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Latest ‘Twitter files’ dump shows change of policy pursuit ‘for Trump alone,’ execs ‘create justification’ to ban him
As previously reported, both Roth and Gadde are far-leftists.
However, before signing off completely and returning to his vacation, Dorsey issued a memo reminding employees that temporary Twitter suspensions are temporary — and that any Twitter user who’s suspended temporarily is eventually allowed to return.
Displeased over this policy, Roth then — from the sounds of it — persuaded Dorsey to modify the policy to make it so that anyone temporarily suspended for a total of five times is permanently banned for their habitual violations.
This is extremely important because at the time, Trump already had four temporary suspensions on his record, meaning he was just one suspension away from a ban.
Fast-forward to Jan. 8th, when Twitter suspended Trump again due to the “risk of further incitement of violence,” thus permanently banning him from the platform.
Ex-Twitter censor Yoel Roth and his boyfriend are forced to FLEE their $1.1m home after Elon Musk shared his thesis, which supported letting children use gay hook-up app Grindr
- Twitter's former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth and his family have since been forced from their home following a torrent of threats and harassment
- Elon Musk implied in tweets that Twitter's former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, who is gay, has advocated for child sexualization
- He shared a snip from Roth's P.hD thesis, which mentioned under-18s accessing gay hook-up app Grindr
- Roth wrote that, as underage youngsters use the app anyway, an age-appropriate version should be created to offer help to LGBT youth
FBI May Have Violated First Amendment with Twitter Censorship. Will the FBI Investigate?
Fox notes that “a Twitter Files installment released by Substack journalist Matt Taibbi last week revealed Twitter’s former head of safety, Yoel Roth, apparently attended weekly meetings with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence about moderating misinformation ahead of the 2020 election.” That’s the same Department of Homeland Security that set up a Disinformation Governance Board to restrict speech even further until it was forced to retreat and deep-six the Board over First Amendment concerns.
It should be remembered that the freedom of speech is enshrined in the Constitution in the first place in order to prevent any individual or group from getting precisely the kind of control over the public discourse that the Biden administration is repeatedly trying to attain. If one group can control the parameters of the public discourse or place itself beyond criticism or scrutiny, it has a free hand to establish a tyranny, and no one can utter even the smallest murmur of protest. All the administration’s faux-high-minded concern about “misinformation” and “disinformation” is based wholly and solely upon its decision to try to sell the banning of dissenting voices to the American people under the banner of protecting them from those scourges.
“Misinformation” and “disinformation,” however, like “hate speech,” are not objectively established quantities. On the contrary, they’re very much in the eye of the beholder. We have already seen the political and media establishment’s cynical use of these labels for its own advantage in the handling of the Hunter Biden story, which was false (and Russian propaganda to boot) until it suddenly turned out to be all true. This kind of chicanery goes back centuries, to the days when Galileo was forcibly silenced for daring to note that the earth moved around the sun and before that as well. But by now we should know better, and the nation has come to a sad turn that avowed foes of the pillar of any free society are now running nearly everything.
‘Twitter Files’ fuel suspicions that FBI tipped the scales for Biden in 2020
During those meetings, which also included officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security, Twitter executives were cued to rumors that Hunter Biden would be the target of a “hack and leak operation.”
The FBI took possession of the laptop in December 2019, 10 months before the newspaper published materials from the computer, raising questions as to whether the bureau actively sought to discredit materials they had already authenticated.
“The key facts are: The FBI had the laptop,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican and the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. “Then you’ve got the FBI talking to all of the social media platforms. The whole idea was that the Hunter Biden story was this Russian misinformation operation, but it looks like the misinformation operation was the other way around.
Matt Taibbi Drops ‘Twitter Files, Part Six,’ Details How Platform Was Like FBI’s ‘Subsidiary'
In the third tweet from Taibbi’s thread, he noted how “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.”
Next, we learned that “Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth.”
Though he said some of the communications were “mundane,” Taibbi pointed out that others were “requests for information into Twitter users related to active investigations.”
