Posted on 02/20/2023 8:00:39 AM PST by Twotone
US Sen. Angus King compiled an “enemies list” of Twitter users that resembles something the late President Richard Nixon would have dreamed up if he “sniffed glue,” according to the latest installment of the “Twitter Files.”
In a series of Saturday tweets, independent journalist Matt Taibbi revealed that King’s campaign director spoke to a Twitter exec on Oct. 1, 2018, to complain about the activities of hundreds of users.
An internal company email — titled “Suspicious Accounts from Senator Angus King” — said the campaign official also “provided a very large list (attached) of 354 suspicious Twitter accounts they have identified.”
The reasons for citing the accounts included “Rand Paul visit excitement,” “Bot (averages 20 tweets a day” and “Being followed by rival Eric Brakey,” Taibbi said.
“Or, my personal favorite: ‘Mentions immigration,'” he wrote.
Taibbi also tweeted: “If Dick Nixon sniffed glue, this is what his enemies list might have looked like.”
Taibbi — who titled Saturday’s installment “TWITTER FILES #16 — Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment” — complained that previous “newsworthy revelations produced exactly zilch in mainstream news coverage in the last two months.”
The former Rolling Stone writer also compared that to last week’s House Oversight Committee hearing at which a former member of Twitter’s content moderation team testified that the White House asked the company to delete a 2019 tweet in which model Chrissy Teigen called then-President Donald Trump a “p—y ass b—h.”
“The press went bananas. Now THAT was big news!” Taibbi wrote. “If a president freaking out about one tweeter is news, surely a U.S. Senator finking on three hundred-plus of his constituents also must be?”
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The Anus King.
How fitting.
Dems trying to force the indie out so they can have a real majority
lol.
isnt trust in legacy media in single digits?
cant imagine why
Anus King is a butthole.
What part of the steer is the Angus?
Seems like the adult thing to do would be to let Nixon and Watergate go. After all, he has been dead for almost 30 years now!
I’ll wait to see if they ever give up on their slander of Sen. Joseph McCarthy first.
Then there might be some hope for Nixon.
“ What part of the steer is the Angus?”
The part(s) that was removed to make the steer.
Pretty apt description, IMHO.
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