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Elon Musk Flat-Out Says Fauci Lied to Congress and Gain-of-Function Research Killed People
The many ways in which truth was silenced and harmful information was promoted by Twitter obviously had the effect of influencing the 2020 election, but the most damaging effects won’t fully be known for years. Unlike many of the things the left claims lead to death, Twitter’s actions did lead to death.
Musk’s tweet about his pronouns, predictably, led to a backlash from super upset liberals like Scott Kelly, who replied that Musk was promoting hate and that, by the way, “Dr. Fauci is a dedicated public servant whose sole motivation was saving lives.”
‘Great Barrington Declaration’ Co-Author Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Invited to Twitter Headquarters to Review Twitter’s Internal Slack Messages Regarding Content Modulation
Elon Musk reached out to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of doctors mentioned earlier this week in the Twitter Files release.
Jay Bhattacharya is also one of the co-authors of The Great Barrington Declaration.
On October4, 2020, top international epidemiologists Dr. Martin Kulldorff from Harvard, Dr. Sunetra Gupta from Oxford and Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya from Stanford, announced their scientific initiative to reopen society and resume life in the West for those who are not vulnerable to the coronavirus. They called this The Great Barrington Declaration.
The top doctors argued that Fauci’s COVID lockdowns should be replaced with focused protection plans. They had science on their side. Over 930,000 public health scientists and members of the medical community signed on to the declaration since its inception.
Dr. Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins immediately launched an effort to discredit and silence this movement. It threatened their control of the population.
Dr. Fauci, Dr. Francis and Dr. Lawrence Tabak, who took over NIH when Dr. Francis left, were threatened by this movement and decided to wage war on the doctors.
This email was sent out on October 8, 2020, just days after the Great Barrington Declaration announcement.
Twitter and Facebook then censored and shadowbanned any mentions of The Great Barrington Declaration after the complaints by Fauci and others.
Dr. Bhattacharya later lashed out at Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins for their dishonest tactics to take down any doctors who challenge their highly flawed and dangerous positions.
Elon Musk reached out to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of doctors mentioned earlier this week in the Twitter Files release.
Jay Bhattacharya is also one of the co-authors of The Great Barrington Declaration.
On October4, 2020, top international epidemiologists Dr. Martin Kulldorff from Harvard, Dr. Sunetra Gupta from Oxford and Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya from Stanford, announced their scientific initiative to reopen society and resume life in the West for those who are not vulnerable to the coronavirus. They called this The Great Barrington Declaration.
The top doctors argued that Fauci’s COVID lockdowns should be replaced with focused protection plans. They had science on their side. Over 930,000 public health scientists and members of the medical community signed on to the declaration since its inception.
Dr. Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins immediately launched an effort to discredit and silence this movement. It threatened their control of the population.
Dr. Fauci, Dr. Francis and Dr. Lawrence Tabak, who took over NIH when Dr. Francis left, were threatened by this movement and decided to wage war on the doctors.
This email was sent out on October 8, 2020, just days after the Great Barrington Declaration announcement.
Twitter and Facebook then censored and shadowbanned any mentions of The Great Barrington Declaration after the complaints by Fauci and others.
Dr. Bhattacharya later lashed out at Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins for their dishonest tactics to take down any doctors who challenge their highly flawed and dangerous positions.
Piers Morgan doubts Elton John’s Twitter knowledge in scathing jibe
Reacting to the Tweet, Piers took a savage swipe at the legendry musician, writing: “I bet Elton doesn’t even know how to tweet.”
The users on the site didn’t appear impressed with the broadcaster’s remarks as one wrote: “That’s Sir Elton John to you Piers,’ while another penned: ‘Wish you didn’t tbh.”
Did Twitter Suppress Covid Lockdown Protests? Elon Musk Should Find Out
A month into the Covid-19 lockdowns, anti-lockdown protests were taking place nationwide. Politico reported: “Facebook is blocking anti-quarantine protesters from using the site to organize in-person gatherings that violate states’ stay-at-home orders.” A Facebook spokesman said the company was removing posts “when gatherings do not follow the health parameters established by the government and are therefore unlawful.” Protest organizers’ Pages were also shut down by Facebook for violating its terms of service by allegedly inciting violence.
But protest organizers knew to encourage participants to wear masks, socially distance, and not carry guns to avoid criticism. How much did Twitter, Facebook, and other tech giants restrict protesters from organizing under the guise of concerns about health risks or incitement to violence?
While there were those calling for revolution and saying menacing things on social media, did groups clearly advocating nonviolent demonstrations get blocked too? What was Twitter’s policy on sharing posts inviting people to demonstrate peacefully?
