•FBI was working w Twitter and paid TW $ millions
•Blacklists & shadow bans were real
•US intel lobbied to censor accounts
•Covid-19 convo heavily manipulated
•Twitter rules changed & enforced by whim
• 'Safety, harm, violence' redefined to apply to ideas
• Opinions & info deemed 'unsafe' subject to silencing
• Jokes, memes, questions about origin of covid off limits
• FBI has 80 staff monitoring speech
• Small accounts on left and right flagged
• FBI held frequent meetings w TW
• Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram = similar?
• Private censors & police control what you say to whom.
•Twitter execs repeatedly and publicly denied shadow bans
•In reality, bans were in place as "visibility filtering"
•Ultimately, no accountability to public
1. History changed 2. Conspiracy theories true 3. 'Safety' = censorship 4. Government policed ideas 5. Executives lied 6. Speech controlled by small group 7. Slippery slope is real 8. Musk must watch out
9. Twitter protects and facilitates propaganda networks:
•Supported military psychological operations (psyops)
•Willingly served as weapon of information warfare
•White listed psyop accounts while shadow banning citizens
The real scandal of the Twitter files is not Twitter: it’s what the US government has done — and is still doing —to limit rights through private company cutouts.
Finally it makes sense why Twitter was not run like a real business.
It wasn’t a business. It was a front organization.
Having a cadre of 80 agents listening into public conversation and secretly flagging snippets to be “disappeared” from public consciousness is something you would read in a textbook on the Stasi.
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The CIA has run psyops on the American public for years.
In this 1983 clip, ex-agent Frank Snepp explains how the CIA did it in Vietnam. @Snowden highlighted a clip of this interview as the most important of 2022.
What was his relevant expertise for a top tech firm? What benefit did Twitter think it would get hiring a former high ranking member of the domestic security apparatus?
It’s like if J Edgar Hoover was hired to take over a Hollywood studio. Why?