RIP Twitter

[Orangeburst]

It's more than conceivable James Baker was little more than a security state apparatus plant to control messaging and influence the 2020 election.

That is the word. Ex FBI dude

 

[C-south]

Before anyone freaks out, this is satire as well

I guess the difference between satire and “hate speech” depends on knowing the affiliation of the source.

 

[RockyTop85]

What we have so far:
In response to Amash's question of whether government - at minimum the FBI - solicited or colluded with Twitter to suppress the Biden laptop story - check!

So this statement from the journalist reporting all this has been amended? Was that done in another tweet?

 

[NCFisher]

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So this statement from the journalist reporting all this has been amended? Was that done in another tweet?

I don't think Taibbi reported finding that in the documents currently released.

I'm referring to:
B. Twitter’s Response to Tweets Disseminating the N.Y. Post Articles On October 14, 2020, the N.Y. Post, a daily tabloid publication, published two articles on its website regarding emails and other personal materials said to have been found on a hard drive allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden (together, “the N.Y. Post articles”).24 The N.Y. Post articles republished unredacted copies of emails that clearly included personal email addresses and phone numbers, along with personal photographs of Hunter Biden and his family.25 Twitter had been warned throughout 2020 by federal law enforcement agencies to be on the alert for expected “hack-and-leak operations” undertaken by malign state actors, in which those state actors might hack electronic communications of individuals associated with political campaigns and seek to disseminate the leaked materials over Twitter and other social media platforms.26 Reports from the law enforcement agencies even suggested there were rumors that such a hack-and-leak operation would be related to Hunter Biden.27
https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/murs/7821/7821_07.pdf

That was testimony of Twitter’s then-head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth.

 

[RockyTop85]

I don't think Taibbi reported finding that in the documents currently released.

I'm referring to:
B. Twitter’s Response to Tweets Disseminating the N.Y. Post Articles On October 14, 2020, the N.Y. Post, a daily tabloid publication, published two articles on its website regarding emails and other personal materials said to have been found on a hard drive allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden (together, “the N.Y. Post articles”).24 The N.Y. Post articles republished unredacted copies of emails that clearly included personal email addresses and phone numbers, along with personal photographs of Hunter Biden and his family.25 Twitter had been warned throughout 2020 by federal law enforcement agencies to be on the alert for expected “hack-and-leak operations” undertaken by malign state actors, in which those state actors might hack electronic communications of individuals associated with political campaigns and seek to disseminate the leaked materials over Twitter and other social media platforms.26 Reports from the law enforcement agencies even suggested there were rumors that such a hack-and-leak operation would be related to Hunter Biden.27
https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/murs/7821/7821_07.pdf

That was testimony of Twitter’s then-head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth.

I’ll have to look at it later, but when I searched that document for the term “warned” it appeared once in what looked more like a letter than a transcript or affidavit.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Here’s How The CDC Used A Backchannel With Twitter To Control The COVID-19 Narrative

Twitter set up a portal for government officials and “stakeholders” to submit posts that allegedly contained COVID-19 misinformation for Twitter to review, according to documents released by America First Legal (AFL) on Tuesday.

Twitter officials used the portal to track online posts for review, and invited Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials to enroll, according to documents AFL obtained through its litigation against the CDC. Twitter’s Todd O’Boyle enrolled the CDC’s Carol Crawford in the portal in May 2021 after she sent an email labeled “COVID Misinformation” with links to several Twitter posts who wrote about microchips and “vaccine shedding.” O’Boyle described the channel as “the best way to get a spreadsheet like this reviewed.”

Here’s How The CDC Used A Backchannel With Twitter To Control The COVID-19 Narrative

 

[NCFisher]

I’ll have to look at it later, but when I searched that document for the term “warned” it appeared once in what looked more like a letter than a transcript or affidavit.

That's the excerpt and I used the wrong term; Twitter's head of U.S. Policy who submitted the FEC filing attributes it to Roth's declaration.
Zuck/FB has also stated FBI warned of a Russian/Russia-like hack and leak operation but didn't recall if FBI mentioned Hunter Biden or laptop specifically; he attributes their blackout of the story to the 'warning'.

Which is fabrication from the FBI's standpoint; they'd had the laptop since Dec. 2019, and I've seen no evidence of anything else FBI would've have alluded to. It was known to them this was not a 'hack & leak' operation - nor a hack at all - by malign state actors, but seeded the idea of a Russia operation. The FBI/tech meetings were being held weekly in the run-up to election '20.

 

[Electric Orange]

Justice Department probed Tara Reade's Twitter after she alleged Biden assault, report

 

[Electric Orange]

Judicial Watch: Secret Service Has Repeatedly Changed Story on Existence of Hunter Biden Gun Records

 

[0nelilreb]

It’s all perfectly fine , nothing to see here, move along now .. we are from the government and only here to help you .

 

[StarRaider]

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Twitter's secret 'blacklist': Second tranche of bombshell internal files reveal conservatives were marked 'do not amplify' and COVID lockdown skeptics 'shadow banned' in a move staff called 'Visibility Filtering' to stop accounts and topics trending

Twitter kept a 'secret blacklist' of topics and accounts to prevent them from trending, according to data obtained by journalist Bari Weiss - with up to 200 'cases' being dealt with a day by a special division within the company.

