Posted on 11/30/2023 7:16:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, two honest men who worked on the Twitter Files, exposing how the government collaborated with Twitter to affect the 2020 election, testified before the House today. What they said should terrify you. Beginning in January 2017, under then-president Obama’s direction, the government instituted a social media manipulation system intended to game the 2020 election through censorship and controlled information (which, to my mind, amounts to misinformation). It was unconstitutional, but it worked.
And now, using the vehicle of the corrupt criminal action against Trump, the government is bypassing manipulating information and is planning to target ordinary Americans.
I’ll keep this post simple. First, here is the opening statement from Michael Shellenberger. I’ve appended a transcript of his testimony to the end of this post.
Second, here are highlights from Matt Taibbi’s and Michael Shellenberger’s testimony. The tweet itself includes some transcribed material:
Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testify about the most shocking things they found in the Twitter Files including former FBI officials working with the Aspen Institute, corporate media, and social media to pre-bunk the Hunter Biden laptop story.
.@mtaibbi: "The most alarming thing we saw was the regular organized stream of communication between the FBI, DHS, and the largest tech companies. They had an organized system for flagging content, not occasionally, but in enormous numbers involving spreadsheets of accounts that ran into the hundreds of thousands."@shellenberger : "For me, it was seeing the so-called former FBI officials within Twitter working with a variety of groups including the Aspen Institute to pre-bunk the Hunter Biden laptop story before it was ever published in the New York Post, and then to get it censored by Twitter,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Third, now that you know how the government, acting under Obama’s instructions, manipulated social media to destroy Donald Trump’s president and game the 2020 election, you need to know that, in 2024, the Deep State will have upped its game. This time around, the Deep Staters aren’t just doing a global campaign to control the flow of information on social media. Instead, using discovery in the federal criminal litigation against Donald Trump, Jack Smith has gathered information for their use that’s specifically about you.
The Last Refuge (aka, for us oldsters, The Conservative Treehouse) writes that Jack Smith’s request for a list of all Twitter users who followed Trump’s account or liked and/or retweeted his tweets is much more sinister than it sounds. It’s bad enough that, with its persecution…er, prosecution of Trump, the government is hunting down the names of anyone who likes Trump or his ideas. But buried within Jack Smith’s warrant demand, which the court granted, Smith asked for “all associated logs and metadata.” Sundance explains
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The Matt Taibbi and Wlater Kirn podcast is currently one of my favorite podcasts.
Started with Oliver Cromwell to be fair.
I followed Trump on twitter, liked and retweeted dozens of his tweets, voted for him twice and donated more to his campaigns than all other political donations I've ever made in my life.
(the actual figure wouldn't impress a SanFran street bum but it was the best I could do)
... within Jack Smith’s warrant demand, which the court granted, Smith asked for “all associated logs and metadata.”
Fine by me, Jack! I'm not trying to hide from anybody.
Link please.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/america-this-week/id1640531112
You can listen to the somewhat abbreviated version for free.
We, John Q. and Jane Q. Public were telling you that, back then, but I guess it all was too incredulous, to have the President perform actions only read about in fiction gfuture times thrillers.
And Bush and his rino GOP HELPED TO GET IT THERE
“And Bush and his rino GOP HELPED TO GET IT THERE”
Yep, Started on 9/11. And we patriots embraced it to make sure there were no terrorists under every bed or in our underwear drawers.
We were warned, and no one would listen. We gladly handed away our freedom and privacy for safety.
Given time, Obama will go down in history as our very worst President. He is not only un-American, but IMHO is anti-American.
dead to rights on election tampering.
any charges?
no.
this is the problem.
this is an attempt at voter intimidation.
that's a detail the vast majority of the country is unaware of. it's also something that would piss people off.
I used to have a program that imformed me of the origin of cookie requests. At that time I could deny those requests one at a time.
I have a screenshot somewhere of Obama’s campaign trying to put tracking cookies on my computer while I was on Free Republic. At that point, Big Brother was watching. At this point Big Brother has all our names. IMO The J6 prisoners were just the beginning.
This was how Barry Hussein Soetoro aka Obama planned on fundamentally change America.
Posts like these confirm my 2016 decision to stop voting in congressional elections.
While democrats eagerly sell us out, congressional pubbies quietly do the same.
It certainly doesn’t make me happy but it doesn’t intimidate me a bit.
It only hardens my resolve which was already adamantine.
oh, i didn’t say it was a good tactic to intimidate voters.
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