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BREAKING: Twitter lied, engaged in secret censorship and propaganda

By Mike Huckabee

December 9, 2022
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December 8, 2022, is another day that will live in infamy.

That date will go down in history as the day the bomb was dropped, but this one is a truth-bomb courtesy of new Twitter CEO Elon Musk and his journalist assistants Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, revealing the magnitude of the fraud that has been sold to us by social media, in this case Twitter. And the response to this needs to be just as unified and strong as anything FDR could have called for. This is as much a threat to our republic as any foreign power.

In “The Twitter Files, Part 2,” Weiss revealed --- appropriately, on Twitter --- that “teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics --- all in secret, without informing users.” And she told us that, contrary to what we’ve known up till now, former CEO Jack Dorsey WAS involved.

Twitter had both a “Trends Blacklist,” where such accounts as the great Libs Of TikTok were placed (Libs of TikTok was still there, as of December 7), and a “Search Blacklist,” where Dan Bongino spent some time. Eminent Stanford physician Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who dared to make the case that COVID lockdowns would harm children (“misinformation!”), was on the Trends Blacklist. There was also a “Do Not Amplify list,” which included Charlie Kirk of Turning Point, USA.

The names are self-explanatory.  Being on the Trends Blacklist prevented your tweet from trending. Being on the Search Blacklist made it hard for users to search for you. To accomplish these things, collectively known as “shadowbanning,” Twitter employed a “visibility filtering (VF) tool.” A Twitter engineer told Weiss, “We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do.”

The everyday content moderators who did most of the blacklisting were part of the Strategic Response Team—Global Escalation Team (SRT-GET). They “handled” about 200 cases a day. But above them, to handle “the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions” was a secret ivory-tower group called the “SIP-PES,” which stands for “Site Integrity Policy, Escalation Support.” This team included, among others, Vijaya Gadde, then-Head of Legal, Policy and Trust (and also Deputy General Counsel James Baker’s boss); Yoel Roth, then-Global Head of Trust and Safety; former CEO Parag Agrawal; and former CEO JACK DORSEY.

Within their bubble, they dealt with the high-follower and presumably most influential accounts that they deemed controversial. Decisions regarding these accounts were made off-book, as in, “no ticket or anything,” according to one Twitter employee.

Vijaya Gadde was one of the Twitter officials who insisted they didn’t engage in this. “Twitter exists to serve the public conversation, enabling important discussions around the world to occur. Favoring one specific ideology or belief goes against everything we stand for,” she lied in 2018.

As with Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss has an agreement that the documents she reports on have to be posted on Twitter first. But she said, “We’re just getting started with our reporting. Documents cannot tell the whole story here.” And there is still more; Taibbi will have a third installment. In the meantime, here’s Weiss’s complete Twitter thread…

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601025779021684736

Weiss tweeted that Twitter once had a mission ‘to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.’ Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.” Here’s more from BREITBART NEWS.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/12/08/visibility-filtering-twitter-files-reveals-shadowbanning-other-tools-used-to-censor-conservatives/

Miranda Devine, whose Hunter Biden laptop story in the NEW YORK POST was openly banned --- it couldn't even be shared privately --- and the POST locked out by Twitter, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Thursday night show to react. She found it “gratifying” that the top people at Twitter had been caught in their lies, “because they did lie.” She said she knows she was shadowbanned because now that Musk is in charge and her account is restored, her following is up by 40 percent, “and that’s just something that’s experienced by conservatives across the board.” She noted that while Bari Weiss is not a conservative –- her background includes THE NEW YORK TIMES –- all the accounts Weiss has named in her report have been conservative. “If there were left-wingers that had been banned,” Devine said, “you can bet that she would have named them, to be equal-opportunity.”
“I think Matt Taibbi was snowed,” Devine said, “probably by James Baker,” when he said a few things that “didn’t ring true,” such as that he hadn’t seen evidence of government involvement. (As you know if you read yesterday’s newsletter, former FBI general counsel Baker was just "exited" by Musk for withholding incriminating material to keep these reporters somewhat in the dark.)

She sees this as part of an “overall censorship scheme to stop anyone who went against the Biden administration, “against federal agencies like the CDC.”

She also thinks one reason Musk is doing this now is to get ahead of the revelations coming out of the brilliantly-timed lawsuit brought by the states of Missouri and Louisiana against the Biden administration for violating the First Amendment for allegedly “using the social media companies to do their dirty work.” That would have included the shadowbanning of Dr. Batthacharya for his sensible views on lockdowns that dared to challenge the capricious dictates of The Great Dr. Fauci.

Charlie Kirk, whose Twitter account had been knocked back 95 percent, said, “They’re treating my Twitter account with more scrutiny and censorship than the prime minister of Iran?? Than Hamas?? Than people who do actual terrorist-type damage.” Yes, that's what they did, and it's consistent with what our story yesterday about the FBI and DHS focusing so intently on what they’ve labeled “domestic terrorism” instead of actual terrorism.