Conservative commentators such as Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk were deliberately put on a 'search blacklist' - in the case of Bongino - or tabbed 'do not amplify', in the case of Kirk.

Those who questioned the prevailing COVID orthodoxy of lockdowns and mask mandates, such as Stanford's Dr Jay Bhattacharya, who argued that lockdowns harmed children, were also placed on a 'search blacklist'.

In October 2020, journalist Dave Rubin asked then-CEO Jack Dorsey: 'Do you shadowban based on political beliefs? Simple yes or no will do.'

Dorsey replied: 'No.'

Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of legal, policy, and trust, also denied that Twitter operated such blacklists.

'We do not shadow ban,' she said in 2018, according to Weiss - speaking alongside Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's head of product.

They added: 'And we certainly don't shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.'

Weiss made the revelations on Thursday in the second tranche of what has been termed The Twitter Files.

Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October for $44 billion, was gleeful about the revelations regarding the company he now owns - retweeting Weiss' thread, with a popcorn emoji.

Within Twitter, the practice was termed 'visibility filtering', Weiss reported.

Twitter would block searches of individual users, make a specific tweet less easy to find, block posts from the 'trending' page, and remove them from hashtag searches.

Another source, a Twitter engineer, told Weiss: 'We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do.'

Weiss said that the matter was dealt with by Twitter's Strategic Response Team - Global Escalation Team, known as SRT-GET - a group that handled 200 cases a day.

A higher-level team, known as SIP-PES, 'Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support,' dealt with more complex and high-profile cases.

Dorsey and his replacement as CEO, Parag Agrawal, sat on the group, as did Gadde and Yoel Roth, the global head of trust and safety.

Roth messaged colleagues on Slack to say that 'spam enforcements' had been used as a way of circumventing the safety team 'under-enforcing their policies'.

Twitter 'kept a secret blacklist of accounts and topics to stop them trending' | Daily Mail Online

 

[n_huffhines]

Seems like the latest installment of twitter files is just confirmation of stuff we knew, right?

How was the stuff filtered by the FBI guy juicier than this?

 

[BreatheUT]

Good stuff from carlson.

Tucker is correct. Regime media is avoiding the Twitter files story. Deception by omission.

There was a radio host that used to say it's not what they tell you it's what they don't.

The swamp bureaucrat gestapo never expected Twitter to be purchased by a person who wholeheartedly believed in the First Amendment. They in fact felt safe to act as fascists.

 

[BreatheUT]

BY: KATE POLIT
DEC 1, 2021
2:23 PM

CISA Names Members of New Cybersecurity Advisory Committee

“We’re at a pivotal moment in our history – one that demands we think anew about ensuring the security and resilience of our digital infrastructure in the face of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.

• Vijaya Gadde, legal, public policy, and trust and safety lead at Twitter;

CISA Names Members of New Cybersecurity Advisory Committee

 

[Franklin Pierce]

 

[BreatheUT]

Years from now we may be labeling Elon Musk an American hero. We will see if it works out like it needs to.

 

[DC_Vol]

Good stuff from carlson.

Just watched this. A lot of crazy stuff in there. But this one takes top prize.

There’s a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency inside our government that in part deals with getting social media removed from platforms??

 

[n_huffhines]

 

[zeppelin128]

Sigh, I'm really going to have to go to bird app and read these threads from Russian invasion apologists about why they couldn't have access to revenge porn of Hunter's eggplant. All while sorting through boot-licking of Lord Elon and ignoring Trump Administration making similar requests to Twitter for removal of things. I'm sure I'm missing stuff, I'll go read the threads, hold off on the yelling about it.

 

[volinbham]

Seems like the latest installment of twitter files is just confirmation of stuff we knew, right?

How was the stuff filtered by the FBI guy juicier than this?

the second question is more important

the Weiss stuff is confirmation of what was suspected but at least it's now being show as truth rather than RW conspiracy talk.

the Libs of Tiktok example she gets into is illustrative - not a real violation of terms but they just didn't like it so they created work arounds to ban/shadow ban it. Not 1stA stuff but still public trust of a large corporation stuff that is newsworthy.

 

[volinbham]

Sigh, I'm really going to have to go to bird app and read these threads from Russian invasion apologists about why they couldn't have access to revenge porn of Hunter's eggplant. All while sorting through boot-licking of Lord Elon and ignoring Trump Administration making similar requests to Twitter for removal of things. I'm sure I'm missing stuff, I'll go read the threads, hold off on the yelling about it.

honestly I haven't seen anyone complain that Twitter limited access to nude pictures of Hunter - that's a red herring.

the issue always was what the laptop revealed about dealings involving Joe and even Twitter acknowledges they suppressed this wrongly

 

[Electric Orange]

Twitter Files Part 2 Unrolled

 

[Sandman 423]

I must be missing something. Twitter is not required to give free speech or even let views they disagree with on their platform. We all know this, but yet act surprised and outraged that a bunch of lefties that were running it were doing it. Maybe folks are putting to much into what is being said on twiiter.

 

[IluvdoubleD's]

Dude has multiple government agencies digging into him now. He threw the house cleaners on the street and told them robots will do their jobs. The guy is going surround himself with robots and artificial intelegence. He's a real life Ex Machina.

Fired Twitter cleaning staff 'treated like garbage'