Tonight, Matt Taibbi broke a potentially huge political corruption story by publishing a detailed account of the censoring of the NY Post’s Hunter Biden laptop article. But he didn’t place it at the New York Times, Washington Post, or any other media outlet. He tweeted it.
If you’ve been following the story, this isn’t that surprising: Elon’s made it clear he wants Twitter to become the “most accurate source of information in the world.” And, true to his word, he broke a big story on the platform today.
MJ @morganisawizard
*me refreshing @mtaibbi’s feed every 5 seconds* my finger:
We’re all for that mission. But tonight, the experience of reading Taibbi’s scoop was suboptimal and headache-y. It seemed to take forever for him to update the thread with the next tweet, and on mobile, you had to open the horizontally-aligned text screenshots, zoom in, then scroll back and forth to read the content.
Here’s the thread in its entirety, with its text screenshots enlarged (we ran them through an image-to-text translator, copied the text into a vertically-aligned Notes window, and screenshotted them) so that it’s easier to read. Enjoy.
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1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”
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9. Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party:
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10.Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:
12. The resulting slant in content moderation decisions is visible in the documents you’re about to read. However, it’s also the assessment of multiple current and former high-level executives.
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Okay, there was more throat-clearing about the process, but screw it, let’s jump forward
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16. The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
[Don’t worry, he did go from 12. to 16. here — we didn’t miss any of the thread]
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17. On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop:
nypost.comSmoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dadHunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine in…
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18. Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.
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19. White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who seethed: “At least pretend to care for the next 20 days.”
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20.This led public policy executive Caroline Strom to send out a polite WTF query. Several employees noted that there was tension between the comms/policy teams, who had little/less control over moderation, and the safety/trust teams:
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21. Strom’s note returned the answer that the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company’s “hacked materials” policy: https://t.co/EdTa2xbXn1
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22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence – that I’ve seen – of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem…
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23. The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.
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24. “They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.”
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25.You can see the confusion in the following lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gadde and former Trust and safety chief Yoel Roth. Comms official Trenton Kennedy writes, “I’m struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe”:
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26. By this point “everyone knew this was fucked,” said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of… continuing to err.
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27. Former VP of Global Comms Brandon Borrman asks, “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?”
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28. To which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker again seems to advise staying the non-course, because “caution is warranted”:
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29. A fundamental problem with tech companies and content moderation: many people in charge of speech know/care little about speech, and have to be told the basics by outsiders. To wit:
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30. In one humorous exchange on day 1, Democratic congressman Ro Khanna reaches out to Gadde to gently suggest she hop on the phone to talk about the “backlash re speech.” Khanna was the only Democratic official I could find in the files who expressed concern.
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Gadde replies quickly, immediately diving into the weeds of Twitter policy, unaware Khanna is more worried about the Bill of Rights:
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32.Khanna tries to reroute the conversation to the First Amendment, mention of which is generally hard to find in the files:
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33.Within a day, head of Public Policy Lauren Culbertson receives a ghastly letter/report from Carl Szabo of the research firm NetChoice, which had already polled 12 members of congress – 9 Rs and 3 Democrats, from “the House Judiciary Committee to Rep. Judy Chu’s office.”
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34.NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it’s a “tipping point,” complaining tech has “grown so big that they can’t even regulate themselves, so government may need to intervene.”
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35.Szabo reports to Twitter that some Hill figures are characterizing the laptop story as “tech’s Access Hollywood moment”:
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36.Twitter files continued: “THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE” Szabo’s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democratic lawmakers’ attitudes. They want “more” moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights, it’s “not absolute”
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An amazing subplot of the Twitter/Hunter Biden laptop affair was how much was done without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, and how long it took for the situation to get “unfucked” (as one ex-employee put it) even after Dorsey jumped in.
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There are multiple instances in the files of Dorsey intervening to question suspensions and other moderation actions, for accounts across the political spectrum
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The problem with the “hacked materials” ruling, several sources said, was that this normally required an official/law enforcement finding of a hack. But such a finding never appears throughout what one executive describes as a “whirlwind” 24-hour, company-wide mess.
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It’s been a whirlwind 96 hours for me, too. There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more. These issues are not limited to the political right.
