We are finally starting to see the rationale and logic behind big tech’s brutal censorship effort during the Covid-19 plandemic.
I was thrown off Twitter several times, each time for a seemingly contradictory reason, and the latest round of the Twitter files explains exactly why.
Government officials working hand-in-hand with Twitter executives were brazenly censoring information that they knew to be true. …
Information that they, themselves, described as being true, though would cause ‘vaccine hesitancy’ in their official communication.
Here are the official messages:
1. TWITTER FILES:
Statement to Congress
THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX pic.twitter.com/JLryjnINXS— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
Additionally, they were monitoring all tweets coming from the President of the United States’ Twitter account; they did this for Biden as well as Trump:
3. But Twitter was more like a partner to government.
With other tech firms it held a regular “industry meeting” with FBI and DHS, and developed a formal system for receiving thousands of content reports from every corner of government: HHS, Treasury, NSA, even local police: pic.twitter.com/DgI954lge7
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
5. Many were obvious “misinformation,” like accounts urging people to vote the day after an election.
But other official "disinfo" reports had shakier reasoning. The highlighted Twitter analysis here disagrees with the FBI about accounts deemed a “proxy of Russian actors": pic.twitter.com/9AZ7jZFfWi
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
Democrats attacked Taibbi during a recent hearing about the Twitter files, according to Fox News:
Sourcing was a sensitive subject as it had already come up during the hearing when Taibbi was asked directly about it regarding his reporting on internal Twitter communications and accusations of government censorship.
Garcia asked Taibbi when Twitter owner Elon Musk first approached him to partake in the “Twitter Files” project, which has allowed once-secret internal discussions to be exposed, revealing an array of issues.
Taibbi began to say he couldn’t reveal that information when Garcia insisted she simply needed a date.
7. In some cases, state reports didn’t even assert misinformation. Here, a list of YouTube videos is flagged for “anti-Ukraine narratives”: pic.twitter.com/dAWYp8Ht5j
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
9. Asked if Twitter’s marketing department could say the company detects “misinfo” with help of “outside experts,” a Twitter executive replied: pic.twitter.com/oYjKUqE96I
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
Washington Examiner continued:
Other Democrats argued that the pair had used select evidence to imply that Twitter had only discriminated against conservatives. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) asked both writers to confirm if they found evidence that the Trump administration had requested Twitter to take down tweets.
Both said no, only for Connolly to note that Trump had asked Twitter to take down offensive tweets by comedian Kathy Griffin.
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