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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

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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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1 posted on 12/26/2022 11:09:40 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

2 posted on 12/26/2022 11:11:55 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

They will never admit guilt.......................


3 posted on 12/26/2022 11:13:45 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

If you have been jabbed even once (as i have been), You Are GMO, just like ergot resistant corn.


4 posted on 12/26/2022 11:17:28 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL )
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https://notthebee.com/article/the-twitter-files-on-covid-just-dropped-and-hoooo-boy-were-we-conspiracy-theorists-right


5 posted on 12/26/2022 11:17:31 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Red Badger
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

Reassuring the public to avoid shortages and panic is one thing. Stifling speech is quite another thing. Tired of the "Trump did it too" stuff in these articles, he never tried to stifle speech and if he had Big Tech would have refused.

6 posted on 12/26/2022 11:17:36 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: MtnClimber

Go to Twitter and read replies. There are FAR too many people who either don’t care about the First Amendment or think it’s outdated.


7 posted on 12/26/2022 11:18:00 AM PST by packagingguy
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I am not anti-vaccines. Covid jabs are something, But they are Not vaccines.


8 posted on 12/26/2022 11:19:12 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL )
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To: Red Badger

And still pushing the same nonsense.

And Fauci gets the highest paying pension in the history of the government and, for some odd reason, is allowed to get paid for patents on thing she worked on, while a government employee, using government resources.

Not sure how that’s allowed.


9 posted on 12/26/2022 11:20:28 AM PST by qaz123
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Yawn. Nothing will ever happen to these people.


10 posted on 12/26/2022 11:20:36 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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11 posted on 12/26/2022 11:21:11 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: packagingguy

and read replies

Because, truly sadly, many people are just sheeple, and more than a few are vile sumbitches while you’re at it.


12 posted on 12/26/2022 11:21:25 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL )
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To: pepsi_junkie

Nor did he ever push to force anything on anyone.

And to think, of his two main advisers during it all, Birx and Fauci, Birx admits to lying to him and that they were making it up as they went along.


13 posted on 12/26/2022 11:22:10 AM PST by qaz123
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> They will never admit guilt...

"Guilt"? GUILT?? Hell, they'll never even admit that the true facts were the true facts! They will maintain their lies forever.

"Guilt" as it applies to them doesn't even exist in their vocabulary.

14 posted on 12/26/2022 11:22:52 AM PST by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords - Arthur Pendragon 2024)
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To: Red Badger

Virtually everything in “The News” is a fake narrative promulgated by the Deep State Uniparty to control you and enrich them.


15 posted on 12/26/2022 11:23:27 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Elites are Destroying Western Civilization to Enslave You.)
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To: packagingguy

And a sizable portion of those folks replying have a rainbow or Ukraine flag on there.

If a person want in favor of a national divorce, about 10 minutes on Twitter should be able to change your mind.


16 posted on 12/26/2022 11:23:39 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Uncle Miltie

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17 posted on 12/26/2022 11:24:21 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("The News” is a fake narrative promulgated by the Deep State Uniparty to control you and enrich them)
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To: Red Badger

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

Tyrants don’t stop until they’re dead..


18 posted on 12/26/2022 11:24:47 AM PST by delchiante
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“Birx admits to lying to him”

Not just that. She was PROUD to be complicit in sabotaging him. And she confessed.


19 posted on 12/26/2022 11:25:44 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: dayglored

Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin.


20 posted on 12/26/2022 11:25:51 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("The News” is a fake narrative promulgated by the Deep State Uniparty to control you and enrich them)
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