This is abominable.
The FBI used Twitter as its own subsidiary to control the narrative in the 2020 election. Matt Taibbi:
Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth.
The FBI was searching for those who questioned election results – even jokes.
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 with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds. Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content.
There’s much here for conspiracy theorists vis-a-vis the 2020 election
The #TwitterFiles show something new: agencies like the FBI and DHS regularly sending social media content to Twitter through multiple entry points, pre-flagged for moderation.
So who does the flagging?
An unanswered question: do agencies like FBI and DHS do in-house flagging work themselves, or farm it out? “You have to prove to me that inside the fucking government you can do any kind of massive data or AI search,” says one former intelligence officer.
Taibbi suggests that there was a “master-canine” relationship between the FBI and Twitter in the way the FBI addresses Twitter
All four accounts were suspended.
Sarcasm on both sides fell into the FBI crosshairs
Then
“In an internal email from November 5, 2022, the FBI’s National Election Command Post, which compiles and sends on complaints, sent the SF field office a long list of accounts that “may warrant additional action”:”
Agent Elvis Chan dropped another recommendation
21.Many of the above accounts were satirical in nature, nearly all (with the exceptions of Baldwin and @RSBNetwork) were relatively low engagement, and some were suspended, most with a generic, “Thanks, Twitter” letter: pic.twitter.com/0S0XoqhwYD
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
One of the accounts remarked
“I can’t believe the FBI is policing jokes on Twitter. That’s crazy,” said @Tiberius444
But they were. And remember James Baker?
In a letter to former Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker on Sep. 16, 2022, legal exec Stacia Cardille outlines results from her “soon to be weekly” meeting with DHS, DOJ, FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The Twitter exec writes she explicitly asked if there were “impediments” to the sharing of classified information “with industry.” The answer? “FBI was adamant no impediments to sharing exist.”
This passage underscores the unique one-big-happy-family vibe between Twitter and the FBI. With what other firm would the FBI blithely agree to “no impediments” to classified information?
At the bottom of that letter, she lists a series of “escalations” apparently raised at the meeting, which were already “handled.”
The FBI was running amuck
29.Another internal letter from January, 2021 shows Twitter execs processing an FBI list of “possible violative content” tweets: pic.twitter.com/Dwad3lGM4j
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
The Russian interference nonsense became a premise to expand the surveillance state
33.The ubiquity of the 2016 Russian interference story as stated pretext for building out the censorship machine can’t be overstated. It’s analogous to how 9/11 inspired the expansion of the security state. pic.twitter.com/GSaEzM0aYo
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
The DHS also was in the game.
Even states were playing along with suppression.
40.“WHY WAS NO ACTION TAKEN?” Below, Twitter execs – receiving an alert from California officials, by way of “our partner support portal” – debate whether to act on a Trump tweet: pic.twitter.com/W4DQvYwq7Z
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
The FBI dedicated 80 full time agents to the control of Twitter. Christopher Wray has a lot for which to answer. This really cannot ever happen again. Law Professor Jonathan Turley:
“These files are not just an indictment of the FBI, they’re an indictment of Congress. Congress has shown a steadfast refusal to dig into these censorship allegations, many of us have been writing about this for years. The Democratic members have refused to pursue this, and in fact, Democratic members have pushed social media companies to expand censorship. In the very hearing where Jack Dorsey apologized for the Hunter Biden laptop debacle, the immediate reaction of Democratic senators [was] to tell him, don’t backslide on us, we want more censorship. Well, now, we have, not just censorship, we have blacklisting, we have these shadowbans. All of that is now open to the public. And so, in some ways, Musk has forced people to choose sides. And I think that some of the anger that you see in the media borders on self-loathing. I mean, they’re having now to embrace not just being censorship apologists, but blacklisting and shadowbanning and also lying, because that’s what we’ve seen for the last three years. That’s a lot to take on yourself and still claim that you’re a journalist or you believe in free speech.”
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It would be interesting to see the actual, real Russian disinformation that was identified and blocked through these censorship efforts… if there were any. All the examples of “Russian interference” provided during the 2016 election were lame, at best. In fact, I’ve never seen a bona fide example yet and strongly suspect that was all just an excuse for criminal Hillary losing… could that be possible?
80 agents working to police jokes and irrefutable facts instead of investigating the domestic terrorism committed by BLM and ANTIFA. I wonder how many shootings could have been prevented if instead of focusing on the Babylon Bee, they FBI had been tracking true terrorists?
You know who fears free speech? Totalitarians. Dictators. Despots.
Democrats.
Not just Democrats, The GOP led by treason
This is why they need a good old fashioned flushing.
https://speakingaboutnews.com/full-list-of-politicians-who-took-indicted-crypto-ceos-illegal-political-donations/
Note the source. Official filings to the SEC
A who’s who of rino’s we’d rather see replaced with someone that actually cares about the taxpayers and country.
They need to hang.
What the flying F…..I mean I knew the FBI was corrupt but this is getting beyond bad. I’m sure the other alphabet subversives are in on it up to the top suites.
In case you don’t know, Twitter is STILL part of the FBI.
The new Congress in 2023 should begin the dismantling of the FBI.
FBI agents communicated regularly with Twitter brass and requested accounts be taken down and removed from the public forum. The Gateway Pundit was removed in February 2021.
The FBI frequently recommended that content moderators look into specific tweets and take action against them if they violated misinformation policies. Many of these tweets were from users with very low follower counts who had engaged in satire or humor.
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The latest release also reveals that the FBI had 80 agents working “to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds.” And to target anyone questioning the 2020 election results.
It is also becoming apparent that the CIA was involved in the Kennedy assassination.
That was not their only foray into conducting a coup. Documents are now available that show they and the FBI were involved in the watergate scandal to take down Nixon.
And in 2020 it is becoming increasingly apparent they played a critical role in denying President Trump his second term.
Now watch the left suddenly drop JFK from their list of icons. When the CIA (their ally against Trump) is shown to have been involved, the assassination of JFK will no longer be important.
Everyone knows the CIA killed Kennedy FFS.
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When the suppression of conservative comments was irrefutable, the left would fall back on the excuse that Twitter was a private company. The government involvement kind of blows that lie all to pieces.
Seems to me I remember greg being one of the most ardent cheerleaders defending twitter when the were shadow banning and suspending
Greg is inconsistant in all his ways, No they are not thats a conspiracy, to they are a private company and dont have to post everyones voice.
Musk is a reed shaken by the wind, he has allowed the Doxxers back on with only 1 week suspension. He does not have the guts to have a true free speech platform, and keep out the insane riff raff.