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==Background==
==Background==
On December 2, 2022 journalist Matt Taibbi of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine began releasing the #TwitterFiles,<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/03/peter-roff-musks-twitter-files-confirm-everything-we-already-knew-opinion/ PETER ROFF: Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ Confirm Everything We Already Knew], ''Daily Caller'', Dec 3, 2022.<br><font size=1><i>A former UPI political writer and U.S. News and World Report columnist, Peter Roff is a Trans-Atlantic Leadership Network media fellow</i></font></ref><ref>Jonathan Turley [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/media-hunter-biden-collusion-twitter-files-dump-defense-attacking-messenger Media's Hunter Biden collusion: 'Twitter files' dump has them on defense, attacking the messenger], ''Fox News'', Dec 4, 2022.<br><i>Media is too invested in suppression of Hunter Biden story to acknowledge extent of the scandal</i></ref> otherwise known as Twitter’s internal communications related to [[censorship]], targeting, and political interference. Twitter was working in conjunction with then-Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s team, removing tweets that team Biden wanted deleted. According to Andrew Kerr of the ''Washington Free Beacon'', those tweets were either drug-related photos of Hunter Biden or pornographic photos of him.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-releases-hunter-biden-files-tweets-deleted-at-behest-of-team-biden-exec-was-key-behind-censorship-decision</ref>
On December 2, 2022 journalist '''Matt Taibbi''' of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine began releasing the #TwitterFiles,<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/03/peter-roff-musks-twitter-files-confirm-everything-we-already-knew-opinion/ PETER ROFF: Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ Confirm Everything We Already Knew], ''Daily Caller'', Dec 3, 2022.<br><font size=1><i>A former UPI political writer and U.S. News and World Report columnist, Peter Roff is a Trans-Atlantic Leadership Network media fellow</i></font></ref><ref>Jonathan Turley [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/media-hunter-biden-collusion-twitter-files-dump-defense-attacking-messenger Media's Hunter Biden collusion: 'Twitter files' dump has them on defense, attacking the messenger], ''Fox News'', Dec 4, 2022.<br><i>Media is too invested in suppression of Hunter Biden story to acknowledge extent of the scandal</i></ref> otherwise known as Twitter’s internal communications related to [[censorship]], targeting, and political interference. Twitter was working in conjunction with then-Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s team, removing tweets that team Biden wanted deleted. According to Andrew Kerr of the ''Washington Free Beacon'', those tweets were either drug-related photos of Hunter Biden or pornographic photos of him.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-releases-hunter-biden-files-tweets-deleted-at-behest-of-team-biden-exec-was-key-behind-censorship-decision</ref>
[[File:Hunter I'm on Team Biden.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Actor [[James Woods]] was banned from Twitter at the request of the DNC for posting the above meme. Woods sued the DNC.<ref>https://youtu.be/2cxQcHbdWlw</ref>]]
[[File:Hunter I'm on Team Biden.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Actor [[James Woods]] was banned from Twitter at the request of the DNC for posting the above meme. Woods sued the DNC.<ref>https://youtu.be/2cxQcHbdWlw</ref>]]
On Dec 6, 2022, Musk announced, James Baker, former FBI counsel, was fired from Twitter after Hunter laptop revelations.<ref>[https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-elon-musk-confirms-james-baker-former-fbi-counsel-out-at-twitter-after-censorship-revelations BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms James Baker, former FBI counsel, FIRED from Twitter after Hunter laptop revelations], The PM, Dec 6, 2022.<blockquote>
On Dec 6, 2022, Musk announced, James Baker, former FBI counsel, was fired from Twitter after Hunter laptop revelations.<ref>[https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-elon-musk-confirms-james-baker-former-fbi-counsel-out-at-twitter-after-censorship-revelations BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms James Baker, former FBI counsel, FIRED from Twitter after Hunter laptop revelations], The PM, Dec 6, 2022.<blockquote>
On Tuesday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced that attorney Jim Baker had been "exited" from the company following recent revelations that he played a role in facilitating censorship on the platform.</blockquote></ref><ref>Paul Farrell, [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11512265/Oh-tangled-web-weave-Elon-Musk-gets-poetic-firing-Twitter-lawyer-James-Baker.html 'Oh, what a tangled web they weave': Elon Musk gets poetic after dramatically firing his Twitter lawyer for 'secretly vetting files on Hunter Biden's laptop' that delayed second tranche of revelations expected from ex-NY Times reporter Bari Weiss], ''Daily Mail'', 07 Dec 2022.</ref>