We know tech giants acted to support heavy-handed Covid-19 policies. They suppressed content questioning Covid lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccines. Anthony Fauci directly communicated with Facebook’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg, to control coronavirus information. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s digital medical chief communicated with Twitter executives about censoring unapproved opinions on social media.
As the Twitter Files have revealed, Twitter executives are about 99 percent Democrat and amplify and suppress viewpoints “quite a bit.”
Elon Musk Just Ripped The Mask Off Liberal Media’s Fascist Little Brats
“The Branch Covidians are upset,” Elon Musk tweeted Monday, taking at jab at the dogmatic liberals who pushed for lockdowns and online censorship during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Musk made the cheeky remark shortly before the fourth installment of the “Twitter files” dropped Monday afternoon. Sunday night’s report showed the massive campaign against Trump’s account following January 6, revealing that the platform’s censors deleted posts that contained a screenshot of a Trump tweet, even if that post was critical of Trump.
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After spouting the regime-approved line that social media censorship at the behest of government officials was not occurring, lackeys in the news media shifted the narrative almost literally overnight. Now the line is that censorship was undoubtedly occurring but it’s outright good that it was.
For anyone who’s been paying attention to the liberal media, Big Tech and the nefarious relationship between the two, the revelation isn’t as surprising at is vindicating.
Musk single-handedly confirmed that massive tech platforms are working with Democrats to circumvent first amendment laws against censorship and meddling in elections by suppressing news that harms their not-so-secret political agenda, as well as “shadow banning” accounts based on trumped up charges of “stochastic terrorism,” despite all of this being explicitly denied by high-profile journalists and top Twitter executives.
Twitter Ends Trust and Safety Council
The company announced in an email that it was “reevaluating how best to bring external insights into our product and policy development work. As part of this process, we have decided that the Trust and Safety Council is not the best structure to do this.”
When it was first launched in 2016, the council was composed of mostly left wing industry experts and organizations largely focused on restricting so-called hate speech. Original members included the Anti-Defamation League, Center for Democracy and Technology, Dangerous Speech Project, Feminist Frequency, Love 146, NetSafe, Samaritans, the Wahid Institute, and others.
Yoel Roth, the former global head of Trust and Safety who resigned after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, was responsible for leading the team that suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell exposed by the New York Post.
10 Million Views Of Child Sexual Exploitation Material Allegedly Watched On ‘Old Twitter’: Report
A new report from the data analyst released Friday found that more than 95% of several active accounts exploiting CSAM, which allegedly included videos of children and teens involved in sexual activities, “acted with impunity for years.”
“The more we work on child sexual abuse material on Twitter, the more we find the HELL left by the old Twitter management,” Stroppa wrote in a Twitter thread.
Stroppa said those accounts have since been taken down.
Twitter’s alleged CSAM problem has been documented for more than a decade.
#TwitterFiles No. 5 drop paints a damning picture of Twitter’s Maoist culture
The zealots on Twitter’s bloated payroll (most of whom had graduated from America’s hard-left colleges), however, were having none of that. They were adamant that Trump had violated the policy against incitement. As one employee stated in the company’s Slack channel, it was “pretty obvious he’s going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules.” In other words, these proud products of America’s academic system firmly believed that they had to violate their own rules in order to prevent Trump from continuing not to violate their rules.
Weiss has chapter and verse showing the Maoist employees demanding that Trump be kicked off America’s premier political platform, even as those given the task of analyzing his tweets could not twist them into anything approaching conduct that violated Twitter’s rules. Weiss, to her credit, makes the point that, even as Twitter was twisting itself into intellectually corrupt pretzels to silence an American president, it was an open platform for world leaders engaged in genuine incitement.
Those who remained on the platform were Iran’s Ayatollah demanding Israel’s annihilation, a Malayan Prime Minister calling for Muslims to “kill millions of French people,” the Nigerian leader inciting violence against pro-Biafra groups, the Ethiopian Prime Minister calling on citizens to take up arms against a region within Ethiopia, and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s threat to imprison Twitter employees for restoring accounts he disliked. Twitter deleted their inciting tweets but did not deplatform them.
And of course, Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s Trump-hating top attorney, tried to twist Trump’s word into “coded incitement to further violence.” In other words, if Trump says it, it must be an incitement to violence because his 75,000,000 supporters are all waiting to rise up. This mindset appears in a Slack conversation referring to an idea from the “scaled enforcement team”: “SCALE is asking if we would consider Trump’s Tweet for GOV. If we consider ‘American Patriots’ to refer to the rioters, they have a point.”