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Good night, everyone. Thanks to all those who picked up the phone in the last few days.
Here’s what really stands out to me…
QUESTIONS SWIRLING: Jack Dorsey “Pizza” Email Deleted, Musk Trying To Defend Dorsey?
There was one major theme that jumped out to me in the Elon Musk / Matt Taibbi “Twitter Files” bombshell posts from tonight…
One thing most people are not talking about.
Two things actually.
First, is what appears to me to be a pretty clear attempt to distance Jack Dorsey from any of the problems and “whitewash” his image.
I’m not buying it, but tell me what you think after reading these:
23. The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.
There are multiple instances in the files of Dorsey intervening to question suspensions and other moderation actions, for accounts across the political spectrum
An amazing subplot of the Twitter/Hunter Biden laptop affair was how much was done without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, and how long it took for the situation to get "unfucked" (as one ex-employee put it) even after Dorsey jumped in.
This article contains statements and commentary which are the opinion of Concrete Conspiracy.
WARNING: SENSITIVE INFORMATION! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!
NOTE: This article is just reiterating what many of you already know. I will continue to write about this because of its importance. Many are still asleep. I wrote this article in a way that could potentially wake more people up. I think this subject is still very relevant today!
This is the biggest story I’ve reported on yet. This has been a controversial story throughout the media. I hope to just take bits of information at a time and in the end, you’re drawing the conclusions, not me. The term “pizzagate” has been used by many particularly in the republican party when talking about a secret democratic child sex ring involving people on capitol hill.
I personally did not like the reporting on this topic. There were two main sides to this reporting. The first(the mainstream media/ the left), dismissed all accusations relating to ‘pizzagate’ without even providing an explanation as to why they were false, and the other(republican/ right wing), claimed that all the accusations were true and something needed to be done about it. Note that I’m not putting everyone into these two categories, there were some people who reported it excellently, however, these were the two main sides. I intend to make this article not fall into these two categories. I will just lay all the information out and you will get to decide who falls on the wrong side.
Before I begin the article, I hope that my past articles have provided you with a foundation that sexual abuse, trafficking, and satanic ritual abuse, are systematic! Once you have a foundation for that, this won’t be too hard for you to believe.
Who is James Achilles Alefantis?
Mr. Alefantis is the owner of the Washington DC pizza parlor Comet Ping Pong. There are disturbing allegations that Mr. Alefantis is running some form of a pedophile ring that involves quite a few public figures in Washington D.C. Since the investigation began, Mr. Alefantis has deleted many of his posts and set his social media to private. Many have archived the entirety of his online presence, however. The links posted here are both archives and screenshots I took while helping to investigate.
First I will discuss Alefantis’ links to powerful people, then outline the preponderance of the evidence that he is allegedly a pedophile and uses Comet Ping Pong as a front for his sex trafficking ring.
Connections between James Alefantis and Power Brokers:
Alefantis appears to have some form of relationship to spirit cooking “artist” Marina Abramovic as he references her on his Instagram: here
He also posted a photo that appears to possibly make a Moloch reference: https://archive.ph/ycEwD
Moloch is a Semitic god to whom children were sacrificed. It is a name or a term which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices that are associated with Moloch, practices which appear to have included child sacrifice.
Barack Obama:
Here is a photo Alefantis posted showing Obama playing ping pong with a young boy: https://archive.ph/4uB5R
Obama has also been identified in the Wikileaks Podesta dump as having held phone banks at Comet Ping Pong’s location: here and here
Alefantis is also listed in White House records as having visited a few times: https://imgur.com/Ia1lLQK
Hillary Clinton:
Here is a letter Alefantis posted from Hillary thanking him for helping with a fundraiser that involved the Podestas: https://archive.ph/Jeh0X
An FEC search also shows payments made to Alefantis from the Clinton Campaign and pro-Clinton PACS: here and here
George Soros:
Soros is listed as a major donor to the American Bridge 21st Century PAC: https://archive.ph/afTPu
American Bridge 21st Century is a liberal American Super PAC that supports Democratic candidates and opposes Republican candidates. It was founded by David Brock in 2010 and is associated with Media Matters for America. It is an opposition research hub for the Democratic Party. The group physically tracks and monitors Republican candidates and officials and uses social media to deploy its findings.
