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The Twitter Files on Covid just dropped and HOO BOY were the "conspiracy theorists" right
Not The Bee ^ | Dec 26, 2022 | Harris Rigby

Posted on 12/26/2022 11:09:40 AM PST by Red Badger

[SEE ALL THE TWEET LINKS AT SITE....TOO MANY TO POST..............]

The Twitter files on the government's coordination with Twitter to silence experts and control the narrative around Covid just dropped and I just have to say, the "conspiracy theorists" are batting 1000.

It's not surprising that these things were happening.

Anyone who was paying attention KNEW that the government was pressuring Twitter to censor inconvenient facts if they contradicted the official state narrative.

David Zweig – a journalist who has written for The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Wired – documents the ways in which Twitter gave up its responsibility to free speech and caved to government pressure and used improper methods to censor legitimate and true speech.

Check it out:

It wasn't unique to the Biden administration to work with social media to control the public narrative, the state agencies under the Trump administration did the same thing.

The Trump administration worked to calm people who were panic buying and making runs on grocery stores. And this also shows that the government, to no one's surprise, was not just working with Twitter.

Then we have the Biden admin come in to really push the vaccines and squelch anyone who spoke out against the Fauci ouchie, and target #1 was Alex Berenson.

We've known for a few months that Twitter unfairly targeted Berenson and that the government was in on it. This just reveals that, in order to push the vax, the government was aiming specifically at him.

The report continues:

The Biden administration was so censorious that they thought Twitter, which was busy nuking accounts for sharing CDC data, wasn't doing ENOUGH to censor tweets.

TWITTER was more pro-free speech than the BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.

Let that sink in.

Of course, this doesn't mean Twitter was defending speech.

They reviewed and then suspended a Harvard medical expert, not because he was wrong, but because he disagreed with the CDC's jab recommendation.

In the same way MANY doctors and experts worldwide disagreed with indiscriminate vaccinations.

And this sort of thing happened over and over and over again.

The tweet was locked for citing CDC data to debunk a FALSE tweet that Twitter left up.

It wasn't about stopping misinformation.

It was about pushing an agenda.

They suspended this account from Twitter because they said something that was simply true.

But they have to control the narrative.

The mind rot on display here, from Twitter and the government, is beyond comprehension.

Lastly, check out how Twitter handled decisions relating to President Trump.

These folks at Twitter had been watching too much CNN, I guess.

I remember the mainstream media blowup when Trump, rightly, told people not to be dominated by Covid.

This was seen by some on the wacky Left as a dangerous message and the people in charge of Twitter bought into that same nonsense.

At the end of the thread, Zweig asks all the right questions:

What might have been if Twitter, and other social media companies, had allowed free speech to happen and didn't simply comply with the government's agenda-driven message?

Unfortunately, we'll never know.

The real question for the future is this: How do we stop it from happening again?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: bigtech; censorship; covid; covidlies; freespeech; internet; socialmedia; technotyranny; twitter
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To: Red Badger

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101 posted on 12/26/2022 1:38:50 PM PST by sauropod (2000 miles - Proof that Chrissie Hynde can sing the phone book and it sounds fantastic.)
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To: eyeamok

Bring out the nooses.


102 posted on 12/26/2022 1:38:56 PM PST by gitmo
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To: momincombatboots

I love Trump, but you’re right in that he should just say what happened. Trouble is, once someone starts apologizing (which would HAVE to include naming names for blame), he sounds pathetic, and it’s OVER There’s no good option for him now.


103 posted on 12/26/2022 1:40:52 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Rural_Michigan

Good ol’ Milton.


104 posted on 12/26/2022 1:42:17 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: fuzzylogic

On Friday, my PCP tried to talk me into getting a flu shot. She dropped the subject when she saw the look on my face.


105 posted on 12/26/2022 1:44:01 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“And Bill Gates owns your DNA.”

And that really pisses me off. Did NOT get any clot shot, but I was forced to get a Covid test prior to surgery in June 2020. What a subtle way to glean DNA from everyone.


106 posted on 12/26/2022 1:46:07 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: frnewsjunkie

“They believed fauci!!! and he is guilty of murder.”

And he was guilty of murder pre-Covid. All those orphans he used as guinea pigs... I believe they’re buried together according to some reports. People knew it. And they say he was killing people when working on HIV (with Pence in IN).


107 posted on 12/26/2022 1:48:56 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: nwrep

or because he is ineligible for a third term,

we get scorched earth.

I think it is obv esp with the promised pardons that never came that deep state was holding a second term over his head.


108 posted on 12/26/2022 1:51:26 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Red Badger

bttt


109 posted on 12/26/2022 1:55:10 PM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Sontable.cialist America.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I feel like that’s imminent. He’s already defaulted on all of his leases and talks incessantly about twitter going bankrupt.


110 posted on 12/26/2022 2:04:38 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: drSteve78

I am pro-inoculation. I am anti-vax. There is a difference. It’s the delivery method mechanisms with vaccines I have a problem with.


