“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ― Benjamin Franklin
1 : Dec 2, 2022 - Matt Taibbi
”The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598822959866683394.html
https://rumble.com/v1z7rbm-twitter-files-released-full-taibbi-thread-and-james-woods-reacts.html
2: Dec 9, 2022 -Bari Weiss
“A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601007575633305600.html
3 : Dec 10, 2022 Matt Taibbi
“THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601352083617505281.html
4 : Dec 10, 2022 Michael Shellenberger
“The Removal of Donald Trump: January 7
As the pressure builds, Twitter executives build the case for a permanent ban”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601720455005511680.html
https://rumble.com/v20ekoh-twitter-files-4-executives-plot-to-remove-trump-as-pressure-builds.html
5 : Dec 12, 2022 Bari Weiss
”THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM TWITTER”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602364197194432515.html
https://rumble.com/v20ekpc-twitter-files-5-trump-removal-approved-and-employees-celebrate.html
6 : Dec 16, 2022 Matt Taibbi
“THREAD: The Twitter Files, Part Six
TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1603857534737072128.html
Supplemental - “FBI Censorship Subsidiary Violates in Conspiracy Against Rights (18 US Code 241)”
18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights
“If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured— They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.”
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241
18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
”Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.”
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242
7: Dec 19, 2022 Michael Shellenberger
”The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1604871630613753856.html
8 : Dec 20, 2022 Lee Fang
*How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign*
“Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605292454261182464.html
https://rumble.com/v21n76s-twitter-files-8-pentagon-psyop-campaigns-and-kari-lake-trial-prep.html
9: Dec 24, 2022 Matt Taibbi
“TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES"“
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1606701397109796866.html
https://rumble.com/v22jne7-twitter-files-9-cia-elvis-chan-and-government-censorship.html
10 : Dec 26, 2022 David Zweig
”THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE
– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1607378386338340867.html
https://rumble.com/v22h2gs-twitter-files-10-white-houses-demanded-misinformation-censorship.html
11 : 2023-01-03 Matt Taibbi
”Twitter and the FBI “Belly Button””
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1610394197730725889.html
https://rumble.com/v23wct4-twitter-files-11-fbi-is-belly-button-of-government-censorship.html
12 : 2023-01-03 Matt Taibbi
“How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1610372352872783872.html
Here’s an interview with Matt Taibbi about the revelations :
13 : 2023-01-09 - Alex Berenson
“How @ScottGottliebMD - a top Pfizer board member - used the same Twitter lobbyist as the White House to suppress debate on Covid vaccines, INCLUDING FROM A FELLOW HEAD OF @US_FDA!”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1612526697038897167.html
14 : 2023-01-12 - Matt Taibbi
"Twitter Files #14 THE RUSSIAGATE LIES One: The Fake Tale of Russian Bots and the #ReleaseTheMemo Hashtag "
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1613589031773769739.html
[ Watching the Watchers has the following review and commentary… ]
https://rumble.com/v257v9n-twitter-files-14-the-russiagate-hoax-with-schiff-blumenthal-and-feinstein.html
14 Supplemental : 2023-01-13 Matt Taibbi
“More Adam Schiff Ban Requests, and "Deamplification"“
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1613932017716195329.html
Watching the Watchers - Twitter Files Supplemental 14 - between these time-stamps :
1:16:25 -> 1:35:24
https://rumble.com/v25ctm2-biden-docs-scandal-grows-was-kjp-involved-in-delay-twitter-files-14-supplem.html
Grey Zone interview talking to Matt Taibbi about Twitter Files - 2023-01-13 :
15 : 2023-01-16 Lee Fang
”How the pharmaceutical industry lobbied social media to shape content around vaccine policy.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1615008625575202818.html
Watching The Watchers :
https://rumble.com/v25ys4j-big-pharma-demanded-big-tech-censor-and-remove.html
15 : 2023-01-07 Matt Taibbi
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1619029772977455105.html
Watching the Watchers - Twitter Files 15 info / Robert Gouveia
Timestamps - 6:45 → 58:48
https://rumble.com/v27rl0k-twitter-files-15-hamilton-68-jordan-vs.-chuck-todd-on-biden-docs-ex-fbi-tim.html
Matt Taibbi show audio commentary about this release…
The Facebook Files - 2023-01-19 - Robby Soave
"Twitter is not the only social media site to face pressure to censor content. I obtained emails showing that the CDC had significant influence over covid moderation at Facebook and Instagram.[...]"
