Elon Musk’s Twitter Files series has revealed what many conservatives suspected for ages.
The
first installment of Twitter Files revealed how the social media giant
suppressed the NY Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and how the
DNC worked with
Twitter to suppress ‘dissenters’.
The
second installment of Twitter Files revealed that Twitter had a secret
blacklist for ‘dissenters’ either causing their reach to be restricted or
resulting in suspension. Topics that violated the Democrat groupthink were prevented
from Trending.
The latest
installment of Twitter Files by journalist Matt Taibbi covers the
suspension of President Trump’s account and former Twitter executives colluding
with federal agencies to interfere with the 2020 elections.
Taibbi revealed Twitter was already restricting
the reach of President Trump’s account using a ‘vast array of tools’.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601358396523184129
Twitter executives had laid a “framework” for banning Trump’s
account four years prior to its actual suspension.
After suspending
Trump, one Twitter executive appeared to gloat.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601354663265472513
Some Twitter
executives considered banning the official @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts used by Trump's White House after Trump's account was suspended.
But they realized
that the accounts will transition to the Biden administration and decided
against suspending them. They settled for limiting their use of the Trump
administration's official accounts
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601355779474620416
Internal
Communications also revealed close ties between Twitter and federal agencies.
Internal documents
revealed that Twitter’s former Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth met with the
FBI, DHS, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) about
the NY Post‘s Hunter Biden laptop story, which was censored.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601365295763193856
Roth regularly met
with the FBI and DHS
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601365711959441409
Roth even joked about
concealing meetings with the FBI on his meeting calendar.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601359872528101376
Other Twitter
executives also worked with the FBI and attempted to conceal the FBI’s influence
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601364081864495104
The FBI even sent
reports about specific tweets with the implicit understanding that action will
be taken.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601366678042218496
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601366882938126336
Twitter dutifully
tagged those tweets with disclaimers or links to liberal fact-checking sites.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601366882938126336
Prior to the 2020
elections, Twitter executives opened a channel on
their internal messaging service dedicated to election-related account
removals.
There caused friction
between Safety Operations and senior policy execs like Roth and Vijaya Gadde
(then head of legal policy and trust). The former was accustomed to a
rules-based process approach while the likes
of Gadde operated as a judge, jury, and executioner while policing
Twitter.
Taibbi revealed there
were no ‘moderation’ requests from Trump’s campaign, Trump’s White House, or
Republicans.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601367426129543169
Twitter had devolved
from being a forum that reflected public opinion to a skewed medium
that manipulated public opinion.
In limiting the reach
of a sitting President Twitter operated like an Orwellian super-government. The
public mandate was deemed to be less important than the opinion of a few
Twitter executives.
Twitter and various
politized federal agencies attacked American democracy by suppressing the voice
of the country’s highest elected official and meddling in the 2020 elections.
In fact, suppressing
reach is much worse than suspension because it gives the user the erroneous
impression that their message is being consumed by all when it is only consumed
by a few.
In a democracy, every
candidate is allowed to campaign and spread their message. If this message of
one candidate is surreptitiously suppressed while the other is allowed, it is
almost the equivalent of a one-party system.
The level of
collusion between Twitter and federal agencies reveals how deep the rot
runs and how politized these agencies have become.
The FBI instructing Twitter to ‘deal with’ certain tweets is the
nation's foremost law enforcement agency policing and sitting in judgment of
the expression of citizens.
What’s worse is that citizens were unaware of this.
The question remains
if federal agencies did this on Twitter, where else did they meddle. Perhaps
there were areas that the public could never ever imagine.
So what happens now?
The news media is the
PR agency for the Democrats hence they will ignore the stories. How ironic that
stories about the suppression of information are being suppressed.
When the story is
covered, the former Twitter regime will be depicted as moral and virtuous while
Musk’s Twitter will be projected as tyrants and spreaders of misinformation.
The media may claim that these revelations are a violation of the privacy of
former Twitter employees and has made them vulnerable to attacks from
'right-wing extremists.
Do not expect the
guilty to be punished.
The worst that can happen to them is the GOP House summons them
and scolds them on TV during a Congressional hearing.
The mid-terms have
taught us that the media still has clout among the public, despite surveys
showing a lack of trust.
If the public is
either unaware of facts or is fed with stories that twist facts, these
revelations are meaningless. Perhaps only conservatives who already suspected
Twitter's manipulation will believe this, for the rest, it will be a coordinated rightwing disinformation campaign.
Sadly this
almost renders the exercises meaningless.
These Twitter files will have an impact.
It will make Musk, like Trump, a target of the Democrat
machinery, it isn’t a question of if, but when, and how Musk will face
retaliation.
The media is already
carrying stories of Musk’s ‘inhumane’
layoffs, Musk exploiting
his employees, and Musk living at Twitter's
headquarters. They are portraying Musk as a monster which gives the
Democrats an excuse to set free various politized government agencies on Musk.
The question remains
how can this be undone.
The suppression of
Presidents Trump’s and many other conservative accounts prior to the 2020
elections means that voters were prevented access to key information. Worse it
was done without their knowledge. Perhaps the lack of this information
influenced their vote for Biden.
It is impossible to
gauge the impact this act of information suppression had on the 2020 elections.
It cannot be called voter fraud because the voter was voting with the presumption
that they have all the information to inform their decision. It cannot be
detected in audits, because the voting was done according to process.
In a fair world, the
election would be declared invalid and would be redone. But we know that will
never ever happen. The result is the country has to suffer dire consequences
due to the misgovernance of Biden.
Instead, those asking
questions are being branded ‘election deniers’
It is clear that the
2016 elections were fair because the Democrats really believed their own lies
in thinking that Trump didn’t stand a chance against Hillary. But once their
lesson was learned, they were not going to allow history to repeat itself.
The Democrats and
even some Republicans are urging Trump to swallow this unfairness of the 2020
elections and look to the future.
But if we do not talk
about the myriad wrongs of the past, there is no way to fix the future.
If these issues are
not addressed, the US may never ever have a Republican President.
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