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Twitter Files collected

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Twitter Files 9 – State Governments caught censoring “election misinformation” using Twitter Partner Portal to unconstitutionally censor 1st Amendment rights of American citizens:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605317665387577345 (Dec. 20 2022)

Twitter Files 8 – How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605292454261182464 (Dec. 20 2022)

Twitter Files 7 – The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1604871630613753856 (Dec. 19 2022)

Twitter Files 6 – Twitter, The FBI Subsidiary:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1603857534737072128 (Dec. 16 2022)

Twitter Files 5 – The Removal of Trump from Twitter:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602364197194432515 (Dec. 12 2022)

Twitter Files 4 – The Removal of Donald Trump: January 7:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601720455005511680 (Dec. 10 2022)

Twitter Files 3 – Deplatforming the President:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601352083617505281 (Dec. 9 2022)

Twitter Files 2 – Twitter’s Secret BlackLists:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601007575633305600 (Dec. 9 2022)

Twitter Files 1 – The Twitter Files:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598822959866683394 (Dec. 2 2022)

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1. After learning that Twitter employs at least 15 former FBI agents, I searched Facebook. What I found is alarming

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Facebook currently employs at least 115 people, in high-ranking positions, that formerly worked at FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS:

17 CIA
37 FBI
23 NSA
38 DHS

2. All, but a few, of the former intelligence agents were hired, by Facebook after the 2016 Presidential Election & after the FBI established their social media-focused task force FTIF. 

3. As @mtaibbi detailed in #TwitterFiles Part 6, we know there was massive coordination of censorship between the FBI & Twitter during 2020-2022.

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This is asymmetric warfare. Many of these people see themselves as soldiers, “combatants against misinfo.” And you can be certain many of them have handlers or superior officers who control battalions and regiments of hostile actors within the borders of USA, working in many other areas besides information-control. Covid has had the grisly benefit of showing anyone who cares to look how deep and dirty this side of our society is, riddled with self-righteous parasites and enemy combatants who are feeding on the wealth of this nation while disrupting all of the societal organizations that created it. ABN

FBI ‘Deep State’ team of 80 people regularly handed Twitter lists of people to BAN – including actor Billy Baldwin and satire accounts, new trove of Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ reveal

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A new trove of internal communications from Twitter suggests that the FBI maintained persistent contact with company employees in recent years, frequently proposing user bans, including for strident Trump critic and actor Billy Baldwin, and what appear to be satire accounts.  

‘Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,’ argued journalist Matt Taibbi, who shared the documents in a Twitter thread on Friday afternoon. 

FBI officials, meeting with Twitter executives, told them there was ‘no impediment’ to sharing classified information with them, according to an internal memo.

The files were the latest in a series of documents to be released after Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk gave a group of hand-picked journalists access to the company’s internal records. 

‘Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth,’ claimed Taibbi.

‘But a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts,’ he added.

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Matt Gaetz Insists He’s ‘Virtually Certain’ Kevin McCarthy’s Never Been ‘Censored’ by Big Tech: ‘He’s Controlled Opposition’

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Rep. Matt Gaetz floated his theory that Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has never been censored by Big Tech because he’s the “controlled opposition.”

On the Tuesday edition of Firebrand with Matt Gaetz, he spoke about his tweets being limited and getting banned by Twitter while McCarthy, according to Gaetz, has never had to deal with the same issue.

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nostr – Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays

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The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global “social” network once and for all.

It doesn’t rely on any trusted central server, hence it is resilient; it is based on cryptographic keys and signatures, so it is tamperproof; it does not rely on P2P techniques, therefore it works.

This is a work-in-progress. Join the Telegram group!

Very short summary of how it works, if you don’t plan to read anything else:

Everybody runs a client. It can be a native client, a web client, etc. To publish something, you write a post, sign it with your key and send it to multiple relays (servers hosted by someone else, or yourself). To get updates from other people, you ask multiple relays if they know anything about these other people. Anyone can run a relay. A relay is very simple and dumb. It does nothing besides accepting posts from some people and forwarding to others. Relays don’t have to be trusted. Signatures are verified on the client side.

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This was recommended by Jack Dorsey this morning. Something like this has to be done. We all have to support it. A communication system that cannot be controlled by governments or corporations or secret societies, once established, will be a major turning point in world history. There is no other path forward for free speech, individual rights, human rights, a flourishing world civilization than this one. This kind of system is also in perfect alignment with the American First Amendment and core Buddhist ethical teachings. ABN

Bill Barr is Contributor to Bari Weiss Twitter File Release Website

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I’m not going to write extensively about this because I respect your intellectual ability to see the obvious.  Questions have been raised about why the Twitter File releases appear to have been structured in a fashion to protect government interests.

