FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Elvis Chan, one of the central figures in the federal government’s censorship of conservative voices during the 2020 presidential election, has reportedly been placed on terminal leave.
The development was first reported by independent journalist Breanna Morello.
Chan, who served as the FBI’s key liaison between the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and Big Tech companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google, was instrumental in a government-led censorship campaign to silence conservative voices and suppress damaging information about Hunter Biden in the lead-up to the election.
Morello, citing sources familiar with Chan’s situation, reports that the longtime San Francisco-based agent has not accessed any of his government devices for over a month.
Chan still lists himself as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge on his LinkedIn page, which includes preferred pronouns — “he/him.”
EXCLUSIVE
FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Elvis Chan has been placed on “terminal leave” and has not accessed his agency devices for over a month, sources confirm.
Chan served as the main censorship liaison between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and social… pic.twitter.com/2no8aktzf2
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) May 1, 2025
The House Judiciary Committee filed a lawsuit against FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Elvis Chan last year for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena tied to the 2020 election censorship scandal.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, lays out damning allegations: that Chan, acting as the FBI’s liaison with Big Tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter, played a central role in the federal government’s backdoor scheme to censor Americans online before the 2020 presidential election.
Despite being subpoenaed by Congress to testify, Chan—under orders from Biden’s Department of Justice—refused to appear. Why? Because Congress wouldn’t allow DOJ lawyers to sit in and monitor the interview. Yes, the DOJ wants to babysit its agents during congressional investigations, undermining the House’s constitutional oversight authority.
According to the complaint, Chan was a “pivotal figure” passing information from the FBI to social media companies in the months leading up to the election—information that often led to the silencing of viewpoints inconvenient to the ruling regime.
According to Morello, Chan also testified in the landmark case Missouri v. Biden—a case in which I, Jim Hoft, am a plaintiff—where he conveniently claimed to have “no internal knowledge” of the FBI’s role in pressuring tech companies to censor the explosive Hunter Biden laptop story.
The landmark case — Missouri v. Biden — centers on explosive evidence showing the Biden administration’s coordinated campaign to pressure Big Tech platforms into censoring dissenting voices.
I, Jim Hoft, was singled out in the ruling for my aggressive reporting on election integrity, election fraud, COVID-19, and government overreach.
The court noted that Gateway Pundit was deplatformed from Twitter in a series of suspensions throughout January and February 2021, culminating in a permanent ban after publishing surveillance footage from Detroit on Election Night 2020. The footage showed suspicious delivery vans arriving at a vote-counting center in the early hours.
The report also documented that YouTube removed Gateway Pundit content related to voter integrity and that Facebook repeatedly censored its posts about COVID-19 and the 2020 election, using warning labels and algorithmic throttling to suppress reach.
“The Gateway Pundit’s Twitter account previously had over 400,000 followers,” the court ruling states. “Facebook had over 650,000, Instagram over 200,000, and YouTube over 98,000.”
The court found that the Biden administration, in coordination with federal agencies and social media giants, repeatedly suppressed views related to:
- The Hunter Biden laptop scandal
- COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccine skepticism
- Mask mandates
- The 2020 election’s integrity
- Parody content targeting the administration
I was joined in the lawsuit by medical experts like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, and Dr. Aaron Kheriaty — all of whom faced similar censorship for expressing dissent from federal COVID policies.
The Gateway Pundit has reached out to the FBI for comment.
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