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The bureau may have been relying on the public's short memory when it posted: “This #MLKDay, the FBI honors one of the most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement and reaffirms its commitment to Dr. King's legacy of fairness and equal justice for all.” “.
Community Notes intervened brutally, highlighting FBI surveillance, attempts to discredit King while he was alive, and much more.
Community Notes responded accurately: “The FBI engaged in surveilling King, attempted to discredit him, and used manipulative tactics to influence him to stop organizing.” “King’s family believes the FBI was responsible for his death.”
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The FBI collides with reality regarding Martin Luther King's position
The FBI's efforts to discredit King were widespread and began in the late 1950s, when King began to attract national attention for his civil rights activism.
The Bureau's main goal was to undermine King's influence and reputation by engaging in surveillance, wiretapping, and disseminating negative information about him.
Under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI's COINTELPRO program targeted King and other civil rights leaders, attempting to discredit them and disrupt their activities. The Bureau investigated him for possible Communist ties using wiretaps and eavesdropping devices, spying on his personal life and secretly recording him.
Ah, the FBI – trying to trap and imprison Americans who disagree with them for half a century.
In 1964, the FBI sent King an anonymous letter, with recordings of his extramarital affairs, urging him to commit suicide.
The Bureau sent a tape containing evidence of King's affairs with a message that read in part: “You're done. There's only one way out for you. You better take it before you expose your filthy, fraudulent self to the nation.”
Film director Sam Pollard noted that the FBI had such extensive surveillance on King that it would be nearly impossible for their agents not to have been aware of a plot to assassinate him.
“Every time King and his companions went to a new city, the FBI was preparing to enter, follow and monitor him. How could this be possible… [for] “Agents constantly surveilling King in nearby hotel rooms so they wouldn’t be aware someone like James Earl Ray with a gun would shoot Dr. King?” Pollard said. “This doesn't make any sense.”
The director added: “It is clear that there was some conspiracy somewhere.” [which] “I personally believe the FBI was involved in eliminating King.”
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X users enjoyed a new Community Notes fact-checking service that lit up the FBI for trying to portray their support for King as a lifelong mission.
“The FBI, which spent years spying on King, harassing him and even trying to convince him to kill himself, now claims to be following in his footsteps,” podcast producer Alan McLeod wrote. “Sarcasm is dead.”
Twitchy's “Grateful Calvin” argued that the FBI was not simply unaware of their history, but rather that they didn't care what the American people thought about their past.
“X is the only platform where a government agency like the FBI can be verified in real time by everyday people,” writes mathematics activist Riley Gaines.
Aside from trying to commit crimes against King and then failing to stop the violence they knew was coming, the FBI also tried to control information about the narrative against him.
It included the FBI campaign against King Influence attempts Media and public opinion. They spread negative information about King among journalists and politicians, and even tried to persuade universities and other organizations to withdraw invitations to King to speak.
Sound familiar at all?
Despite the efforts of the FBI, King's influence and influence on the civil rights movement continued to grow. The true extent of the FBI campaign against him did not become known until after his assassination in 1968.
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