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1. TWITTER FILES EXTRA: RFK, Jr. edition

2. Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testified in the House Weaponization of Government Hearing yesterday. Committee Democrats attacked in a bloodthirsty scene reminiscent of 28 Days Later or World War Z

3. Committee chair Jim Jordan kicked off the proceedings by reading off a letter from the Biden White House about an RFK tweet, asking Twitter "if we can get moving on the process of having it removed ASAP":

4. That letter from White House aide Clarke Humphrey was sent at 8:05 p.m. on January 21, 2021, a day after Biden's inauguration. In the Twitter Files, we found a similar letter sent five minutes later:

5. Twitter processed a request, sent via a law firm, from Hawaii's Democratic Senator Brian Schatz. Neither Schatz's office nor the law firm has commented:

6. There is a lot of traffic about RFK, Jr. in the Twitter Files, much of it involving the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which mobilized 12 Attorneys General to remove him as one of the "Disinformation Dozen":

7. Virality Project identified RFK, Jr. as a "repeat offender" whose posts were "almost always reportable," typical of a new approach to speech enforcement that targets the speaker, not the speech:

8. In a published weekly bulletin, the VP once noted "This week's top COVID-19 related post from a recurring anti-vax influencer on Facebook" was an RFK article "that denounces the pay packages earned by Big Pharma CEOs."

9. Kennedy Campaign manager Dennis Kucinich said they weren’t surprised by the White House, but were surprised by Schatz, who “has to know this kind of action is not reflective of the Aloha spirit of the state he represents.”

10. For more emails, tweets, and other RFK-related communications, read : https://t.co/2bQSVNfBbJ with thanks to @mtaibbiRacket.News
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