“They saw what I had to say as a direct threat to the regime,” Kirk said, adding that he wants to know if they were told by the administration to do this. He recounted a “very warm” meeting he had with some of the Twitter employees, including Jack Dorsey, in the summer of 2018, in which Dorsey personally assured him that shadowbanning was not happening. “I didn’t really believe him at the time,” Kirk said, though he sort-of accepted that answer because he wasn’t yet experiencing the censorship that was to come after COVID hit in 2020. By then, he said, he “couldn’t even get a response out of Twitter.” That’s when he saw the company morph into “a Democrat SuperPAC.”

“I don’t think we’ll ever be able to measure the impact of what Twitter did to our voices online, in the calendar year of 2020...”

Of course, this is a fast-developing story and there is much more to come. It seems the next logical step is to very specifically reveal the role of the FBI and various intelligence agencies, as reflected in whatever it was James Baker didn't want the reporters to see.
RELATED NEWS:  PERKINS COIE WAS TWITTER'S OUTSIDE COUNSEL
In today's most shocking-but-not-surprising news, Twitter's outside counsel was reportedly Democrat powerhouse law firm Perkins Coie.  When Elon Musk was called out on this on Thursday, he tweeted, "Twitter isn't using Perkins Coie.  No company should use them until they make amends for [Michael] Sussmann's attempt to corrupt a Presidential election."
On Thursday, some observers were disputing that Perkins Coie really is gone at this time.  Let's hope Musk "exited" them at the same time he pushed James Baker out the door.  If there was any doubt that Twitter was a by-Democrats, for-Democrats propaganda operation, the fact that they were represented by Perkins Coie should dispel it.

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Comments 21-30 of 32

  • Melinda Smith

    12/09/2022 12:19 PM

    It's a shame the Supreme Court can't be trusted but it would be nice to make a preemptive strike on behalf of free speech and take a definitive stand for the people who have been irreparably harmed by the actions of Democrats, the White House, DOJ, FBI, mainstream media and social media to name a few.

  • Tricia Kennemer

    12/09/2022 12:15 PM

    Has anyone looked into the allegation that one of Fauci's daughters is a software expert at Twitter? I wonder if E Musk is aware? There is much info being dropped in comment sections on various YT channels. Randomly. Appears to be credible and at very least worth looking into...Twitter is probably saturated with the likes of Baker, Fauci and others.

  • Tom Wendt

    12/09/2022 12:14 PM

    Been reading for six years. Cannot do it anymore. There’s no law enforcement, even when Trump was there.

  • Debra LaRosa

    12/09/2022 11:43 AM

    It sickens me to see just how far the Democratic Party will go to destroy our country and that so many of the Democratic people not in government still don’t see how corrupt they are and keep voting them in. It’s like they are brainwashed or just don’t have a conscience either.

  • Ron Clark

    12/09/2022 11:32 AM

    It's no wonder Twitter had so many employees. They had to work hard to "shadow-ban" so many accounts. One question that has never been asked that, as a pharmacist, is of interest to me. Why was it decided to use mRNA to create immunity for COVID instead the traditional method of deactivating the virus and using that as a true vaccination. There is some hidden agenda within the answer.

  • ron ciccone

    12/09/2022 11:31 AM

    War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

    Orwell was a true visionary. We just didn't know. We could not believe Ingsoc was just a handful of decades in the future.

  • Rich Frey

    12/09/2022 11:26 AM

    I am a Vietnam Vet who served in U.S.Naval Aviation for 8 years. Months ago I was permanently suspended by Twitter. I was never told why, which Twitter rule(s) I violated or how I violated them. All I clever did was offer my opinions on the State of the Union. No swearing, no personal attacks; only opinions on things going on. Do you know anyone who could help me get my account back? Any help would be appreciated!

  • Stephen Ernest Mitchell

    12/09/2022 11:20 AM

    Here we go again , I hear those trumpets blow again ( excuse me , but I just couldn't help using those lines ) ! So Twitter lied ?? My , my ! Now what do we do ? Another committee , another endless hearing that goes nowhere !? There's nothing that's going to happen , simply because you don't control the Judicial prosses . Case dismissed ! Next !

  • Steve Holley

    12/09/2022 10:57 AM

    I think it is great that Musk has released the details of what Twitter was actually doing to suppress and censor but I am really concerned that these people now have $44 billion dollars to further their domestic terrorism.

  • Frank Florio

    12/09/2022 10:56 AM

    Although I am pleased that this information is being revealed it saddens me that the damage has already been done. The horses have left the barn. Will anyone be punished for these injustices? We have a President ruining our nation and he may have been defeated if Twitter had acted in a fair and balanced manner. Merry Christmas.

Mike Huckabee

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