A study of LinkedIn data revealed that between 2017 and 2022, hundreds of former CIA, FBI, and DHS officials were employed by Big Tech firms like Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
The Daily Caller’s study discovered that during that time, 248 former officials from the three organizations were employed by Google, Facebook (known as Meta), TicToc, and Twitter, with many of the new hires being given leadership roles at the businesses.
According to the Daily Caller:
“A cursory LinkedIn search revealed that Google hired 130 former DOJ, DHS, CIA, and FBI employees.” Meta, the corporation that owns Facebook and Instagram, hired 47 employees who formerly worked for the FBI, DOJ, or DHS. TikTok, a Chinese-based service plagued by national security issues, hired 25 former DOJ, DHS, FBI, or CIA workers. Twitter employed 46 executives who had previously worked for the three-letter agencies.”
“In particular, Twitter directly recruited a number of career FBI workers who had worked for the bureau for more than 20 years.”
“The search revealed that many LinkedIn users touting work experience in intelligence agencies did not fully identify themselves, preferring to censor their last names.” At some point throughout the recruitment, employment, and verification procedure, the users presumably completely identify themselves.”
The close relationship between Twitter and the FBI has been a frequent theme in the Twitter Files, a series of revelations of internal business correspondence made public when Elon Musk allowed access to a number of journalists.
According to the papers, FBI agents “repeatedly primed” Twitter administrators in 2020 to regard news about Hunter Biden’s questionable business transactions as a “Russian hack and leak operation.”
Other branches of government, notably the State Department, utilized their clout on Twitter to brand American conservatives who use the platform as agents of “Russian influence.”