The Council was comprised of about 100 people — volunteers including activists and “independent experts” from various human rights and other organizations from around the world — who weigh in on “safety, products, programs, and rules.”
Three guesses as to what politics most of those folks espoused and how that might have influenced the content moderation and the rules. Is it any wonder that conservatives were suppressed and silenced?
As we previously reported, three of the members of that council threw a tantrum and quit last week, because they were unhappy with the changes that Musk was bringing. Musk called them out for not doing enough to deal with child sexual exploitation (CSE) on the platform.
Musk said almost no one had been working on child safety which he was making his number one priority.
Three guesses as to what politics most of those folks espoused and how that might have influenced the content moderation and the rules. Is it any wonder that conservatives were suppressed and silenced?
As we previously reported, three of the members of that council threw a tantrum and quit last week, because they were unhappy with the changes that Musk was bringing. Musk called them out for not doing enough to deal with child sexual exploitation (CSE) on the platform.
Musk said almost no one had been working on child safety which he was making his number one priority.
Elon 'stops paying rent on Twitter's San Fran HQ and offices around world - as he considers NOT paying severance to axed employees' and sells off woke items in cost-cutting exercise
- Twitter has allegedly not paid rent on its headquarters or global offices
- The news comes as Elon Musk continues to find every avenue he can to slash costs at the social media company, which he acquired for $44billion in October
- Musk is also reportedly considering not paying out severance to the thousands of employees that have been laid off from Twitter since he took over
Twitter has reportedly been trying to renegotiate the terms of its lease with the managing company that owns its San Francisco office building, Shortenstein.
But the relationship does not seem to be going well as Shorenstein and other real estate companies the social media company works for have complained to them, according to the Times, though it is unclear what the complaints were about.
In addition to sending its office supplies to auction as a way to save money, the company has also laid off its kitchen staff.
And one of the travel expenses Musk has refused to pay included a $197,725 tab for private flights which were taken the very week he took over the company.
Numerous other travel vendors have also gone unpaid, according to the Times.
The payment over that private charter bill has gone to court in New Hampshire.
The Undeniable Truth About Leftist Threats to Leave Twitter
… and also by way of an NBC News report which detailed “Why liberal Washington can’t quit Twitter.” It quoted numerous Democrats and other prominent left-wing figures/icons who said in so many words that they just can’t bring themselves to totally disconnect from Twitter even though they really, really want to:
The Bulwark’s Molly Jong-Fast is another:
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) was also quoted as saying though he felt Musk “is an entitled jerk,” that he’s “in dialogue with my [Senate] staff” on quitting it. In other words, he’s sticking around.
AOC, of course, ain’t goin’ nowhere, either:
Woman Finds The Bots Are Very Much Still On Twitter With Two Word Test
Woman Finds The Bots Are Very Much Still On Twitter With Two Word Test
Musk had earlier claimed that bots were dead.
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It's a bullshit comparison ... and Elon NEVER Said he Twitter Removed ALL BOTS
Twitter suspends CNN, NYT, WaPo journalists, Elon Musk alleges they're banned for 'doxxing' his family
Among those whose accounts were permanently suspended include CNN correspondent Donie O'Sullivan, New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mac, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell, The Intercept journalist Micah Lee, VOA correspondent Steve Herman, Mashable writer Matt Binder, former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and former Vox journalist Aaron Rupar.
Additionally, the Twitter account belonging to the social media rival Mastodon, which served as a safe haven for liberals who initially fled Twitter following Musk's takeover (many made their way back to Twitter).
Musk, who described himself as being a free-speech absolutist, received backlash for the purge of his critics, many calling for him to explain why those accounts were suspended.
'I do get it': AOC sympathizes with Musk after he banned nine journalists for 'posting assassination co-ordinates' of his location - as he asks Twitter users to vote in poll to decide if they should be reinstated and CNN threatens to leave site
Representative Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez took to Twitter Thursday night to say she sympathized with Elon Musk's desire to prevent himself from being doxed — but still branded his ban on nine journalists 'proto-fascism.'
Her comments come after Musk suspended the accounts of at least nine journalists who he said tweeted links to an account which tracks the movements of his private jet, an action he likened to posting 'assassination coordinates.'
The congresswoman said 'I get get feeling unsafe,' noting that she has also experienced similar threats to her safety, and added that she felt the billionaire was 'descending into abuse of power' to try to protect himself.
Journalists Ryan Mac of the New York Times, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, Donie O'Sullivan of CNN, Matt Binder of Mashable, Michah Lee of The Intercept, Steven Herman of VOA, along with Aaron Rupar, Tony Webster, and Keith Olberman, all found their Twitter accounts suspended on Thursday.