Share this page!

Enter Twitter Thread URL to Unroll

Needs to be the full URL like: https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on Twitter App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
@shellenberger
Jul 18 • 6 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Scrolly
Scientists studying Covid's origin told Congress last week that they were practicing science. But newly released private messages show Fauci's advisors knew they couldn't show a natural spillover had occurred and thought a lab leak was possible long after claiming otherwise. Image
Last week, two of the top scientific advisors to Anthony Fauci testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which is investigating the origins of Covid-19.

Bob Garry told members of Congress that the novel coronavirus had emerged in nature and not… https://t.co/whLqfpiYaZtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Image
From “Project-Wuhan_Engineering” to “Project-Wuhan_Pangolin”

Only a tiny fraction of the communications between Andersen and his coauthors has been reported upon before now. Drawing on the newly released messages, Public has cataloged nearly 60 clear statements by Andersen and… https://t.co/v6T5Ccw5YLtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Image
Behaviors Suggesting A Cover-Up

What happened in the days preceding February 5, when Andersen changed the name of the “Proximal Origin” team’s Slack channel from “project-wuhan_engineering” to “project-wuhan_pangolin”?

One clue comes from what has already been reported:… https://t.co/H2NQrf2zcFtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Image
Who Were The “Higher Ups”?

Chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on June 13, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The new… https://t.co/nUB6RsV9AAtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Image
This story was reported by @galexybrane @lwoodhouse @mtaibbi and @shellenberger ! Image

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Michael Shellenberger

Michael Shellenberger Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @shellenberger

Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
Jul 20
In 2020, the FBI repeatedly warned Twitter & Facebook of a forthcoming Russian disinformation operation about Hunter Biden. When @nypost published emails from his laptop, Twitter & FB censored the content. Now, an FBI official admits FBI knew the laptop was real. Massive.
We already knew that the FBI took possession of Hunter's laptop in Dec. 2019.

What we didn't know was whether or not the FBI agents warning of Russian disinfo related to Hunter Biden also knew that FBI had his laptop.

Now we know they did.

Three days ago, Laura Dehmlow, the chief of the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, told Congressional investigators, "Somebody from Twitter essentially asked whether the laptop was real. And one of the FBI folks... did confirm that 'yes, it was'...."

This is mindblowing. Image
Read 9 tweets
Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
Jul 14
Biden yesterday said there was “no possibility” Russia could win in Ukraine and Putin had “already lost,” but those were lies. Just a few hours later, the DoD announced that Biden had deployed 3,000 additional troops "to defend NATO's eastern flank" because "fighting is severe." Image
Why Do We Fight?

In 1941, shortly after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the Chief of Staff to the U.S. Army gave an assignment to a famous Hollywood movie director.

“Now, Capra,” said George Marshall to Oscar-winning Director Frank Capra, “I want to nail down with you a plan to make… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Reality Makes a Cameo at the San Francisco Chronicle

In 2021, San Francisco’s infamously lenient former District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, warned against arresting and prosecuting the Honduran drug dealers that crowd the city’s downtown sidewalks on the theory that many of them… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Read 4 tweets
Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
Jul 10
YouTube claims to be a social media platform, but it's not. It deplatforms disfavored views. That makes it a normal media company, not subject to Section 230 liability protections. Enough is enough. Congress &/or the courts should strip YouTube of its Section 230 status.
I have repeatedly called on Congress to mandate transparency by social media companies for its censorship decisions, but YouTube's behavior is totally out-of-line, directly interfering in a presidential campaign, and deplatforming and demonitizing disfavored people.
Google/YouTube has shown no real interest in transparency or accountability and so Congress, the Justice Department, and/or the judiciary should respond by taking away the company's Section 230 protections. It's behaving like a normal, biased news media company, not a platform.
Read 18 tweets
Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
Jul 8
Imagine deciding to disrupt someone's wedding. You'd have to think that it would help your cause, you were entitled to disrupt, and you were good and they were evil. Grandiosity, entitlement, and "splitting" (black & white thinking) define pathological narcissism. https://t.co/mv3X2PE2bstwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Let's start from the beginning. Emissions have been declining in the UK and around the world. They will continue to decline if @JustStop_Oil & others allow for more natural gas production to replace coal. Instead, they're blocking natural gas production.





@JustStop_Oil Humans and ecosystems are doing pretty well adapting to higher temperatures, despite the hysterical disinformation from regime media, which refuse to publish basic data like these.





Read 26 tweets
Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
Jul 8
Mark Zuckerberg & Meta say deamplyifying "anger" on Threads is a recipe for a more "public" platform, but it's not. It's a recipe for censorship, repression, and totalitarianism. Truly free speech isn't harmless. It's dangerous. And it always will be.
I already wrote one introduction to this incredible Brendan O'Neill essay, below, in defense of truly free speech. I need to write an additional one here.

First, please read this essay. All of it. It's vital to our freedom as our species that you do.
Second, O'Neill's essay is essential to read because it's a reminder that "reducing harm" must not become the over-riding goal of social media platforms.

Protecting free speech and being transparent about censorship should be the highest goals.
Read 9 tweets
Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
Jul 7
Around the world, politicians say we must protect vulnerable communities through censorship and warrantless spying, but that's a grotesque lie. No movement for human liberation or progress has ever succeeded by censoring its opponents. Never. Oppressors censor, not liberators.
Censorship For “Vulnerable Communities”

Think of some of the last century’s most iconic movements for human liberation and progress. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking of his dream at the March on Washington in 1964. Gays and lesbians standing up against police brutality at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Cluster Bombs For Kids

The White House has floated what appears to be a trial balloon to see how open the public might be to giving Ukraine cluster bombs, which are famous for maiming and killing children. And quite a trial balloon it was.

The “widely banned weapons,” reported… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Send Email!

:(