The Twitter Files

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I just spent a few minutes scrolling back through the last month of twitter posts by Joe Lauria.

I can see how Joe Lauria might get flagged as a Russian bot. Like Tucker Carlson, he churns out a ton of anti-NATO, anti-US, anti-Ukraine propaganda. At least 30 posts in the last month alone. And lest ye say "well he's anti-war" NOT ONE post actually critical of the war, let alone critical of Russia or Putin - in fact he posted two items in the last month that PRAISED Putin. So, he is NOT "anti-war." I have no doubt that Russian trolls and bots would be prolifically reposting and reusing what Lauria posts, just as Russian propagandists like Simonyan and Solovyev do with Tucker Carlson clips on prime-time Russian TV.

An algorithm looking for Russian bots and trolls would easily pick Lauria up as he is the exact kind of source material they'd want to use. If Lauria isn't overtly working on behalf of the Russians he is at the very least undeniably a useful idiot supplying ammunition for the Russians.

There's you, a DCUM nobody, and then there's Lauria - who is a veteran journalist who has covered UN for 20+ years for the WSJ, Boston Globe, the Times etc.

...a guy who maybe used to be known and respected, but who's more recently gone Randy Quaid. Seems to be happening a lot, like Glenn Greenwald and others. Maybe it's a mental break, maybe it's early onset dementia. Either way, he's clearly no longer an objective or reliable source of information.

Taibbi, Greenwald, and others have just seen how incredibly biased the MSM has become in recent years and have called them out on it. And, these Twitter files are showing just how bad things have gotten.
We see you don't like that.

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How can anyone BELIEVE Taibbi with a straight face? He wants to play investigative journalist, he has full access to Twitter's internal files, records, emails and reports, yet hasn't posted a damn thing about the *actual* Russian troll farms, Internet Research Agency, the server farms running bots, how Twitter is *still* failing to counter them, and how about all of the sketchy things that have happened SINCE Musk took over - bullying and unjustified firings (lawsuits abound), rents and bills not paid, disgusting bathrooms for lack of janitorial staff, essential Twitter services like MFA broken, and worse yet Twitter banning watchdogs keeping tabs on far right extremism like Chad Loder, at Elon Musk's personal behest. If you can't coherently speak to any of those things then there's your answer how we can indeed, with a straight face, question the legitimacy of what Taibbi is peddling.

"Don't write about what you want, write about what I want!"

Come on, man. Taibbi's reporting is akin to a version of the Lord of the Rings being about a happy-go-lucky dude named Smeagol who found a beautiful ring that made him happy, but then a criminal gang of evil hobbit thugs came and stole it from him and that's the entire story, start to finish, not a single other thing to discuss and how dare you ask.

I don't understand. Taibbi wrote about one specific set of events concerning Hamilton68 and their engagement with Twitter. Yet you insist that his writing cannot be credible unless he ALSO covers the lack of janitorial staff at Twitter. Like, why? What is this mysterious insistence that you cannot possibly entertain a story about one event at a company unless it also covers EVERYTHING else?

Because it's dishonest. It's a lie of omission. And, we aren't talking about some irrelevant random details, we're talking about critical context of what was going on at the time relative to Russian trolls, bots and influence operations. Again, was the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy just about some guy named Smeagol who got rolled by thugs? Nothing else in the story was relevant or meaningful in any way?

If you can't acknowledge and admit this, then you aren't even qualified to be having this discussion.

I don't see a link between the condition of bathrooms at Twitter and the Hamilton68 story. It seems to me that you can't argue the story on facts so you are condemning it on other things. No one here is qualified to do anything, we are all just bozos with Internet access.

