Twitter was launched to the public in 2006 as a short messaging service for groups and grew to become a public company in 2013. Twitter’s ‘predominance rose’ with the election campaign of President Donald Trump in 2016, he used the platform to get messages to The People as mainstream media agencies were failing to do their job! [REF]
On April 25, 2022 Elon Musk announced his Twitter takeover bid which after stops and starts the transaction was completed 6 months later on October 27, 2022.
Now as the sole owner of the Big Tech social media platform Musk began to clean house through the firing of executive staff and then through exposing to the public internal Twitter staff communications which he supplied to journalists.
On December 11, 2022 Musk acknowledged he had bought a “crime scene“!
The Twitter Files
Musk provided internal communication documents to several chosen journalists so they could report their findings to the public, on the condition that they make their first report on Twitter.
Matt Taibbi, a 30-yr veteran reporter, released the first thread of information on December 2, 2022, of what he called “The Twitter Files“. More followed by two other independent journalists, Bari Weiss, founder and editor of The Free Press, and Michael Sellenberger.
The first of the Twitter File releases (not sure how many there will be all together) reveals that government agencies were communicating with Twitter staff via weekly meetings, plus they reveal the politically left-leaning staff fabricated justification for the removal of President Donald Trump from the platform in January 2021. That is just the start.
Is Big Tech doing the shadow government’s bidding?
Facebook and Google have algorithms that control content and thus help steer public opinion, or at least the perception of that being the public opinion. We know bot are generated to make an opinion appear real. We know the FBI communicates with Facebook about “foreign threat indicators”, to what extent the collusion happens, we are waiting to find out. But with the information presented so far it’s not hard to theorise the high level of conspiring!
Big Media filters and controls the narrative – but who sets the narrative? Shadow government intelligence agencies?
Big Tech, the social media ‘town square’ and search engines, control, via algorithms, account deletion and shadow banning, the free flow of information, thus choking, often killing, free speech.
Big tech and Big Media are the actual disease!
Pandemic narrative control
How much of a role did Twitter play in controlling the flow of pandemic information? Early treatments, virus origins, vaccine information and more.
We know they de-platformed credentialed experts like Dr Malone, Dr McCullough, but why? We know now, from the Twitter Files, they chose who to “shadow ban” with algorithms, such as the Great Barrington Declaration‘s Dr Jay Bhattacharya. Elon Musk restored Malone and McCullough to the platform in December 2022, more followed.
“To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true.”
Elon Musk
Helpful links:
- List of terminated Twitter accounts @OpenVAET – HERE
- NY Post coverage of The Twitter Files (help keep logical sequence of events, it’s hard to keep up!) – SEARCH
This page will capture articles on the revelations reported and related stories as they come to my attention regarding Twitter’s control over free speech and it’s thwarting of the free flow of information.
Links to The Twitter File reporters:
- Matt Taibbi – TWITTER, TK News – SUBSTACK
- Barri Weiss – TWITTER, The Free Press – HERE
- Michael Sellenberger – TWITTER, SUBSTACK
- David Zweig – TWITTER
- Lee Fang – TWITTER
- Alex Berenson – TWITTER
Crowdsourced News is also cataloguing Twitter Files, incase I miss one – HERE
The Twitter Files gave us a window into how government agencies, civil society, and tech companies work together to censor social media users.
Michael Shellenberger
The release of the Twitter Files has shown just how extensively the Executive Branch communicated and coordinated with technology companies regarding content moderation
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, May 8, 2023
Links in reverse chronological order
This content is continuously updated. Note: Twitter file dates are in Australian time zone
2023
December 1, 2023 – OANN: The Twitter Files Turns 1 – WATCH
- The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing with Twitter Files Alumni to show just how deep the censorship rabbit hole has become.
November 14, 2023 – Brownstone Institute: The Virality Project was a Government Front – READ
- “It is now completely clear that the [Stanford] Virality Project, an initiative partnered with Big Tech to combat “anti-vaccine disinformation” and led by former CIA fellow Renee DiResta, was conceived by the Security State.”
