Thread by @ggreenwald

Please take the time to watch this video in which Russell Brand (@rustyrockets), long associated with the left, explains why the united pre-election censorship by the corporate press and Silicon Valley of the Biden Family laptop archive was so dangerous:

Brand uses clips of the interview I did with him, but this is his 15-minute monologue -- very insightful and plain-spoken -- about why this was such a menacing event.

US media & tech giants united to bar millions of Americans from hearing this reporting before they voted.

Relatedly: this @DouthatNYT column is very smart and important. As the liberal-left gains cultural hegemony and political power, they no longer need or want anti-authoritarian theorists like Foucault. Factions that become dominant turn authoritarian:

nytimes.com/2021/05/25/opi…

Also relatedly: this @jonathanchait column on why the liberal corporate press branded the lab-leak theory a crazy conspiracy -- even though no evidence justified that -- is also good: how much of liberal media were willing to lie to subvert Trump:

nymag.com/intelligencer/…

This is a good point. When Facebook -- through its life-long Dem Party operative @andymstone -- announced that it would suppress reporting on the Biden Family archive, it claimed it was doing so "pending a fact-check." They never released any fact-check.

https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1397210186687909897

The reason Facebook never released the "fact-check" it claimed it was conducting on those documents is obvious. It's because the documents -- contrary to the CIA's lies that most media outlets uncritically repeated -- were not "Russian disinformation" but were authentic.

The joint effort of corporate media, the intelligence community and tech monopolies to censor the Biden Family documents in the weeks before the 2020 election is one of the most authoritarian events in years. That it was a CIA lie they used to justify that makes it even worse.

Here's @mtaibbi on Rising explaining one of the most radical and significant changes from the Trump era: how liberals started viewing the CIA, FBI & NSA not with skepticism but as their allies, as weapons to use against their domestic political enemies:

https://twitter.com/TurncoatD/status/1396997976212475904