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The Press' Panic Over 'Twitter Files' Reveals How They Manipulated the System​

What stands out initially is that seeing the internal communications that showed the Democratic Party leadership had a direct line with Twitter brass to call for the silencing of accounts and trends, we get the stark projection that took place the past couple of months. Many journalists decried that under Musk, Twitter would be a public square of misinformation that would taint the electoral process. Now, we see that the Democrats worked to enforce that very type of corruption.

In reaction to this last detail, many a member of the media class emerged to heap condemnation on this document release. It speaks volumes that journalists would have a sharply negative reaction to information coming out. Matt Taibbi was the primary source to deliver this initial cache of documents (Elon promises more are on the way), and it is telling that Taibbi would become a focus of scorn from other journalists. This ‘How DARE he!’ response echoes what we saw when NBC’s Dasha Burns dared report what she experienced when meeting with then-Pennsylvania Democrat gubernatorial candidate John Fetterman.

Deflection is a key trait in exposing these reporters’ hesitation to seek out facts. There may be no better source to typify the press position on this matter than NBC’s Ben Collins. He is the self-described misinformation guru at the news division, and yet when possibly the biggest collection of documents concerning that very topic emerges from a social media platform, Ben instead recoils like it is a pile of rotten brie discovered in the trunk of a car parked at the airport for two months.

 

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GOP Rep. Comer's 'Promise' Is Sure to Rock Twitter Employees Who Helped Suppress Hunter Biden Scandal​

The released information showed employees on Twitter’s legal, policy, and communications teams debating over whether to restrict the Post article under the company’s hacked materials policy, weeks before the 2020 election. What a “coincidence,” huh?

During a Friday night appearance on Fox News’s “Hannity,” Comer told guest host and former Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz that he plans to haul every Twitter employee — past and present — who participated in the suppression before Congress to testify. As transcribed by Breitbart:

Well, in January, Jason, when I take your old position as Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, I can promise you this: every employee at Twitter who was involved in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story will have an opportunity to come before Congress and explain their actions to the American people.
This was a huge story. … But this story’s just beginning, Jason, because we’re going to have every single person at Twitter that was involved in this in front of the House Oversight Committee as soon as possible.

Oopsie.




I'm not sure the point, other than showboating, but ok

 

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Ex-Twitter Executive: Elon Musk Is Putting Us ‘In Harm’s Way’ By Showing How We Censored Content​

 

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A different take on the release of the Twitter files. Notice the word “laptop” doesn’t appear until about 2/3s into the article. Basically according to the Post, the release was a dud.


It was billed as a bombshell: Elon Musk, after rifling through his new company’s internal files, would finally expose how Twitter engaged in “free speech suppression” in the critical run up to the 2020 election.

“This will be awesome,” Musk tweeted, teasing the announcement with a popcorn emoji.

But by the time the dust settled Saturday, even some conservatives were grumbling that it was a dud. Musk’s Twitter Files produced no smoking gun showing that the tech giant had bent to the will of Democrats.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/03/elon-musk-twitter-files/

 

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Oh yeah - I did a search on both CNN and MSNBC of “Elon Musk”. There were only 4 articles on CNN about the Twitter files and NO articles on MSNBC. Surprise! Only the article I posted above showed up on the Washington Post website. Of course there were a dozen or more articles on FoxNews.

 

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More Federal Issues for Twitter as FEC Commissioner Reveals Filing Denying It Worked With Democrats​

Sean Cooksey, the current head of the Federal Elections Commission, looked over some of those exposed communications and he noted some items of interest. In particular, the internal communications showing how the Biden campaign and DNC officials had a direct line of communication within Twitter and that actions were being taken on the platform at the request/command of the Biden handlers sparked the interest of Cooksey.

This clearly displayed a relationship between Twitter and the Democrats. It is a connection that not only had been suspected and noted by numerous individuals and outlets but had been brought to the FEC as an issue to be addressed. When made aware the company response was one that denied this was the case.





The reason this came about was that the group The Tea Party Patriots filed a complaint with the FEC about Twitter’s actions towards stifling the Hunter Biden laptop story and the banishment of the New York Post account. It was alleged that this constituted an in-kind donation to the Biden Campaign. In its defense, Twitter’s lawyers wrote to Jeff Jordan, in the Office of Complaints Examination office regarding the charge.

