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The way that Twitter/FBI relationship has been portrayed by certain people has been dangerously misleading -- don't fall for it. Twitter was compensated for assisting with investigations (e.g. collecting information), which is entirely normal, and has nothing to do with censorship. Don't be a sucker, the people pushing this conspiracy theory are depending on us to not investigate the matter for ourselves and to instead get angry.

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> Twitter was compensated for assisting with investigations (e.g. collecting information), which is entirely normal, and has nothing to do with censorship.

Collecting information about random people _is not_ entirely normal.

Now, if you live in a totalitarian state, it might be.

Really?

Are you suggesting that you would be surprised to find that companies are collecting information about you?

Its no conspiracy that the FBI acted to try and delegitimize the Hunter Biden laptop story by warning tech companies (Twitter, Facebook, etc) about a ‘Russian disinformation campaign’. This, of course, was entirely false and no one knew that better than the FBI, as it was the laptop repair shop owner who (legally) possessed the laptop who had directly contacted the FBI first.

And the FBI 100% knew the laptop was genuine. They publicly lied to support an election outcome.

Not only is this not remotely a conspiracy theory, its something that needs to be taken incredibly seriously.

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