Archiv: The Twitter Files


05.01.2023 - 18:42 [ Matt Taibbi / Twitter ]

1.THREAD: The Twitter Files How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In

(03.01.2023)

2.In August 2017, when Facebook decided to suspend 300 accounts with “suspected Russian origin,” Twitter wasn’t worried. Its leaders were sure they didn’t have a Russia problem.

3.“We did not see a big correlation.”
“No larger patterns.”
“FB may take action on hundreds of accounts, and we may take action on ~25.”

29.12.2022 - 12:22 [ Matt Taibbi ]

Twitter Files Thread: The Spies Who Loved Twitter

4. The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.

5. The operation is far bigger than the reported 80 members of the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), which also facilitates requests from a wide array of smaller actors – from local cops to media to state government.

6. Thousands upon thousands of official “reports” flowed through the FITF and the FBI’s San Francisco field office.

06.12.2022 - 03:16 [ The Jimmy Dore Show / Rumble ]

Matt Taibbi On Twitter’s Hunter Biden Deliberations! SF OKs Deadly Police Robots! W/ Max Blumenthal

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06.12.2022 - 03:09 [ Glenn Greenwald / Nitter ]

Starting live on Rumble in just a few minutes, @jimmy_dore speaks to @mtaibbi about his reporting on Twitter‘s pre-election censorship of articles on Joe Biden‘s business activities in Ukraine and China, and the media‘s reaction to Matt‘s story:

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06.12.2022 - 01:59 [ theHill.com ]

Thune: Trump call to terminate Constitution a ‘golden opportunity’ for 2024 rivals

Thune, who was just reelected to a fourth Senate term, noted that federal officeholders take an oath to uphold the Constitution and added that he takes his seriously.

“Of course I disagree with that. I swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, and it is a bedrock principle — it is the principle, the bedrock of our country. So I couldn’t disagree more,” Thune said.

05.12.2022 - 07:20 [ Matt Taibbi / Twitter ]

Looking forward to going through all the tweets complaining about “PR for the richest man on earth,” and seeing how many of them have run stories for anonymous sources at the FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, White House, etc.

05.12.2022 - 05:25 [ Mediaite.com ]

The Twenty-Seven Most Embarrassing Reactions to Taibbi Thread About Twitter Censoring Hunter Biden Tweets

(03.12.2022)

Beep boop beep.

05.12.2022 - 04:46 [ New York Post ]

Sorry, Donald: Here are the real takeaways from The Twitter Files

(December 4, 2022)

Hand it to ex-President Donald Trump to present exactly the wrong takeaway to The Twitter Files: “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” he posted Friday night.

No, it doesn’t. In fact, the Constitution was written with full awareness of humanity’s imperfections, including election cheating (which is as old as democracy itself). The Electoral College count is the final word, no matter how messy the process that leads to it.

05.12.2022 - 04:31 [ DailyWire.com ]

Trump Reacts To Hunter Biden ‘Twitter Files’: This ‘Allows For The Termination Of All Rules, Regulations, And Articles, Even … In The Constitution’

(Dec 3, 2022)

Former President Donald Trump reacted to the release of “The Twitter Files” on Saturday by saying, “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”

04.12.2022 - 20:05 [ Matt Taibi / Nitter ]

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

(03.12.2022)

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.

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.

04.12.2022 - 19:47 [ Matt Taibi / Substack.com ]

Note to Readers

(Dec 2, 2022)

Those of you who’ve been here for years know how seriously I take my obligation to this site’s subscribers. On this one occasion, I’m going to have to simply ask you to trust me. As it happens, there may be a few more big surprises coming, and those will be here on Substack. And there will be room here to to discuss this, too, in time. In any case, thanks for your support and your patience, and please hold me to a promise to make all this up to you, and then som