Posted on 12/18/2024 3:35:44 PM PST by CFW
Two years ago, Twitter emails offered voters a peek at state censorship. Now, they can be a road map for incoming investigators. Where they might search for wrongdoing
In May, 2022, an agent from the FBI’s San Francisco office sent Twitter Trust and Safety Chief Yoel Roth a formal inviation to join an “exclusive group” for “an Executive-level roundtable” on June 8th of that year that would include the Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, Bryan Vorndran. Roth was unavailable, so he passed the invite to other team members, who balked for a strange reason.
“I’m guessing they’re probably not being super-careful with the Covid protocols, so unfortunately I think I should pass,” said one Twitter employee.
“Can confirm they are mask-free at the FBI office in SF,” Roth wrote:
Roth added, however: “I’m pushing a little just because the FBI SF folks have been great partners, and sincerely are eager to foster more collaboration…”
This seeming offhand comic exchange in the Twitter Files featured a Justice Department attachment:
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In its invite, the FBI named another “roundtable” attendee, a White House National Cyber Director. This helped us understand that the FBI at least sometimes mediated with Twitter on behalf of the White House. It also had names and email addresses of two more San Francisco FBI employees (not shown above), one titled “Private Sector Coordinator.” Most importantly, it contained a line about the Bureau valuing its relationship with Twitter “directly and through the Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC).”
When we ran a check on “DSAC,” we found the FBI sometimes passed sensitive information to Twitter through a “DSAC Portal,” a secure line through which executives were briefed on everything from Covid to the UK government’s call to remove more “covert hostile state material,” especially related to Russia.
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This morning’s story about the Twitter Files and the possibility of new speech investigations came on the heels of good news I heard of late, suggesting the cavalry might be coming on First Amendment issues.
Now, there’s word of an ugly development in a fight over the continued funding of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center. Gabe Kaminsky of the Washington Examiner, the young reporter whose extensive digging on GEC beginning in 2023 was crucial in shining a light on its funding of “blacklisting” efforts, reports that the agency, scheduled to be shuttered, may get a “one-year lifeline”:
According to a congressional source familiar with the matter, the GEC provision was a private demand from Senate Democrats in exchange for Republicans getting a provision aiming to protect small businesses from certain fines approved by the Biden administration under a bill called the Corporate Transparency Act.
I’m still trying to clarify what’s happening, but I want readers to know that if the GOP or the incoming administration sells out voters on the speech issue, you’ll hear about it here. The GEC escaping the chopping block would be a blow. More to come.
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This is all rather complicated and unless you have kept up with the Twitter file releases over the years and are paying attention to the Continuing Resolution being negotiated at the moment, you probably aren't interested in all this information. If that is the case, just skip over this thread.
My reason for posting this is that if this is true, then the GOP is selling out conservatives in favor of the Chamber of Commerce GOP establishment voters. They care not about censorship or the First Amendment, and are willing to continue letting Democrats censor the citizens.
I was banned on Twitter in mid 2019.
Note the timing.
I’m still banned, even though I never violated the terms of service, and recently made three appeals.
Crickets.
I’d love to know who banned me and why.
And why I can’t get my account back or create a new one.
You can set up a new Twitter account using a different name and email address.
Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi’s podcast “America This Week”. is by far the best podcast out there.
MUSK DESERVES THE NOBEL PRIZE.
Many were banned. Many others quit because they were banned or repeatedly suspended for mentioning the truth about Trump, R/T, HRC, Democrats, Biden, then the Covid virus, and finally the vaccines.
Just make a new account. Musk still has a some “snakes in the grass” that sneak in a few algorithms to limit conservatives or suspend them for going against the left’s narrative, but he tries to fix things as quickly as he can. However he is a bit busy at the moment and doesn’t realize that some are still suspended, etc.
Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi’s podcast “America This Week”. is by far the best podcast out there.
It is, indeed. They get into the weeds and somehow manage to uncover information that no other investigator, journalist, or podcaster can find. Taibbi is seldom wrong and when he is, he blasts out a correction as quickly as possible.
The leftist media, the government, and our representatives with very few exceptions try to ignore his reporting as much as possible.
MUSK DESERVES THE NOBEL PRIZE.
He does. But they will never award it to him.
“The FITF/CFITF appeared to be a primary means by which federal law enforcement exerted pressure on private speech platforms, usually by asserting a theoretical (at best) foreign connection.”
That’s how the feds were able to control US Social Media. And it sounds a lot like Hillary saying that Trump ‘colluded’ with Russia and that Tulsi is a “Russian Asset”, as it’s all they can legally say and still get away with it.
Come to think of it, just about everyone here who’s been against the Ukraine War has been called some form of a “Russian Asset” by the Zeepers. Perhaps the Zeepers aren’t quite who they claim to be, as their approach to people who disagree with them is to call them some form of a “Russian Asset”? Perhaps that is all they can claim, considering that they’d be at risk of losing their jobs if they tried anything else (just like the feds controlling discussions on pre-Musk Twitter).
Very interesting similarities.
One other thing to note: In one of the emails, the Twitter guys were invited to the FBI Field Office in SF, but they didn’t want to go because the FBI guys didn’t wear masks (obviously during the Covid timeframe).
Why didn’t the FBI people wear masks? Perhaps they were being given the I-drug and thus didn’t have to worry about Covid, but were sworn to secrecy (so the Twitter guys were in the dark)? Be interesting to find out what that was about.
Why?! The Nobel Prizes are worthless given their decisions, like giving Obama the Peace Prize before he took office.
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