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Edward Snowden Profile picture
@Snowden
Apr 15 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
The NSA is just 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 from taking over the internet, and it's not on the front page of any newspaper--because no one has noticed.

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Mar 18
Look, I've been in the "controversial interview" seat. What @DonLemon came after @ElonMusk with felt like malice. Elon—in clear discomfort—opens up in good faith about intensely private struggles; Lemon picks precisely that moment to begin emptying an entire drawer of knives. 1/
@donlemon @elonmusk That's a dick move, sure, but it's Lemon's right. It comes with the territory of being a partisan football, and Musk should have expected it. The real loss is that it's a huge waste of an interview, because Lemon exhibits zero curiosity or interest in anything beyond posturing.
@donlemon @elonmusk You've got one of the world's most influential men in front of you, on camera, with his shields uncharacteristically down. There's rapport. You can get genuine, unconsidered answers—explore his unguarded thought and beliefs. Instead, you just slap him until his gloves come up?
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Jan 10
"Despite Israel’s war on Gaza being perhaps the deadliest war for children in modern history, only 2 headlines out of over 1,100 in the study (of the biggest US mainstream news outlets' coverage) mention Gaza's children."
"While the war on Gaza has been one of the deadliest in modern history for journalists—overwhelmingly Palestinians—the word “journalists” (and its iterations such as “reporters” and “photojournalists”) only appear in 9 headlines out of over 1,100 articles studied." theintercept.com/2024/01/09/new…
"The lack of coverage for the unprecedented killing of children and journalists, groups that typically elicit sympathy from Western media, is conspicuous."
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Aug 14, 2023
After hitting topping the iTunes list and tweeting like this, the FBI will be making space for him another kind of list, too.

Think I'm kidding? The FBI had a file on John Denver for attending *one* anti-war protest.

They're gonna keep making lists — until they're made to stop.
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Jan 17, 2023
Today, an "anti-fake news" outlet (@InsiderEng) falsely claimed that I lived in a KGB safehouse. They even know which floor I'm on! What a scoop!

The problem? It's a lie. I don't cooperate with spies or live in a safe house, much less 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘺! 🤦
@InsiderEng Bonus points for those who notice the absolutely massive train station and shopping complex full of cameras *directly behind* these knuckleheads' "safe house," which definitely sounds like a plausible place for a hunted whistleblower to live.

Deeply embarrassed for these people.
I used to believe that while the media does make mistakes from time to time, "most" things you read in the news could be relied on.

Nothing robs you of that innocence like becoming yourself the subject of news. When they write on what you 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰, errors—and lies—are clear.
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Nov 2, 2022
The obsession with platforms prostrating themselves before advertisers has always been misplaced, because on any scale longer than one bad news cycle, advertisers go where the audience is.

Optimize platforms for people, not brands, because people have a choice. Brands don't.
The entire point of advertisers is to carry out watering-hole attacks on human attention. If you keep enough attention, they're always going to be there -- right behind the tall grass.
Anybody at Twitter who cares about what advertisers think should not be working at Twitter. Twitter lives or dies based on a single metric: is the most important conversation in the world happening here?

Make it fun and make it matter. That's how you win.
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Feb 15, 2022
So... if nobody shows up for the invasion Biden scheduled for tomorrow morning at 3AM, I'm not saying your journalistic credibility was instrumentalized as part of one of those disinformation campaigns you like to write about, but you should at least consider the possibility.
I want to see an end to the conflict in Ukraine, and frankly, I think all reasonable people share that position. The question nobody seems to want to contend with is whether amplifying official claims made without evidence are reducing hostilities, or are in fact provoking them.
If there's an invasion tomorrow, dunk on me because I have been spectacularly wrong.

But remember, too that the source of my skepticism is that the US IC has (again) been making truly spectacular claims without presenting any evidence -- because you did not require it of them.
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