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Elon Musk Releases Twitter Files Exposing Secret Blacklists
Epoch Times ^
| December 8, 2022
| By Caden Pearson
Posted on 12/09/2022 5:22:56 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: unixfox
Yes, that way they can answer ‘No’ when asked if they ‘shadow ban’ people.................
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posted on
12/09/2022 6:41:05 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
It wasn’t a shadow ban. It was an umbra interdiction. Completely different.
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posted on
12/09/2022 6:41:11 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Soon the January 6 protesters will be held (without trial or bail) longer than Jefferson Davis was.)
To: Red Badger
The latest release of information behind the controversial “Twitter Files”, comes from Bari Weiss complete with the strategic promotion of a new website [The Free Press] launching via the booster provided by their access to the internal Twitter documents.
Curiously intelligent people will note the Weiss website is structured to support the 2024 presidential bid of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is, not coincidentally, riding atop a multi-staged booster guided by Elon Musk and fueled by Wall Street billionaires.
For the moment, just note and I digress – but please do not miss the connections.
As noted by the former New York Times journalist, Ms. Weiss states,
“...the [website] authors have broad and expanding access to Twitter’s files. The only condition we agreed to was that the material would first be published on Twitter.”
You can read the entire Twitter Thread Here, and with that, we look at what the current narrative consists of.
Overall, the story as released walks through the process that Twitter used to control users and as a consequence control the flow of information on the platform. Accounts were subject to restrictions, manipulations and other inorganic engagement controls depending on the ideology of the content being provided.
Twitter had teams set up to attach limiting flags within the Twitter platform that would essentially hide content the platform control officers did not want to see reaching a wider audience.
As noted by Twitter employees Weiss writes,
“...we control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter engineer told us. Two additional Twitter employees confirmed.”
What I find interesting is in segment/tweet #12 where Ms. Weiss reveals the existence of the top tier of Twitter control officers.
“The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team – Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 “cases” a day.”
I find it curious that Ms Bari Weiss mentioned several names in her expose’ yet failed to mention the name or curriculum vitae of the head for the Strategic Response Team, a fellow named Jeff Carlton.
Like former CIA head Mike Pompeo, Mr Jeff Carlton was a former U.S. Naval Intelligence Officer responsible for briefing White House officials where his responsibilities included his former work within the FBI counterintelligence division and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Apparently, these intelligence skillsets transferred nicely to his position as the head of Twitter’s Strategic Response Team.
[Source]
You can decide why Ms. Weiss failed to identify this intelligence operative, again – I digress. However, all of these revelations only align in one direction.
In the background of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop (aka Twitter), was a system set up by the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security.
Controlling information, and ultimately shaping public opinion, was/is the primary responsibility of this internal Twitter network that was/is operating in a public-private partnership with the United States Government.
I have yet to see a single data point from any release that runs counter to the basic outline, in the background of Twitter you find DHS.
Twitter is simply a discovery vector to reveal the larger dynamic of DHS being in control of social media. That was the DHS/ODNI problem James Baker was trying to mitigate by his filtration of the released documents. The “Twitter files” are one tentacled element in a much larger story.
To put it in brutally honest terms, The United States Dept of Homeland Security is the operating system running in the background of Twitter.
You can debate whether Elon Musk honestly didn’t know all this before purchasing Twitter from his good friend Jack Dorsey, and/or what the scenario of owner/operator motive actually is. Decide for yourself.
For me, I feel confident that all of the conflicting and odd datapoints only reconcile in one direction. DHS, via CISA, controls Twitter.
Wittingly or unwittingly (you decide) Elon Musk is now the face of that govt controlled enterprise.
If you concur with my researched assessment, then what you see being released by Elon Musk in the Twitter Files is actually a filtered outcome as a result of this new ownership dynamic. And with that intelligence framework solidly in mind, I warn readers not to take a position on the motive of the new ownership.
Put simply, DHS stakeholders, to include the DOJ, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), are mitigating public exposure of their domestic surveillance activity by controlling and feeding selected information about their prior Twitter operations.
If TikTok is a national security threat, then TikTok is to Beijing as Twitter is to Washington DC.
The larger objective of U.S. involvement in social media has always been monitoring and surveillance of the public conversation, and then ultimately controlling and influencing public opinion.
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posted on
12/09/2022 6:45:42 AM PST
by
Bratch
To: Red Badger
And all the leftists rage that Bari Weiss is not trustworthy, that none of this proves anything, etc. And some of them say, "Well, liberals/leftists/progressives didn't get banned because they weren't promoting racism and hate, blah, blah, blah", using their typical straw man arguments, and conveniently ignoring the actual incitements to violence and hateful invective spewed by liberals/leftists/progressives on twitter with impunity for as long as anyone can remember.
Talking to leftists, or presenting evidence and facts to them, is like talking to a wall.
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posted on
12/09/2022 6:46:24 AM PST
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: Sicon
The Brits have a saying for it:
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posted on
12/09/2022 6:51:25 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Tabusocial
It was a ‘right wing conspiracy theory’..............
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posted on
12/09/2022 6:54:58 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
Anybody but Barium Weiss. Hell, she spent years writing disparaging, dumb stuff about conservatives.
Why not someone like Jonathan Turley? Release this through him.
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posted on
12/09/2022 6:59:35 AM PST
by
StAnDeliver
(Tanned, rested, and ready.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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posted on
12/09/2022 7:05:10 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Tabusocial
The Left is just like Bart Simpson:
“I didn’t do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can’t prove a thing!”...............
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posted on
12/09/2022 7:06:05 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/09/2022 7:25:45 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Dumpster Fire Country.)
To: Sirius Lee
She should never be allowed to speak or write in a public setting.
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posted on
12/09/2022 7:27:26 AM PST
by
alternatives?
(The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
To: bert
I’ve worked with them. They are very aggressive.
To: Red Badger
I have been on Twitter for 8 years. I rarely ever posted comments on anything; for me, it was/is a source of information that I can’t get anywhere else.
I also had a big list of account holders that I followed, quite a few “right-leaning” accounts.
One day I went there, and my list had disappeared. I suspected someone at Twitter didn’t like my political views, but I never made an issue of it.
Now I realize, in all probability, I was right.
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posted on
12/09/2022 7:45:45 AM PST
by
telescope115
(Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
To: telescope115
You should ask them to replace it.................
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posted on
12/09/2022 7:49:25 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Sirius Lee
She is a radical traditional America-hater, IMO. BORN in INDIA....just like Agrawal, and many, many others like Sundar Pichai of Google. America’s IT and tech leftists in power in social media companies.
The new HOUSE majority should convene a J6-esque panel on foreign-born influencers and principals who conspire to subvert our freedom. Gadde should be the new J6 Gulag internee, IMO.
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posted on
12/09/2022 7:54:18 AM PST
by
Gaffer
(pR)
To: Red Badger
I hadn’t thought of that, maybe I’ll just hunt them all down again and find some new ones…
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posted on
12/09/2022 8:08:18 AM PST
by
telescope115
(Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
To: silverleaf
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posted on
12/09/2022 8:16:49 AM PST
by
jpsb
To: bert
“The message is that Indian Americaans oppose real Americans. Indians are in effect polluting America”
Given how bad Biden is, I guess old white guys are, in effect polluting America.
Or Bill Clinton. Al Gore. McCain. Jimmy Carter. John Kerry.
Or maybe only idiots think race is the issue when being a moronic evil Leftist is the issue.
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posted on
12/09/2022 8:29:18 AM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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