This PAC is on record with the FEC as having made several donations to Comet Ping Pong: here,here, and here
Implications James Alefantis is potentially running a pedophile ring out of Comet Ping Pong:
A. Sexual references made in Comet Ping Pong and by Alefantis online:
First off. Comet Ping Pong advertises itself as a “family place for parents and their kids”.
Despite its claim to be “family-friendly”, the restaurant has a number of disturbing sexual references inside. James Alefantis also makes a number of references to pedophilia both overtly and implicitly online.
He posted a disturbing image of a little girl taped down to a table in Comet Ping Pong: https://archive.ph/YJJnJ
Here is a photo showing the inside of Comet Ping Pong where graffiti saying “shut up and f***” and “Amen” are clearly visible: https://archive.ph/SmwH7
Here he posted a photo featuring a man wearing a shirt that says “I love children” in French: https://archive.ph/2ROYf
Here he references a “boom boom room” which sounds disturbingly like a play on the phrase “boom boom” used by foreign prostitutes to describe sex: https://archive.ph/MVaJu
Here Alefantis posted a photo of a man with a yellow bead necklace around the head of a young boy. A quick search reveals yellow sex bracelets imply analingus, and the hashtag #chickenlovers in the Instagram post is a pedophile reference to adult men who are attracted to underage boys. Links below: Here and here and here
B. References to pizza in a way that is either sexual or involves children:
Alefantis and others clearly use the term “pizza” to allude, at the very least to sex (I believe it to mean sex with minors). Here are nine references from Alefantis and others tagged at Comet Ping Pong making sexual innuendos about pizza and children: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine
C. Hints to systematic child abuse and trafficking:
Comet Ping Pong’s posters for the “concerts” played at their venue show references to abuse and pedophilia.
Here is a poster that may refer to the out-of-body experience children have when experiencing extreme abuse: https://archive.ph/KLayU
Here is one showing a band called the “Lolitas” played at Comet Ping Pong: https://archive.ph/XzPLA
Here is a photo Alefantis posted showing men digging a hole. He and his friends joke about “filling it” and a commenter claims his hole has “been full for quite some time now.” They also joke about doing a “line up” at the hole in the near future: https://archive.ph/Td3bC
Another photo he posted appears to show a large freezer, which could appear to be a location used for some kind of imprisonment or torture. Commenters on the photo joke “rinse it off when you’re done” and “kill room”: https://archive.ph/Vjnc0
The man who commented “kill room” on the above photo has a number of images on his Instagram appearing to show he makes child-sized coffins: Here and here
Other restaurants on the same block have pedophile symbols in their logos(they’ve also been funded by the Clintons, Obama, and Soros… this also shows the connections between them): https://archive.ph/aouYg
This photo shows what pedophiles use as symbols when communicating with each other(FBI document): https://archive.ph/YCuMh
Alefantis admitted to having a basement in comet ping pong in a Metro Weekly interview: “Like our sauce — we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes — 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in.” https://archive.ph/mjMKG
This website here shows that a reviewer mentioned the presence of hidden doors in the establishment: Here and here
Now that I have established the connections, this is the end of Part 1. In part 2 I will talk about the strange language used by these people in Instagram posts, online, emails, and in day-to-day life. Again, I won’t be drawing conclusions about anything in these articles. You decide for yourself. Is something fishy going on?
This article contains statements and commentary which are the opinion of Concrete Conspiracy.
If you want more on Pizzagate, we’ve covered it before.
Keep reading…
Ben Swann Exposes The TRUTH About Pizzagate…Did You Know?
Ok folks, this is very serious.
I just came across this video created by Ben Swann and it is fantastic!
For those of you who are old enough to remember, THIS is what real journalism looks like.
Instead of taking the Talking Points from the owners of all the major media companies, he actually did his own investigation.
He looked into the question of “Is Pizzagate real?”
Is Pizzagate Fake News?
That’s all you hear on the MSM, isn’t it?
That it’s Fake?
That it’s a hoax?
That it’s only believed by lunatics?
Well, if that’s what you’ve heard or if that’s what you believe, then be prepared to have your mind opened up.
The MSM veil pulled off…..
I love the way he approaches this video.
