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The First Batch of “Twitter Files” and the Ensuing Brouhaha

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Elon Musk, Twitter’s controversial new owner, gave journalist Matt Taibbi and others unfettered access to Twitter’s internal documents. Taibbi released a series of internal documents on Friday suggesting that the Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee were able to manipulate speech on the platform through tools that Twitter made available.

That manipulation included but was not limited to, the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story after it was first reported by the New York Post. The emails included in the tweets appear to cite requests from “the Biden team” and “DNC” including confirmations that Twitter “handled” their requests to delete posts.

Taibbi has claimed that the censorship machine impacted both “celebrities and unknowns alike” and that while both Republicans and Democrats both had access to it, the censorship was skewed by a leftist bias among the Twitter workforce. 

Here are the tweets:

 

One tweet showed that Democratic operatives could submit requests to the platform to remove tweets and that these requests were honored. “By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine,” Taibbi wrote. “One executive would write to another:  ‘More to review from the Biden team.’ The reply would come back: ‘Handled.'”

A second post showed screenshots with takedown requests from the Democratic National Committee.

The thread went on to address the Hunter Biden laptop story, with Taibbi saying he saw “”no evidence… of any government involvement in the laptop story.” He further asserted that the company’s decision to throttle the story was made at the highest levels, but was done without the knowledge of then-CEO Jack Dorsey.

Among those who questioned these measures was a lone Democrat.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) was the only Democrat lawmaker who expressed concerns with Twitter over the social media company’s censorship of Hunter Biden’s laptop just before the 2020 presidential election, according to internal discussions released by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

In an email to Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, Khanna told her Twitter’s decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Generating huge backlash on [Capitol] hill.”

Gadde “quickly” replied to Khanna, explaining the Twitter rules and discussing former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s suspension from Twitter for sharing the Biden laptop story on their platform.

“We put out a clarifying thread of Tweets earlier this evening to explain our policy around the posting of private information and linking directly to hacked materials,” Gadde said.

Still, Khanna seemed more concerned with constitutional violations than violations of the Twitter rules.

“Hope you’re well Vijaya! But this seems a violation of the 1st Amendment principles,” Khanna responded before highlighting New York Times v. Sullivan, a landmark Supreme Court decision on the first amendment that has implications for members of the press.

Khanna continued:

If there is a hack of classified information or other information that could expose a serious war crime and the NYT was to publish it, I think the NYT should have that right. A journalist should not be held accountable for the illegal actions of the source unless they actively aided the hack. So to restrict the distribution of that material, especially regarding a Presidential candidate, seems not in the keeping of the principles of NYT v Sullivan.

Khanna expressed his concerns to Gadde even though he is a self-described “total Biden partisan,” convinced the Biden family “didn’t do anything wrong.”

Khanna also said Twitter’s decision to censor the story brought more attention to Biden’s laptop than the “relatively innocuous emails” found on the laptop’s hard drive. He cautioned that Twitter’s censorship “is now leading to serious efforts to curtail section 230.”

One of many questions that remain is whether or not this was a natural occurrence, or something more nefarious. Are we going to find the intelligence communities’ fingerprints all over this situation? Have we already? Certainly, the FBI was involved, to the surprise of absolutely no one.

FBI Involvement?

It’s come out that  James Baker, a former top attorney for the FBI, went to work for Twitter and was one of the people who approved suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story on the platform.

As per the Emails:

“I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked. At this stage, however, it is reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted,” he said to other Twitter employees in an email discussing how to handle the matter.

“There are some facts that indicate the materials may have been hacked, while there are others indicating that the computer was either abandoned and-or the owner consented to allow the repair shop to access it for at least some purposes,” he said. “We simply need more information.”

Media Reaction

The blue checks of the world were chiming in as Taibbi released his tweets.

Predictably, establishment simps came out of the woodwork to tell you how you should think/feel about him now that he’s done what any journalist worth their salt would have done: reporting one of the biggest exclusive scoops of the year.

Naturally, The New York Times, Washington Post, CBS News, and ABC News ignored the story over the weekend.

Radio host Clay Travis tweeted, “there is not one single article about @elonmusk or the @twitter email release last night on @nytimes app this morning.”

“The @washingtonpost , which literally has ‘Democracy dies in darkness’ at the top of its paper: not one single article about @elonmusk or @twitter ’s email release last night,” Travis continued. “How is this possible @JeffBezos ? Do you own a newspaper or a propaganda rag?”

In response, Musk tweeted, “That is because The New York Times has become, for all intents and purposes, an unregistered lobbying firm for far left politicians.”