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How can anyone BELIEVE Taibbi with a straight face? He wants to play investigative journalist, he has full access to Twitter's internal files, records, emails and reports, yet hasn't posted a damn thing about the *actual* Russian troll farms, Internet Research Agency, the server farms running bots, how Twitter is *still* failing to counter them, and how about all of the sketchy things that have happened SINCE Musk took over - bullying and unjustified firings (lawsuits abound), rents and bills not paid, disgusting bathrooms for lack of janitorial staff, essential Twitter services like MFA broken, and worse yet Twitter banning watchdogs keeping tabs on far right extremism like Chad Loder, at Elon Musk's personal behest. If you can't coherently speak to any of those things then there's your answer how we can indeed, with a straight face, question the legitimacy of what Taibbi is peddling.

"Don't write about what you want, write about what I want!"

Come on, man. Taibbi's reporting is akin to a version of the Lord of the Rings being about a happy-go-lucky dude named Smeagol who found a beautiful ring that made him happy, but then a criminal gang of evil hobbit thugs came and stole it from him and that's the entire story, start to finish, not a single other thing to discuss and how dare you ask.

I don't understand. Taibbi wrote about one specific set of events concerning Hamilton68 and their engagement with Twitter. Yet you insist that his writing cannot be credible unless he ALSO covers the lack of janitorial staff at Twitter. Like, why? What is this mysterious insistence that you cannot possibly entertain a story about one event at a company unless it also covers EVERYTHING else?

Because it's dishonest. It's a lie of omission. And, we aren't talking about some irrelevant random details, we're talking about critical context of what was going on at the time relative to Russian trolls, bots and influence operations. Again, was the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy just about some guy named Smeagol who got rolled by thugs? Nothing else in the story was relevant or meaningful in any way?

If you can't acknowledge and admit this, then you aren't even qualified to be having this discussion.

Really? Go ahead and cancel my Paypal and Youtube accounts while you're at it - this seems to be the current fashion.

[Anonymous]

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How can anyone BELIEVE Taibbi with a straight face? He wants to play investigative journalist, he has full access to Twitter's internal files, records, emails and reports, yet hasn't posted a damn thing about the *actual* Russian troll farms, Internet Research Agency, the server farms running bots, how Twitter is *still* failing to counter them, and how about all of the sketchy things that have happened SINCE Musk took over - bullying and unjustified firings (lawsuits abound), rents and bills not paid, disgusting bathrooms for lack of janitorial staff, essential Twitter services like MFA broken, and worse yet Twitter banning watchdogs keeping tabs on far right extremism like Chad Loder, at Elon Musk's personal behest. If you can't coherently speak to any of those things then there's your answer how we can indeed, with a straight face, question the legitimacy of what Taibbi is peddling.

"Don't write about what you want, write about what I want!"

Come on, man. Taibbi's reporting is akin to a version of the Lord of the Rings being about a happy-go-lucky dude named Smeagol who found a beautiful ring that made him happy, but then a criminal gang of evil hobbit thugs came and stole it from him and that's the entire story, start to finish, not a single other thing to discuss and how dare you ask.

I don't understand. Taibbi wrote about one specific set of events concerning Hamilton68 and their engagement with Twitter. Yet you insist that his writing cannot be credible unless he ALSO covers the lack of janitorial staff at Twitter. Like, why? What is this mysterious insistence that you cannot possibly entertain a story about one event at a company unless it also covers EVERYTHING else?

Because it's dishonest. It's a lie of omission. And, we aren't talking about some irrelevant random details, we're talking about critical context of what was going on at the time relative to Russian trolls, bots and influence operations. Again, was the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy just about some guy named Smeagol who got rolled by thugs? Nothing else in the story was relevant or meaningful in any way?

If you can't acknowledge and admit this, then you aren't even qualified to be having this discussion.

I don't see a link between the condition of bathrooms at Twitter and the Hamilton68 story. It seems to me that you can't argue the story on facts so you are condemning it on other things. No one here is qualified to do anything, we are all just bozos with Internet access.

Wow, talk about dishonest. Did I say condidtion of bathrooms? No, I did not. I said "relative to Russian trolls, bots and influence operations."

The fact that you deflected away to pretend I was talking about "bathrooms" makes your discomfort and dishonesty all the more glaring.

