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The '''Twitter Files''' were released in December 2022 by [[Twitter]] CEO [[Elon Musk]] shortly after Musk's purchase of the company, exposing constitutional law violations on the part of the [[United States Government]] to interfere in elections. Musk declared Twitter offices a "crime scene". While a private entity does not have to respect free speech, the [[First Amendment]] to the [[Constitution]] prohibits the United States Government from silencing free speech. Twitter, under Jack Dorsey, prohibited free political speech at the behest of the United States Government.
The '''Twitter Files''' were released in December 2022 by [[Twitter]] CEO [[Elon Musk]] shortly after Musk's purchase of the company, exposing constitutional law violations on the part of the [[United States Government]] to interfere in elections. Musk declared Twitter offices a "crime scene". While a private entity does not have to respect free speech, the [[First Amendment]] to the [[Constitution]] prohibits the United States Government from silencing free speech. Twitter, under Jack Dorsey, prohibited free political speech at the behest of the United States Government.
==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 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>
====Shadowbanning====
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====
{{See also|2020 Presidential election}}
Twitter imposed new [[draco]]ian censorship measures aimed at [[conservative]] users in October 2020.<ref>https://markzuckerberg.news/2020-09-30-doj-targets-big-tech-censorship-election-meddling-racketeering.html</ref> One example is labeling criticism of mail-in balloting as ‘misinformation’. [[James Woods]] commented the new labeling is clear:
{{quotebox-float|“They are closing down conservative voices completely now. Be prepared that you will no longer be able to see most of my communications, if indeed my account remains open at all. Sorry, folks, but it’s over. And they couldn’t care less what you think. This is the face of [[tyranny]].”<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/10/12/twitters-new-policy-sparks-sad-warning-from-james-woods-sorry-folks-but-its-over-983577</ref>}}
For the first time in [[American history]] social media companies took [[direct action]] against a major U.S. publisher,<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-and-facebooks-assault-on-freedom-of-the-press_3540670.html</ref> ''[[The New York Post]]'' when it published a story on [[Biden-Burisma]] scandal.<ref>*https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/<br>*https://youtu.be/r4Kcc7a114I<br>*https://youtu.be/89ByR-vrnc4</ref> ''The Post'' is among the top five newspapers by circulation in the United States. Twitter locked the account of the ''New York Post'', banning the paper from posting any content at all. ''The Post's'' remained locked out of its account for 16 days. account remained locked.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-capitulates-reinstates-nypost-account-after-16-day-suspension</ref> These actions raised serious questions about many social media platforms future [[Section 230]] immunity status.
Twitter and Facebook interfered in the [[2020 presidential election]] by blocking links to the article.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/14/election-interference-facebook-suppressing-new-york-post-bombshell-story-of-damaging-hunter-biden-emails/</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/14/bookmark-todays-date-big-tech-has-crossed-the-event-horizon-to-protect-joe-biden/</ref> Twitter and Facebook both had many foreign stockholders.<ref>"Finalized January of 2011, the transaction included a $450 million investment from Goldman Sachs, $50 million from DST, and $1 billion from unnamed foreign investors." http://whoownsfacebook.com/#Goldman<br>*https://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twitter-than-jack-dorsey-does/</ref> Twitter banned people who posted ''The New York Post'' story,<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2020/10/twitter-now-banning-users-posting-ny-post-story-hunter-biden/</ref> including [[White House]] Press Secretary [[Kayleigh McEnany]] for sharing the article,<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/15/twitter-bans-white-house-press-secretary-for-sharing-hunter-and-joe-biden-corruption-article/</ref> locked the Trump Campaign account less than 3 weeks before the 2020 Presidential election.<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/politics/2020/10/15/twitter-locks-trump-campaign-account-less-than-3-weeks-before-presidential-election/</ref> Rep. Jim Jordan posted the Biden-Burisma story on a federal government website after Twitter censored the House Judiciary GOP, at which point the link was promptly censored by Twitter.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/15/jim-jordan-posts-hunter-biden-burisma-story-twitter-censors-house-judiciary-gop/</ref> [[Wikipedia]] editors censored the [[Hunter Biden]] bombshell, and called the ''New York Post'' an ‘unreliable’ source.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/15/wikipedia-editors-censor-hunter-biden-bombshell-call-new-york-post-unreliable-source/</ref> [[Google]] also was reported to be meddling in [[U.S. Senate]] elections.<ref>https://patriotdailypress.org/2020/10/13/google-researcher-warns-google-may-be-shifting-power-to-flip-senate/</ref> The [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] announced that Twitter CEO [[Jack Dorsey]] would be [[subpoena]]ed to explain the meddling.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/15/senate-judiciary-committee-will-subpoena-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-over-ny-post-censorship/</ref> Former [[James Comey]] general counsel [[James A. Baker (DOJ)]], who was complicit in the [[Obamagate timeline|Obamagate]] and [[FISA abuse]] scandals, is Twitter's lead counsel.<ref>https://nypost.com/2020/06/16/twitter-hires-former-fbi-chief-counsel-as-deputy-lawyer/</ref> The [[RNC]] made a formal complaint to the [[Federal Elections Commission]] which reads in part,
{{quotebox-float|"Respondent’s feud with President Trump is well known, as are its frequent efforts to censor the President’s tweets and the “shadow banning” of prominent Republicans, including RNC’s Chair, [[Ronna McDaniel]], and several Republican Members of Congress. Respondent’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, and other senior executives are prolific donors to the Democrat party and other left-wing causes, with 98.7% of the company’s total political contributions going to Democrats. In addition, there appears to be a revolving door between the Biden campaign and the company, with Respondent’s Public Policy Director recently leaving to join the Biden transition team and [[Senator Kamala Harris]]’s former Press Secretary now serving as Respondent’s Senior Communications Manager."<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/480341244/RNC-Complaint-Against-Twitter-Inc-Web#from_embed</ref>}}
Twitter failed to act on a viral message posted on its platform containing a doctored image purporting to be a text message between [[Rudy Giuliani]] and [[Ivanka Trump]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/21/twitter-allows-rachel-maddow-and-an-army-of-leftists-to-spread-rudy-giuliani-misinformation/</ref> The ''New York Post'', [[Gateway Pundit]]'', and Big League Politics all were placed on Twitter's suspension hit list the final week before election day.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/big-league-politics-gateway-pundit-new-york-post-among-news-outlets-placed-on-twitter-suspension-weeks-before-election/</ref>
====Laptop from Hell====
{{See also|Laptop from Hell}}
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}}
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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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