Posted on 11/30/2022 1:25:39 PM PST by Red Badger
Elon Musk continues to dish dirt on Twitter, and on Wednesday he confirmed something many have been saying for years. Namely, the social media company has been purposely interfering in elections, attempting to push a specific outcome.
If you were following politics way back in early 2021, you may remember a story that broke (click here to read my write-up on it) describing a “secret cabal” that colluded to rig the outcome of the 2020 election. Here’s how TIME described it.
The key phrase there in regard to Twitter is the attempt to “steer media coverage and control the flow of information.” That’s exactly what was happening until Musk’s takeover, and he seems keen to expose everything the old regime did.
There are more examples of Twitter putting its thumb on the scale than one can reasonably keep track of. Obviously, its policy against COVID-19 “misinformation” was a big source of bias until Musk put a stop to it recently. Still, nothing touches what social media companies did with the Hunter Biden story. Even today, it’s astounding to think back to just how far they went to suppress what was obviously true information in order to benefit Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
What was even the thinking back then as far as justification goes? That all the crazy pictures of Hunter Biden were photoshopped? That the trove of emails containing lots of evidence of corruption were all faked? That the computer shop that had the laptop and Hunter Biden’s signature on an intake form was actually part of some vast rightwing conspiracy? You didn’t even need a deep forensic study to know the laptop was real, yet it was treated as Russian “disinformation” by Twitter and the wider information sphere anyway.
In the end, Donald Trump lost by just tens of thousands of votes in three states. What would have happened if there was actually a week-long onslaught in the media over the laptop instead of the story being suppressed? We’ll never know for sure, but for my money, that entire ordeal was the clearest evidence of the cycle that the election was “rigged.” If you can control the flow of information, you can control enough votes on the margins to reach a preferred outcome.
Musk is hated because he’s finally starting to break that monopoly. Twitter has been counted on for well over a decade to censor its content in order to benefit Democrats. Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok may be bigger sites in terms of total use, but Twitter owns the political realm (outside of grannies sharing memes). The left has lost one of its biggest tools in the information wars, and it’s not going to go quietly. That’s why you are seeing advertiser boycotts and suggestions by Apple that it could remove Twitter from its app store. The battle is really just beginning.
That worm can turn. Imagine a Congressional hearing into Apple's material assistance to the CCP in cracking down on dissidents. Unlike bogus Russia dossiers, there is plenty of 'there' there.
He says it out loud...
We used to call this an “Illegal In Kind Political Contribution” and it had serious fines and Jail sentences attached
Maybe 10 years too late.
And then people got filmed boasting of personal knowledge of candidate Clinton and DNC actively colluding with different PACs ... crickets.
Good point.
Twitter became another libtard coverup media outlet just like the others
Jack Pesobic is reporting 9minutes ago that Elon Musk and Tim Cook are meeting as we type this post! Well, it was nice while it lasted but I think Elon Musk is going to cave! All his promises of releasing all the damaging info on everybody and everything was just smoke and mirrors. Tim Cook will put a stop to it! The raging bull is about to be neutered by Tim Cook!
Who the heck is Tim Cook?
Bump
What people don’t know is that thousands of leftists in the so-called “mainstream media” read and tracked tweets to write fake news stories and suppress the truth.
Every major media outlet had writers and researchers signed into Twitter accounts.
With Musk taking over Twitter, the left-wing media has lost a major source to create fake news. This is a huge defeat for the New York/DC propaganda machine.
The apple dude! Musk was summonsed to Apple’s headquarter for a conference with Tim Cook!
Tim Cook?
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CEO AAPL
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The Media-Dem Party doesn’t want “even-handed” anything, they want it their own way, period.
Musk is financially independent of the cabal so they can’t grease the skids with him.
Lets hope he keeps unveiling the inner workings , including regardless of party any connections to the interference....
Musk is making too many enemies.
this is going to consume a lot of musk’s extensive bandwidth.
Musk knows to refuse a meeting will give the MSM fodder for untruths.
Just like any negotiations, sitting down to hear the other side doesn’t obligate you to a solution.
The key is how much does Apple need Twitter, as I’m sure Musk did the pre purchase due diligence to determine how much lost revenue he can withstand if companies like Apple don’t support the platform...
The MSM lives in a world thats never held to account so they can theorize on anything and more times than not have no consequence.
A faggot who can’t come up with an original product vs Elon Musk. Founder of Paypal, Space X and Tesla.
The faggot loses. He is where he is because of Steve Jobs.
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