[Anonymous]

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How can anyone BELIEVE Taibbi with a straight face? He wants to play investigative journalist, he has full access to Twitter's internal files, records, emails and reports, yet hasn't posted a damn thing about the *actual* Russian troll farms, Internet Research Agency, the server farms running bots, how Twitter is *still* failing to counter them, and how about all of the sketchy things that have happened SINCE Musk took over - bullying and unjustified firings (lawsuits abound), rents and bills not paid, disgusting bathrooms for lack of janitorial staff, essential Twitter services like MFA broken, and worse yet Twitter banning watchdogs keeping tabs on far right extremism like Chad Loder, at Elon Musk's personal behest. If you can't coherently speak to any of those things then there's your answer how we can indeed, with a straight face, question the legitimacy of what Taibbi is peddling.

"Don't write about what you want, write about what I want!"

Come on, man. Taibbi's reporting is akin to a version of the Lord of the Rings being about a happy-go-lucky dude named Smeagol who found a beautiful ring that made him happy, but then a criminal gang of evil hobbit thugs came and stole it from him and that's the entire story, start to finish, not a single other thing to discuss and how dare you ask.

I don't understand. Taibbi wrote about one specific set of events concerning Hamilton68 and their engagement with Twitter. Yet you insist that his writing cannot be credible unless he ALSO covers the lack of janitorial staff at Twitter. Like, why? What is this mysterious insistence that you cannot possibly entertain a story about one event at a company unless it also covers EVERYTHING else?

Because it's dishonest. It's a lie of omission. And, we aren't talking about some irrelevant random details, we're talking about critical context of what was going on at the time relative to Russian trolls, bots and influence operations. Again, was the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy just about some guy named Smeagol who got rolled by thugs? Nothing else in the story was relevant or meaningful in any way?

If you can't acknowledge and admit this, then you aren't even qualified to be having this discussion.

Really? Go ahead and cancel my Paypal and Youtube accounts while you're at it - this seems to be the current fashion.

Ah, I see you are trying to plead an insanity defense in your support for Taibbi.

[Anonymous]

Perfect example of how and why context matters: Case in point, "suppression of the H Biden story"

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile, Trump continues to be a Russia colluder and Putin asskisser.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

How can anyone BELIEVE Taibbi with a straight face? He wants to play investigative journalist, he has full access to Twitter's internal files, records, emails and reports, yet hasn't posted a damn thing about the *actual* Russian troll farms, Internet Research Agency, the server farms running bots, how Twitter is *still* failing to counter them, and how about all of the sketchy things that have happened SINCE Musk took over - bullying and unjustified firings (lawsuits abound), rents and bills not paid, disgusting bathrooms for lack of janitorial staff, essential Twitter services like MFA broken, and worse yet Twitter banning watchdogs keeping tabs on far right extremism like Chad Loder, at Elon Musk's personal behest. If you can't coherently speak to any of those things then there's your answer how we can indeed, with a straight face, question the legitimacy of what Taibbi is peddling.

"Don't write about what you want, write about what I want!"

Come on, man. Taibbi's reporting is akin to a version of the Lord of the Rings being about a happy-go-lucky dude named Smeagol who found a beautiful ring that made him happy, but then a criminal gang of evil hobbit thugs came and stole it from him and that's the entire story, start to finish, not a single other thing to discuss and how dare you ask.

I don't understand. Taibbi wrote about one specific set of events concerning Hamilton68 and their engagement with Twitter. Yet you insist that his writing cannot be credible unless he ALSO covers the lack of janitorial staff at Twitter. Like, why? What is this mysterious insistence that you cannot possibly entertain a story about one event at a company unless it also covers EVERYTHING else?

Because it's dishonest. It's a lie of omission. And, we aren't talking about some irrelevant random details, we're talking about critical context of what was going on at the time relative to Russian trolls, bots and influence operations. Again, was the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy just about some guy named Smeagol who got rolled by thugs? Nothing else in the story was relevant or meaningful in any way?

If you can't acknowledge and admit this, then you aren't even qualified to be having this discussion.

