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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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To: dfwgator

Never be charged, never go to court (criminal/civil), never go to jail.


41 posted on 12/26/2022 11:43:51 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Cold Heart

Cogito Ergot Sum

I think Ergot, therefore I am Ergot.


42 posted on 12/26/2022 11:44:38 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: pepsi_junkie

You’re right!
Exactly!


43 posted on 12/26/2022 11:46:58 AM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Red Badger

For later.

L


44 posted on 12/26/2022 11:49:37 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: TalBlack

Just reply to them:

Communism - You vote your way in, but you have to shoot your way out..................


45 posted on 12/26/2022 11:50:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: drSteve78

For many people, that is a distinction without a difference.


46 posted on 12/26/2022 11:51:01 AM PST by lee martell
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To: BipolarBob

Has she considered suing her employer? After all, they made her get the jabs.


47 posted on 12/26/2022 11:51:03 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: nwrep
But of course, Trump has learned all the right lessons and the second time around will not repeat the same mistakes because of his well-known penchant for reflection, introspection, and course correction.

Heh-heh. Nice to see that some people around here get it.

48 posted on 12/26/2022 11:55:22 AM PST by DSH
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To: Red Badger

Nah! New term coming soon: “muskinformation”! Bets? 😲😂😂👍 Any twitter revelations henceforth will be considered unverifiable.


49 posted on 12/26/2022 11:56:16 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: drSteve78

We remain NON GMO at our locale. 😲🚫💉👎


50 posted on 12/26/2022 11:57:30 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ConjunctionJunction

The US gibmint has immunity.


51 posted on 12/26/2022 11:59:14 AM PST by BipolarBob (The party never stops until someone calls the cops.)
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To: rktman

From what I have seen, teh MSM, ABCNNBCBSFOX, is not covering teh ‘Twitter Files’ at all.

So 85% of the population is totally unaware of their existence................


52 posted on 12/26/2022 11:59:24 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: moovova
"Never be charged, never go to court, never go to jail."

Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem.

53 posted on 12/26/2022 12:01:00 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: DavidThomas
Vaccine has a medical definition. The Covid shot dose not fit....at all!

"vaccines are made from the virus itself, either weakened or killed, which will induce antibodies to bind and kill a live virus. Measles vaccines are just that, weakened (or attenuated) measles viruses. —Ann Finkbeiner et al."

The Covid shot DOES NOT FIT!

Unfortunately, most of the internet searches have been updated to ignore this medical definition and replaced it with a political definition.

54 posted on 12/26/2022 12:03:31 PM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: DavidThomas

Really? How long have you been on FR? This topic has been beaten to death. We are all entitled to our own opinions but not our own facts. The claim is currently that the mRNA injections don’t prevent illness or transmission therefore they are not a Vax. The government and manufacturers seem to believe they reduce serious illness yet no clinical trial has been performed to measure that. The EUA was based on preventing illness. They do not even with the now recommended up to 6 doses.


55 posted on 12/26/2022 12:04:27 PM PST by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m sure it’s not just the social media sites that censor information based upon the directions of government officials. Take for instance the WSJ. It has been touting the financial “successes” of the Biden administration for the past two years.

Today, they have an article titled “Wall Street and Fed Flopped in Trying to Predict 2022”. Of course they flopped in their predictions. They were making predictions based upon the faulty information they were pushing that the economy was doing great and a million jobs had been created this past year. The truth was that there was only about 10,000 jobs created during that time period. WSJ and other financial information news sites participated in publishing articles backing up the Biden’s administration fallacy that the economy is doing great. Best economy in history! I suspect the articles they have been writing were sent to the Biden handlers for edits and approval prior to publication.


56 posted on 12/26/2022 12:04:32 PM PST by CFW
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To: packagingguy
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.

Or they are nothing but bots and shills, designed to give people the false impression that there is a lot of support for the Left and their lies. Remember, Musk is STILL cleaning out bots from Twitter.
57 posted on 12/26/2022 12:06:29 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: steve86

Perfect.


58 posted on 12/26/2022 12:06:56 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Why would anyone want to be Ergot?


59 posted on 12/26/2022 12:08:39 PM PST by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: drSteve78

Elon tweeted this morning that there’s MUCH more coming this week with names, etc., re the covid scam


60 posted on 12/26/2022 12:10:46 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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