- Nov 7, 2023 – Rep Jim Jordan “BOMBSHELL REPORT ON THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX” re House Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government – TWEET
- Nov 8, 2023 – Public Substack: New Documents Reveal US Department Of Homeland Security Conspiracy To Violate First Amendment And Interfere In Elections – READ
November 10, 2023 – Racket News | Matt Taibi: Big Brother is Flagging You – A damning House report and new docs from the Twitter Files expose the “Election Integrity Partnership” as state censorship in a ski mask – READ, CREDIT
November 6, 2023 – House Judiciary Committee: New Report Details How the Federal Government Partnered with Universities to Censor Americans’ Speech – READ, Report – PDF
- REPORT: The weaponization of “Disinformation” Pseudo-Experts and Bureaucrats: How the Federal Government Partnered with Universities to Censor American’ Political Speech – PDF
- Govt and Stanford Uni coordinated to “create the Election Integrity Partnership to censor Americans’ speech in the lead-up to the 2020 election”
- “It outlines how the Election Integrity Project (EIP) was created in the summer [Jan/Feb?] of 2020 to provide a way for the federal government to launder its censorship activities in hopes of bypassing both the First Amendment and public scrutiny. The report also reveals for the first time internal emails from EIP members stating that the EIP was created “at the request of DHS/CISA.””
September 28, 2023 – The DisInformation Chronicles: TWITTER FILES: Yoel Roth’s private emails explain why free speech advocates target academics—they’re the censorship clergy – After rejecting disinformation hobbyist Renee DiResta, emails show Roth and other Twitter executives embraced her once Stanford University gave her an academic baptism.- READ
September 10, 2023 – Robert Malone Substack: Freedom of Speech, Not Reach– A business strategy to maintain corporate media monopolies while avoiding constitutional first amendment breaches – READ
September 4, 2023 – The Vigilant Fox: Viral RFK Jr. Video Gets Deleted By “X”: Here’s What They Didn’t Want You to See – The Pfizer clinical trials were a disaster. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. explains why. – READ
- “Ever since Elon Musk hired CEO Linda Yaccarino, who has close ties to the World Economic Forum, things have taken a turn for the worse”
- “In short, “lawful but awful” accounts and external links (especially Substack) are getting brutally deboosted. And permanent suspensions, which were promised to be reserved for unlawful speech only, have made a big comeback.”
- Now, Twitter (“X”) is taking further action by making undesirable videos unplayable …The post and the text stayed up, but the video was taken down.” ..Users also reported X was “blocking” them from retweeting
August 15, 2023 – CJ Hopkins: The “Free-Speech Twitter” PSYOP – READ “the whole “free-speech Twitter” thing was an elaborate con…”
- Linda Yaccarino, X CEO, explaining how the new censorship system works – “Freedom of speech, not reach.”
August 10, 2023 – CNBC: X Corp. now a much healthier and safer platform than a year ago, says Linda Yaccarino – WATCH, CREDIT
August 10, 2023 – X CEO on “Squark On the Street” – EXCERPT
- X’s new policies: “Freedom of Speech not Reach” and “Lawful not Awful” [AKA CENSORSHIP IS BACK!]
July 31, 2023 – CNBC: Twitter is now X. Here’s what that means. – READ
- Tweet no more, [what will it be “X-a-cute”?]
- Tweet becomes a “post” – DiscloseTV – POST
July 24, 2023 – CNBC: Bye-bye birdie: Twitter jettisons bird logo, replaces it with “X” – The Elon Musk-owned company moves toward rebranding as X – READ, The Verge – READ
July 24, 2023 – Elon Musk – X’ed this – “TWEET“
July 18, 2023 – Paul D. Thacker via Twitter: 1. Twitter Files: Who Are the People Claiming RFK Jr. is “Disinformation”? – THREAD, Who is the Center for Countering Digital Hate – 2021 TIMELINE
June 20, 2023 – CHD | The Defender: ‘Twitter Files’: Ivy League Prof With No Science or Medical Credentials Advised Biden on COVID ‘Misinformation’ – READ
- Claire Wardle, Ph.D., a professor of the practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University…”An academic researcher with a background in communication, political science and American studies — but no science or medical background — played a key advisory role in the Biden administration, federal agencies, social media platforms and Ivy League institutions as they sought to censor content that ran counter to the government’s COVID-19 narrative.”
June 14, 2023 – Paul D Thacker | The Disinformation Chronicle Substack: TWITTER FILES: Brown University’s Claire Wardle Aids Censorship – Researchers on “disinformation” have little in common with academic scholars teaching Proust or studying astrophysics. – READ
- A central figure in Big Disinformation is researcher Claire Wardle – TWEET…”Wardle had also been chosen to brief CISA’s advisory committee.” – TWEET
- Wardle was involved in TED event email May 27, 2019 includes “The Vaccine Confidence Project” – they’re obsessed with “vaccines” in 2019! – TWEET
June 8, 2023 – Aaron Mate Substack: FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info, including journalists – READ, CREDIT
May 24, 2023 – Network Affects Substack | Andrew Lowenthal: Twitter Files Extra: The Covid Censorship Requests of Australia’s Department of Home Affairs – A new piece on Racket and a short Twitter thread – READ, Twitter – THREAD
- “TwitterFiles reveal Australia was an enthusiastic member of the global censorship club during the Corona crisis.”
