Twitter censorship and narrative-shaping reached a boiling point with the infamous laptop from hell and continued to rage through the election and J6 protests. In their stretches to fabricate justifications for the censorship, and ultimately the banning of Trump, Twitter executives turned against their own standards and twisted their own principles.3. We’ll show you what hasn’t been revealed: the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
18. Policy Director Nick Pickles is asked if they should say Twitter detects “misinfo” through “ML, human review, and **partnerships with outside experts?*” The employee asks, “I know that’s been a slippery process… not sure if you want our public explanation to hang on that.” pic.twitter.com/JEICGRTyz7
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
“English doesn’t even have words for how bad this is,” wrote Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec, while Rep. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., declared that, “It’s even worse than we thought.”21. Roth’s report to FBI/DHS/DNI is almost farcical in its self-flagellating tone: “We blocked the NYP story, then unblocked it (but said the opposite)… comms is angry, reporters think we’re idiots… in short, FML” (fuck my life). pic.twitter.com/sTaWglhaJt
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
Referencing former Twitter chieftain Yoel Roth, “meeting with FBI weekly, and his little censorship minions absolutely degraded Twitter into little more than a full-on Democratic Party activist machine, all while lying to the public about its function,” wrote journalist Glenn Greenwald. “This was a massive public fraud and 2020 election interference.”It is hard to count the number of lies @Twitter executives told under oath to Congress
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) December 9, 2022
The collusion between Twitter and the FBI extended to the agency picking and choosing tweets and narratives to censor, suppress or promote, with the results consistently pushing an anti-Trump, pro-Biden bias.Conservatives: The reach of our tweets is being limited by a progressive Twitter workforce.
Dems: That's an insane conspiracy theory. Bari Weiss: Here are the docs proving this. Dems: Everyone knew this already. It's an -- all together now -- nothing burger. pic.twitter.com/VewGdK4CoP — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 9, 2022
36. “VERY WELL DONE ON SPEED” Trump was being “visibility filtered” as late as a week before the election. Here, senior execs didn’t appear to have a particular violation, but still worked fast to make sure a fairly anodyne Trump tweet couldn’t be “replied to, shared, or liked”: pic.twitter.com/E0bkjISGBj
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
38. After Woods angrily quote-tweeted about Trump’s warning label, Twitter staff – in a preview of what ended up happening after J6 – despaired of a reason for action, but resolved to “hit him hard on future vio.” pic.twitter.com/dusFylxAXS
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
“They colluded with the FBI to censor the free speech of the American president,” concluded XStrategies senior digital guru Greg Price. “And they laughed about it.”42. “THAT’S UNDERSTANDABLE”: Even the hashtag #StealOurVotes – referencing a theory that a combo of Amy Coney Barrett and Trump will steal the election – is approved by Twitter brass, because it’s “understandable” and a “reference to… a US Supreme Court decision.” pic.twitter.com/6BjJhjypD2
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
Read more at: HeadlinesUSA.com60. Minutes later, Roth executed the historic act of “bouncing” Trump, i.e. putting him in timeout. “I hope you… are appropriately CorpSec’d,” says a colleague. pic.twitter.com/KDr6ZFle8h
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
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