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Twitter Files Part 11 - Zweig HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607378386338340867 Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1607378386338340867.html PDF: https://anonfiles.com/9cYb95O4ye/TWITTER_FILES_PART_11_pdf ~~~~ Twitter Files Part 10 - Taibbi TWITTER AND “OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES” Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701397109796866 Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1606701397109796866.html PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/dywzlt.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~ Twitter Files Part 9 - O’Handley State Governments caught censoring “election misinformation” using Twitter Partner Portal Twitter: https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1605317665387577345 Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605317665387577345.html PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/5dn9gi.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Twitter Files Part 8 - Fang How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign Twitter: https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1605292454261182464 Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605292454261182464.html PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/b8vu8y.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Twitter Files Part 7 - Shellenberger The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop...

This is an article to show your haughty, “know-it-all” brother-in-law who thinks our government is somehow squeaky clean. https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701397109796866? The “Twitter Files” have now officially had more sequels than Planet of the Apes and can be difficult to absorb. Thus, I don’t think they’re getting the attention they deserve. For those of you not following the “Twitter Files” drops, let me catch you up on what I believe are some of the most important parts: The FBI paid Twitter $3.5 million to censor conservatives. The FBI pressured Twitter to give them information that would legally require warrants, though they did...

Another round of Elon Musk’s Twitter files were released on Saturday. The latest Twitter files were released by journalist Matt Taibbi on Christmas Eve. 1.THREAD: The Twitter Files TWITTER AND “OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES” — Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 24, 2022 After weeks of “Twitter Files” reports detailing close coordination between the FBI and Twitter in moderating social media content, the Bureau issued a statement Wednesday. 2. It didn’t refute allegations. Instead, it decried “conspiracy theorists” publishing “misinformation,” whose “sole aim” is to “discredit the agency.” 3. They must think us unambitious, if our “sole aim” is to discredit the FBI....

Michael Shellenberger’s revelations about the FBI’s efforts to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story should have been shocking. But we are long past the time when we can legitimately expect our top government officials to be more than a power-grabbing group of grifters. Among the revelations was the fact that the FBI had 80 agents monitoring Twitter and feeding suggestions about accounts and tweets to censor. Lots of people are rightly outraged about that, but in itself it is hardly surprising. The growth of the security state has become pervasive enough to make me almost shrug. Sad, I know. What...

The latest installment of the “Twitter Files” in which Elon Musk is releasing deep-seeded documents from executives at Twitter before he accumulated the company is quite juicy. The sixth installment of the expose series reveals that between January of 2020 and November of 2022, over 150 emails were exchanged between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety head Yoel Roth. In a multi-part series of tweets, journalist Matt Taibbi goes into further detail. One tweet reads: “The FBI’s social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents and corresponded...

Part Eight of the Twitter Files came out this afternoon... "a trillion dollars more in deficit spending" US Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, speaking out about the massive spending bill... A Democrat-run US House committee voting to release President Trump's tax returns... Preparations underway in Washington for a previously undisclosed visit by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky... The United States calling for a political accord in Haiti ahead of a UN Security Council session... The Taliban in Afghanistan releasing two Americans as a "Goodwill Gesture"... The Russian military in Syria says last night's Israeli strikes in Syria... "I know they...

Elon Musk’s Twitter Files part 8 was released on Tuesday afternoon by journalist Lee Fang. Part 8: How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign 1. Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations. https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1605292454261182464? 2. Twitter has claimed for years that they make concerted efforts to detect & thwart gov-backed platform manipulation. Here is Twitter testifying to Congress about its pledge to rapidly identify and shut down all state-backed covert information operations & deceptive propaganda. https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1605293337288015873?

New York Magazine Intelligence section senior writer Eric Levitz discussed at length Monday the Twitter free speech controversy, but absurdly neglected to mention even once the most blatant example of government interference on that site, namely the constant monitoring and censorship from the FBI as well as the suppression of inconvenient stories, most notably about the Hunter Biden laptop.The absence of any referral to this seems as absurd as, say, Levitz writing a breaking story about the attack on Pearl Harbor and neglecting any mention of the Japanese.

The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020 In Twitter Files #6, we saw the FBI relentlessly seek to exercise influence over Twitter, including over its content, its users, and its data. Unroll available on Thread Reader In Twitter Files #7, we present evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community (IC), aimed at senior executives at news and social media companies, to discredit...

