The Twitter Files

[jsteele]

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Anonymous wrote:Pulitzer to Taibbi, Weiss, and others?

Seeing RWNJ accounts demanding to know if Elon has fired the 'CIA/FBI employees' at Twitter. There were no "CIA/FBI employees" at Twitter. They actually BELIEVED Taibbi's hyperbolic headline of "Twitter is an FBI subsidiary"

Had they actually read Taibbi's tweets beyond the salacious soundbite they'd know that this wasn't actually the case.

That hyperbolic headline was some straight-up irresponsible and dishonest "reporting" by Taibbi right there. That's the same kind of dishonest inciting bullshit like "stop the steal" that got people so riled that they attacked the US Capitol on January 6th.

There are a slew of former FBI/CIA employees at Twitter. There are the people we are talking about......
And, Facebook is even worse.

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So? People move from the government to corporations all the time.

DP. I could be wrong, but I think the focus isn’t really the act of moving to the corporation, but what went on.

What went on was that the FBI warned Twitter that Russians and others were looking to peddle disinformation to eff with the election, and Twitter thought the New York Post story violated their TOS because it was based on hacked material.

The FBI had the laptop almost a year prior. To say it was Russian disinformation was not truthful

The FBI had the laptop but that was not necessarily the same thing the New York Post had. Remember that the FBI took the laptop from the computer shop guy. He gave a copy of the data to Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was the target of a Russian espionage operation and hung out with known Russian intelligence agents. Who knows what happened to his copy of the data before it got to the New York Post?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pulitzer to Taibbi, Weiss, and others?

Seeing RWNJ accounts demanding to know if Elon has fired the 'CIA/FBI employees' at Twitter. There were no "CIA/FBI employees" at Twitter. They actually BELIEVED Taibbi's hyperbolic headline of "Twitter is an FBI subsidiary"

Had they actually read Taibbi's tweets beyond the salacious soundbite they'd know that this wasn't actually the case.

That hyperbolic headline was some straight-up irresponsible and dishonest "reporting" by Taibbi right there. That's the same kind of dishonest inciting bullshit like "stop the steal" that got people so riled that they attacked the US Capitol on January 6th.

There are a slew of former FBI/CIA employees at Twitter. There are the people we are talking about......
And, Facebook is even worse.

Thread:

So? People move from the government to corporations all the time.

DP. I could be wrong, but I think the focus isn’t really the act of moving to the corporation, but what went on.

What went on was that the FBI warned Twitter that Russians and others were looking to peddle disinformation to eff with the election, and Twitter thought the New York Post story violated their TOS because it was based on hacked material.

The FBI had the laptop almost a year prior. To say it was Russian disinformation was not truthful

The FBI had the laptop but that was not necessarily the same thing the New York Post had. Remember that the FBI took the laptop from the computer shop guy. He gave a copy of the data to Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was the target of a Russian espionage operation and hung out with known Russian intelligence agents. Who knows what happened to his copy of the data before it got to the New York Post?

This is a crap response. Has anything that has been revealed from the laptop been proven false or fake?
The FBI intentionally misled the Twitter team. They knew what they were doing.
One could say that they interfered in the election.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pulitzer to Taibbi, Weiss, and others?

Seeing RWNJ accounts demanding to know if Elon has fired the 'CIA/FBI employees' at Twitter. There were no "CIA/FBI employees" at Twitter. They actually BELIEVED Taibbi's hyperbolic headline of "Twitter is an FBI subsidiary"

Had they actually read Taibbi's tweets beyond the salacious soundbite they'd know that this wasn't actually the case.

That hyperbolic headline was some straight-up irresponsible and dishonest "reporting" by Taibbi right there. That's the same kind of dishonest inciting bullshit like "stop the steal" that got people so riled that they attacked the US Capitol on January 6th.

There are a slew of former FBI/CIA employees at Twitter. There are the people we are talking about......
And, Facebook is even worse.

Thread:

So? People move from the government to corporations all the time.

DP. I could be wrong, but I think the focus isn’t really the act of moving to the corporation, but what went on.

What went on was that the FBI warned Twitter that Russians and others were looking to peddle disinformation to eff with the election, and Twitter thought the New York Post story violated their TOS because it was based on hacked material.