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1616072212284379137.html
16 : 2023-02-18 Matt Taibbi
“Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment
The #TwitterFiles have revealed a lot: thousands of moderation requests from every corner of government, Feds mistaking both conservatives and leftists for fictional Russians, even Twitter deciding on paper to cede moderation authority to the “U.S. intelligence community”:" “
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1627098945359867904.html
Watching the Watchers has commentary about this one at this link :
https://rumble.com/v2aeell-twitter-files-16-media-interlude-released-by-matt-taibbi.html
17 : 2023-03-02 Matt Taibbi
”TWITTER FILES #17 New Knowledge, the Global Engagement Center, and State-Sponsored Blacklists”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1631338650901389322.html
Watching the Watchers - 38:11 → 1:19:15
https://rumble.com/v2biaw4-who-pandemic-response-treaty-twitter-files-17-and-the-gec.html
18 : 2023-03-09 - Matt Taibbi
”TWITTER FILES: Statement to Congress THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633830002742657027.html
”Hearing on Twitter Documents About Content Moderation Decisions
The House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing to examine internal Twitter documents concerning content moderation decisions made by the social media company. These documents were often referred to as the “Twitter Files,” and were made public in December 2022. Journalist Matt Taibbi and author Michael Shellenberger were among those given access to the documents. Both testified for more than two hours on what these documents contained, with a focus on alleged First Amendment rights suppression by Twitter. Lawmakers from both parties throughout the hearing engaged in tense exchanges over the content of these documents.”
https://www.c-span.org/video/?526578-1/house-panel-examines-twitter-moderation-practices
See section below for related news on Stacey Plaskett and Epstien connections.
19 : 2023-03-17 - Matt Taibbi
“TWITTER FILES #19 The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine
Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories” “
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1636729166631432195.html
2023-03-30 Michael Shellenberger interview with Joe Rogan
“Michael Shellenberger is the best-selling author of “Apocalypse Never” and “San Fransicko." He is a journalist and founder of Public, a Substack publication. Michael is a Time Magazine Hero of the Environment and Green Book Award winner. He is also founder and president of Environmental Progress, a research organization that incubates ideas, leaders, and movementsmichaelshellenberger.substack.com”
https://rumble.com/v2fxo9g-twitter-files-exposer-michael-shellenberger-on-joe-rogan-full-1963.html
Shellenberger notes he’d appeared before congress the previous day…
https://energycommerce.house.gov/events/communications-and-technology-hearing-titled-preserving-free-speech-and-reining-in-big-tech-censorship
[ Does not appear in CSPAN (!?!) but is on Rumble ]
https://rumble.com/v2fic7u-preserving-free-speech-and-reining-in-big-tech-censorship.html
20 & 21 -2023-04-25 Intro Matt Taibbi
Presentation for Buckley Institute :
20 - 2023-04-25 - NetworkAffects / Andrew Lowenthal
“The Information Cartel”
https://twitter.com/NAffects/status/1650954036009398277
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1650954036009398277.html
Extended article on Substack -
21 - 2023-04-25 - Matt Orfalea
“How to Find Russians Anywhere”
https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1650953694005870592
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1650953694005870592.html
2023-04-28
"[G]uest host Kash Patel talks to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan about the revelations that Secretary of State Antony Blinken orchestrated the "intelligence community" letter attacking the Hunter Biden laptop story, and what the GOP in Congress plans to do about it."
22: 2023-05-18 Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd
“1. Twitter Provided Privileged Access to Banning Queen, Taylor Lorenz #TwitterFiles
Twitter engineer walking me through their reporting system, "Wow! She's a heavy user." "
https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/1659162337448697856 [ original thread ]
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1658812586073153539.html [ easy read view ]
2023-05-29 :
Matt Taibbi interview with Briahna Joy Gray about IRS affliction
23? : 2023-06-07 Aaron Mate
Thread of Twitter → https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1666453450693963778
Threadreader → https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1666453450693963778.html
2023-07-20 - Robert F Kennedy Jr testifies before congress.
RFK Jr and others before congress censorship hearing.