The FBI paid Twitter millions in tax dollars to censor, suspend and harass Twitter users who only wanted to share the truth. Earlier today, Twitter released another traunch of tweets, this one focused on the FBI and Hunter Biden’s laptop. In one of the tweets, Twitter reports that the FBI paid Twitter millions for their work censoring free speech. Here is the tweet from Michael Shellenberger sharing that the FBI paid Twitter $3.4 million:

Elon Musk’s Twitter Files part 7 was released Monday morning by Michael Shellenberger. Part 7: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop 1. TWITTER FILES: PART 7 The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020 — Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) December 19, 2022 TRENDING: BREAKING: Twitter Files Part 7 Released: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop Recall, in Twitter files 6, we saw the constant contact the FBI...

Late yesterday afternoon Matt Taibbi posted a Twitter Files Supplemental thread running to 12 substantive tweets. It is accessible here. I urge interested readers to check it out. Here are my notes and comments. • The New York Post covers it here. The Daily Mail covers it here. Mainstream media eyes remain wide shut. The revelations of the Twitter Files suggest that Elon Musk may not be public enemy number 1. • This supplemental thread is derived from old Twitter’s communications with FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan (hereinafter “the bad Elvis”). The bad Elvis has not left the building. Indeed,...

Gregg is joined by Carl Szabo, NetChoice Vice President and General Counsel, and a well known free speech advocate. Holden Caulfield quipped, “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.” But Twitter has him beat by a country mile. Twitter executives long insisted they never rigged their platform to censor conservatives. It was a lie. Former CEO Jack Dorsey was asked point-blank under oath by Congress if his social media company “shadow-banned prominent Republicans.” “No,” he replied with a straight face. Another lie. He doubled-down when he told Sean Hannity, “We do not shadow-ban according to political...

Another round of Twitter Files has dropped, and this one comes courtesy of Matt Taibbi (who the Washington Post laughably dubbed a “conservative journalist”). This latest round features how deeply the FBI, DHS, state governments, and others were involved in what was and wasn’t allowed on the social media platform. Most of the focus is on the FBI. Something that stood out to me in that email: was 100% confirmation that FB was also involved the same as Twitter. And why were they meeting with the OH Sec of State media director? FBI had 80 agents colluding with Twitter to...

I’d like for you to imagine a scenario where employees in the federal government reached out to Walter Cronkite or Dan Rather a few weeks before an election and convinced them to not do a news story that could affect the outcome. Just called them up and said, “Hey, we know you have the facts of a story exactly accurate, but what if you hold off on running that story until after the election, because it might hurt our guy’s chances…” Like they do in, you know, Communist China. "Twitter Gate" exposes how government manipulates Big Tech for their own...

Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi COMING at 4 est: TWITTER: THE FBI SUBSIDIARY

New documents reveal how the United States government used a secret Twitter portal to censor COVID-19 content that contradicted the government’s narrative. In its ongoing probe into Twitter’s censorship practices, America First Legal has obtained a fourth set of documents (pdf) exposing a secret Twitter portal, which U.S. government officials used to censor dissenting COVID-19 views in violation of the First Amendment. It’s a revelation Elon Musk described as “extremely concerning.” The documents reveal that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was collaborating with UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and Mafindo to mitigate “disinformation.” Mafindo is a Facebook...

Missouri’s Attorney General Eric Schmitt who, together with Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry, filed a lawsuit alleging collusion between the federal government and social media companies to censor certain speech, sent a letter to Twitter asking for the preservation of evidence related to communications between the company and federal government officials on content moderation and misinformation. Schmitt, who was elected to the Senate in November, referenced the internal documents, dubbed “Twitter Files,” that are being released by CEO Elon Musk via journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger. The files showed that then-deputy legal counsel Jim Baker, who was...

Elon Musk is performing a great public service by releasing the Twitter Files, which show how the social media company he recently purchased suppressed news about the Biden family’s foreign dealings. While the company’s actions, which occurred weeks before the 2020 election, raise knotty questions about free speech, they are a distraction. The more urgent issue is the conduct of our own government, specifically the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which created the landscape where censorship and disinformation could thrive and possibly change the outcome of the presidential contest. Here is a brief chronology which focuses on the bureau’s key role...

Elon Musk’s Twitter Truth Squad is exposing the FBI’s role in suppressing free speech before the 2020 election. But the FBI was practically a bit player in a far greater federal conspiracy to censor any American who cast doubts on the mail-in ballots that made Joe Biden the 46th president. That conniving doesn’t mean the 2020 election was stolen. But the bureaucratic racketeering was a travesty of political fair play. The FBI pressured Twitter to target an Oct. 26, 2020, tweet from a former Republican official who wrote that “between 2% and 25% of Ballots by Mail are Being Rejected...