I don't see a link between the condition of bathrooms at Twitter and the Hamilton68 story. It seems to me that you can't argue the story on facts so you are condemning it on other things. No one here is qualified to do anything, we are all just bozos with Internet access.

Wow, talk about dishonest. Did I say condidtion of bathrooms? No, I did not. I said "relative to Russian trolls, bots and influence operations."

The fact that you deflected away to pretend I was talking about "bathrooms" makes your discomfort and dishonesty all the more glaring.

This is an anonymous forum. No one knows who specifically talked about the conditions of bathrooms. I am referring to this comment below:

"How can anyone BELIEVE Taibbi with a straight face? He wants to play investigative journalist, he has full access to Twitter's internal files, records, emails and reports, yet hasn't posted a damn thing about the *actual* Russian troll farms, Internet Research Agency, the server farms running bots, how Twitter is *still* failing to counter them, and how about all of the sketchy things that have happened SINCE Musk took over - bullying and unjustified firings (lawsuits abound), rents and bills not paid, disgusting bathrooms for lack of janitorial staff, essential Twitter services like MFA broken, and worse yet Twitter banning watchdogs keeping tabs on far right extremism like Chad Loder, at Elon Musk's personal behest. If you can't coherently speak to any of those things then there's your answer how we can indeed, with a straight face, question the legitimacy of what Taibbi is peddling."

This comment is essentially making an argument that you cannot talk about one thing that Twitter did wrong without bringing up six hundred other things it did wrong, and I simply disagree. It ought to be possible to have a conversation about the bullcrap of Hamilton68 list without bringing up a laundry list of these other things. A journalist not writing about what you want to be written about is not necessarily missing integrity; his lens is somewhere else. And maybe someone else will write a "disgusting bathrooms at Twitter" story for you, and you will send them a fan letter. Just not Taibbi.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I just spent a few minutes scrolling back through the last month of twitter posts by Joe Lauria.

I can see how Joe Lauria might get flagged as a Russian bot. Like Tucker Carlson, he churns out a ton of anti-NATO, anti-US, anti-Ukraine propaganda. At least 30 posts in the last month alone. And lest ye say "well he's anti-war" NOT ONE post actually critical of the war, let alone critical of Russia or Putin - in fact he posted two items in the last month that PRAISED Putin. So, he is NOT "anti-war." I have no doubt that Russian trolls and bots would be prolifically reposting and reusing what Lauria posts, just as Russian propagandists like Simonyan and Solovyev do with Tucker Carlson clips on prime-time Russian TV.

An algorithm looking for Russian bots and trolls would easily pick Lauria up as he is the exact kind of source material they'd want to use. If Lauria isn't overtly working on behalf of the Russians he is at the very least undeniably a useful idiot supplying ammunition for the Russians.

There's you, a DCUM nobody, and then there's Lauria - who is a veteran journalist who has covered UN for 20+ years for the WSJ, Boston Globe, the Times etc.

...a guy who maybe used to be known and respected, but who's more recently gone Randy Quaid. Seems to be happening a lot, like Glenn Greenwald and others. Maybe it's a mental break, maybe it's early onset dementia. Either way, he's clearly no longer an objective or reliable source of information.

Taibbi, Greenwald, and others have just seen how incredibly biased the MSM has become in recent years and have called them out on it. And, these Twitter files are showing just how bad things have gotten.
We see you don't like that.

LMAO as if the alternatives, like FOX News, Newsmax, OANN, Breitbart - and the pieces that Greenwald and Taibbi put out AREN'T EVEN MORE BIASED THAN THE MSM!

If you think what they do is some kind of statement against bias in reporting you are deeply delusional.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Trump asked Twitter to take down Chrissy Tiegen’s tweet calling him a pu**y a** b***h 😆😆😆

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Anonymous wrote:Trump asked Twitter to take down Chrissy Tiegen’s tweet calling him a pu**y a** b***h 😆😆😆

I popped in here only to make sure that this was posted and discussed. To be live in that room...

