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Set up an encrypted election communication platform for the fbi and twitter. and that system soon came in very handy because in october 2020 within hours of hunter biden's legal team getting tipped off to "the new york post" story exposing his emails, roth received ten documents from chan through the new communication platform. we don't know the exact contents of the documents but we do know that once "the new york post" story was published hours later, twitter and other social media companies censored the story, preventing its spread before the vote. and also we know what happened in the afte...

To influence left-leaning voters. speak we know from the intelligence community that countries like russia are using social media to try to influence the election. >> at this present moment, russia is actively interfering in the 2020 election. we know that russia is seeking to manipulate public opinion across social media. >> laura: it turns out they weren't busy combating russian disinformation, they were desperately trying to find russian disinformation. throughout much of 2020, twitter execs were telling the fbi that they didn't see much evidence of russian bot activity. they told the burea...

And most revered researchers that one in three people who use marijuana in the last year will develop a cannabis use disorder. that's the medical diagnosis for addiction. there is these myths that the industry is trying to undermine your we need real science, not bogus science. >> laura: it reminds me a lot of the covert, you know funding, of research studies with covid. it reminds me a lot of that. luke, thank you for the work that smart approaches to marijuana does on this issue. the coordination between the fbi and twitter is so pervasive that the barrow temporarily granted top-secret clear...

You feel like an outsider every it was hard to admit defeat. and that's exactly what i felt like i was doing when i finally contacted the wounded warrior project. i knew that i needed help. and when i reached out, they gave me tools to better my life. they truly saved my life. >> laura: it's time for the twitter files part seven. there were so many fbi agents working at twitter, they had their own nickname and onboarding chart. i kid you not. they were building a liberal feedback loops from the inside. >> intelligence agencies have been warning for months of foreign attempts to sway the upcomi...

Regime set up to ensure that no derogatory material about joe biden from the laptop would ever see the light of day before the election. it was strangled at birth. >> laura: wow. mike, before the 2020 election season even got going, you had this special agent elvis chan. he was interviewed about how the fbi was preparing for the election. check it out. >> one of the things that was really important to us that we didn't have ahead of 2016 with established channels of communication with social media companies. we have done a much better job since 2016 was really establishing channels of communic...