Biden’s FBI Met with Twitter Days Before 2022 Election to Discuss ‘Content Moderation’

We received a smoking-gun email showing that the Biden FBI was working with Big Tech to censor Americans just before a key election.

The heavily redacted email was produced by the U.S. Department of Justice in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.

It shows Biden-era FBI personnel discussing a “touch point meeting” with Twitter regarding reported meddling by China in the 2022 midterm election and the social media platform’s “potential changes” in its “content moderation policies” soon after Twitter was acquired by Elon Musk and shortly before Election Day.

We filed the April 2023 lawsuit against the Justice Department, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence after the FBI failed to respond to a December 2022 FOIA request for “Twitter Files” records concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop and other censorship (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01163)).

The lawsuit references Yoel Roth, Vijaya Gadde, and Jim Baker, who were prominent in internal discussions at Twitter about censoring the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, as journalist Matt Taibbi revealed in the December 2022 release of the “Twitter Files.”

A hearing was held in this case in June 2025.

The newly obtained email, with the subject line “RE: Midterm Election Touch Point Meeting with Twitter,” was sent on November 3, 2022. Musk’s acquisition of Twitter was finalized on October 27, 2022. The midterm election was on November 8, 2022. All names of the sender and recipients of the email are redacted, with the exception of Laura E. Dehmlow, former section chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force. The email instructs:

Twitter folks,

For tomorrow’s meeting here are the topics we would like to discuss:

1. Recent disclosure of the three PRC [People's Republic of China] networks of activity (WAPO [Washington Post] article).

2. Any potential changes to Twitter’s account verification and content moderation policies.

Let us know if you have any topics to cover so we can prepare accordingly. Thanks!

The response states:

Thanks [redacted] Looking forward to meeting tomorrow. Can you also add [redacted] to the invite? He’ll be joining us from the legal side of the house.

The Washington Post article referenced in the email is likely from November 1, 2022, and headlined: “MAGA porn, hate for Trump: China-based accounts stoke division.”

Through FOIA and other direct litigation, we continue to investigate and litigate the broad range of censorship that had been imposed upon tens millions of Americans.

In June 2025, we sued the U.S. State Department for all records which allege President Trump or any current or former member of his cabinet are “purveyors of disinformation.”

In March, we filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States concerning our lawsuit asserting that the California Secretary of State retaliated against Judicial Watch because of an accurate election integrity video posted to YouTube just before the 2020 Election (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, in her official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of California (No. 2:22-cv-06894)). The California Secretary of State used its well-established working relationship with Big Tech to have YouTube remove and censor Judicial Watch’s video.

In November 2024, we uncovered records from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealing an extensive effort by government and non-government entities to monitor and censor social media posts on fraud during the 2020 election.

In June 2024, heavily redacted Homeland Security records from a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit showed state election officials in the days before and after the 2020 election flagging online content deemed “misinformation” and sending it to the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a DHS-funded nonprofit, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is a division of DHS, the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), which was created to flag online election content for censorship and suppression, and others.

In December 2023, Homeland Security records from the same lawsuit showed a close collaboration between its Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) and the leftist Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to engage in “real-time narrative tracking” on all major social media platforms in the days leading up to the 2020 election.

In November 2023, we uncovered Homeland Security records that showed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) communicating during the 2020 election campaign with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP). The CISA records showed government involvement in the EIP pressure on Google, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit and other platforms to censor “disinformation.”

Hearing in Lawsuit for Release of ‘Manifesto’ in Nashville School Shooting

We were in court this week for an oral argument before a three-judge panel in the Tennessee Court of Appeals in the public records lawsuit against the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County for records related to the March 2023 shooting at The Covenant School in Tennessee, including the reported “manifesto” written by the female shooter. To view the proceedings online, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_c9NQE-gI

We filed an open records lawsuit on behalf of retired Hamilton County Sheriff James Hammond and the Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc. (“TFA”) (Hammond et al. v. Metropolitan Govt of Nashville et al. (No. 23-0538-III)). The court later consolidated our lawsuit with several others related to the release of public records from The Covenant School shooting.

Audrey Elizabeth Hale (also known as Aiden Hale), a 28-year-old trans artist, was killed by police after opening fire on the private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, killing three adults and three children.

The resolution of the case has been delayed over disputes about whether the school and school/victims’ parents could intervene and prevent the release of the “manifesto” and other investigatory material.

The transgender agenda should not interfere with the public’s right to know information that may possibly help Americans avoid future tragedies like the one in Nashville.

