(1) I'm trying hard to believe that @elonmusk is serious about this. I would so like to be proved wrong about the #TwitterFiles in regard to the official Covid narrative.
(2) Thing is, "selective" coverage of the Twitter files on Covid narrative censorship won't cut it. Reporting what was censored must mean finally reporting the actual facts (see par. 3 below) and exposing the whole PSYOP. Are we up for that? cjhopkins.substack.com/p/swimming-wit…
(3) Here are a few censored facts that need to be established for context: (1) Covid IFR; (2) age-adjusted mortality 2020-2021; (3) "Covid "case" and "Covid death" definitions; (4) comorbidities; (5) PCR tests; (6) revision of "facts" (lies) about "vaccines," masks, etc. E.g.
(4) If the facts about Covid are not established, reporting how Twitter enforced the official Covid narrative with censorship, "visibility filtering," etc. will be largely meaningless, as the scope of the damage Twitter (among other corporations) has done will not be made clear.
(5) After over two years of systematic censorship and official narrative enforcement, a few threads of 30-40 tweets about Twitter Covid censorship are not going to cut it. We need serious research and thorough (long-form) reporting of this story, not just another PR stunt.
(6) Just one example. Masks. How many people were censored or "visibility-filtered" for stating "masks don't work"? What evidence did Twitter rely on as grounds for deciding to censor such statements or to deem them "misinformation"? swprs.org/face-masks-evi…
(7) Another example. "Covid deaths." On what evidence did Twitter base its decision to censor and defame reporting on this sloppy/deceptive classification practice (which was widespread, i.e., in the USA, UK, Germany, Italy, etc.)? off-guardian.org/2020/04/05/cov…
(8) The above excerpt is from @OffGuardian0, a "Vox Populi" outlet in the UK, which Twitter has been censoring/defaming with fake "unsafe link" warnings for two years and is still censoring and defaming. (Note the bullet points in the warning below.)
(9) August 2, 2021. Twitter locked my account for tweeting clearly political speech, claiming that my tweet was "misleading" and "harmful" because it went "directly against guidance from authoritative sources." What guidance? Which sources? These questions need answers/reporting.
(10) Also, this is NOT just a US story. Twitter has been working with governments around the world to censor political speech and enforce the official Covid narrative. In Germany, for example. I could wallpaper my apartment with these notices. This one is from November 2021.
(11) Another example from Germany. December 2021. Political speech. Censored by Twitter and the German government. On what grounds? We need actual, thorough investigative reporting on this widespread practice, not another PR stunt.
(12) One more example from Germany. December 2021. Crude? Sure. Political speech? Absolutely. In response to the Health Minister threatening to impose fines on "the Unvaccinated." How/when did Twitter decide that colorful political speech was "abuse & harassment"? Based on what?
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I hate to bum people out, but repeating the word "Zionism" over and over is not a political strategy. If you want to stop slaughters like the one going on in Gaza someday, get a political strategy. Start with a political analysis. Use a map. Identify who is aligned with what. (1)
For example, which of the Middle East countries on this map are playing ball with the global-capitalist empire? Which aren't? Which countries has the empire invaded, destabilized, and restructured since 1989? Why has it done that? Where are there pockets of resistance? (2)
Forget about ideology for a moment. Every country has an ideology or a narrative to justify its actions. Try to see the map through the eyes of the empire. Who's playing ball with you? Who isn't? What needs to be done about that? What is your ultimate goal in this region? (3)
Looks like I'm going to be giving some lessons on smear artistry. Lesson No. 1, The Strawman: pretend the target of your smear said something he never said, then act like you are contradicting the thing you just made up. Most idiots will repeat your lie without checking it out.
Smear Artistry 101, Lesson No. 2, Play Dumb: pretend that the target of your smear-job doesn't understand distinctions that he has written and spoken about for years. Then "explain" those distinctions to him, thus framing him on the "other side" of your "us vs. them" dichotomy.
Smear Artistry 101, Lesson No. 3, Delete Your Opening Salvo: this is crucial! Do not leave evidence of how you launched your smear campaign accessible. Memory-hole that shit, so that your audience (i.e., the idiots you are trying to incite) will have no historical context for it.
New Normal Germany has finally launched its official "Mistakes Were Made" propaganda campaign, and is planning to stage an "inquiry commission" in order to whitewash the history of 2020-2022. The process is called #Aufarbeitung.
Now that it doesn't matter, the official Covid narrative has been exposed as a classic Big Lie. But writers like me, who exposed it when it did matter, still need to be punished for that, so I am under criminal investigation in Germany for two Tweets. (1) wsj.com/articles/covid…
Here's @mtaibbi's coverage of my case, which is clearly retribution for exposing the official Covid narrative as a Big Lie before it was "safe" to do so (i.e., in 2020-2022). It is safe to do so now, as we are in the "mistakes were made" phase. (2)
https://t.co/gDdtklP6rmracket.news/p/first-roger-…
And here's an update on my case. This is what happens when you expose a Big Lie while it still matters, instead of waiting for the green light during the "mistakes were made"/limited hangout phase of the PSYOP. (3) https://t.co/ZCJipybFzYcjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-criminal…
Here's TIME magazine (January 25, 2023), publishing the "conspiracy theory" (i.e., facts) that so many of us have been censored and demonized for publishing for almost three years now. Perhaps those reporting the #Covid#TwitterFiles could take note. (1) time.com/6249841/covid-…
TIME is reporting the inflation of Covid hospitalizations and death statistics as if it were a new development or only recently significant, but we "conspiracy theorists" have been reporting it since April of 2020. This is the fundamental lie the entire PSYOP was/is based on. (2)
If the journalists covering the #Covid#TwitterFiles continue to ignore these facts and report the story without the context (i.e., gross fabrication of Covid cases/deaths statistics since March 2020), they're reifying the lies the PSYOP, and Twitter censorship, was based on. (3)
I am a huge fan of @mtaibbi, @ggreenwald, and other such independent journalists, but enough already with the ass-covering, "careful-where-you-step" reporting and limited hangouts. Millions are seriously injured or dead, not for any legitimate reason, but because of a PSYOP. (1)
The official Covid narrative, which has killed or injured millions, was based on lies, inflated stats, and official propaganda (i.e., a PSYOP) from Day One ... nothing about this virus ever remotely justified what has been done to our societies. (2) swprs.org/covid19-facts/
Some of us have been reporting these facts for nearly three years, and paying the price for doing so. It's time for journalists like @ggreenwald, @mtaibbi, @bariweiss, et al., to stop playing it safe and report the actual story (i.e., the PSYOP). (3) consentfactory.org/2023/01/11/the…