The FBI and DHS moderated Twitter, possibly other social media platforms
I don't know about you, but I don't believe taxpayer dollars should be spent to moderate wrongthink on social media.
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You know that meme that shows you have an FBI agent assigned to you to watch your online speech? That is now more or less proven to be true.
Matt Taibbi’s latest Twitter files drop goes in-depth about just how prevalent the activities of the FBI and DHS were on the platform, showing them running a fine-toothed comb through the platform to find every single tweet they don’t like, even if it came from users who had no followers and no engagement on the tweet in question.
And if you’re thinking to yourself, “Well, duh! Twitter had a rampant child porn problem! And mass shooters sometimes publicly post about their intentions before they commit their crimes!” Then I got some bad news for you: They did not act on those types of posts. No, their focus was maintaining official narratives on things like election integrity, voter fraud, COVID information that turned out to be true but they labeled as ‘misinformation’ anyway, etc. etc.
Isn’t it just a little bit strange that time, energy, and taxpayer funding was used more for policing speech and circumventing the 1st amendment rights of Americans on Twitter than to catch terrorists and child pornographers? That seems like gross negligence in the best case and criminal intent in the worst case.
So anyway, let’s get into it.
Did you know that the FBI has a ‘social media task force’? It was created after the 2016 election, supposedly to combat ‘mis/dis/malinformation’ but the timing is what I question, especially as the last couple of Twitter files drops have been related to the steps Twitter took in concert with government actors to ban Trump from the platform.
While banning Trump was a pet project for Yoel Roth and Vijaya Gadde, primarily, given that James Baker — AKA one of the architects of the Russiagate hoax and dedicated suppressor of story Hunter Biden laptop — was working at Twitter after “resigning” from the FBI, conveniently right around the time of the 2020 Presidential election.
But I’m not looking to rehash Baker’s story or the whole situation with banning Trump. I’m more concerned with exactly why the Feds were so involved in Twitter, and what that portends in terms of how it is at other social media companies, which are still caught in the matrix of leftist control at this point in time.
Some interesting emails have been released in the Twitter files to answer some of these questions for us.
Of course the agent’s name is Fred. Those people get their names assigned to them, because Feds always seem to have the most basic names in the world, like Joe Rogan’s buddy Mike Baker. But I digress.
Why exactly is the FBI wasting time and taxpayer resources to effectively do the job of the moderation team over at Twitter? So FBI Fred here has all day to just scroll Twitter to look for content and tweets that may violate Twitter’s Terms of Service? Why the fuck does the FBI give a damn about Twitter’s Terms of Service?
Before I answer that, let’s continue.
Obvious jokes proclaiming that election day was on the Wednesday after election day were not going to escape the FBI’s ‘no fun allowed’ dragnet, either.
The next email from the FBI asking for additional moderation had me laughing, I won’t lie.
One name there truly sticks out: Billy Baldwin. AKA the least famous Baldwin brother. The one you probably saw on reality shows like Celebrity apprentice because watching him act is against the Geneva convention’s laws against torture. Yes, that one.
While previous emails did show left-leaning individuals getting flagged, those were the ones that weren’t punished. So I can only believe that, given the presence of RSBNetwork on there as well, which is another right-wing Twitter account, that these are a batch of pesky right-wingers, though Billy Baldwin seems to flip-flop on this issue, usually around Thanksgiving, it looks like. Still, we know from previous drops that conservatives were specially flagged, tagged, and bagged by Twitter staff, if they were high-profile enough to be a problem.
That wasn’t a problem with this batch of apparent ne’er-do-wells, however, as most of them were satire accounts according to Taibbi, proving that Feds have no sense of humor. And honestly I never thought I would find myself in a society that treats humor like John Lithgow’s treated music in the movie Footloose. Below, we see Patrick Conlon assuring Agent Elvis Chan ( That name is definitely not real, I refuse to believe it ) that appropriate action was taken on all accounts shown to have committed an infraction under these rather broad guidelines Twitter adopted whenever they wanted to manipulate public discourse with an iron fist.
