After the FBI interfered in the 2016 presidential election through Russia hoaxing and the 2020 presidential election by suppressing the legitimate Hunter Biden laptop story, it looks like the notoriously corrupt federal agency is election meddling again ahead of the 2022 midterms. An FBI whistleblower alleged in a leaked document that the FBI lists “misinformation” as a potential “election crime,” Project Veritas reported on Thursday.
The document, titled “2022 Midterm Elections Social Media Analysis Cheat Sheet,” also lists “disinformation” as a potential election crime, describing it as “false or inaccurate information intended to mislead others,” including “Disinformation campaigns on social media,” which it describes as something “used to deliberately confuse, trick, or upset the public.”
The news indicates the FBI is yet again meddling in our elections because, as Americans learned through the 2020 presidential race, the bureau’s definition of “disinformation” and “misinformation” is simply information that could harm Democrats’ electoral prospects.
For instance, Mark Zuckerberg revealed in August that the FBI interfered in the 2020 election by directing Facebook (and likely other platforms) to censor so-called “disinformation,” which included the Hunter Biden laptop story. The New York Post’s bombshell story on President Joe Biden’s son was subsequently smeared by Democrats, Big Tech, the corporate media, and the feds as Russian “disinformation.”
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