Interestingly and perhaps more disturbingly, “requests for action” were frequently in regards to “low-follower” Twitter accounts that had limited reach on grounds that they were spreading “election misinformation.” In the next tweet, Taibbi talked about the post-2016 election FBI “social media-focused task force,” which Taibbi says “swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds”:
Twittergate deepens: FBI REFUSES to reveal how many social media firms it is secretly influencing - amid accusations it broke the law by pushing Twitter to remove accounts and hand over user location details, new trove reveals
- Journalist Matt Taibbi posted a new trove of Twitter documents on Friday
- They show emails from FBI officials requesting bans on Twitter users
- In one email last month, the FBI asked Twitter to suspend actor Billy Baldwin
- Also listed in the ban request were satire accounts and right-wing commentary
- FBI claimed the accounts were 'disseminating false information' about elections
- The FBI is refusing to say which other social media networks they work with
Twitter Files: FBI Targeted Right Side Broadcasting Network for Censorship Ahead of Midterms
The NECP asked the field office to coordinate with Twitter to “determine whether the accounts identified below have violated Twitter’s terms of service and may be subject to any actions deemed appropriate by Twitter.”
The emails came to light in another installment of the Twitter files. Elon Musk’s Twitter once again disclosed documents to a journalist, in this case Matt Taibbi, which shed light on the inner workings of censorship at the social media platform.
Twitter Files: The FBI Frequently Flagged Joke Tweets, Asked for Moderation
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. The FBI flagged user Claire Foster, who had tweeted "I'm a ballot counter in my state. If you're not wearing a mask, I'm not counting your vote. #safetyfirst" and "For every negative comment on this post I'm adding another vote for the democrats."
These comments probably sound like satire to most people, but the FBI apparently thinks election integrity is no laughing matter. You would be forgiven for wondering whether top law enforcement officials have anything better to do with their time than police jokes on Twitter.
As with previous Twitter Files disclosures, it's not that this information was totally unsuspected; it was already abundantly clear that government officials were in regular communication with social media companies and flagging content for moderation. But it's useful to see the scale of that interaction as well as some specific examples. The extent to which Big Tech and Big Government are working in tandem to crack down on dissent, contrarianism, and even humor is frankly disturbing.
The FBI's response would be comical if it weren't so dangerous for America. According to Fox News:
Not everyone is buying it. Okay, so nobody's buying it. But one Congressman, Tim Burchett from Tennessee, went so far as to say they are lying. According to Breitbart:
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Not everyone is buying it. Okay, so nobody's buying it. But one Congressman, Tim Burchett from Tennessee, went so far as to say they are lying. According to Breitbart:
The FBI Responds to Twitter Files Bombshell With Bald-Faced Lie
Quashing free speech shouldn't just get government officials fired. It needs to result in arrests, convictions, and jail time.
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Twitter Files bombshell as emails show even chief censor feared the FBI was breaking the law helping US intelligence engage in domestic operations: Yoel Roth was 'uncomfortable' being grilled over 'state propaganda' on the app
- The most recent edition of the 'Twitter Files' reveals that FBI officials demanded execs for the social media giant to give them information
- Journalist Matt Taibbi posted emails showing the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force wanted info about state-run media's use of the site
- The agency was unsatisfied with the idea that it 'had not observed much recent activity from official propaganda actors'
- Even Yoel Roth, the former 'Twitter censor' who was forced to flee, was uncomfortable with the FBI agent Elvis Chan's requests
The released emails show that Roth feared the FBI was breaking the law to help US intelligence engage in domestic operations.
He responded to Chan saying: 'I'm frankly perplexed by the requests here, which seem more like something we'd get from a congressional committee than the Bureau.'
Taibbi reported the comments, which come after he released the latest batch of 'Twitter Files' on the social media site, questioning the legality of an intelligence agency trying to get Twitter's help in domestic operations.
Latest ‘Twitter Files’ show FBI bullied executives over not reporting ‘state propaganda’ enough
The FBI repeatedly grilled Twitter execs about censorship on the social media platform in the summer of 2020 — insisting that the company provide more information about removing “state propaganda” from the site, according to the latest Twitter Files release.
The agency’s Foreign Influence Task Force — which deals with cyber threats — interrogated Twitter on its reporting about official state media actors’ use of the site, according to emails unearthed by independent journalist Matt Taibbi in what he dubbed the “Twitter Files Supplemental” Sunday night.
San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan pressured former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth in July 2020 for more information about how they prevented bad actors from using the platform, according to screengrabs of email correspondences posted by Taibbi.
Let’s look at the references Agent Chan used to support his letter criticizing Twitter for not finding any foreign interference in the elections.
See? It wasn’t just the FBI’s feverish imagination. The Oxford Institute, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, and the Wall Street Journal all agree. Here’s the thing: all those articles were themselves based on things anonymous INTELLIGENCE AGENTS leaked, asserting foreign interference on social media. Then, intelligence agents like Agent Chan can turn right around and deploy those same articles as “evidence,” to support the original narrative.
