FBI supervisory special agent Elvis Chan disputed former Twitter executive Yoel Roth's claims that the FBI warned that Russia would likely release Hunter Biden's emails before the 2020 election. Roth, who led Twitter's Site Integrity team until he resigned last month, told the Federal Election Commission that the FBI warnings prompted Twitter to censor an Oct. 14, 2020, news article that detailed Biden's business emails. But Chan said in a Dec. 3 deposition that FBI officials did not mention Hunter Biden in their weekly meetings with Twitter before the election. "I do not remember us specifically saying ‘Hunter Biden' in any meeting," said Chan. "So this would have been something that [Roth] would have just thought of as a hot-button issue on his own that happened in October."
Chan's testimony further clouds Twitter's controversial decision to censor the Hunter Biden story, which detailed emails from the troubled businessman's laptop.
"I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden."
Chan testified that he met regularly with officials from Twitter, Facebook, and Google, regarding foreign governments' misinformation campaigns.
Chan said that he and other FBI officials had no evidence of an ongoing hacking operation before the 2020 election but that the bureau was nonetheless concerned about the "potential" for one.
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