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THE TRUMP FILES: Musk Exposes Twitter’s Decision to Ban Former President from Twitter
NewsBusters ^ | 12/9/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 12/09/2022 4:33:59 PM PST by JV3MRC

Twitter owner Elon Musk released yet another batch of documents revealing the sordid decision-making process by former executives over banning former President Donald Trump from the platform.

Journalist Matt Taibbi, who reported on the new batch Dec. 9, said the documents reveal an “erosion of standards within the company in months before [the Capitol Hill riot], decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies.” The most damning part was revealed when Taibbi noted that the “intellectual framework” behind banning Trump “was laid in the months preceding the Capitol riots.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bloggers; blogpimp; capitolhillriot; donaldtrump; elonmusk; nocapitolhillriot; twitter
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1 posted on 12/09/2022 4:33:59 PM PST by JV3MRC
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No doubt feds involved in this decision.


2 posted on 12/09/2022 4:35:37 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: JV3MRC

I would like to know if the FBI or other agencies tipped off their Twitter colleagues about what was going to happen on 1/6/21.


3 posted on 12/09/2022 4:36:50 PM PST by Jim Noble (I feel my heart beat faster any place in the neighborhood of the Astor)
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To: Gene Eric

Baker erased the FBI info.


4 posted on 12/09/2022 4:40:20 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: Gene Eric

All this getting Trump banned planning part of the pre-planning for January 6th which of course was a pre-planned event in and of itself.


5 posted on 12/09/2022 4:42:32 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Fido969

Baker erased the FBI info.

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Maybe attempted, but not erased unless he has some kind of authority to destroy backup file, which I doubt. Whatever he may have done won’t stop the info from coming out. Musk will see to it.


6 posted on 12/09/2022 4:47:45 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Fido969
Would love to see Musk sue the CR*P out of James Baker. I would think Musk has grounds for a massive lawsuit against former Twitter Execs, as well as those 'injured' by Twitter's LIES (to include TO CONGRESS under Oath), MISREPRESENTATIONS, DECEPTION, OBSTRUCTION, SUPPRESSION, you name it.

A Trump lawsuit against Twitter could be epic, IF a judge would accept it. No wonder Meritless Garbage is trying to lock him up.

7 posted on 12/09/2022 4:47:51 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Starboard

If Baker didn’t have the authority to destroy backup files, I AM SURE DORSEY & CO. GAVE IT TO HIM.


8 posted on 12/09/2022 4:49:17 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Dorsey resigned from Twitter over a year ago.


9 posted on 12/09/2022 4:53:13 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Fido969
Baker erased the FBI info. Nothing is ever truly erased. In most cases data is marked deleted but still exists. If it was really deleted there are very likely offsite backups that still have the data.
10 posted on 12/09/2022 4:55:11 PM PST by alephnull (Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a cult of death.)
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To: Starboard

“authority”? It’s miserable crooked FBI. Those goons have the authority to do anything they damn well please.


11 posted on 12/09/2022 4:55:35 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Nextrush

All part of the greater FedSurrection Plot.


12 posted on 12/09/2022 4:57:23 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: JV3MRC

Go, Musk, and screw you brainwashed leftists, especially on FR, trying to drag him down.


13 posted on 12/09/2022 5:01:10 PM PST by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: sergeantdave
The list of Anti-Musk FReepers grows shorter with each Twitter file drop..

There are the anti-trans-humanists (anti-Neurolink) which makes sense but his mission to restore free speech on a major platform is a noble cause.

14 posted on 12/09/2022 5:08:42 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

In one of the Slack screenshots, Yoel Roth talked with his staff about using “generic” meeting labels, on the weekly meetings he was having with FBI/DHS/DNI to censor conservatives in the lead up to 2020 election.....

Also showed several examples where they banned Trump tweets questioning mail in ballot issues. But when Eric Holder did the same thing, Roth said remove the censorship label....

Another Trump tweet about 50,000 ballot issues (in OH I think), staff wanted to ban him. Roth goggled, and found out what Trump said was true, so reversed the staff.

Document shows in the end, they banned Trump from twitter for no specific policy violation, but for the “accumlated 4 years of the tone of his tweets”...

One tweet they banned... the content of the tweet was accurate twitter said, but they banned it because they speculated on the intent of “why” the person tweeted it... (I know sounds like some future dystopian movie)...

Lots more by Matt Tialibbe tonight...


15 posted on 12/09/2022 5:15:47 PM PST by gswilder
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To: Jim Noble

“I would like to know if the FBI or other agencies tipped off their Twitter colleagues about what was going to happen on 1/6/21.”

Maybe. Taibbi’s thread is definitely worth following:

@mtaibbi


16 posted on 12/09/2022 5:43:09 PM PST by Pelham (World War III will be fought with nuclear weapons. World War IV will be fought with rocks & sticks.)
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To: sergeantdave
“Go, Musk, and screw you brainwashed leftists, especially on FR, trying to drag him down.”

+1

Prerry much the same retards pushing the “vaccines” and “COVID” fraud.

17 posted on 12/09/2022 6:12:57 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: JV3MRC

Where is Bill Bar and how does he explain the FBI meeting with Twitter, BEHIND BAR’s BACK before 2020 election????

Remember what Bar said, Trump election fraud claims we’re bull$hit according to F’n Bar!!!

Bill Bar, where are you now????

A$$hole!


18 posted on 12/09/2022 6:14:56 PM PST by pacificus
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To: Sicon
Prerry = pretty

Amazing how often spell check “corrects” things incorrectly, and fails to correct ACTUAL mistakes!

19 posted on 12/09/2022 6:15:01 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

A Trump lawsuit against Twitter could be epic....
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And FascistBook, Google, Apple, Youtube, Instagram...and that’s just for a start.

It sure would be interesting to know exactly what the terms of sale where when Musk bought Twitter. One assumes all kinds of liabilities when purchasing a business.... but I suspect that undisclosed liabilities will go back to the original shareholders, no? Hopefully someone who knows a lot more than me will weigh in on this....


20 posted on 12/09/2022 6:33:25 PM PST by hecticskeptic (The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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