He doesn’t tell you what to think.
He just presents the actual evidence.
The stuff the MSM refuses to cover.
He just gives you all the facts and I would challenge each and every one of you reading this to listen to the full video and then make your own decision.
What do you think?
Is all of this just a big coincidence?
Just people with overactive imaginations?
I think you’ll be hard-pressed to keep that opinion by the time you reach the end of the video.
This is so very important my friends.
Please watch and then share to help others wake up (and if the video gets deleted keep scrolling down for a backup):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_xCYMkVgTE
Wouldn’t it be great if we had real journalism like this again?
THIS is why journalists are given such strong 1st Amendment protections.
Because this is important.
Our Founders never expected the Press to become as corrupt as it has become.
The Press was supposed to be a safeguard for the truth.
We need more guys like Ben Swann.
Thank you Ben!
And because YouTube will almost surely delete that video soon, we made backups.
That article became one of the most viewed articles of all time on WeLoveTrump and so many of you wrote me asking me to cover more so that’s why I am bringing you Part 2.
But before we get to the new stuff, I’m going to include the video from Part 1 below in case you missed it.
Start here and then scroll down for the new info I’m about to bring you in Part 2 (and if that video gets deleted keep scrolling down for a backup):
And now we have Part 2.
If the video above opened your eyes, then be prepared to jump head first into so much more.
Liz Crokin is an award-winning author, journalist, political pundit and an advocate for sex crime victims. Her work has appeared in the RedEye Edition of the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times: Splash, Townhall, Elite Daily, Marie Claire and Us Weekly.
She attended the University of Iowa studying political science and journalism. While there, she was an organizer for Students for Bush, a large organization supporting the George W. Bush 2000 presidential campaign. She later interned at the U.S. State Department during Bush’s first term and for conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly’s show The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News.
In short, she’s a REAL journalist.
But when she started digging into the world of child sex trafficking and started really connecting the dots and exposing some very powerful people, she was suddenly fired from her job and ostracized from the industry.
How interesting, isn’t it?
But the good news is in today’s world we don’t need the big corporations anymore.
We don’t need to become a reporter on NBC Nightly News in order to get the truth out.
ANY of us can do our own investigations and create our own videos and get the truth out…..
And that’s exactly what she did with the documentary Out of Shadows.
It’s not officially “Part 2” of the video above, but it could be.
So if you wanted more and wanted to really understand what’s truly going on with the people who run our world, this is the video for you.
PLEASE help me get the word out and wake up more people by sharing this article and video with your family and friends.
And because YouTube wants to hide the truth, I have backup versions for you…
Bitchute does not delete videos and still stands for Freedom of Speech so I have two backups of this video on Bitchute if the YouTube video gets deleted.
Backup #1:
Backup #2:
If you found this enlightening, please SHARE!
#SaveTheChildren
UPDATE: Symbolism Will Be Their Downfall
Ever wonder why there’s a pyramid with the top cut off on every U.S. dollar bill?
Or why famous people constantly cover one eye?
Or why they love to pose with their right hand inside their jacket?
If you don’t know what I’m talking about…let me give you an intro right here.
Four examples.
Really simple.
You’re going to see the same signs over and over and over in these 4 pictures.
The signs include:
The “OK” symbol, which also just happens to create a 6-6-6
Covering the mouth (as in, secret society)
Shhh finger over the mouth (same)
Two fingers or “V” (symbol for Satan)
Tongue out (an homage to the Snake from Genesis)
Covering one eye or closing one eye (a very weird gesture repeated incessantly by the Elites — a call out to the “All Seeing Eye” of Horus)
One hand inside the jacket
Many times you will see two or more symbols combined at once.
Take a look:
But we’re just getting warmed up…
Sure, some of it could be coincidence, but after a while you have to wise up and realize perhaps they don’t all just love winking and sticking one hand inside their jacket…
Perhaps it’s intentional?
Perhaps it’s sending a message?
Because who does that?
WHY would you do that?
Symbolism will be their downfall.
And yes, that’s exactly what it was:
If you need more than this to wake you up to what's going on, your brain dead, not asleep. That is the hand sign of the Illuminati. pic.twitter.com/HaPNaUbVIM
And whatever the hell this is:
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