The complaint asserts that Twitter made an impermissible corporate in-kind contribution to Biden for President, the principal campaign committee for President-elect Joe Biden, when Twitter removed from its platform two articles published by the New York Post that violated Twitter’s pre-existing, politically neutral Rules and policies.

In offering a number of items of defense, one of the direct claims made by the legal team involved the denial of coordination with the campaign.

Twitter’s content moderation decision was not coordinated with the Biden campaign. The Tea Party Patriots Foundation does not allege any coordination in its complaint, and none occurred.

 

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Leftist Media Accuses Elon Musk of 'Doxxing' Twitter Employees Who Suppressed Hunter Biden Laptop​

Without a doubt, the left’s reaction to Elon Musk pulling back the curtain on how federal agencies, the Biden campaign, and Twitter worked together to suppress news about the documents found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop (BREAKING: Elon Musk Spills the Tea on Twitter’s Suppression of the Hunter Biden Laptop Story) has given the most belly-laughs that we’ve experienced in quite a while. They started off claiming that Musk was victimizing a man in crisis — that would be Hunter Biden — because his sex trafficking, drug use, and general corruption are all symptoms of medical conditions rather than moral depravity (The Pathetic New Liberal Cope to the Twitter Suppression Bombshells — Who the Real Victim Is). That has mutated into, “oh, what’s the big deal about banning dick pics”; see Fake Conservative Media Uses Hunter Biden’s Genitalia as a Reason to Hide His Laptop Contents. From that, we’ve moved on to “the real victims are the douchenozzles who participated in the decision to banish all mention of the Hunter Biden laptop from Twitter. This tweet is by Twitter’s former head of “Truth and Safety” (yeah, I threw up a little in my mouth writing that), Yoel Roth (see Twitter’s Former ‘Truth and Safety’ Poohbah Demonstrates Why We Are Ruled by Idiots).








There is a clue that this guy has never participated in business or even written about it in the past. Confidentiality agreements don’t cover internal decision-making processes unrelated to the sale of the company. It is utterly stupid to say, “I’m selling you the company, but the documents and communications on the company’s servers are not yours.” Twitter’s former management team didn’t “allow” Elon Musk to take over. Their only option to the buyout offer was to fight a shareholder lawsuit they would lose.

Relatedly, Musk has effectively doxxed a bunch of people, exposing them to death threats from MAGA crazies (see below). I expect this will lead to further resignations from Twitter – who would want to work for a boss who puts your life in danger? /7

Look, I’ve been doxxed. Twitter actively participated in that doxxing. These people were not doxxed. They were acting on Twitter’s time to do Twitter’s business. They weren’t secret agents. Their emails and Slack messages were not confidential once the company owner decides otherwise. They may be duplicitous f***s who deserve public ridicule, but they weren’t doxxed.

 

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What’s missing from the Twitter files: The truth about the FBI​

Musk reveals that a crucial player in Twitter’s censorship of The Post was former FBI general counsel James Baker, a central player in the Russia collusion hoax, who had become Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel.

Baker in an undated email urges on the censorship action because “caution is warranted.”

“At this stage it is reasonable for us to assume that [the Post had published ‘hacked material’] and that caution is warranted. “There are some facts that indicate that the materials may have been hacked while there are others indicating that the computer was either abandoned and/or the owner consented to allow the repair shop to access for at least some purposes. We simply need more information.”

 

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The Great Meltdown Is Just Beginning​

On Twitter itself run of the mill lefties bemoan these developments. On the pages of the Washington Post and from the TV studios of MSNBC the reaction turned hostile.

One marxist commentator going so far as to claim that by Twitter banning the Hunter Biden expose from the NYPost from being read that Twitter was upholding its rules of service because of the underage nudes contained on the laptop.

Nudes that all these lefties refused to admit existed.

Nudes of Hunter Biden doing illicit drugs.

Nudes of Hunter Biden copulating with underage relatives.

Putting the nudes aside however, the more scandalous and arguably more illegal and legitimately threatening to national security was much of the rest of content that existed (still exists) on the laptop.

It demonstrates direct corruption of then Vice-President, and post Vice-President Joe Biden. “The Big Guy” is seen getting big slices of financial rewards for influence peddled from his drug addict junkie of a washout kid.

