Posted on 12/17/2022 8:04:53 AM PST by Starman417
This is abominable.
The FBI used Twitter as its own subsidiary to control the narrative in the 2020 election. Matt Taibbi:
Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth.The FBI was searching for those who questioned election results - even jokes.
The FBI’s social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds. Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content.There's much here for conspiracy theorists vis-a-vis the 2020 election
The #TwitterFiles show something new: agencies like the FBI and DHS regularly sending social media content to Twitter through multiple entry points, pre-flagged for moderation.So who does the flagging?
An unanswered question: do agencies like FBI and DHS do in-house flagging work themselves, or farm it out? “You have to prove to me that inside the fucking government you can do any kind of massive data or AI search,” says one former intelligence officer.Taibbi suggests that there was a "master-canine" relationship between the FBI and Twitter in the way the FBI addresses Twitter
All four accounts were suspended.
Sarcasm on both sides fell into the FBI crosshairs
Then
"In an internal email from November 5, 2022, the FBI’s National Election Command Post, which compiles and sends on complaints, sent the SF field office a long list of accounts that “may warrant additional action”:"
Agent Elvis Chan dropped another recommendation
21.Many of the above accounts were satirical in nature, nearly all (with the exceptions of Baldwin and @RSBNetwork) were relatively low engagement, and some were suspended, most with a generic, “Thanks, Twitter” letter: pic.twitter.com/0S0XoqhwYD — Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
One of the accounts remarked
“I can't believe the FBI is policing jokes on Twitter. That's crazy,” said @Tiberius444But they were. And remember James Baker?
In a letter to former Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker on Sep. 16, 2022, legal exec Stacia Cardille outlines results from her “soon to be weekly” meeting with DHS, DOJ, FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The Twitter exec writes she explicitly asked if there were “impediments” to the sharing of classified information “with industry.” The answer? “FBI was adamant no impediments to sharing exist.”The FBI was running amuckThis passage underscores the unique one-big-happy-family vibe between Twitter and the FBI. With what other firm would the FBI blithely agree to “no impediments” to classified information?
At the bottom of that letter, she lists a series of “escalations” apparently raised at the meeting, which were already “handled.”
29.Another internal letter from January, 2021 shows Twitter execs processing an FBI list of “possible violative content” tweets: pic.twitter.com/Dwad3lGM4j — Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
The Russian interference nonsense became a premise to expand the surveillance state
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
The Ministry of Truth
We’ve reached a point where we take the corruption and ideological bias of the FBI as a given. This is unacceptable - we can’t have a politicized federal police force devoted to suppressing conservatives (or liberals, or any other political faction). Either the FBI gets fixed or, if that’s impossible, it should be disbanded. The GOP has been amazingly mute about the problem, in keeping with its time-honored tradition of ignoring problems and hoping they’ll go away.
The GOP is mute because the GOP leaders don’t think they have the mandate to move on this problem. They also are psychologically handicapped, fearing the left will again brand them fascists if they try to do anything to the FedGov behemoth.
Twitter Files: FBI Targeted Right Side Broadcasting Network for Censorship Ahead of Midterms
Worse than Orwell imagined...
Where’s Wrey?
Any Twitter accounts tracking his jet in real time?
Whoop de Doo. Wake me up when some of those swamp SOB’s go to prison. Other than that they’re STILL powerful and are sitting behind the most powerful desks in the nation. Not even the presidency comes close to them! They single-handedly took out, John F Kennedy, the murderer, Ruby, Nixon, and Trump, along with the majority of MAGA candidates across the nation. So let me know when those POS‘s do jail time other than that, don’t waste time reading and fretting over all the incriminating evidence coming out. It don’t mean diddly squat!
A fully fleshed out expose of the absolutely CORRUPT TO THE CORE alleged INTEL COMMUNITY! Grab a sandwich, beverage (and a BARF BAG and razor blade?) and read it. And share it!
“WE’RE IN TROUBLE” doesn’t begin to cover the mess we’re in!
https://tierneyrealnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/what-the-heck-is-really-going-on
No, it’s worse than that. GOP leaders are as corrupt as Dem leaders but Dem leaders get a pass from FBI/DOJ since they are same Party as FBI/DOJ but GOP leaders must fear exposure from FBI/DOJ. It’s political blackmail.
While Twitter was ideologically censoring by themselves they were then approached by the FBI to censor what the FBI wanted censored.The FBI also approached other platforms (Google, Reddit etc.) to do the same. But even if these platforms did not complain because they were in agreement, they really couldn’t buck the FBI even if they wanted to for fear of the potential consequences.
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