A top legal watchdog has uncovered documents revealing the Federal Bureau of Investigation met with Twitter executive to discuss “content moderation” in the days before the 2022 midterm election, as Trump supporter Elon Musk began to take over the site.
The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch announced it received “a heavily redacted email from the U.S. Department of Justice in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit which shows Biden-era FBI personnel discussing a ‘touch point meeting’ with Twitter regarding reported meddling by China in the 2022 midterm election and the social media platform’s ‘potential changes’ in its ‘content moderation policies’ soon after Twitter was acquired by Elon Musk and shortly before Election Day.”
“This smoking-gun email shows that the Biden FBI were working with Big Tech to censor Americans just before a key election !” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Judicial Watch reports it “filed the April 2023 lawsuit against the Justice Department, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence after the FBI failed to respond to a December 2022 FOIA request for ‘Twitter Files’ records concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop and other censorship (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01163)).”
“The lawsuit references Yoel Roth, Vijaya Gadde, and Jim Baker, who were prominent in internal discussions at Twitter about censoring the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, as journalist Matt Taibbi revealed in the December 2022 release of the ‘Twitter Files,’” Judicial Watch reports, adding, “A hearing was held in this case in June 2025.”
“The newly obtained email, with the subject line ‘RE: Midterm Election Touch Point Meeting with Twitter,’ that was sent on November 3, 2022. Musk’s acquisition of Twitter was finalized on October 27, 2022. The midterm election was on November 8, 2022. All names of the sender and recipients of the email are redacted, with the exception of Laura E. Dehmlow, former section chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force,” Judicial Watch reports.
The email instructs:
Twitter folks,
For tomorrow’s meeting here are the topics we would like to discuss:
1. Recent disclosure of the three PRC [People’s Republic of China] networks of activity (WAPO [Washington Post] article).
2. Any potential changes to Twitter’s account verification and content moderation policies.
Let us know if you have any topics to cover so we can prepare accordingly. Thanks!
The response states:
Thanks [redacted] Looking forward to meeting tomorrow. Can you also add [redacted] to the invite? He’ll be joining us from the legal side of the house.
The Washington Post article referenced in the email is likely from November 1, 2022, and headlined: “MAGA porn, hate for Trump: China-based accounts stoke division.”
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