Thursday, December 15, 2022

I like his list of the 5 twitter files, BUT

 But then he goes into squish mode.

https://thegreggjarrett.com/the-brief-a-handy-cheat-sheet-of-the-many-lies-exposed-by-musks-release-of-the-twitter-files/

Money quote:

Twitter Files — Part One:  The platform censored the Hunter Biden laptop story in advance of the 2020 presidential election by claiming publicly that it violated their “hacked” policy, knowing full well that the laptop wasn’t hacked at all.  They pretended it might be Russian disinformation, even though that excuse was nothing more than U.S. intelligence disinformation.  Twitter took its marching orders from the Biden campaign team, Democratic operatives, and the FBI which was running a Biden protection racket.

Twitter Files — Part Two:  The aforementioned secret Blacklist was composed to target vocal conservatives and critics of Biden.  Disfavored tweets were prevented from trending, and accounts were suspended based on phony grounds.  Shadow-banning evolved into a powerful political weapon that was arbitrarily and capriciously deployed for partisan gain.  A Stanford doctor, for example, who warned that COVID lockdowns would harm children was blacklisted.  His tweets were all but entombed.

Twitter Files — Part Three:   Twitter execs moved to “deplatform” then-President Donald Trump from their social media site in January of 2021 despite no legitimate basis to do so.  They previously slapped warning labels on his tweets that were purely pretextual.  Internal Slack conversations show that Twitter coordinated with federal agencies, including the FBI, DHS, and DNI (Director of National Intelligence).  Messages confirm that the bureau knew in advance that the damning Hunter Biden laptop story would emerge and preemptively pressured Twitter to censor it by falsely calling it Russian disinformation.

Twitter Files — Part Four:  Pressure built on January 7th to permanently ban Trump by conjuring up dubious justifications that apply exclusively to him and “distinct from other political leaders.”  Slack messages among Twitter execs revealed no concern for free speech principles or democracy.  Their intense campaign to banish Trump was led by Yoel Roth who made “progress,” in part, because Dorsey was AWOL in the South Pacific.  Twitter’s ban defied its own standards that prohibits interpreting content or intent of a tweet.  This prompted a junior employee to complain of “Twitter tyranny” but to no avail.

Twitter Files — Part Five:   Citing the Capitol riot, Twitter staffers were in an uproar and pushed for Trump to be banned from the site even though the company found no policy violations in any of the president’s tweets.  The platform’s employees deliberately misconstrued one of his tweets to suggest that he incited violence when the plain language showed he did not.  To their credit, lower-level monitors involved in content review resisted.  They see nothing wrong with Trump’s tweets.  One wrote, “I think we’d have a hard time saying this is incitement.”  Another messaged, “Don’t see the incitement angle here.”  Still another warned that “censorship can destroy the public conversation.”  Trump was banned anyway on January 8th.

2 comments:

  1. Watching the people who have maneuvered their way into powerful positions huddle together to protect the most corrupt from the consequences of being found out and doing irreparable harm to America is driving the average person to despair.

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