Exhibit 1116

Deposition of Elvis Chan (FBI San Francisco), Missouri v. Biden, No. 3:22-cv-01213 (W.D. La.), Doc. 204-1

Exhibit 1116 · Deposition transcript

Deposition of Elvis Chan (FBI San Francisco), Missouri v. Biden, No. 3:22-cv-01213 (W.D. La.), Doc. 204-1

I would not say it was 100 percent success rate. If I had to characterize it, I would say it was like a 50 percent success rate. But that's just from my recollection.

Sworn testimony of the FBI San Francisco special agent who ran FBI contact with Twitter, Facebook, Google and others. He dates quarterly FBI-company meetings to 2017 (p. 89), describes a 4 September 2019 Facebook-hosted election-security meeting with FBI, DHS and ODNI at which 'the social media companies' discussed removing disinformation and 'the FBI did not' (pp. 151-154), says Twitter announced the takedown of 3,613 accounts in 2018 and 422 accounts in 2019 (pp. 132-134, 149), gives his opinion that congressional pressure was a contributing factor in platform policy changes (p. 132), and puts the share of flagged items that led to action at about half (p. 167). He says FBI San Francisco relayed time, place or manner and foreign-influence reports to the companies on election day and accepted referrals from them (p. 168). Transcript pages are cited; ECF page numbers equal transcript page numbers up to the cover pages (ECF p. 167 of 386 is transcript p. 167).

Source: U.S. District Court, W.D. La. (deposition taken by plaintiffs, 29 November 2022; filed 3 March 2023)
Date: 29 November 2022
Quoted from: Chan Dep. 167:5-8 (ECF p. 167 of 386)
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.204.1.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding INF-4.1: Primary record FBI, DHS and ODNI officials met regularly with platform staff about election content from 2017 and 2018, under the Trump administration, and the meetings continued through the 2022 midterms under the Biden administration.
Finding INF-4.2: Primary record The FBI agent who ran the Bureau's platform contacts testified, from recollection, that about half of the items the FBI flagged led a platform to act under its terms of service. Twitter told a court in 2023 that its employees reviewed the FBI's flagged tweets independently.
Finding INF-4.7: Open question No public dataset states how many government reports to platforms from 2017 to 2024 led to removal, by agency, platform and administration. The only figure in the record is the FBI agent's recollection of about half.