by Marie Hawthorne, Activist Post:
We in alternative media have known about the manipulation of online content for a long time. We’ve talked about it and been called crazy conspiracy theorists for doing so. Within the past two weeks, however, our complaints were validated when Elon Musk gave a few selected journalists access to huge amounts of data from Twitter, proving definitively how much federal agencies have been involved in the moderation of social media.
The fact is, an unholy goverment-corporate alliance has all but destroyed free speech and deployed a psy-op on the American people.
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While Daisy wrote about the Twitter files previously, there are still a few things that I wanted to highlight.
We first learned how visibility was manipulated to fit an agenda.
In Part One of the Twitter Files, Matt Taibbi discusses how in October 2020 Twitter buried the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
In Part 2, Bari Weiss discusses how Twitter manipulated feeds to amplify or hide certain voices. “Visibility filtered” figures included popular conservatives like Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk, as well as figures like Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a superbly qualified medical expert who publicly disagreed with closing schools during lockdowns.
We found out how Twitter made the decision to ban a sitting president.
Part Three goes back to Matt Taibbi, who posts details about the interactions between Twitter and federal law enforcement agencies in the months before January 6 led to the decision to ban then-sitting President Trump on January 8.
Michael Shellenberger picks up Part 4 and discusses how Twitter banned Trump. They had been under pressure for years, and in 2018 had publicly stated that deplatforming a sitting leader would “hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.” Personally, I couldn’t agree more. However, in the years between 2018 and 2021 the culture at Twitter regarding free speech had undergone changes, and on January 8, 2021, they made history by deplatforming the President of the United States.
In Part 5, Bari Weiss reveals internal messaging from Twitter employees about how they knew Trump actually hadn’t violated any policies or incited violence. But Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde goes through some linguistic gymnastics to convince other employees that Trump was using coded hate speech, and justifies banning him anyway.
Then we learned more about the disturbing involvement of our own government.
Matt Taibbi takes the lead again in Part 6 , discussing the very cozy relationship between Twitter and federal agencies. He provides evidence of regular meetings between Twitter executives and the FBI. He also provides evidence of how minutely the FBI flagged accounts as problematic. Most people, at this point, know about Twitter banning Babylon Bee; however, they also flagged many low-follower accounts for similarly satirical posts.
We live in a country with an out-of-control migrant crisis and skyrocketing crime rates; meanwhile, our tax dollars for federal law enforcement are going to agents flagging stupid jokes online. It’s indefensible.
Part 7 goes back to Michael Shellenberger, who takes us back to the Hunter Biden laptop story. Shellenberger provides quotes from both Twitter’s Yoel Roth and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg about being repeatedly warned by the FBI about Russian interference in the 2020 election. All this despite the fact that no actual increase in Russian online activity had been observed, as the FBI themselves admitted.
One of the most shocking things, to me, was Shellenberger’s #22, where FBI Agent Elvis Chan arranges for Twitter executives to have temporary security clearances starting in July 2020. His reasoning was that he wanted to make data sharing extra-easy in the months leading up to the 2020 elections.
Twitter’s staff is lousy with former FBI agents.
Security clearances are supposed to be a big deal. If you want a career requiring top security clearances, government representatives interview your family, friends, and even prior roommates to get a feel for what kind of person you are. They find out about what stupid stuff you did in college, how much international travel you’ve done, your foreign contacts, any dirty habits you might have that people could potentially blackmail you over, and above all your loyalty to the U.S. government. Security clearance is supposed to be something the government takes supremely seriously, and the FBI issued temporary clearances to the social justice warriors at Twitter?
