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Well yes the mod is totally consistent in this when 9/18 posts are trolling clearly
And why are you placing the OP on trial? these are just news claims.
In any case, most of the recent files haven't actually revealed anything new: it was public information that the FBI and DHS had departments dealing with online misinformation. That they would actually use that power and engage with social media companies and try to get them to do stuff for them, like take posts down, etc, shouldn't surprise anyone.
Neither should it be a surprise after Snowden that FBI and Homeland Security they would not try to abuse that power (and that most US social media companies would play ball). This story, for instance, is much more interesting thing out of the Twitter files than yet another rehashing of the Hunter Biden laptop thing:
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/
https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/19/with-russia-hoaxer-jim-baker-on-the-inside-the-fbi-primed-twitter-to-kill-hunter-biden-story-long-before-it-broke/
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6317521136112
https://nypost.com/2022/12/19/fbi-reached-out-to-twitter-before-post-broke-hunter-biden-laptop-story/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11555321/FBI-official-turned-Twitter-counsel-Jim-Baker-thanked-Bureau-suppressing-Hunter-Biden-laptop.html
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