Round and round we go.
It’s a nifty trick. It works the same way in “science.” The NIH or CDC needs evidence to support some guidance they want to issue, like masking. So they fund some studies intended to show masks work. The pay-for-play scientists publish cartoonish, anti-scientific clown studies “proving” cotton masks can somehow magically filter nanoscale virus particles. Then the NIH and CDC cite those same studies — the same ones they procured — to “recommend” unconstitutional mask mandates, or even outright order mandates, like for air travel and on cruise ships.
Ditto vaccines.
In the January 6th Congressional investigations, FBI agents would anonymously give corporate media “leaks” that a certain person was involved in “organizing” the attack on the Capitol. Then the January 6th Commission would send out subpoena letters to those same hapless individuals for documents and depositions, citing the intelligence-community-manufactured corporate media articles as the “probable cause” for the subpoenas. Ta-da.
It’s a closed loop.
Back to our story. Completely unsurprisingly, in the face of Agent Chan’s strongly-worded letter, Twitter’s former censorship head Yoel Roth orchestrated a complete about-face, and let the “team” know that “we’ve been clear that official state propaganda is DEFINITELY A THING ON TWITTER.” He also referred, not just to his agency, the FBI, but to the “IC” — the “Intelligence Community.”
In other words, Roth got the message.
And that’s how it works! On Friday, at the speed of science, the FBI publicly responded to Taibbi’s “supplemental” post, brusquely explaining that it “regularly engages with private sector entities” and whatever those private section entities do with that information is completely “independent” from the FBI’s strong-arming, how dare you.
But Taibbi clapped back, saying there’s zero evidence in the Twitter Files of the FBI “helpfully” letting Twitter know about foreign spies or anything like that. Instead, the FBI’s interest was almost all targeted at ordinary Americans’ political speech.
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So ' Anonymous Sources ' leak information to media and others, the FBI uses this as ' proof ' of foreign interference ... then the FBI goes to Big Tech - Do Something About This ...
See? It wasn’t just the FBI’s feverish imagination. The Oxford Institute, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, and the Wall Street Journal all agree. Here’s the thing: all those articles were themselves based on things anonymous INTELLIGENCE AGENTS leaked, asserting foreign interference on social media. Then, intelligence agents like Agent Chan can turn right around and deploy those same articles as “evidence,” to support the original narrative.
Round and round we go.
It’s a nifty trick. It works the same way in “science.” The NIH or CDC needs evidence to support some guidance they want to issue, like masking. So they fund some studies intended to show masks work. The pay-for-play scientists publish cartoonish, anti-scientific clown studies “proving” cotton masks can somehow magically filter nanoscale virus particles. Then the NIH and CDC cite those same studies — the same ones they procured — to “recommend” unconstitutional mask mandates, or even outright order mandates, like for air travel and on cruise ships.
Ditto vaccines.
In the January 6th Congressional investigations, FBI agents would anonymously give corporate media “leaks” that a certain person was involved in “organizing” the attack on the Capitol. Then the January 6th Commission would send out subpoena letters to those same hapless individuals for documents and depositions, citing the intelligence-community-manufactured corporate media articles as the “probable cause” for the subpoenas. Ta-da.
It’s a closed loop.
Back to our story. Completely unsurprisingly, in the face of Agent Chan’s strongly-worded letter, Twitter’s former censorship head Yoel Roth orchestrated a complete about-face, and let the “team” know that “we’ve been clear that official state propaganda is DEFINITELY A THING ON TWITTER.” He also referred, not just to his agency, the FBI, but to the “IC” — the “Intelligence Community.”
In other words, Roth got the message.
And that’s how it works! On Friday, at the speed of science, the FBI publicly responded to Taibbi’s “supplemental” post, brusquely explaining that it “regularly engages with private sector entities” and whatever those private section entities do with that information is completely “independent” from the FBI’s strong-arming, how dare you.
But Taibbi clapped back, saying there’s zero evidence in the Twitter Files of the FBI “helpfully” letting Twitter know about foreign spies or anything like that. Instead, the FBI’s interest was almost all targeted at ordinary Americans’ political speech.
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So ' Anonymous Sources ' leak information to media and others, the FBI uses this as ' proof ' of foreign interference ... then the FBI goes to Big Tech - Do Something About This ...
Journalists Warn Of Frightening Trend Where Rules Apply To Them
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Journalists have become increasingly concerned about a rising trend of journalists having to follow the same rules as everyone else.