On Tuesday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced that attorney Jim Baker had been "exited" from the company following recent revelations that he played a role in facilitating censorship on the platform.</blockquote></ref><ref>Paul Farrell, [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11512265/Oh-tangled-web-weave-Elon-Musk-gets-poetic-firing-Twitter-lawyer-James-Baker.html 'Oh, what a tangled web they weave': Elon Musk gets poetic after dramatically firing his Twitter lawyer for 'secretly vetting files on Hunter Biden's laptop' that delayed second tranche of revelations expected from ex-NY Times reporter Bari Weiss], ''Daily Mail'', 07 Dec 2022.</ref>
On February 20, 2023 Taibbi posted that there is a massive amount of evidence that Sens. [[Richard Burr]] and [[Mark Warner]], chair and vice chair of the [[Senate Intelligence Committee]] (SSCI) during the [[Russiagate hoax]], had influence on Twitter policy in pushing the hoax.<ref>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1627657264428457986.html</ref>
====2020 Presidential election interference====
====2020 Presidential election interference====
Twitter justified blocking the ''New York Post's'' scoop on the Biden Burisma scandal claiming it violated Twitter's "Hacked Material Policy." The policy “prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization” because, they said, they “don’t want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials.” That standard would result in the banning from the platform the ''[[Pentagon Papers]]'' which ultimately toppled [[Richard Nixon]], the [[Snowden]] reporting, the [[Panama Papers]], the [[DNC]] and [[John Podesta|Podesta emails]] that exposed corruption and forced the 2016 resignation of the top five officials of the [[Democratic National Committee]], and President Trump's tax returns.
Twitter justified blocking the ''New York Post's'' scoop on the Biden Burisma scandal claiming it violated Twitter's "Hacked Material Policy." The policy “prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization” because, they said, they “don’t want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials.” That standard would result in the banning from the platform the ''[[Pentagon Papers]]'' which ultimately toppled [[Richard Nixon]], the [[Snowden]] reporting, the [[Panama Papers]], the [[DNC]] and [[John Podesta|Podesta emails]] that exposed corruption and forced the 2016 resignation of the top five officials of the [[Democratic National Committee]], and President Trump's tax returns.
==Shadowbanning==
{{See also|Shadowbanning}}
[[File:Twitter Files II shadowbanning.PNG|right|400px]]
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[[File:Bari Weiss (7) 12-8-22.PNG|right|400px]]
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===Banning Trump but not the genocidal Ayatollah===
Several Twitter engineers were filmed admitting to the practice of shadow banning by [[Project Veritas]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64gTjdUrDFQ HIDDEN CAMERA: Twitter Engineers To "Ban a Way of Talking" Through "Shadow Banning"]</ref> Many examples exist of Twitter banning or temporarily blocking conservative individuals.<ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (August 17, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/29807-twitter-still-silencing-the-right Twitter Still Silencing the Right?] ''The New American''. Retrieved August 17, 2018.</ref>
==FBI subsidiary==
{{See also|FISA abuse|FBI scandal}}
What Matt Taibbi outlined showcases how various organizations could reach out to Twitter and request content removal. Taibbi concluding, “what most people think of as the “[[deep state]]” is really a tangled collaboration of state agencies, private contractors, and (sometimes state-funded) [[NGO]]s. The lines become so blurred as to be meaningless."<ref>[Latest Twitter Files Bombshell: The Deep State Is Really a Tangled Collaboration of State Agencies, Private Contractors, and NGOs], [[JD Rucker]], December 16, 2022.</ref>
The FBI’s social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds. Federal intelligence and [[law enforcement]] reach into Twitter included the [[Department of Homeland Security]], which partnered with security contractors and [[think tank]]s to pressure Twitter to moderate content. Social media platforms were enlisted as DHS partners under the auspices of ‘[[national security]]’, and suddenly there was a full-fledged surveillance state underway. That system is defended under the shield of ‘national security‘ as noted in the judicial ruling in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (the Trump [[Mar-a-Lago raid]] case).<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/16/release-6-dhs-and-fbi-content-removal-requests-to-twitter/ Release #6 – DHS and FBI Content Removal Requests to Twitter], December 16, 2022 | Sundance.</ref>
(1) The [[Patriot Act]] turned the intel surveillance radar from foreign searches for terrorists to domestic searches for terrorists.