111 posted on 12/26/2022 2:04:43 PM PST by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: packagingguy
Those would likely be commie trolls, even if they look like real users.

Twitter and other social media have been manipulated to shape public opinion, not to measure it.

112 posted on 12/26/2022 2:05:58 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: All

Here’s the running list for all the Twitter files dumps so far. This is easy to copy and paste with al the links visible. Archive offline.

🆕 Twitter Files Part 11 - Zweig
HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE
Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607378386338340867
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1607378386338340867.html
PDF: https://anonfiles.com/9cYb95O4ye/TWITTER_FILES_PART_11_pdf

Twitter Files Part 10 - Taibbi
TWITTER AND “OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES”
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701397109796866
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1606701397109796866.html
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/dywzlt.pdf

Twitter Files Part 9 - O’Handley
State Governments caught censoring “election misinformation” using Twitter Partner Portal
☠ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1605317665387577345
☠ Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605317665387577345.html
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/5dn9gi.pdf

Twitter Files Part 8 - Fang
How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1605292454261182464
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605292454261182464.html
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/b8vu8y.pdf

Twitter Files Part 7 - Shellenberger
The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604871630613753856
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1604871630613753856.html
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/qj5hoe.pdf

Twitter Files Supplemental - Taibbi
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1604613296732397568
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1604613292491538432.html
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/u8lycw.pdf

Twitter Files Part 6 - Taibbi
TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857534737072128
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1603857534737072128.html
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/605tn1.pdf

Twitter Files Part 5 - Weiss
THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM TWITTER
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602364197194432515.html
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/w0liwz.pdf

Twitter Files Part 4 - Shellenberger
The Removal of Donald Trump
Part 2: January 7
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1601720455005511680
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601720455005511680.html
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/j3wppb.pdf

Twitter Files Part 3 - Taibbi
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601352083617505281.html
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/moz1v5.pdf

Twitter Files Part 2 - Weiss
TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601007575633305600.html
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/q56yue.pdf

Twitter Files Part 1 - Taibbi
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598822959866683394.html
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/ennefl.pdf


113 posted on 12/26/2022 2:13:17 PM PST by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: grey_whiskers

Thx for the ping.


114 posted on 12/26/2022 2:18:07 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: Pollard

Yeah. It’s “a thing.”

All the truly outlandish Flat Earth, 5G, chem trails nut bar chatter has been used to dilute and discredit emergent discoveries about the mRNA shots. Pro mRNA evangelists have used these truly lunatic ideas like a f’n anvil to beat the actual truth out of vax hesitancy, out of vax injury, out of vax inefficacy, and other actually serious topics revolving around COVID and treatments for it.

I’ve bludgeoned people verbally for condemning mRNA and 5G in the same breath, making the point that any invalidity on the one topic will serve to damn the other, but it does little or no good. Such raving, witless, bubble-brained lickspittles MUST, as a matter of psychological necessity, lump all their to-be-reviled evils together into a single wad of (so they think) mutually reinforcing sins. The supposition, here, is that the whole lot is more easily carted off to Hell as a single load.

Never calculated is the real probability that their crock of allegedly mutual bogeymen contains one or more that hail not from Hell, but from that fertile field of fiction: overnight AM talk radio, where topics as variant as chem trails, chemotherapy, and Chupacabra meld into an indifferentiable tapestry of bug-eyed paranoia.

Keeping topics separate as a matter of rendering them immune from any criticisms of which their peers may be susceptible is a too-foreign notion on the political right, a truly critical chink in our political armor; like an innocuous thermal exhaust port running straight through all the multiple layers of our defenses straight to our Main Reactor.

What could POSSIBLY go wrong?


115 posted on 12/26/2022 2:25:19 PM PST by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: HKMk23

I’ve never bought into the 5G stuff enough to even look into it but now that I know fedgov has tried to censor people about it, I might have to.

I don’t expect to find much nefariousness that I’ll think is valid though. I am suspicious about why fedgov is so hell bent on getting every single person on high speed internet, including 5G at some point. My DSL through the phone company is working fine for me. I did a zoom type meeting not too long ago and can stream all the free streaming services.


116 posted on 12/26/2022 2:37:14 PM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: TalBlack

“I’m developing a real contempt for people who think we’re going to vote our way out of this.”

Point proven by the 18 [likely many more were in sympathy] GOPee Senators voting for another porkulus Bill the other day.


117 posted on 12/26/2022 2:43:34 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Red Badger

The real question for the future is this: How do we stop it from happening again?

Unless there is a price to pay, it will most definitely happen again.


118 posted on 12/26/2022 2:55:57 PM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: Red Badger

Fauci said that working with Trump as opposed to working with Biden was like working with mendacity as opposed to simple honesty. I’m certain that he preferred the mendacious Biden, because he matched his own character.


119 posted on 12/26/2022 3:04:15 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: Qiviut

You’re over the target :-)

Hitting a nerve!


120 posted on 12/26/2022 3:23:30 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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