Former US government intelligence agents are now working across Silicon Valley in senior roles dedicated to censoring ‘misinformation’, DailyMail.com can disclose.
A large number of ex-officers from the FBI, CIA, NSC and State Department have taken positions at Facebook, Twitter and Google.
The revelation comes amid fears the FBI operated control over Twitter censorship and the Hunter Biden laptop story.
The Twitter files have revealed the close relationship with the FBI, how the Bureau regularly demanded accounts and tweets be banned and suspicious contact before the Hunter laptop story was censored.
The documents detailed how so many former FBI agents joined Twitter’s ranks over the past few years that they created their own private Slack channel.
A report by Mint Press’ Alan MacLeod identified dozens of Twitter employees, who had previously held positions at the Bureau, by tracking down their LinkedIn profiles
He also found that former CIA agents made up some of the top ranks in almost every politically-sensitive department at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And in another report MacLeod detailed the extent to which former CIA agents started working at Google.
It remains unclear whether any of these former agents have worked with their previous employers in a coordinated effort to quash any stories.
But the CIA is prohibited under federal law from ‘engaging in any activities for purposes of affecting or interfering with the domestic political process.’
DailyMail.com has now been able to track down nine former CIA agents who are working, or have worked, at Meta, including Aaron Berman, the senior policy manager for misinformation at the company who had previously written the president’s daily briefings.
Six others have worked for other intelligence agencies before joining the social media giant, many of whom have posted recently about Facebook’s efforts to tamp down on so-called ‘covert influence operations.’
David Agranovich, a former intelligence officer at the National Security Office serving at the White House, even seemed to have dismissed the Twitter Files, which have been released over the past few weeks and show an apparently coordinated effort to quash certain stories.
Meanwhile, at Twitter, DailyMail.com was able to find eight former FBI agents working in divisions of ‘trust’ and ‘security,’ as well as one man who had allegedly worked ‘psychological operations’ at the National Security Council.’
Others, though, like Kristie Canegallo, Google’s former vice president of trust and safety have gone from their jobs at Big Tech companies to serving in intelligence organizations. Canegallo is now the chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security.
Aaron Berman: President’s former briefer at the CIA turned senior policy manager for misinformation at Meta
Deborah Berman: Former Intelligence analyst at the CIA now working as trust and safety manager
Kris Rose: Political and counterterrorism analyst at the CIA before joining Meta’s Oversight Board
Bryan Weisbard: Former CIA intelligence officer now employed as director of trust, safety, security and data privacy
Cameron Harris: CIA analyst turned Meta trust and safety project manager
Scott Stern: CIA targeting officer now working as ‘senior manager of risk intelligence’
Hagan Barnett: CIA contractor who is the head of harmful content operations at Meta
Gina Kim Sumilas: Former lawyer for CIA now works at Facebook
Emily Vacher: Former FBI supervisory special agent who now serves as Meta’s director of trust and safety
Mike Bradow: Former USAID deputy director of policy now working on misinformation policy at Meta
Jeff Lazarus: Former economic and political analyst at the CIA now working in Meta’s strategic response department
Olga Belogolova: Worked at State Department and the Office of the Secretary of Defense before joining Facebook as its policy manager
Corey Ponder: Ex-CIA senior targeting analyst now working as a senior strategist at Meta focusing on creator equity and wellbeing
Hayley Chang: Former FBI lawyer now working as the director of associate general counsel for Meta’s cybersecurity and investigations team
Robert Flaim: Meta’s head of strategic platforms who spent more than 20 years in FBI
Daniel Aragnovich: Director for intelligence at the National Security Council who is now the director for global threat disruption at Meta
Nathaniel Gleicher: Former director of cybersecurity policy for the NSC joined Meta as head of security policy
Jeffrey Gelman: Former NSC and State Department official who became the policy communications manager at Facebook
Erin Clancey: Political Advisor at the State Department turned public policy manager at Meta
Jim Baker: The embattled Twitter lawyer who used to work for the CIA
Matthew Williams: Intelligence program manager at the FBI who became a senior director at Twitter
Kevin Michelena: An FBI intelligence analyst for more than a decade before becoming Twitter’s senior corporate security analyst
Doug Hunt: Ex-supervisory special agent now serving as a senior director at Twitter
Karen Walsh: Former special agent focused on public-private sector outreach who now serves as Twitter’s director of corporate resilience
Dawn Burton: Former federal prosecutor who is now Twitter’s director of strategy and operations
Michael Bertrand: Worked over two decades on counterterrorism in the FBI before taking on role as ‘crisis manager’ at Twitter
Mark Jaroszewski: Former supervisory special agent who now serves as Twitter’s director of corporate security and risk
Vincent Lucero: Supervisory special agent turned senior security manager at Twitter
Greg Anderson: Worked NATO ‘psychological operations’ before becoming Twitter’s product policy manager
Jacqueline Lopour: The former ‘go-to-writer’ at the CIA works intelligence collection at Google
Ryan Fugit: Former CIA officer recruited by Google to become senior manager of trust and safety
Nick Rossman: Ex FBI and CIA agent who is serving as the senior manager of trust and safety at Google
Chelsea Magnant: CIA political analyst turned Google’s cybersecurity policy manager
Yong Suk Lee: Former CIA manager who became Google’s director of global risk analysis
Beth Schmierer: Former strategic analyst at the CIA and political officer at the State Department who is now Google’s ‘Americas Intel Manager’
Candice Bryant: The CIA’s former chief or public communications now works communications for Google
Meaghan Gruppo: Ex-CIA intelligence analyst who is now Google’s Global Intelligence manager for its Enterprise Security Risk Analysis department
Clinton Dallas: Ex-CIA officer now working as Google’s systems access lead
Katherine Tobin: Former branch chief for the CIA who now heads Google’s workspace innovation for its global public sector
Joanna Gillia: Former leadership analyst at the CIA who became a talent consultant at Google
