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May 17, 2023 19 tweets 6 min read Read on X
1. New internal internal #TwitterFiles help explain why privileged reporter hate @elonmusk and Twitter 2.0.

Musk denied access to Twitter's formerly "trusted reporters" and allowed inside entree to more independent journalists. Image
2. During my trip to Twitter's HQ in San Francisco, I uncovered several documents that explain why reporters now hate Twitter 2.0

Musk fired their friends and cut off their privileged access. Image
3. For years, Twitter provided favoured access to "disinformation" reporters, giving them access to new products and silencing accounts.
4. Musk ended this access and brought in new reporters to go through the company's documents--something no CEO has ever done before.
5. When Twitter rolled out Birdwatch to label "misinformation" they gave NBC News Ben Collins @oneunderscore__ a demo and exclusive access.

Collins was actually part of the feature's "product development." Image
6. Collins was really loved inside Twitter, even suggesting him to moderate one of their panels. When they met w/ reporters in NYC, he admitted that Twitter helped propel his professional profile and helped him get on NPR and TV. Image
7. Musk has now unveiled "community notes" which allows more users to comment than Birdwatch. This hasn't worked out for "fact checkers" like Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post. Image
8. Reporters apparently also help Twitter by flipping them bills under consideration.

"Our DC-based tech reporters have gotten advance copies of at least five bills .... that would give more power to regulators." Image
9. Twitter dealt with bills to moderate them from suspending conservatives by ducking behind trade associations "to do the heavy lifting ... as engaging or commenting ... would give them more attention."
10. Twitter met w/ NYC reporters to "solidify key relationships, encourage intel sharing ... reinforce comm's network of trusted reporters."

(I was not invited) Image
11. One "trusted reporter" was Makena Kelly of Vox

"She'll be reporting out of a deep red state--will mis disinformation resonate?"

This implied Twitter & Makena knew the "disinformation" paradigm doesn't translate outside liberal talking circle.
12. Kelly showed no interest in Democratic Party "misinformation"

"Looking into 'Republican Party Hype House' on TikTok--tied to Turning Point USA?" Image
13. CNN glad hander Brian Stelter: "Willing to come to San Francisco, wherever to meet 1:1 with spokespeople even for introductory conversations."

CNN's Oliver Darcy: "Would love to hear pitches from us." Image
14. CNN also asked if Twitter could create a "read only mode" to protect their reporters from "harassment."

(How often to reporters ask a company they cover to modify company policies?)
15. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan: "Always interested in account enforcement such as Rep Marjorie Taylor Green."

Other Twitter Files show "disinformation" reporters obsessed with this Congresswoman.
16. Fox News producer for Dana Perino: "Is really eager to get us on the show .... Dana would be fair and not any more tough than the nicest person to question us in Congress." (I laughed when I first read this) Image
17. Fox News tech reporter Brook Singman: "I think we have a good opportunity to influence this coverage and potentially the reputations of congressional newcomers." Image
18. Many thanks to @TexasLindsay_ for helping collect and organise these #TwitterFiles. We read and read until our eyes bled. Image

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More from @thackerpd

May 4
1) Guest essay by NIH Infectious Disease Researcher names former boss Tony Fauci for misleading the nation; calls for end to dangerous gain-of-function virus studies that likely caused #COVID pandemic.

"For too many years, scientists have sold the public on a lie." Image
2) Fauci promoted paper by @scrippsresearch's Kristian Andersen to downplay lab accident. This paper was fake b/c it did not examine a common lab process called "serial passaging".

Fauci promoted this paper to the public, right under Trump's nose tinyurl.com/4wwbj69mImage
3) Andersend and authors of “Proximal Origin” paper ignored serial passaging, so they didn’t “disprove” a lab origin for COVID.

I have no idea how ignoring something so obvious could make it pass peer review and get published in a prestigious journal like @NatureMedicine.
Read 9 tweets
Apr 9
1) Dr. Gretchen Lefever Watson & other scientists applaud @RobertKennedyJr for acting on the need to research links between antidepressants and teen violence.

Calls out @SenTinaSmith for spreading false information about these drug's benefits that aligns w/ industry marketing. Image
2) Lefever's research into the overprescription and harms of these drugs to teens was shut down by Big Pharma.

So why is @SenTinaSmith promoting Big Pharma propaganda? @GrageDustin @LauraDelano @DrJaclynnMoskow
tinyurl.com/42fmn8puImage
3) For almost two decades, researchers have called for further research into the links between violence and psychotropic drugs (antidepressants, stimulants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers). Image
Read 9 tweets
Apr 1
1) People still don't fully grasp how much the expert class lied to us during #COVID_19.

Science historian David Robertson details how the WHO and esteemed professors redefined "herd immunity" to push lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Image
2) Early in the pandemic, Channel 4 hosted epidemiologist and UK advisor John Edmunds to explain the importance of herd immunity.

Facing off against him: marketing exec and social media influencer @ThomasPueyo. This was a 1st sign of the coming insanity. tinyurl.com/mt3d22fxImage
3) Experts redefined herd immunity to mean "immunity only from vaccines." Below is the actual definition

The proportion of immunes in a population, above which the incidence of the infection decreases.

- Porta, A Dictionary of Epidemiology (Oxford University Press, 2008) p.115
Read 8 tweets
Feb 19
1) New study find COVID spike protein in blood years after vaccination. NIH spends $1.6B on Long COVID but millions are likely vaccine injured. Image
2) YALE SCIENTISTS: There is considerable overlap in self-reported symptoms between long COVID and post-vaccination syndrome (PVS). Both share exposure to SARS-CoV-2 spike protein with inflammatory responses during infection or vaccination tinyurl.com/4jz4pct6
3) Long COVID patients such as Dawson’s Creek writer Heide Ferrer are hiding vaccine injury. Ferrer took her own life, w/ media reporting it was Long COVID.

Her husband later admitted in a private video that after COVID vax “that’s when things turned.” Image
Read 6 tweets
Feb 12
1) Congressman @Jim_Jordan on @Weaponization holds hearing today at 10 am on "Censorship Industrial Complex."

Latest updates on two critical censorship groups to be discussed: Center for Countering Digital Hate, and Big Fact Check. Image
2) I exposed Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for Tablet, uncovering some of their dark money. I also noted they were started by British political operative Imran Ahmed who began working with the Biden administration to censor Biden critics, such as @RobertKennedyJr Image
3) Working w/ @mtaibbi, we reported on internal documents from a whistleblower that CCDH's mission was "Kill Musk's Twitter." CCDH's founder is Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer political operative, Morgan McSweeney.

After we released this report, McSweeney disappeared his LinkedIn. Image
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Feb 11
1) I had to dismember @WIRED's @emilylmullin for her misleading piece on the journal @RCJAPH.

Her hit piece contains factual errors, serves as an interesting case study in science writing, a journalism adjacent media profession. Image
2) Seems clear @WIRED is writing for liberals based on how little play Emily Mullin's piece got on X. CNN reported back in Nov that X is now less partisan and more ideologically balanced.

Pieces that target liberal pieties are now mostly ignored on X. tinyurl.com/yckehwe8Image
3) You can see here that Mullin's got way more attention on Bluesky than on X. It's where left-leaning reporters w/ TDS send articles when they want to churn liberal activism. Image
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