“Twitter didn’t have the guts to out Hamilton 68 publicly but did try to speak to reporters off the record… Again, even Roth, like most Twitter execs an ardent Democratic partisan, saw that the Hamilton scheme would lead people ‘to assert that any right-leaning content is propagated by Russian bots.”
“Favorable coverage of ASD’s work appeared in Politico (‘The Russian Bots Are Coming. This Bipartisan Duo Is On It.’), The Washington Post (‘Russia-linked accounts are tweeting their support of embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham’), and elsewhere.But according to new revelations uncovered by independent journalist Matt Taibbi as part of the Twitter Files, the accounts on ASD’s list weren’t Russian bots. Moreover, Twitter content moderators knew the list was inaccurate but were reluctant to criticize it due to fears of bad press.”
“Twitter warned politicians and media the[y] not only lacked evidence, but had evidence the accounts weren’t Russian – and were roundly ignored,”
“In addition to revelations about FBI censorship, shadow-banning, Pentagon use of fake accounts, and suppression of true information about issues like Covid-19, the Twitter emails regularly expose the wide delta between what we were told about foreign threats, and what a major platform seeing the raw data knew.”
“Yet Twitter wound up flagging Giroir’s tweet anyway, putting a misleading tag on it and preventing almost anyone from seeing it. It remains tagged even though several large studies have confirmed the truth of Giroir’s words.”
“The resulting behemoth, still being built today, is a public-private consortium made up of U.S. intelligence agencies, Big Tech companies, civil society institutions, and major media organizations that has become the world’s most powerful spy service—one that was powerful enough to disappear the former president of the United States from public life, and that is now powerful enough to do the same or worse to anyone else it chooses.”
“By 2020, Twitter was struggling with the problem of public and private agencies bypassing them and going straight to the media with lists of suspect accounts,”
“In Tuesday’s installment of the ongoing ‘Twitter Files,’ independent journalist Matt Taibbi posted a Nov. 20, 2020, email regarding a request from the California Democrat’s office to suppress free speech on the social media platform.”
“Emails released on Saturday as part of the latest dump of the ‘Twitter Files’ reveal that the week before the 2020 presidential election, the FBI field office investigating Hunter Biden sent multiple censorship requests to Twitter — so many in fact, a top attorney for the tech giant found it ‘odd.'”
“But Twitter did suppress views—and not just those of journalists like Berenson. Many medical and public health professionals who expressed perspectives or even cited findings from accredited academic journals that conflicted with official positions were also targeted. As a result, legitimate findings and questions about our Covid policies and their consequences went missing.”
“The FBI did not merely engage in ‘correspondence’ with Twitter to protect the company and its ‘customers.’ Instead, it effectively hired Twitter to suppress the free expression of some of its users, as well as news stories deemed unhelpful to the Biden campaign and administration—to the degree that the bureau’s requests sometimes even exceeded those of Twitter’s own left-wing censors.”
“From that point, Taibbi writes that ‘regular meeting[s] of the multi-agency Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF)’ — attended by Twitter and ‘virtually every major tech firm [including] Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many other’ — had ‘FBI personnel, and – nearly always – one or two attendees marked OGA’.”
“All of this government interference at Twitter was carried out under the guise of a ‘foreign interference task force’ (FITF in the emails). Yet, as Taibbi notes, most of the reports being forwarded contained information that originated domestically from American citizens, meaning the CIA was involved in quashing speech on US soil.”
“The EU should use all the possibilities at its disposal to protect competition and freedom of speech on digital platforms,”
“He testified as part of a lawsuit against the Biden administration, accusing the now president of organizing meetings in San Francisco for as many as seven DC-based FBI agents in the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election. Those FBI agents would then meet with Big Tech officials to remove ‘disfavored speakers, viewpoints and content on social media platforms… under the guise of combating misinformation,’ the Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri claim.”
“The Bureau had a bunch of ‘former’ employees on Twitter’s payroll actively helping suppress free speech on their platform. The FBI had secret channels of communication between an agency of theirs and a privately-owned social media company that were used exclusively to control the public narrative about an election-changing event. The FBI also paid Twitter millions of taxpayer dollars to suppress our own free speech”
“Leaks also show that Twitter’s deputy chief legal counsel was made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and its legitimacy, a month before it was published.”
“Twitter placed dozens of accounts created by US Central Command (CENTCOM) on a “whitelist” for preferential treatment, according to internal company documents obtained by journalist Lee Fang. The eighth edition of the ‘Twitter Files’ exposed the site’s involvement in propaganda operations run by the Pentagon.”
“The night before the New York Post published emails recovered from an abandoned Hunter Biden laptop that established Joe Biden’s connections with his son’s business dealings, the FBI used a private communications channel to send 10 documents to a top Twitter executive.”
“The Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), a US government entity that included the FBI as well as other US intelligence agencies expressly forbidden from domestic activities, numbered 80 agents engaged regularly in telling Twitter which Tweets to censor and which accounts to ban. The Department of Homeland Security brought in outside government contractors and (government-funded) non-governmental organizations to separately pressure Twitter to suppress speech the US government did not like.”
“Shellenberger’s new installment centers on Twitter’s decision to temporarily block a New York Post story about Hunter Biden just before the 2020 election.”
“According to the information coming out, despite the fact that people were discovering Hunter Biden was getting tens of millions of dollars, he was doing very little work for the money, the FBI seemed more concerned that the information that was on Biden’s laptop would get out.”
“The latest release of the “Twitter Files” authorized by new owner Elon Musk also provided more examples of former top FBI lawyer Jim Baker’s role in cracking down on The Post’s reporting while he worked as Twitter’s deputy general counsel, a job from which Musk fired him earlier this month.”
“- What ‘law enforcement’ objective is served by asking for Billy Baldwin’s location information? – Why is the FBI/DHS in the business of analyzing and flagging social media content at all? When were these programs created and who approved them?”
“The news comes on the heels of the latest Twitter Files disclosures which show how the agency dedicated dozens of agents to pressuring the company to remove political tweets it found objectionable.”
“The thread revealed how the FBI was in cahoots with the social media platform and ‘how the government collects, analyzes, and flags your social media content,’ including how ‘Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive.'”
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.”
“Twitter executives long insisted they never rigged their platform to censor conservatives. It was a lie…. In fact, Twitter was operating a giant political censorship machine applied with brute computer force. Tweets involving Democrats were amplified, derogatory information about Joe Biden was suppressed, and anyone who dared to criticize them found themselves diminished or vanished.”
“The left will certainly explode over these suspensions, even as they stood idly by and didn’t care or write long opinion pieces or post passionate tweets when it was conservatives who were getting shadow banned, suspended, and kicked off the platform.”
“Twitter ostensibly kicked Trump off because of two tweets he fired off that morning. But on the day he was banned, executives and lower-level employees alike privately admitted that neither of the president’s tweets violated the platform’s rules.”
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