1/ @elonmusk is flogging his Twitter Files like crazy and in the crudest way imaginable. Was he always like this? But it's all smoke and mirrors. The EU has been the driving force behind Twitter censorship. How do I know? Well, see the less titillating photo in my next tweet...
2/ Who was collecting monthly (later bimonthly) reports on "Fighting Covid-19 Disinformation"? The EU Commission was. And Twitter was submitting these reports to the EU, *documenting* its censorship of C19 dissent. No need for leaks or memes. This was being done OPENLY.
3/ The full collection of reports can be found here: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/co…
4/ The EU discontinued publication of the reports in June 2022, with the last set of reports covering platforms' censorship measures in March-April. Twitter's last publicly available report can be downloaded here: ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/r…
5/ But the monitoring continues under the aegis of the EU's new "strengthened" Code of Practice on Disinformation. 👇
6/ This is to say that @elonmusk and Twitter are still reporting to the EU Commission on the platform's "measures to limit disinformation", aka to censor. They have to be, in order for Twitter to demonstrate compliance with the Code.
7/ If Twitter fails to demonstrate compliance - the Commission will be making this assessment sometime in the new year - it will be facing massive fines under the EU's Digital Services Act.
8/ @elonmusk knows all this. He is not ignoring the EU. But he is trying to make the Twitter masses, so to say, ignore the EU. There is really a Wizard of Oz aspect to the Twitter Files. @elonmusk is the man behind the curtain creating the magnificent illusions.
9/ Or probably he has delegated the task. But there is no question that the Twitter Files is a misinformation campaign. The US govt is being made to take the fall for EU censorship...so that the EU censorship can continue.
10/ It does not have to be on Covid-19. The EU has largely moved on from the latter. It could be on the *next* "pandemic", "climate change", electoral fraud in Brazil or the US. Whatever the EU wants. So long as Twitter stays on the EU mkt, Twitter will implement or get punished.
11/11 Some background below for those who have not previously followed my work. brownstone.org/articles/how-t…

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Dec 26
1/ US govt policy?!? The latest Twitter File is the lamest of all. The *EU* has had an OFFICIAL Fighting Covid Disinformation Programme since June 2020 and Twitter is part of it and was reporting back to the EU on its efforts! The reports are public!
2/ I started a thread on them and the EU's C19-oriented censorship efforts in November 2021. See 👇. I didn't need any confidential documents. I only needed to know something about the EU and to have the capacity to search for publicly available documents
3/ I then covered the same subject in my Brownstone article 👇. As discussed there, Twitter is now part of "Permanent Task Force" on Disinformation that is chaired by the EU Commission! brownstone.org/articles/how-t…
Read 8 tweets
Dec 25
1/ More smoke and mirrors to shift attention from the the role that the EU has been playing in *demanding*, NOT requesting, Twitter censor since at least 2020. @elonmusk and his handpicked old-media hacks are themselves engaging in a massive disinformation campaign
Read 5 tweets
Dec 22
1/ Things you find on GETTR. 👇This is obviously the VAERS entry for Maxime Beltra, a young Frenchman who died 9 hours after receiving his 1st dose of Pfzr-BNT jab in 2021. Beltra took the shot to be able to go on vacation. @tatiann69922625 @CaudeHenrion
2/ The French media has persistently insinuated that he died due to a peanut allergy. We have the above entry thanks to gettr.com/user/openvaet, who saved the data and...
3/...gettr.com/user/geoffpain…, who extracted it and posted it on GETTR. The Twitter accounts of both have been suspended & they have not received pardons from Twitter potentate @elonmusk.
Read 6 tweets
Dec 14
1/ Why not Prosecute/Drosten? It was the German virologist Christian Drosten whose PCR protocol, in effect, created the “pandemic”.
2/ Or Prosecute/Breton? The EU’s internal market commissioner Thierry Breton told you not to do the general amnesty - notably of 11,230 C19 dissident accounts that were suspended - and you folded instantly. 👇 brownstone.org/articles/how-e…
3/ The EU has been the driving force behind C19-related censorship (and online censorship in general). 👇 You know it but you are not saying it. brownstone.org/articles/how-t…
Read 5 tweets
Dec 13
1/ The restoring of the accts of Robert Malone and Peter McCullough is obviously a step in the right direction. But at the rate @elonmusk is going it will take several years before all the 11,230 accts that Twitter suspended under its “C19 misinformation” policy will be restored.
2/ The European Commission told Musk no “general amnesty” and there has not been any general amnesty, nor indeed any partial amnesty. Just a handful of high-profile pardons.
3/ So for the moment at any rate much of the most interesting nuts-and-bolts Covid data discussion is still happening among Twitter exiles on GETTR.
Read 11 tweets
Dec 12
1/ When will the Twitter Files stop? Elon Musk is turning Twitter into a traditional news publication, allowing hand-picked old media journalists to have controlled access to documents in order to tell stories that we, the unwashed masses, cannot verify or falsify…
2/…because we don’t have access. Our accounts are being reduced to the comments section. This was never how new media worked even long before Twitter.
3/ New media was essentially about open access, linking in order to document, the “hive mind” collectively picking through publicly available archives and databases. At its best Twitter facilitated this process.
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