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Thread: THE TWITTER FILES ~ Matt Taibbi

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1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

2. What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter.

3. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.

4. Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true real-time global conversation possible for the first time.

5. In an early conception, Twitter more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people “the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”

6. As time progressed, however, the company was slowly forced to add those barriers. Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters.

7. Slowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly.

[The Hunter’s laptop story starts at #16. ABN]

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‘It was a mistake’: Ex-Twitter safety chief FINALLY admits censoring Hunter Biden’s laptop story was a huge error – but claims it was because ‘we did not know what was true’

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  • Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, said it was a mistake for the company to censor the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story 
  • The story revealed Hunter’s private life and  controversial business ties to Ukraine in the run-up to his father’s presidential race against Donald Trump
  • Roth said the story set off ‘hack and leak’ alarms, but he did not believe it should have ever been censored 
  • He said the uncertainty over the story was ultimately what led to it being suppressed for 24 hours, a decision slammed by new Chief Twit Elon Musk 
  • Musk has vowed to release files detailing the company’s decision to censor the story as Roth and former CEO Jack Dorsey appear to have passed the buck  
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‘Why would Pfizer want to block something for 75 years? Doesn’t every world citizen deserve to know what that was? Because, by that time, there were billions of injections given all over the world’ ~ Dr James Thorp

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk Says He Will Publicly Reveal Twitter’s “Files on Free Speech,” and Implies Coordination with Government

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CTH has not visited the various Twitter stories recently, quite frankly because we are ambivalent to them.  It just seems illogical for Elon Musk to have purchased Twitter without any idea of what was happening inside Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop, the public-private partnership that structures the operations of the social media company known as Twitter.

That said, some interesting developments recently as media rail against the platform and organized ultra-leftist groups demand advertising boycotts.  Apparently, Apple and Android are threatening to remove the Twitter App and Mr. Musk is doubling down on exposing the matrix of how the U.S. government was working with Twitter toward controlling speech that was against their interests.

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There Is No Freedom of Speech Without Freedom of Reach

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“New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.” -Elon Musk 11-18-22

Every now and then someone new comes around and claims to support free speech. I do my best to give you my analysis of the situation objectively. This is often difficult to do in my position as the CEO of Gab because so many people dismiss my insight as “envy” or “fear” when in reality I’m just doing what I always do and calling it how I see it. I don’t say this to be braggadocios, but as a matter of fact I am the foremost expert in the world when it comes to free speech online and so my opinion on these matters holds weight.

I’ve spent six years building the only platform on the internet that upholds First Amendment-protected political speech as the baseline for what is allowed to be posted. I’ve paid the price for this policy, getting banned from App Stores, banks, payment processors, hosting providers, and dozens of other services. No other platform can make this claim, certainly not Musk’s Twitter. 

If you’ll remember I was correct about Parler and their use of AI to censor, I was correct about Rumble and their “hate speech” terms of service, and I was correct about Gettr using AI to censor as well. All of them claim to support free speech and all of them bent the knee to the Regime powers and censor “hate speech.” Twitter under Elon Musk is no different and my analysis about this situation will be right as well. Believe me now or thank me later. Take it or leave it. 

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The example of how much better uncurated science has done during the pandemic than the curated kind proves that free speech does not lead to mayhem or even hurt feelings. It leads to better information. If real science had not been censored by government, social media, Twitter, and MSM, we would probably not even remember covid today. Real uncurated science found effective early treatments for covid within one year, thus precluding any need for a vaccine. Real uncurated science also identified the danger of Remdesivir, ventilators, and the experimental vaccines. The correct algorithm to use on Twitter is Twitter users being allowed to view what they want to. ABN

Oppressed J** Is Watching You: What Orwell Got Wrong in his Dystopian Satire Nineteen Eighty-Four

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When it was first published in 1949, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was a dystopian satire aimed at the left. In 2022, the novel seems to have become an instruction manual used by the left. For example, in Orwell’s satire the worst of all offences is thoughtcrime, the denial of official ideology and rebellion against the self-proclaimed wisdom and virtue of the state. The modern left have invented many forms of thoughtcrime to justify censorship and their own control. And the supreme form of thoughtcrime today is racism. In Britain, leftists have concealed and even collaborated with decades of organized rape and child-prostitution because the criminals are brown-skinned Muslims and their victims are White.

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Within Minutes of Arizona Gov Election Call, Twitter, DHS and Big Tech Begin Blocking Discussion of Difference Between “Ballots and Votes”

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I’m going to skip noting that Elon Musk Twitter is essentially unchanged, regarding the relationship between Twitter, the Dept of Homeland Security and the disinformation police, as many keep saying Musk Twitter has not had time to reformat.

That said, five days after our post-election review of the difference between ballots and votes, and within minutes of the controversial Arizona governor contest being announced by DHS media outlets, suddenly any discussion about “Ballots -vs- Votes” is considered a risk to democracy. [LINK}

The need for control is a reaction to fear.

Twitter specifically, and Big Tech writ large, has now placed a warning on the CTH article where we draw attention to the general difference between ballots and votes. The timing of the intervention, as related to the content discussed, is transparent. Sunlight is a great disinfectant and must be controlled at all costs.

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Twitter: the bans really started coming in after the first Biden VAX mandate

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Based on some data collected at the website: OPENVAET (nice play on acronyms there) our RG colleague notes that the bans really started coming in after the first Biden VAX mandated at the beginning of September 2021 and then directly after Elon’s first signs of wanting to pursue Twitter.

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Sad to contemplate how interconnected all the top Big Money is. ABN

Bombshell congressional report says FBI ‘turned a blind eye’ to Hunter Biden paying thousands ‘to individuals involved in human trafficking and organized prostitution’ and his dodgy foreign deals revealed on laptop in weeks before 2020 election

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  • Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee claim the FBI ‘downplayed’ Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals in the weeks before the 2020 election 
  • The allegations are detailed in the committee’s 1,050-page report released Friday on the politicization and misconduct in the FBI
  • The report noted scandalous details revealed from Hunter’s abandoned laptop, including thousands he paid ‘to individuals involved in prostitution’
  • Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted his company censored stories about Joe Biden’s involvement in Hunter’s business dealings 
  • Zuckerberg said it came after the FBI warned them to be on ‘on high alert’ for ‘Russian propaganda’
  • The committee is demanding answers from the FBI on why they labeled Hunter’s laptop ‘Russian disinformation’ 
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