Just yesterday, Elon Musk released a devastating new installment of his Twitter Files series.
The gist of the
revelations was as follows:
· Tweets that didn’t stick to the narrative were prevented from
trending.
· Twitter accounts or trending topics that contradicted the
groupthink were shadow banned i.e. their visibility was limited.
· Twitter employees maintained blacklists. Search blacklists that
caused certain users to not appear in search results. Trends blacklists,
prevented topics that the user tweeted from being part of any trend.
To summarize, Twitter
wasn’t a forum that reflected public opinion but instead a forum that
manipulated public opinion. Censorship of dissenting views was
rampant. What is more troubling is all of this was done surreptitiously.
The details were revealed in a Twitter thread by journalist Bari Weiss, who has
been granted access to company documents.
Weiss cited examples
with screenshots of accounts that were suppressed.
Among them was Dr.
Jay Bhattacharya who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601011428579717121
Other targets were conservatives such as Dan Bognino and Charlie Kirk
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601012181138407425
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601012976894373888
The
shadow ban wasn’t merely a dark secret that nobody talked about, there were
blatant denials.
Back
in 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and
Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) co-wrote
a blog where they claimed the following:
“We do not shadow
ban. You are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although
you may have to do more work to find them, like go directly to their profile).
And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or
ideology.
We rank tweets and
search results. We do this because Twitter is most useful when it’s immediately
relevant. These ranking models take many signals into consideration to best
organize tweets for timely relevance. We must also address bad-faith actors who
intend to manipulate or detract from healthy conversation.”
Weiss also revealed that there was a group within the organization of Twitter that decided what content should be suppressed and what should be amplified.
The group was called the Strategic
Response Team - Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET.
There was a secret sub-group within SRT-GET that operated from the
shadows and above Twitter’s policies. This group called itself SIP-PES.
The Members of SIP-PES were the then Global Head of Trust & Safety head (Yoel Roth),
Jack Dorsey when he was CEO, Parag Agrawal when he was CEO, then Head of
Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), and others.
Gadde seems to be the
flagbearer of stazification of Twitter within the shadows.
One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was @libsoftiktok
@libsoftiktok merely reposts content created by liberals, leftists, and LGBT people on TikTok and on other social media platforms and leaves its users to decide. There is no incitement or hate or derision.
Yet, the account had a notification that said “Do Not Take Action on User Without Consulting With SIP-PES.”
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601018810495995904
The account was suspended multiple times for hateful conduct.
An internal SIP-PES
memo from October 2022 revealed after @libsoftiktok’s seventh suspension,
the committee acknowledged that “LTT has not directly engaged in behavior
violative of the Hateful Conduct policy."
The goal behind the
suspension was obviously to prevent the spread of content that exposed the vacuousness and
the ludicrousness of groups that Twitter bosses hold in high regard.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601020845224128512
However, there was a lack of consistency.
When the individual who ran @libsoftiktok was doxxed and
her personal details including her home address were posted, Twitter support responded with this message:
"We reviewed the reported content, and didn't find it to be in violation
of the Twitter rules." No action was taken. The doxxing tweet still prevails.
Weiss also revealed
that Twitter employees spoke about using technical reasons to suppress and restrict the
visibility of tweets and subjects.
The revelations about
suppression and shadow banning will come as no surprise to conservatives, in
fact, these revelations provide proof of what conservatives always suspected.
As a solution Musk
revealed that a subsequent version of Twitter will explicitly display the shadow
ban status for any given user and the reason for the suppression. The user will also be able to
appeal against this suppression.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601042125130371072
So how will the Democrats and their PR Wing that masquerades as the news media react to these explosive revelations?
They will ignore it completely.
If they do cover it, it will be branded Russian disinformation.
They may even claim that these revelations are a violation of the privacy and
confidentially of former Twitter employees.
They may even interview former Twitter employees such as Vijaya Gadde who will claim she is the recipient of sexist, racist, and violent threats since these revelations were made public. She could claim victimhood so could other former employees.
Musk and his team will
be painted as the perpetrators and disruptors while the former Gadde regime
will be depicted as the custodians of justice and fairness.
The former Gadde regime
has the entire Washington D.C. establishment behind them. Hence any display of
remorse or issuance of apologies is quite out of the question. The
sanctimonious never think they have erred. In fact, Gadde and her team may be invited to testify of how Musk turned their lives into hell and Twitter into a cesspool of misinformation.
Now for Elon Musk.
Musk deserves copious plaudits for exposing the tyranny of the former Gadde regime.
Like Trump, Musk is a
target of the Democrats and their media. It isn’t a question of if,
but when, and how Musk will face retaliation.
They are already
carrying stories of Musk’s ‘inhumane’
layoffs. Some media outlets are publishing photos of Twitter office spaces
being converted
into bedrooms so that employees can remain within the building 24X7.
San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection is probing this as a
possible building code violation. There are reports of an ex-worker claiming that
Musk has been staying at the headquarters since he bought the firm.
The goal is to
portray Musk as a monster who is cold and inhuman and who still physically and
emotionally tortures his employees.
This creates a basis
for the Democrats to conduct various witch-hunts and set free various
politized government agencies on Musk to investigate everything he has ever done since he was born. Nothing will be spared.
The ball once again
is in the court of the GOP, 'the party of freedom' which will soon have a majority in the House.
Will they prove to be
defenders of free speech or will they remain spectators as Democrat hounds
chase Musk?
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