The FBI had the laptop almost a year prior. To say it was Russian disinformation was not truthful

The FBI had the laptop but that was not necessarily the same thing the New York Post had. Remember that the FBI took the laptop from the computer shop guy. He gave a copy of the data to Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was the target of a Russian espionage operation and hung out with known Russian intelligence agents. Who knows what happened to his copy of the data before it got to the New York Post?

This is a crap response. Has anything that has been revealed from the laptop been proven false or fake?
The FBI intentionally misled the Twitter team. They knew what they were doing.
One could say that they interfered in the election.

You mean like they did with her emails?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pulitzer to Taibbi, Weiss, and others?

Seeing RWNJ accounts demanding to know if Elon has fired the 'CIA/FBI employees' at Twitter. There were no "CIA/FBI employees" at Twitter. They actually BELIEVED Taibbi's hyperbolic headline of "Twitter is an FBI subsidiary"

Had they actually read Taibbi's tweets beyond the salacious soundbite they'd know that this wasn't actually the case.

That hyperbolic headline was some straight-up irresponsible and dishonest "reporting" by Taibbi right there. That's the same kind of dishonest inciting bullshit like "stop the steal" that got people so riled that they attacked the US Capitol on January 6th.

There are a slew of former FBI/CIA employees at Twitter. There are the people we are talking about......
And, Facebook is even worse.

Thread:

So? People move from the government to corporations all the time.

DP. I could be wrong, but I think the focus isn’t really the act of moving to the corporation, but what went on.

What went on was that the FBI warned Twitter that Russians and others were looking to peddle disinformation to eff with the election, and Twitter thought the New York Post story violated their TOS because it was based on hacked material.

The FBI had the laptop almost a year prior. To say it was Russian disinformation was not truthful

The FBI had the laptop but that was not necessarily the same thing the New York Post had. Remember that the FBI took the laptop from the computer shop guy. He gave a copy of the data to Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was the target of a Russian espionage operation and hung out with known Russian intelligence agents. Who knows what happened to his copy of the data before it got to the New York Post?

This is a crap response. Has anything that has been revealed from the laptop been proven false or fake?
The FBI intentionally misled the Twitter team. They knew what they were doing.
One could say that they interfered in the election.

You know what? I don’t care. FDT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pulitzer to Taibbi, Weiss, and others?

Seeing RWNJ accounts demanding to know if Elon has fired the 'CIA/FBI employees' at Twitter. There were no "CIA/FBI employees" at Twitter. They actually BELIEVED Taibbi's hyperbolic headline of "Twitter is an FBI subsidiary"

Had they actually read Taibbi's tweets beyond the salacious soundbite they'd know that this wasn't actually the case.

That hyperbolic headline was some straight-up irresponsible and dishonest "reporting" by Taibbi right there. That's the same kind of dishonest inciting bullshit like "stop the steal" that got people so riled that they attacked the US Capitol on January 6th.

There are a slew of former FBI/CIA employees at Twitter. There are the people we are talking about......
And, Facebook is even worse.

Thread:

So? People move from the government to corporations all the time.

DP. I could be wrong, but I think the focus isn’t really the act of moving to the corporation, but what went on.

What went on was that the FBI warned Twitter that Russians and others were looking to peddle disinformation to eff with the election, and Twitter thought the New York Post story violated their TOS because it was based on hacked material.

The FBI had the laptop almost a year prior. To say it was Russian disinformation was not truthful

The FBI had the laptop but that was not necessarily the same thing the New York Post had. Remember that the FBI took the laptop from the computer shop guy. He gave a copy of the data to Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was the target of a Russian espionage operation and hung out with known Russian intelligence agents. Who knows what happened to his copy of the data before it got to the New York Post?

This is a crap response. Has anything that has been revealed from the laptop been proven false or fake?
The FBI intentionally misled the Twitter team. They knew what they were doing.
One could say that they interfered in the election.

Yes, it has. Multiple people in this thread have linked to the WaPo story showing the laptop had many files added to it. You’re just intent on ignoring that inconvenient fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pulitzer to Taibbi, Weiss, and others?

Seeing RWNJ accounts demanding to know if Elon has fired the 'CIA/FBI employees' at Twitter. There were no "CIA/FBI employees" at Twitter. They actually BELIEVED Taibbi's hyperbolic headline of "Twitter is an FBI subsidiary"

Had they actually read Taibbi's tweets beyond the salacious soundbite they'd know that this wasn't actually the case.