Who is the speaker? I'm assuming a former Twitter lawyer but am not sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump asked Twitter to take down Chrissy Tiegen’s tweet calling him a pu**y a** b***h 😆😆😆

Every Republican accusation is an admission, vol. 1,583,492,963.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I just spent a few minutes scrolling back through the last month of twitter posts by Joe Lauria.

I can see how Joe Lauria might get flagged as a Russian bot. Like Tucker Carlson, he churns out a ton of anti-NATO, anti-US, anti-Ukraine propaganda. At least 30 posts in the last month alone. And lest ye say "well he's anti-war" NOT ONE post actually critical of the war, let alone critical of Russia or Putin - in fact he posted two items in the last month that PRAISED Putin. So, he is NOT "anti-war." I have no doubt that Russian trolls and bots would be prolifically reposting and reusing what Lauria posts, just as Russian propagandists like Simonyan and Solovyev do with Tucker Carlson clips on prime-time Russian TV.

An algorithm looking for Russian bots and trolls would easily pick Lauria up as he is the exact kind of source material they'd want to use. If Lauria isn't overtly working on behalf of the Russians he is at the very least undeniably a useful idiot supplying ammunition for the Russians.

There's you, a DCUM nobody, and then there's Lauria - who is a veteran journalist who has covered UN for 20+ years for the WSJ, Boston Globe, the Times etc.

...a guy who maybe used to be known and respected, but who's more recently gone Randy Quaid. Seems to be happening a lot, like Glenn Greenwald and others. Maybe it's a mental break, maybe it's early onset dementia. Either way, he's clearly no longer an objective or reliable source of information.

Taibbi, Greenwald, and others have just seen how incredibly biased the MSM has become in recent years and have called them out on it. And, these Twitter files are showing just how bad things have gotten.
We see you don't like that.

LMAO as if the alternatives, like FOX News, Newsmax, OANN, Breitbart - and the pieces that Greenwald and Taibbi put out AREN'T EVEN MORE BIASED THAN THE MSM!

If you think what they do is some kind of statement against bias in reporting you are deeply delusional.

MSM claims to be neutral

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I just spent a few minutes scrolling back through the last month of twitter posts by Joe Lauria.

I can see how Joe Lauria might get flagged as a Russian bot. Like Tucker Carlson, he churns out a ton of anti-NATO, anti-US, anti-Ukraine propaganda. At least 30 posts in the last month alone. And lest ye say "well he's anti-war" NOT ONE post actually critical of the war, let alone critical of Russia or Putin - in fact he posted two items in the last month that PRAISED Putin. So, he is NOT "anti-war." I have no doubt that Russian trolls and bots would be prolifically reposting and reusing what Lauria posts, just as Russian propagandists like Simonyan and Solovyev do with Tucker Carlson clips on prime-time Russian TV.

An algorithm looking for Russian bots and trolls would easily pick Lauria up as he is the exact kind of source material they'd want to use. If Lauria isn't overtly working on behalf of the Russians he is at the very least undeniably a useful idiot supplying ammunition for the Russians.

There's you, a DCUM nobody, and then there's Lauria - who is a veteran journalist who has covered UN for 20+ years for the WSJ, Boston Globe, the Times etc.

...a guy who maybe used to be known and respected, but who's more recently gone Randy Quaid. Seems to be happening a lot, like Glenn Greenwald and others. Maybe it's a mental break, maybe it's early onset dementia. Either way, he's clearly no longer an objective or reliable source of information.

Taibbi, Greenwald, and others have just seen how incredibly biased the MSM has become in recent years and have called them out on it. And, these Twitter files are showing just how bad things have gotten.
We see you don't like that.

LMAO as if the alternatives, like FOX News, Newsmax, OANN, Breitbart - and the pieces that Greenwald and Taibbi put out AREN'T EVEN MORE BIASED THAN THE MSM!

If you think what they do is some kind of statement against bias in reporting you are deeply delusional.

MSM claims to be neutral

This is such a pitiful response