 …