Viva Frei also chimed in:

 

GOP Summons

The Incoming House GOP chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky) plans to summon Twitter execs over the suppression of the Hunter Biden censorship during the critical 2020 election cycle.

‘I can promise you this: Every employee at Twitter who was involved in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story will have an opportunity to come before Congress and explain their actions to the American people,” Comer told Fox News.

“This story’s just beginning … because we’re going to have every single person at Twitter that was involved in this in front of the House Oversight Committee as soon as possible.”

 

Brazil Election Interference?

On the same day that Taibbi released the ‘Twitter Files’, Elon Musk admitted that Twitter may have interfered in the recent Brazilian election as well.

Left-wing candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva beat incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by a narrow margin of just 1.8% in late October to become Brazil’s next President.

Many have alleged that Twitter banned accounts that supported Bolsonaro and boosted accounts and stories that were favorable to left-wing candidates in Brazil.

After the ‘Twitter Files’ were released that showed that the US government colluded with Twitter to interfere in the 2020 election, Twitter users asked Musk to look into what other elections Twitter may have interfered with.

Musk said that he was currently looking into claims that Twitter interfered in the Brazilian election.

In the past, Twitter removed an earlier post from Jair Bolsonaro praising Hydroxychloroquine as an optional treatment for COVID-19.

As reported earlier, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has celebrated the sale of Twitter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. About an hour after the confirmation of the change of command of the social network, Bolsonaro retweeted a message from Musk in which he defends freedom of speech on Twitter.

Biden Could Kill Musk’s Twitter Bid, Threatens to Investigate Acquisition as National Security Threat

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The Biden DOJ may be set to investigate Elon Musk’s Twitter bid under the pretense that the takeover of the social media giant could threaten national security.

What is being colloquially referred to as the “Biden crime family” has now been flagged over 150 times for illicit banking transactions with foreign players, most notably in China and Ukraine.

The DOJ has so far ignored the potential criminal business dealings of Joe, Hunter, and James Biden, dealings that could essentially boil down to foreign bad actors having leverage over a sitting president of the United States. Instead, It appears that the DOJ sees Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter as the real threat to national security. The top social media platforms have been covering for the Biden regime since Biden announced his presidential bid, so it is little wonder why Biden’s DOJ sees the Musk takeover of Twitter as a threat as he has promised that free speech on the platform will be a primary focus.

Markets Insider reported:

The US government is weighing national security reviews for some of Elon Musk’s ventures, including his Twitter takeover deal, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

Musk’s plans to purchase Twitter for $44 billion with the help of foreign investors, including Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and Binance Holdings which was founded by a Chinese businessman, have concerned Biden administration officials, the people told Bloomberg.

The government was considering which tools they could use to review Musk’s deals, the people added. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS), which is run by the US Treasury Department and reviews foreign buyers’ acquisitions of American businesses, could be an option, per Bloomberg.

The CFIUS carries out security reviews if a “transaction threatens to impair the national security of the United States,” according to federal regulations. When reviewing a transaction, the CFIUS can recommend to President Joe Biden that the deal be suspended or prohibited, per the regulations.

If the Twitter deal is reviewed by CFIUS for national security reasons, as reported by Bloomberg, Biden has the ability to stop the acquisition from going ahead. In recent months, Musk had requested the deal be called off.

With what is looking to be a “red wave” heading into midterms, it is very likely that a Republican-dominated House and Senate, as Newt Gingrich has predicted, could move forward with investigations into Anthony Fauci and the origin of COVID-19, as Ron Paul (R-KY) has promised, as well as investigations into the Biden Administration itself as promised by Jim Jordan (R-OH).

In short, free speech means the tech overlords won’t be able to hold back the veritable flood of information that could be blasted on the platform if and when these promised investigations start to yield fruit.

In addition, it seems as though Twitter will receive a thorough gutting of employees should Musk be successful in his bid. According to WaPo, Elon Musk has told potential investors in his bid to buy Twitter that he plans to cut the workforce by nearly 75 percent. But even if Musk does not take over the company, Twitter plans to slash nearly a quarter of employees due to a massive payroll cut.

The Post makes clear the corporate media’s chief concern about such cuts: that they would potentially “[cripple] the service’s ability to combat misinformation, hate speech, and spam.” 

Of course, as the last six years have shown us, not everyone seems to be in agreement with what is misinformation as well as what does and doesn’t qualify as “hate speech”. 

As it stands, a successful purchase of Twitter by Musk would likely be a powerful boon to the America First movement. If the Biden regime successfully squashes the acquisition it won’t be the end of the world as Twitter, though far from perfect, has already eased up considerably on censorship in the lead-up to this buyout, and there is no shortage of alternative platforms.