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The FBI Paid Twitter Millions of Dollars For Their “Influence Campaign”
The drop, which was reported on by Michael Shellenberger, showed just how far the FBI went while working with Twitter to influence the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor.
According to the bombshell drop, the FBI paid Twitter $3.4 million dollars of taxpayer money for their “staff time.”
“The FBI’s influence campaign may have been helped by the fact that it was paying Twitter millions of dollars for its staff time,” reported Shellenberger.
Shellenberger attached an email from an associate of former FBI agent Jim Baker: “I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!”
Check out the tweet below:
In January of 2020, some Twitter employees expressed concern over FBI Agent Elvis Chan’s intentions and the FBI’s social media dragnet, as seen in this email from Carlos Monje to Yoel Roth, disclosing a “sustained effort by the Intelligence Community to push us to share more information and change our API policies” to allow direct access into Twitter’s database:
“Elvis” again. Their good buddy.
In October 2020 — the month before the election — the Hunter Biden laptop story broke in the New York Post. Almost immediately, Twitter (and other social media companies) banned and locked down discussion about the story, and suspended the New York Post, even though it was a “mainstream” newspaper, lamebrainedly citing some rule about hacking.
Russia! The bogeyman!
In December 2020, Twitter’s former censorship head Yoel Roth explained in a sworn statement that for almost two years leading up to the leak, the FBI told him, over and over, to expect a Russian leak about Hunter Biden in October 2020:
Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, made comments on a podcast suggesting he’d had similar conversations with the FBI.
In September 2020 — the month before the leak — Yoel Roth also participated in a swanky Aspen Institute “tabletop exercise” based on a potential “Hack-and-Dump” operation — relating to Hunter Biden! Coincidentally!
The Aspen exercise was organized and attended by people either in intelligence or formerly-in intelligence. The 4-fun-filled-days of “exercises” were designed to shape how media companies like Twitter would respond to a “national emergency” that was based on a
“disinformation attack” using “hacked materials.”
On October 14th, right after the New York Post published its Hunter Biden laptop story, and right before canceling the New York Post, Yoel Roth soberly admitted, “it isn’t clearly violative of our Hacked Materials Policy, nor is it clearly in violation of anything else,” but — tellingly — Roth added, “this feels a lot like a somewhat subtle leak operation.”
One of the FBI agents embedded at Twitter, was Twitter’s head lawyer Jim Baker, who previously worked for the FBI for 30 years, most recently as its Deputy General Counsel. Baker used his authority at Twitter to push for shutting down the Hunter Biden story:
Internal emails showed that Twitter executives were, in fact, misled by all this activity into falsely believing that the Hunter Biden story was a disinformation attack orchestrated by Russian hackers.
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“Elvis” again. Their good buddy.
In October 2020 — the month before the election — the Hunter Biden laptop story broke in the New York Post. Almost immediately, Twitter (and other social media companies) banned and locked down discussion about the story, and suspended the New York Post, even though it was a “mainstream” newspaper, lamebrainedly citing some rule about hacking.
Russia! The bogeyman!
In December 2020, Twitter’s former censorship head Yoel Roth explained in a sworn statement that for almost two years leading up to the leak, the FBI told him, over and over, to expect a Russian leak about Hunter Biden in October 2020:
Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, made comments on a podcast suggesting he’d had similar conversations with the FBI.
In September 2020 — the month before the leak — Yoel Roth also participated in a swanky Aspen Institute “tabletop exercise” based on a potential “Hack-and-Dump” operation — relating to Hunter Biden! Coincidentally!
The Aspen exercise was organized and attended by people either in intelligence or formerly-in intelligence. The 4-fun-filled-days of “exercises” were designed to shape how media companies like Twitter would respond to a “national emergency” that was based on a
“disinformation attack” using “hacked materials.”
On October 14th, right after the New York Post published its Hunter Biden laptop story, and right before canceling the New York Post, Yoel Roth soberly admitted, “it isn’t clearly violative of our Hacked Materials Policy, nor is it clearly in violation of anything else,” but — tellingly — Roth added, “this feels a lot like a somewhat subtle leak operation.”
One of the FBI agents embedded at Twitter, was Twitter’s head lawyer Jim Baker, who previously worked for the FBI for 30 years, most recently as its Deputy General Counsel. Baker used his authority at Twitter to push for shutting down the Hunter Biden story:
Internal emails showed that Twitter executives were, in fact, misled by all this activity into falsely believing that the Hunter Biden story was a disinformation attack orchestrated by Russian hackers.
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