National Review reports that US Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz's July 2024 report on the DOJ's "Efforts to Coordinate Information Sharing About Foreign Malign Influence Threats to US Elections" contains a memo stating that the FBI "will resume regular meetings in the coming weeks with social media companies to brief and discuss potential FMI [Foreign Malign Influence] threats involving the companies' platforms."

Horowitz's report "make[s] two recommendations to ensure that DOJ takes a public and strategic approach to sharing information with social media companies in a manner that protects First Amendment rights to combat foreign malign influence directed at US elections," ostensibly to build trust with the general public.

The first is to "[d]evelop an approach for informing the public about the procedures the Department has put into place to transmit foreign malign influence threat information to social media companies that is protective of First Amendment rights." The second is to "[d]evelop and implement a comprehensive strategy to ensure that the Department of Justice's approach to information sharing with social media companies to combat foreign malign influence directed at US elections can adapt to address the evolving threat landscape."

For years, conservatives and other dissenters from left-wing orthodoxy have criticized the world's largest online information and communications platforms, including Google, Facebook, and (until ownership changed hands in late 2022) Twitter, for using their vast influence to slant the news, sources, ideas, and arguments their users see and share through their services. One of their chief rationales for doing so was to prevent "misinformation" from influencing elections, which critics denounce as merely a pretext to sway elections in their favor... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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