Well, the new Bari Weiss website that was set up to launch as an exclusive outcome of the Twitter File release, includes a current contributor and former 2020 control officer of the DOJ who would have facilitated the DHS/FBI contact with social media; the stuff that is transparently missing from the Twitter File releases.

Yes, former AG Bill Barr is a content partner with Twitter File narrative engineer Bari Weiss.  Gee, I wonder how that happens?

Oh look, and what a coincidence… they are both promoting Ron DeSantis.

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This kind of information reveals the narrative control networks and how they are arranged and interact. Who the players are and how they are connected. At near-the-top levels they all speak with the same voice. At higher levels of control all sides of whatever issue are enfolded into the network as controlled opposition. We can be sure about Barr and quite sure about Weiss but may still wonder about Musk. What role is he playing? Is he controlled opposition, a limited hangout, a red-herring or a real person with an active spirit and imagination? I can forgive his too-early support of DeSantis as maybe he does not understand American politics.

Maybe Musk is fooling his handlers and will dump all the Twitter documents exposing all the crimes just before Christmas. I am willing to wait awhile and listen to him charitably. We can be sure he is under enormous pressure to submit to control. I am certain there is a very large carrot and a very large stick hanging over him and he knows it in detail. And he knows what happened to Ye, whose handler he may even share. ABN

‘They are GOVERNMENT GANGSTERS… The FBI was in on it. They’ve admitted under oath to being there with Twitter, so… release the Twitter documents with the FBI. That’s my biggest ask of Elon Musk’ — Kash Patel names names

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“What they have done against the American people is destroy the Department of Justice… We have to call these people out. At this moment in time Elon Musk giving out all this information is our one chance at getting it all back.” ~ Kash Patel

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Patel describes a large and filthy parasitic subculture feeding on USA through its control of DOJ, FBI, and more. Infiltration, usurpation, asymmetric war, call it what you like, this is far more serious than mere government corruption. Today is a test of Elon Musk’s depth. Is he going to expose only some of the evidence to sanitize it, to program the public and fold Twitter into a mind-control narrative that condones parasitism and ruination of USA? Or is he going to deliver all the goods and help resurrect USA? This is a major turning-point. ABN

The Banning of Trump from Twitter by ‘Bury the Lede’ Weiss — ‘a handful of people at a private company’

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The entirety of Twitter File #5 release surrounds this internal Twitter dynamic, carefully avoiding any discussion or sunlight from outside government actors who may have been in direct contact with the senior Twitter team.

Indeed, the documents chosen to provide evidence of the debate and decision to remove President Trump are transparently devoid of any inbound government contact to the Twitter organization.

Thus, at the end of Ms. Weiss carefully written expose’, she concludes with this:

See, it’s only “a handful of people at a private company“…. Nothing to see here folks, move along, move along.

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THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE.

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THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM TWITTER.

1. On the morning of January 8, President Donald Trump, with one remaining strike before being at risk of permanent suspension from Twitter, tweets twice.

2. 6:46 am: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”

3. 7:44 am: “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

Continue reading “THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE.” →

Prosecuting Julian Assange is a threat to press freedom

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“Publishing is not a crime,” the editors and publishers of The New York Times and four leading European news outlets say in an open letter released last week. While that statement might seem uncontroversial, the U.S. Department of Justice disagrees, as evidenced by its prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for obtaining and disseminating classified material.

In urging the Justice Department to drop that case, the Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El Pais implicitly acknowledge that freedom of the press is meaningless when the government decides who is allowed to exercise it. Although that point also might seem obvious, journalists who take a dim view of Assange have long argued that attempting to imprison him for divulging government secrets poses no threat to their work because he does not qualify as a member of their profession.

That position is profoundly ahistorical. As scholars such as UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh have shown, the “freedom … of the press” guaranteed by the First Amendment protects your right to communicate with the public through the printed word and other tools of mass communication, regardless of whether you do that for a living or work for a mainstream news organization.

The Assange exception to the First Amendment is also dangerously shortsighted. As the Times et al. emphasize, the conduct at the center of the case against him is indistinguishable from what professional journalists do every day when they reveal information that the government wants to conceal.

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So far so good. Yet still, I greatly fear this statement because it is so wrong: “New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.” -Elon Musk 11-18-22. That said, I accept that this is an evolving situation and hope for the best. ABN