The rabbit hole goes deeper into the abyss as we find an example of how Twitter staff hemmed and hawed over addressing a tweet from Donald Trump himself that was flagged by California officials who were demanding to know why no action was taken. That doesn’t imply mere cooperation, it implies a control structure and a master-slave relationship between government officials and Twitter.
So what did he tweet? It’s… underwhelming to say the least, especially if you know how both parties undertake ballot harvesting operations in California — which may have been the only reason Republicans even held certain seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Gotta fight fire with fire, I guess.
A Slack message also talked of a video that was escalated to Twitter's moderation team by a Stanford-based organization called the Election Integrity Project (EIP) showing PA election workers opening the inner envelopes of ballots and calling those people to 'correct' their ballots prior to election day was flagged due to what the CIS (Center for Internet Security) claimed was misrepresentation of Pennsylvania state law as interpreted by the PA Supreme Court, as well as sworn affidavits depicting accounts of alleged fraudulent election activity. I do not have the video so I can't investigate these claims.
No, what I will fixate on here instead is the unholy alliance of university-level organizations getting involved in this free-for-all of leftist-sanctioned Twitter moderation. I will also fixate on the fact that the CIS is a branch of the DHS.
Was there anybody in these alphabet agencies that wasn't involved in stifling free speech on Twitter?
I could continue citing examples, though I will refrain from doing so because this isn’t the discovery phase of a lawsuit and it would just be reinforcing the already bountiful evidence we have. The point is, there’s a running theme: Biased enforcement and government intervention in matters of free speech. And given past Twitter files drops and the internal communications from Twitter staff, they definitely were not being forced into all of this, they did the FBI’s bidding willingly because it aligned with their own hyperpartisan, authoritarian beliefs.
What we ultimately find is that an entire multi-app infrastructure was set up so anyone from federal, or even state-level jurisdictions, could freely send in tips about potential infractions committed by users on the platform, and then all Twitter’s moderation teams had to do was work through them at the bidding of their government-level masters. One was called Teleporter, and the other was referred to as a “Partner support portal”. That’s an odd name for it, needless to say. Sounds pretty fascist, not gonna lie.
So anyway, I must ask the question again: Why were these government agencies doing all this? The answer is simple. It’s a loophole around the 1st amendment. By enforcing Twitter’s Terms of Service, the Feds gets to use Twitter as a subsidiary to do their dirty work, and they get to deny you, the end-user in this case, the very right to free speech. Because from a legal standpoint, Twitter does not technically have to let you join in the conversation at all, because of the company’s right to free speech, which supersedes yours because they own the platform. They can ban you for any reason, or no reason at all, because we don’t yet have an internet bill of rights to protect us. And these bureaucrat authoritarians are flouting the constitution with a loophole to make sure your thoughts align with their aims.
Viable alternatives exist, but merely sequester individuals from the greater discussion. So, for right now, Twitter is all we got. Journalists trying to stick it to Elon found that out the hard way.
Try as they might, journalists who are extremely unhappy with no longer having control of the narrative on Twitter still can’t bring themselves to leave permanently. So they’ve reportedly taken to trying to get Elon and his family killed, instead.
They also mischaracterized that his private jet’s flight information was public; it wasn’t. The guy who was running the Elonjet account devised a bot that cracked the PIA code meant to conceal his flight information from unauthorized individuals. Sure sounds like some kind of crime to me, and any journalists that propagated that ill-gotten info and aided in doxxing Elon and his family in real time should be held accountable.
Things are too tense right now to be that reckless, a child was almost killed because of political differences that said child is way too young to understand. All because leftist terrorists are angry that they no longer control Twitter.
With all that is going on and with more info coming out, it sure feels like some kind of war is going on, civil or not.