Op-Ed: Globalists Need the Center of Attention, Musk is Ruining it for Them
Ash conformity on steroids.

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Justin Deschamps, June 6th, 2022

The game of political control requires one to master and control the center of attention. That which we attend to we allow into our minds, informing our thoughts, opinions, and values that shape our actions.

For individuals and groups aligned with the truth, it guides the use of the center of attention to influence public policy and cultural discourse. The most influential benevolent people in history knew how to use the truth to claim the watching eyes of the masses, so-called prophets like Buddha and Jesus.

But for lairs and those who push malevolence, the need to be the center of attention is two-fold: to push a malevolent agenda, the group must be convinced of its necessity, and two, to defend the lie, the center of attention can’t be occupied by truth-tellers. 

The Asch Conformity Experiment proves this point scientifically. Briefly, the experiment requires a handful of liars coordinating their actions to convince the subject, a person who is the target for lie implantation. The innocent participant in the experiment is one person. But in the grander society and culture, the innocent participant is the sum total of all onlookers—the masses that consume social media and mainstream media.

So long as the stooges, or liars, maintain control over the center of attention, through the power of social influence, and brain centers designed to motivate people to conform to the group, the innocent participant can be convinced of the most insane lies, and even be made to go along with malevolence. Mass Formation Psychosis is a largescale version of Asch Conformity principles in action. Otherwise good people can be convinced, that, for example, a child that still believes in Santa Claus can decide to “change their gender”, a boy can decide to become a girl; and as a society, we should go along with the delusion, to include prescribing hormones and even surgeries that remove the confused child’s genitals, sterilizing them for life.

The center of attention of a large group imparts powers most of us never enjoy. After all, the world is shaped by a dedicated few.

Anyone, and anything, that can take and hold the center of attention has power over the group and culture. 

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead

A liar and fraud need to hold the center of attention. They crave it. They need it because, the only way to convince people of their lies—to control the narrative—is to hold the center of attention. With the deceitful narrative installed in the minds of spectators, the group can be controlled, like a sheepdog controls a herd of sheep. 

Anyone that threatens the liar in their ability to control the center of attention must be either recruited into the liar’s agenda, using threats, bribes, and other forms of coercion, or they must be destroyed.

Reputation destruction is essential to cripple the credibility of anyone not in league with the liar’s agenda so that any persuasive power is lost—so the group can’t be turned against the liar. 

Enter Elon Musk.

It’s not entirely clear Musk has the best interest for humanity. Musk has talked about fusing with machines as a way to manage the AI problem, along with developing Neurolink, a technology coveted by transhumanists who seek “symbiosis with machines”. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbIY0Mvv01k

Some suspect Musk was being groomed by the elite to help sell the idea of transhumanism to society, so that an Elysium super-human cyborg race is created, where the distinction between the elite class and the underclass of citizens is undeniable. 

Musk was a darling of the elite class for years.

According to Bill Gates, “what Elon did with Tesla is one of the greatest contributions to climate change anyone’s ever made.”

Musk has dozens of awards and accolades heaped upon him—which is usually a sign of reputation building by the establishment for use in the elite’s narrative control agenda. While the lying class of globalist controllers despises and attacks anyone who’s managed to steal the center of attention, (e.g. Trump, and now Musk), they also position prominent influencers in the center of attention to push their narrative. Justin Trudeau, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and scores of other groomed pushers of globalist agendas. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2IP_LQ4A6A

Trump was also largely accepted by the elite class, until, in 2016, he ran against their chosen center of attention, Hillary Clinton. Then it was all-out war against Trump, and anything he stands for the goes against the chosen narrative.

Now, Elon Musk, former darling of the elite, is under attack.

Musk has brought attention to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, he has declared free speech vitally important to civilization, and has exposed Twitter as a haven for bots, that are likely used to manipulate the thoughts and opinions of the people. These are not things the globalist class is in alignment with. 

 

For this, Musk has earned the scorn of his former darlings. CNBC wrote this piece, showcasing a photo with President Trump and Steve Bannon, two men who might as well be Hitler in the eyes of the mainstream. The message is clear when you consider the guilt by association tactics of the reputation destroying media: “Musk must go down. He’s a threat to the agenda.”

Whether you love Musk, hate him, or think he’s a tool of the transhumanist aspiring elite, the establishment’s shift toward him betrayals their strategy and motives. And with this playbook laid bare, it’s all that much easier to know the rules of the game. 

The center of attention, can’t be allowed to fall into the hands of anyone going against the narrative.