https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-weaponization-federal-government-3
Watching the Watchers has summary coverage about the hearing -
https://rumble.com/v318988-biden-bribe-docs-released-detailed-crime-family-timeline-rfk-jr.-obliterate.html?start=5320
Alas it’s pay-walled but Matt Taibbi comments in this article…
Stacey Plaskett and Jeffrey Epstein gets mentioned : https://www.youtube.com/live/WRPezfR_jIY?feature=share&t=12592
Stacey Plaskett - Making news related to Epstein
“Epstein gave money to USVI politicians. For example, Epstein supported [Democrat] Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, who successfully ran to be USVI’s delegate to Congress—after working for the USVI Economic Development Authority, the USVI agency responsible for awarding Epstein his massive tax benefits.” [ GatewayPundit] 2023-05
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/epstein-trafficking-ring-jpmorgan-chases-defense-motion-reveals/How Jeffrey Epstein Helped a Rising Democratic Star Pull Off a Political Upset
“Plaskett's LinkedIn shows a two-year gap before entering Congress, from 2013-2014. Those years, Plaskett worked for Erika Kellerhals, Epstein's tax attorney and adviser who helped steer tax credits, political influence, and charitable donations for the powerful pedophile.” [ twitter ] Lee Fang - 2023-06-27
How Jeffrey Epstein's island politics helped elect Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett
[Business Insider] Jacob Shamsian - 2023-06-28
"No idea is dangerous to society wherein that idea can be openly discussed" - Bill Hicks ( Quoting Thomas Jefferson )
[ The above quote is likely paraphrasing the following ]
“Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet choose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to exalt it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislature and ruler, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time: That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; […]
… that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; and therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust or emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religions opinion, is depriving him injudiciously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow-citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honours and emolumerits, those who will externally profess and conform to it; […]
that though indeed these are criminals who do not withstand such temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way; that the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, […]
… and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate ; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
Biden and the Laptop supplemental links :
“CBS ‘confirms’ Hunter Biden laptop is real 769 days after Post broke story” [ 2022-11-21 ]
John Paul Mac Isaac - Interview with The Gateway Pundit about Biden laptops : 2022-12 [?] Tells in his own words what he attempted to do to resolve issues.
Biden Laptop Emails :
https://bidenlaptopemails.com/
“Two plead guilty in theft, sale of Biden daughter Ashley's diary” - Note if it’s not hers, then it couldn’t be stolen, so this may confirm…
https://www.reuters.com/legal/two-plead-guilty-theft-sale-biden-daughter-ashleys-diary-2022-08-25/
Ashley Biden Diary :
https://archive.org/details/ashley-biden-diary_202206/mode/2up
Note that the Laptop is different from his phone, and iCloud account :
[ Supposed contents : https://t.me/s/HunterBidenHacked/16 ]
2023-02-08
Here C-SPAN covers House Oversight Committee's hearing on Twitter [ It's short of 5 hours, with full meeting coverage from C-SPAN itself... ] https://www.c-span.org/video/?525786-1/twitters-response-hunter-biden-laptop-story
2023-04-20
New York Post : “ Ex-CIA chief spills on how he got spies to write false Hunter Biden laptop letter to ‘help Biden’ ” - https://nypost.com/2023/04/20/biden-campaign-pushed-spies-to-write-false-hunter-laptop-letter/
2023-06-02
Heard about these sites - Biden Laptop Media - and more great content -
Other Related News and Topics :
Article about censoring and distorting NewsGuard misinfo - 2023-02-21
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/02/21/newsguard-misinfo-watchdog-contracts-with-dod-who-pfizer-microsoft-and-aft/
“Hawley Investigation: DHS Documents Expose Shocking New Details on Disinfo Board Censorship Agenda” - 2022-11-30
https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-investigation-dhs-documents-expose-shocking-new-details-disinfo-board-censorship-agenda
“Fact checking doesn’t always work as well as we want it to, in fact it does the opposite. […] ” - Nina Jankowicz :
Watching the Watchers has excellent coverage on 'the AG files' - Big tech collusion leads state AG(s) to file suit... Twitter Files style news
https://rumble.com/v25yr6x-biden-white-house-threatened-big-tech-to-censor.html
Pfizer trial admin who became whistleblower, Brook Jackson has this : [2023-01-20]
“Americans were misled about all Covid-19 “countermeasures,” including those products marketed as “vaccines.” Covid policy was managed by the NSC acting on war footing & countermeasures were contracted for by the DoD & BARDA w/o any effective regulatory oversight at any stage”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1616585996870553605.html
“CDC Had Direct Access to Big Tech Censorship Tools to Control Covid Narrative”- https://slaynews.com/news/cdc-direct-access-big-tech-censorship-tools-control-covid-narrative/
Claims the state department was involved in fake fact checks - issue before court. - “BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Kimmage Deposition By MO and LA AGs Reveals State Department Was Funding Online Fact-Checkers to Censor Speech” - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/breaking-exclusive-deposition-daniel-kimmage-uncovers-state-department-funding-fact-checkers-possibly-us/
“Spooks infiltrate Silicon Valley: Facebook is riddled with ex-CIA agents – including President’s briefer who now runs 'harmful content' team – so many ex-FBI work at Twitter they have Slack channel and Google is rife with ex-CIA
Mint Press' Alan MacLeod found that former CIA agents made up some of the top ranks in almost every politically sensitive department at Meta
He also found that former FBI agents migrated to Twitter in droves
DailyMail.com has been able to track down many of these former intelligence officials who are now working at top tech companies “
“These Doctors Pushed Masking, Covid Lockdowns on Twitter. Turns Out, They Don’t Exist” -
“The Twitter Files reveal an unholy alliance”
https://spectator.com.au/2022/12/the-twitter-files-reveal-an-unholy-alliance/
WHO website reveals plan for attacking people with concerns…