Shellenberger on ‘Twitter Files’: Investigation necessary

A seventh batch of internal Twitter documents was released Monday, further detailing how the FBI and broader intelligence community allegedly sought to shut down a story about Hunter Biden and the contents of his laptop.

The author of the latest “Twitter Files” dump, Michael Shellenberger, argues the contents show that a congressional investigation is needed into the communications the FBI was having with Twitter executives leading up to the 2020 election.

“The FBI is of such importance … so if there is politicization within the FBI aimed at a particular goal, in this case to suppress and really spread misinformation around an important piece of evidence which has to do with the Biden family’s business dealings, that’s a real problem,” Shellenberger said Monday on “CUOMO.”

Shellenberger, who also published part four of the series dubbed the “Twitter Files,” posted a 47-tweet thread Monday detailing emails sent and received by Twitter employees, FBI agent Elvis Chan and Jim Baker, former general counsel of the FBI, who left to go work at Twitter.

In the emails, which have not been independently verified by NewsNation, Chan makes repeated requests throughout 2020 for information about possible foreign influence campaigns by Twitter users. On multiple occasions, Twitter employees reply to Chan that Twitter has found very little evidence of foreign activity.