FBI Twitter account tweets link to files on 'Protocols of Elders of Zion'

 

August 28, 2020



(JTA) — An official FBI Twitter account drew criticism for tweeting a link to a 139-page selection of the bureau’s files on “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” the infamously anti-Semitic early 20th century text that accuses Jews of world domination.

The FBI Records Vault sent the tweet on Wednesday afternoon without context, and some Twitter users took it as a promotion of the message in the “Protocols.” However, the Twitter account regularly tweets declassified archival FBI documents.

“Earlier today FOIA materials were posted to the FBI’s Vault and FOIA Twitter account via an automated pr...



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