In August 2025, in a related case against the U.S. Department of Justice, we received 485 pages of the “manifesto.” The records detail the shooter’s violent thoughts, the targeting and planning of the shooting attack on The Covenant School, and transgender-related obsessions.

We previously obtained 112 pages of records in April 2025, and an additional 231 pages in June 2025—bringing the total number of pages released through this lawsuit to 828. The full “manifesto” consists of 2,056 pages, and the FBI is continuing to produce additional pages to us.

The lawsuit also seeks materials provided to the FBI by local law enforcement. The FBI is withholding these documents, claiming they are categorically exempt from disclosure under FOIA.

Biden FEMA Systemically Withheld Disaster Aid to Conservative Victims 

As revelations of the Biden administration’s political use of the Justice Department multiply, we are also becoming aware that the administration was using other branches of government against its political opponents. Our Corruption Chronicles blog reports.

Besides its lengthy history of incompetence, the federal agency created by Jimmy Carter to provide the nation with disaster relief singled out conservative victims and withheld aid to survivors who displayed signs and flags the agency’s liberal workforce disagreed with, including those supporting President Trump. The “textbook political discrimination against Americans in crisis” uncovered by a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) investigation that found throughout the Biden administration the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)—charged with helping people before, during and after disasters—systemically refused to visit the houses of politically conservative victims. “For years, FEMA employees under the Biden Administration intentionally delayed much-needed aid to Americans suffering from natural disasters on purely political grounds,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem confirms. “They deliberately avoided houses displaying support for President Trump and the Second Amendment, illegally collected and stored information about survivors’ political beliefs, and failed to report their malicious behavior.”

The investigation was conducted by the DHS Privacy Office and found that between 2021 and 2024 FEMA employees recorded the political beliefs of affected citizens in agency databases, and that the information was used to bypass or postpone aid to disaster survivors. Investigators determined that the conduct violates the Privacy Act of 1974 and other DHS data-handling rules intended to protect the First Amendments rights of all Americans. Here are some examples included in the report which was made public last week. An October field note from Florida says, “Trump sign, no contact per leadership.” A September 2021 note in Pennsylvania reads, “…a lot of explicit political flags, posters, etc. ‘F— Joe Biden’ ‘MAGA 2024’ ‘Joe Biden Sucks’ ‘Trump 2024’ We do not recommend anyone visiting this location.” A Louisiana note from 2021 warns, “Homeowner had sign stated…this is trump country.” The prejudice first came to light after Hurricane Milton struck Florida’s Gulf Coast in October 2024, and a whistleblower revealed that FEMA employees were directed to bypass houses displaying political signs supporting then presidential candidate Trump. Biden’s FEMA administrator, Deanne Criswell, denied it was a systemic problem and even testified under oath before Congress that it was an isolated incident.

The recent DHS probe contradicts Criswell’s assessment, finding that the abuses were widespread and occurred in the aftermath of multiple disasters dating back to Hurricane Ida in 2021. The report includes screenshots of a FEMA tool used to collect information that is supposed to be used to provide disaster survivor assistance. “The information collected included obviously protected information about individuals’ freedom of expression, such as campaign signs showing support for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump or political positions, such as supporting gun ownership, or indicating that an individual expressed support or disagreed with a political leader,” DHS investigators found. The report also says that internal FEMA communications show several supervisors and crew leaders told field teams to avoid or delay visits to homes displaying Trump campaign flags or other conservative symbols. Data taken from the agency’s disaster-relief software confirm skipped home visits, missing aid notifications as well as field notes citing political signs as reasons for not contacting victims. A U.S. map features instances in eight states between 2021 and 2024.

The scathing report is simply the latest of many chronicling the lapses at FEMA, which is well known for its inefficiency in responding to disasters. The agency was merged into DHS after the 2001 terrorist attacks and has been failing the American people since Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana gulf coast two decades ago, killing more than 1,800 Americans and resulting in billions of dollars in property damage. “FEMA’s response was slow, ineffective, and bureaucratic,” DHS writes in an August announcement vowing to get the agency back on track. To ensure that the political discrimination under Biden does not happen again Noem has referred the probe’s findings to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for further investigation and potential prosecution and has canceled the door-to-door survey practice used to discriminate against Americans. “The prohibited collection of constitutionally protected information underscores a pattern of weaponizing federal power against Americans and abusing the trust placed in government institutions,” the DHS concludes in its report.

Until next week,