That hyperbolic headline was some straight-up irresponsible and dishonest "reporting" by Taibbi right there. That's the same kind of dishonest inciting bullshit like "stop the steal" that got people so riled that they attacked the US Capitol on January 6th.

There are a slew of former FBI/CIA employees at Twitter. There are the people we are talking about......
And, Facebook is even worse.

Thread:

So? People move from the government to corporations all the time.

DP. I could be wrong, but I think the focus isn’t really the act of moving to the corporation, but what went on.

What went on was that the FBI warned Twitter that Russians and others were looking to peddle disinformation to eff with the election, and Twitter thought the New York Post story violated their TOS because it was based on hacked material.

The FBI had the laptop almost a year prior. To say it was Russian disinformation was not truthful

The FBI had the laptop but that was not necessarily the same thing the New York Post had. Remember that the FBI took the laptop from the computer shop guy. He gave a copy of the data to Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was the target of a Russian espionage operation and hung out with known Russian intelligence agents. Who knows what happened to his copy of the data before it got to the New York Post?

This is a crap response. Has anything that has been revealed from the laptop been proven false or fake?
The FBI intentionally misled the Twitter team. They knew what they were doing.
One could say that they interfered in the election.

Yes, it has. Multiple people in this thread have linked to the WaPo story showing the laptop had many files added to it. You’re just intent on ignoring that inconvenient fact.

+1000 What Giuliani released to NY Post would flunk any forensic audits or chain of custody. And we also know, in fact Giuliani specifically shopped it to the NY Post knowing they wouldn't look closely at it. It was never supposed to stand up to scrutiny, it was an engineered October Surprise - one which has now outlived its usefulness and is in fact a liability to Giuliani.

[Anonymous]

I still remember several episodes of Tucker Carlson, where he was gleefully expecting a package to arrive with the laptop "smoking gun" - and then, when it finally DID arrive, for some reason Tucker Carlson dropped it like a hot potato. I wonder why? Maybe it didn't pass his sniff test?

[Anonymous]

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jsteele wrote:They do no such thing. It is one of the biggest nothingburgers in recent history. Please, in specific detail, list anything that was illegal or even unethical that was revealed.

For example, the White House Press Secretary had her account frozen for tweeting about a New York Post article about Hunters laptop in the month before the 2020 election. I would say that was an abuse of power and an unethical decision by twitter.

Twitter is a private company. It can freeze or unfreeze what it wants when it wants. No legal issues.

[Anonymous]

And in this day and age the October Surprise hijinks are a highly abused weapon, even to the point of them still carrying on years after they were ever intended to. There are for example STILL MAGAs out there TODAY saying "Lock Her Up" over the bullshit "BuT hER eMAiLz" crap. SIX. YEARS. LATER.

The news media, and social media networks alike, need to be mindful of such abuse and do what they can to not further empower it by allowing specious bullshit to be broadcast and amplified on their networks in the month prior to elections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pulitzer to Taibbi, Weiss, and others?

Seeing RWNJ accounts demanding to know if Elon has fired the 'CIA/FBI employees' at Twitter. There were no "CIA/FBI employees" at Twitter. They actually BELIEVED Taibbi's hyperbolic headline of "Twitter is an FBI subsidiary"

Had they actually read Taibbi's tweets beyond the salacious soundbite they'd know that this wasn't actually the case.

That hyperbolic headline was some straight-up irresponsible and dishonest "reporting" by Taibbi right there. That's the same kind of dishonest inciting bullshit like "stop the steal" that got people so riled that they attacked the US Capitol on January 6th.

There are a slew of former FBI/CIA employees at Twitter. There are the people we are talking about......
And, Facebook is even worse.

Thread:

So? People move from the government to corporations all the time.

DP. I could be wrong, but I think the focus isn’t really the act of moving to the corporation, but what went on.

What went on was that the FBI warned Twitter that Russians and others were looking to peddle disinformation to eff with the election, and Twitter thought the New York Post story violated their TOS because it was based on hacked material.

The FBI had the laptop almost a year prior. To say it was Russian disinformation was not truthful

The FBI had the laptop but that was not necessarily the same thing the New York Post had. Remember that the FBI took the laptop from the computer shop guy. He gave a copy of the data to Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was the target of a Russian espionage operation and hung out with known Russian intelligence agents. Who knows what happened to his copy of the data before it got to the New York Post?