(2) Obama/Biden then redefined what is a “terrorist” to include their political opposition.
(3) The [[DHS]], [[DNI|ODNI]], [[DOJ-NSD]] and [[FISC]] became the four pillars of this new surveillance system.
==Banning Trump but not the genocidal Ayatollah==
As the 5th part of TwitterFiles was released, highlighting the decision to ban firmer president Trump in Jan 2021:<ref>Samuel Chamberlain and David Propper, [https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/fifth-twitter-files-installment-details-trumps-last-hours-on-platform/
As the 5th part of TwitterFiles was released, highlighting the decision to ban firmer president Trump in Jan 2021:<ref>Samuel Chamberlain and David Propper, [https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/fifth-twitter-files-installment-details-trumps-last-hours-on-platform/
“Ultimately, the concerns about Twitter’s efforts to censor news about Hunter Biden’s laptop, blacklist disfavored views, and ban a president aren’t about the past choices of executives in a social media company,” Weiss concluded her report. “They’re about the power of a handful of people at a private company to influence the public discourse and democracy.”</blockquote>
“Ultimately, the concerns about Twitter’s efforts to censor news about Hunter Biden’s laptop, blacklist disfavored views, and ban a president aren’t about the past choices of executives in a social media company,” Weiss concluded her report. “They’re about the power of a handful of people at a private company to influence the public discourse and democracy.”</blockquote>
==Ukraine war fake news==
{{See also|Ukraine propaganda war}}
{{See also|Ukraine propaganda war}}
When Musk took control of Twitter, he discovered that the [[Polish]] government was secretly funding a Twitter account notorious for spreading disinformation about the [[NATO war in Ukraine]], and saw it reported: “One of the largest media outlets in [[Eastern Europe]] is pushing out [[fake news]]...Chances are that any active Twitter user over the past year [2022] will have seen a tweet or two from an account called Visegrad24 and, most likely, the information contained in those tweets will have been fake...the outfit appears to be funded by the office of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki”.<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/475154-Is-the-Polish-government-secretly-funding-a-Twitter-account-notorious-for-spreading-disinformation-about-Eastern-Europe</ref> When globalist Western governments asked Musk to block Russian news sources, he told them: “We will not do so unless at 'gunpoint', sorry to be a free speech absolutist”.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-starlink-won-t-block-russian-outlets-165845001.html</ref>
When Musk took control of Twitter, he discovered that the [[Polish]] government was secretly funding a Twitter account notorious for spreading disinformation about the [[NATO war in Ukraine]], and saw it reported: “One of the largest media outlets in [[Eastern Europe]] is pushing out [[fake news]]...Chances are that any active Twitter user over the past year [2022] will have seen a tweet or two from an account called Visegrad24 and, most likely, the information contained in those tweets will have been fake...the outfit appears to be funded by the office of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki”.<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/475154-Is-the-Polish-government-secretly-funding-a-Twitter-account-notorious-for-spreading-disinformation-about-Eastern-Europe</ref> When globalist Western governments asked Musk to block Russian news sources, he told them: “We will not do so unless at 'gunpoint', sorry to be a free speech absolutist”.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-starlink-won-t-block-russian-outlets-165845001.html</ref>
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