In all of the rage at Musk’s release of “The Twitter Files” not a single marxist progressive Democrat leftist acknowledged any of the facts of the laptop, the problematic censorship of the now verified NYPost’s original report, and why on this issue (and likely more to come) they will be unable to prevent future disclosures of such a nature.

 

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Musk says Twitter under his leadership will put pressure on mainstream media to be more truthful​

Musk in the Q&A told the audience that Twitter's goal under his ownership "should be toward truth," which he anticipates will also be a successful business model.

"If the new Twitter is successful in that, then the result would be that people will turn to Twitter to understand what is true, what is real, what narrative matters," said Musk, according to the Epoch Times.

He further argued the plan will "put a lot of competitor pressure on mainstream media and other social media companies to also be more truthful because otherwise they’ll simply keep losing people to Twitter.”

Musk also countered reports that advertisers are leaving Twitter over his control of the company.

He said the site will "become successful and gain share from other social media and it will force other social media to stop toeing the line."

The new Twitter, he said, will give users an "unfiltered narrative" and allow them, through tweets, to have a say in what is the story.

 

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Nick Sandmann Calls On Musk To Release Documents On Threats Twitter ‘Allowed’ To Be Made Against Him​

 

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Roth repeatedly mocked and criticized Republicans on his Twitter account during his time with the company. Roth initially stayed after Musk became CEO but eventually left when it became clear things would be very different.

"If there’s one takeaway, it’s this: What matters most in platform governance is how decisions get made. You can armchair quarterback specific choices and mistakes all day. But the real work is figuring out how to make principled decisions when all you have are bad options," Roth tweeted.

Former Head of Twitter's 'Trust and Safety' Team Whines About 'Dangerous' Babylon Bee Joke

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Yoel Roth sounds like a pussy. Even the name suggests he/she is a pussy.

 

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Yoel Roth sounds like a pussy. Even the name suggests he/she is a pussy.

he is just generating noise to be heard in the Progressive Press

 

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The Bulwark's Tim Miller has changed his tune on Twitter's censorship of the NY Post story

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Saturday the Bulwark published a story basically shrugging off the whole thing as a political sideshow for ultra-MAGA:

While normal humans who denied Republicans their red wave were enjoying an epic sports weekend, an insular community of MAGA activists and online contrarians led by the world’s richest man (for now) were getting riled up about a cache of leaked emails revealing that the former actor James Woods and Chinese troll accounts were not allowed to post ill-gotten photos of Hunter Biden’s hog on a private company’s microblogging platform 25 months ago.
Now if you are one of the normals—someone who would never think about posting another person’s penis on your social media account; has no desire to see politicians’ kids’ penises when scrolling social media; doesn’t understand why there are other people out there who care one way or another about the moderation policies surrounding stolen penis photos; or can’t even figure out what it is that I’m talking about—then this might seem like a gratuitous matter for an article. Sadly, it is not.
Because among Republican members of Congress, leading conservative media commentators, contrarian substackers, conservative tech bros, and friends of Donald Trump, the ability to post Hunter Biden’s **** shots on Twitter is the number-one issue in America this weekend. They believe that if they are not allowed to post porno, our constitutional republic may be in jeopardy.
I truly, truly wish I were joking.

He’s not joking but he is playing the same kind of partisan political games the Bulwark is always playing. There were at least 36 tweets in Matt Taibbi’s thread but Tim Miller only wants to talk about one of them (#8):






So someone pulled up those tweets in the Wayback Machine and they were all Hunter Biden porn:

There was a tweet from a Chinese account featuring a naked woman on top of Hunter Biden, as well as a family photo. Two pictures of Hunter Biden’s penis, one with another woman in the background.

He concludes:

To sum up what we learned: Big penis, little news, First Amendment not under threat.
Musk and Taibbi have promised more editions of the “Twitter Files” in the coming days, maybe next time they won’t come up so limp.

His story apparently caught the attention of Lee Zeldin who saw it as part of a larger pattern surrounding this story.






That was certainly the more significant part and the part that has been the focus of most attention for years now. But also, it was a story about social media outlets shutting down content harmful to Democrats for no reason. The Twitter Files really underlined that there was in fact no reason for any of it. The people in charge seemed to be making it up as they went. There was also this tweet which indicated that at least one progressive member of the House, Rep. Ro Khanna, understood the problem as it was happening: “this seems a violation of 1st Amendment principles.”