This is a crap response. Has anything that has been revealed from the laptop been proven false or fake?
The FBI intentionally misled the Twitter team. They knew what they were doing.
One could say that they interfered in the election.

The drive had been accessed hundreds of times over a three year period. Files and folders were created and deleted. Add to this the fact Burisma itself has been hacked thereby opening the ability to generate fake emails that would be virtually indistinguishable from a genuine one. And yet there isn’t a scintilla of verifiable information that Joe Biden did a single thing that was illegal or unethical. So you would have to be an utter moron to conclude that there was election interference, particularly when Rudy had a copy of the corrupted hard drive for months prior to the election.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:They do no such thing. It is one of the biggest nothingburgers in recent history. Please, in specific detail, list anything that was illegal or even unethical that was revealed.

For example, the White House Press Secretary had her account frozen for tweeting about a New York Post article about Hunters laptop in the month before the 2020 election. I would say that was an abuse of power and an unethical decision by twitter.

Twitter is a private company. It can freeze or unfreeze what it wants when it wants. No legal issues.

If only the White House Press Secretary had some way to communicate to the public other than through a tweet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pulitzer to Taibbi, Weiss, and others?

Seeing RWNJ accounts demanding to know if Elon has fired the 'CIA/FBI employees' at Twitter. There were no "CIA/FBI employees" at Twitter. They actually BELIEVED Taibbi's hyperbolic headline of "Twitter is an FBI subsidiary"

Had they actually read Taibbi's tweets beyond the salacious soundbite they'd know that this wasn't actually the case.

That hyperbolic headline was some straight-up irresponsible and dishonest "reporting" by Taibbi right there. That's the same kind of dishonest inciting bullshit like "stop the steal" that got people so riled that they attacked the US Capitol on January 6th.

There are a slew of former FBI/CIA employees at Twitter. There are the people we are talking about......
And, Facebook is even worse.

Thread:

So? People move from the government to corporations all the time.

DP. I could be wrong, but I think the focus isn’t really the act of moving to the corporation, but what went on.

What went on was that the FBI warned Twitter that Russians and others were looking to peddle disinformation to eff with the election, and Twitter thought the New York Post story violated their TOS because it was based on hacked material.

The FBI had the laptop almost a year prior. To say it was Russian disinformation was not truthful

The FBI had the laptop but that was not necessarily the same thing the New York Post had. Remember that the FBI took the laptop from the computer shop guy. He gave a copy of the data to Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was the target of a Russian espionage operation and hung out with known Russian intelligence agents. Who knows what happened to his copy of the data before it got to the New York Post?

This is a crap response. Has anything that has been revealed from the laptop been proven false or fake?
The FBI intentionally misled the Twitter team. They knew what they were doing.
One could say that they interfered in the election.

Dp- this is such an embarrassing response. You have no business posting here, if you see that ignorant of facts. Get up to speed before you post.

[Anonymous]

I'm disappointed there hasn't yet been a response from FBI as with their highly highly selective Twitter Files releases and commentary, Taibbi and the others grossly mischaracterize the whole reason why FBI was engaged with Twitter in the first place. They have a mission to deal with counterintelligence, threats to domestic security, et cetera and that was the primary function of Twitter's involvement.

Yet they've dishonestly spun it into being some rogue operation to censor conservatives for merely being conservative, which is a ludicrous lie.

I am hoping the FBI will issue a statement to set the record straight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm disappointed there hasn't yet been a response from FBI as with their highly highly selective Twitter Files releases and commentary, Taibbi and the others grossly mischaracterize the whole reason why FBI was engaged with Twitter in the first place. They have a mission to deal with counterintelligence, threats to domestic security, et cetera and that was the primary function of Twitter's involvement.

Yet they've dishonestly spun it into being some rogue operation to censor conservatives for merely being conservative, which is a ludicrous lie.

I am hoping the FBI will issue a statement to set the record straight.

I doubt if Taibbi asked them for a comment because that’s what normal journalists do and he isn’t one any longer. Lee Fang appears to have done that in the most recent drop.

[Anonymous]

The FBI shouldn’t be in the business of engaging in every crank conspiracy theory. The nutjobs aren’t going to be convinced by a denial in any event.