Posted on 12/16/2022 10:40:10 PM PST by JV3MRC
Twitter owner Elon Musk released another batch of Twitter files exposing the leftist Big Tech platform’s extensive collaboration with Big Government on its bloated censorship operations.
Independent journalist Matt Taibbi summarized the new files on Twitter: “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.” Specifically, Taibbi reported the existence of “over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth” between January 2020 and November 2022. Then came the damning part: “[A] surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.” Taibbi analyzed that the new files show something “new: agencies like the FBI and DHS regularly sending social media content to Twitter through multiple entry points, pre-flagged for moderation.”
George Orwell is rolling over in his grave.
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America’s KGB
They exist to protect the deep-state. Average Americans are viewed as a threat.
George Orwell had already been through something like this. But in the mind of today’s liberals, 1894 was all about the tyranny of limited government.
They’re moving Orwell novels to the non-fiction section.
Can people check to see if FBI flagged their account to twitter?
BBC, ABC Australia and other foreign media, including what I saw on Aljazeera, have been pushing the Elon bans journos story for 24 hours, but I haven’t heard any of them say/write a word about FBI revelations in today’s Twitter drop.
the following, which isn’t even a BBC news program, is the latest Twitter story showing up on a search of BBC.co.uk website (they haven’t included their Elon banning journos story in the search results as yet?). it’s worth noting the language, as their monitoring arm is virtually MI6.
ask yourself, what would a BBC audience learn from this garbage below about FBI/CIA/DOJ/DNI influence in social media?
3 days ago: BBC: Twitter Files spark debate about ‘blacklisting’
By Shayan Sardarizadeh & Rachel Schraer, BBC Monitoring & BBC Reality Check
The ongoing revelations contain internal chats of Twitter’s inner circle of senior executives about a series of controversial decisions: limiting the dissemination of the Hunter Biden laptop story, the permanent suspension of Donald Trump in the wake of the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot, and limiting the reach of some influential accounts.
Part two of the revelations, shared by US journalist Bari Weiss, who had been provided with screenshots by Twitter’s new head of safety Ella Irwin, reveals three influential conservative accounts in the US were put on different “blacklists”, meaning their tweets either wouldn’t trend, might not appear in search, or would not be “amplified”...
Ms Weiss said decisions were made “all in secret, without informing users”. Mr Musk went even further, saying the revelations proved “the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left”.
But it’s incredibly hard to verify whether this is giving us the whole picture.
We are missing the context of which other accounts have faced similar treatment, and whether the restricted accounts were in breach of other rules, for example inciting hate or spreading false claims about Covid that could cause harm.
Restricting accounts can be a useful tool if they are spreading harmful material...
One name on the Twitter files list that has drawn attention is Dr Jay Bhattacharya - a health policy professor at Stanford University - who vocally opposed coronavirus lockdowns, and whose tweets were reportedly prevented from trending.
He has been criticised, including by a judge in a US case about mask mandates in schools, who accused him of oversimplifying research studies, and by other scientists for proposing an alternative to lockdowns they said was unworkable and would lead to more deaths...
There have been various reports suggesting marginalised groups including trans and plus size people were more likely to have their accounts restricted...
Revealing internal conversations has sparked hate and backlash online directed at those caught up in this...
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63963779
As little as 5 weeks ago they were conspirators to ban users for memes.
A conspiracy to deny rights under color of law. That is a real crime kids.
No one here should be surprised to find out any of this. We’ve been talking about it for years now.
Trump was wrong to call it the swamp... It’s a cesspool.
I’m not. They meet our deepest and darkest suspicions with ease. Clearly we need to move our suspicion line more to the dark side.
The democrat party is nothing but a front for a Marxist takeover of America. Laws will be broken, the constitution will be thrown out and force will be used to finish the job.
We have people of very bad character running Washington now. If they investigate Twitter, are they also going to investigate FB and YouTube? No doubt it was happening on those platforms too.
Yeah, it seems I can’t type a single sentence anymore without a typo.
Wondering why I am still banned on Twitter...
Totally ignored by the mainstream media which deserves to be in jail along with the feds who colluded with twitter to violate individual rights.
No problem, I will be 75 later this month. Fully understand.
It is a shame we cannot edit after posting. But that opens up other problems.
I think it’s fine. I could have posted a correction, and in real life we have to live with what we do anyway. If only I could go back in time and re-edit a few things, though…
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