Written by Matt Taibbi on Jan 27, 2023 1.THREAD: Twitter Files #15 MOVE OVER, JAYSON BLAIR: TWITTER FILES EXPOSE NEXT GREAT MEDIA FRAUD 2.“I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is.” 3.“Falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots.” 4.“Virtually any conclusion drawn from it…
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Twitter Files: How the pharmaceutical industry lobbied social media to shape content around vaccine policy
Written by Lee Fang on Jan 16, 2023 1. New piece from the TWITTER FILES. How the pharmaceutical industry lobbied social media to shape content around vaccine policy. The push included direct pressure from Pfizer partner BioNTech to censor activists demanding low-cost generic vaccines for low-income countries. 2. In 2020, it was clear that the…
TWITTER FILES: Supplemental More Adam Schiff Ban Requests and “Deamplification”
Written by Mat Taibbi Jan 13, 2023 1.TWITTER FILES: Supplemental More Adam Schiff Ban Requests, and “Deamplification” 2.Staff of House Democrat @AdamSchiff wrote to Twitter quite often, asking that tweets be taken down. This important use of taxpayer resources involved an ask about a “Peter Douche” parody photo of Joe Biden. The DNC made the…
Twitter Files #14
Written by Matt Taibbi on Jan 12, 2023. 1.THREAD: Twitter Files #14 THE RUSSIAGATE LIES One: The Fake Tale of Russian Bots and the #ReleaseTheMemo Hashtag 2.At a crucial moment in a years-long furor, Democrats denounced a report about flaws in the Trump-Russia investigation, saying it was boosted by Russian “bots” and “trolls.” 3.Twitter officials…
Twitter Files: How Scott Gottlieb MD used the same Twitter Lobbyist as the White House to suppress debate on Covid Vaccines
Written by Alex Berenson on Jan 9, 2023. 1/ My first #TwitterFiles report: how @scottgottliebmd – a top Pfizer board member – used the same Twitter lobbyist as the White House to suppress debate on Covid vaccines, INCLUDING FROM A FELLOW HEAD OF @US_FDA! Thanks @elonmusk for opening these files. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/from-the-twitter-files-pfizer-board 2/ In August 2021,…
The Twitter Files Twitter and the FBI “Belly Button”
Written by Matt Taibbi on Jan 3, 2023. 1.THREAD: The Twitter Files Twitter and the FBI “Belly Button” 2.By 2020, Twitter was struggling with the problem of public and private agencies bypassing them and going straight to the media with lists of suspect accounts. 3.In February, 2020, as COVID broke out, the Global Engagement Center…
The Twitter Files How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In
Written by Matt Taibbi on January 3, 2023 1. THREAD: The Twitter Files How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In 2.In August 2017, when Facebook decided to suspend 300 accounts with “suspected Russian origin,” Twitter wasn’t worried. Its leaders were sure they didn’t have a Russia problem. 3.“We did not see a big correlation.” “No…
THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE
Written by David Zweig on December 26, 2022 1. THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE – By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy – By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed – By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data* 2. So…
The Twitter Files: Twitter & Other Government Agencies
Written by Matt Taibbi on December 24, 2022 1.THREAD: The Twitter Files TWITTER AND “OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.” After weeks of “Twitter Files” reports detailing close coordination between the FBI and Twitter in moderating social media content, the Bureau issued a statement Wednesday. 2. It didn’t refute allegations. Instead, it decried “conspiracy theorists” publishing “misinformation,” whose…
The Twitter Files Part 8
Written by Lee Fang on December 20, 2022 1. TWITTER FILES PART 8 *How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign* Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations. 2. Twitter has claimed for years that they…