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by Mike Whitney, The Unz Review<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe idea here is to come clean on everything that has happened in the past in order to build public trust for the future.\u201d Elon Musk, Free Speech Absolutist<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cBy opening up Twitter\u2019s own internal documents, they have the opportunity to detail how Twitter users have been secretly manipulated, managed, and muzzled \u2014 for years \u2014 around the world \u2014 on multiple topics of first-order significance.\u201d\u00a0Matt Bivens M.D.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

TRUTH LIVES on at\u00a0https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Did Twitter executives censor a story that would have changed the outcome of the 2020 election?<\/b>\u00a0Did they deliberately suppress information the public needed to make an informed decision about how to cast their ballot? Was candidate Trump damaged by Twitter\u2019s meddling?\u00a0Did it cost him the election?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

It did cost him the election, at least the American people think so. Check out this excerpt from an article at the New York Post:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nearly four of five Americans who\u2019ve been following the Hunter Biden laptop scandal believe that \u201ctruthful\u201d coverage would have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election<\/b>, according to a new poll.<\/span><\/p>\n

A similar percentage also said they\u2019re convinced that information on the computer is real, with\u00a0just 11% saying they thought it was \u201ccreated by Russia,<\/b>\u201d according to the survey conducted by the New Jersey-based Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the subject of the 2020 election,\u00a079% overall said it was \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d likely that \u201ca truthful interpretation of the laptop\u201d would have resulted in the reelection of former President Donald Trump\u00a0<\/b>instead of the election of President Biden.<\/span><\/p>\n

The poll results, derived from an initial survey of 1,335 adults, have a \u201ccredibility interval\u201d of plus or minus 4.8 percentage points, according to the TIPP.\u201d (\u201c79% say \u2018truthful\u2019 coverage of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop would have changed 2020 election\u201d<\/a>, New York Post)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some readers will recall that in 2016 when FBI Director James Comey reopened the investigation of Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails 11 days before the election, Hillary\u2019s public approval ratings plunged dramatically and never recovered. That\u2019s how seriously Americans take the charge of \u201ccorruption\u201d. So, we can assume that wider circulation of the Hunter Biden laptop story would have produced the same result. The suggestion that Joe Biden may have been implicated in a multi-million dollar influence-peddling scam would likely be enough to torpedo his prospects in the general election. Fortunately for Biden, Twitter opted to squash the story and prevent anyone from even linking to the original article at the New York Post. Thus, the allegations of corruption passed mostly under-the-radar allowing Biden to squeak out a victory. What the incident shows is that censorship can be used to derail democracy which should concern us all. Check out this brief recap from an article at Opindia:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2018The Twitter Files\u2019 contain internal communications, pertaining to the censorship of the Hunter Biden story on the social media platform<\/b>. Following the revelation, it became clear that (the former Legal Head of the social media platform Vijaya) Gadde was at the helm of the censorship exercise under the garb of vague and arbitrary rules.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ahead of the 2020 US presidential elections, the New York Post published an explosive story about Hunter Biden\u2019s problematic emails with a Ukrainian gas company executive from Burisma\u2026 The report had several documents and mentioned a video that proved that Joe Biden met a high-profile businessman from Ukraine when he was Vice President of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reports suggested that Biden might have helped his son Hunter using his influence as the VP of the United States in his business in Ukraine<\/b>\u2026 it was eventually confirmed that the laptop\u2019s contents did really belong to Hunter Biden.\u201d (\u201cAmericans demand ex-Twitter Legal Head Vijaya Gadde be sent to prison, accuse her of rigging 2020 US Presidential elections<\/a>\u201c, Opindia)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Check out this 2 minute clip of\u00a0Former Twitter Safety Chief Yoel Roth explaining why the satirical website Babylon Bee had to be censored<\/a>\u00a0by Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n