- Racket News: Australia’s Creepy Covid Cops – READ
May 18, 2023 – The DisInformation Chronicles: TWITTER FILES: Twitter Provided Privileged Access to Banning Queen, Taylor Lorenz – Twitter engineer assisting me laughed, “Wow! She’s a heavy user.” – READ
May 17, 2023 – The DisInformation Chronicles: TWITTER FILES: Internal Company Emails Expose Why Privileged Reporters Likely Hate Elon Musk and Twitter 2.0 – READ
- Musk denied special access to Twitter’s “trusted reporters,” and allowed outside journalists entrée for a more independent examination
May 12, 2023 – Elon Musk Appoints Executive Chair of World Economic Forum as New CEO for Twitter to help accelerate transforming the platform to X the “everything app” – Linda Yaccarino – TWEET, Radical – READ, Igors Newsletter – READ, BBC – READ
- Linda Yaccarino defended vaccine mandates, lockdowns, mask mandates – READ
- Twitter Inc. merged into X Corp. with parent corporation X Holdings Corp. (April 11, 2023) – TWEET, ARCHIVE
- “Musk’s everything app – ‘X’ will seek to be a prelude to the social credit system” like WeChat – REF
May 11, 2023 – Racket News Substack | Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know – The citizen’s starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel – Author collaboration with intro by Matt Taibbi – READ
May 13, 2023 – Business Insider: Elon Musk names Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s new CEO – READ, BBC – READ
May 8, 2023 – NY Post – Google parent Alphabet faces contempt for flouting House Judiciary subpoena over Biden admin, free speech – READ, Jim Jordan’s – LETTER
- “House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan may hold Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena seeking to uncover any coordination between the tech giant and the Biden administration to censor free speech.” – 4000 pages handed over “has redacted and potentially omitted important information,”
- “The letter comes two months after “Twitter files” journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified before a Judiciary subcommittee about the federal government’s collusion with tech companies.”
- “The release of the Twitter Files has shown just how extensively the Executive Branch communicated and coordinated with technology companies regarding content moderation,” Jordan said
“The release of the Twitter Files has shown just how extensively the Executive Branch communicated and coordinated with technology companies regarding content moderation,”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, May 8, 2023
May 4, 2023 – The Highwire Ep 318: Information Tsunami – Jaxen Report re “vaccine hesitancy” and legislation trying to curb speech – WATCH, FULL Restrict Act – ARTICLE
April 28, 2023 – The DisInformation Chronicles: TWITTER FILES: WHO Censored Itself on Vaccines to Help Twitter Censor Tucker Carlson – Bird factory emails on clipping Tucker Carlson’s wings – READ
April 26, 2023 – Matt Orfalea via Twitter: NetworkAffects via Twitter: TWITTER FILES 21 – How to Find Russians Anywhere – Pt.1 – PROJECT OSPREY – THREAD
April 26, 2023 – NetworkAffects via Twitter: “1.TWITTER FILES #20 – The Information Cartel” – THREAD, Matt Taibbi – TWEET
April 22, 2023 – Newsmax | The Record: Matt Taibbi: They’re threatening me with JAIL over an error – by Democrat Rep. Plaskett – This threatening letter s “about getting an acronym wrong by one letter in one tweet” – WATCH
April 12, 2023 – Daily Clout | Vigilant Fox: Elon Musk Breaks the Internet in Unexpected BBC Interview – Clip Compilation – WATCH & READ
Does the BBC hold itself at all responsible for misinformation regarding masking and side effects of vaccinations — and not reporting on that at all? And what about the fact that the BBC was put under pressure by the British government to change the editorial policy? Are you aware of that?
Asked Elon Musk to [Trusted News Initiative] BBC reporter James Clayton
April 8, 2023 – The Verge: Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links – Substack’s founders responded to the change by calling it “a reminder of why writers deserve a model that puts them in charge.” – READ, CREDIT
April 7, 2023 – TWITTER: Mehdi debates Matt Taibbi on the ‘Twitter Files’ and Elon Musk – Full Interview – TWEET, ARCHIVE, Mehdi Hasan interviews Matt Taibbi, followed by Viva Frei tweet where even CIS calls it “CISA” – CISA is an error but the other one’s arent – interview with Matt Taiibi – WATCH, Last American Vagabond – WATCH, READ
April 4, 2023 – Curiously Elon Musk replaces Twitter (blue bird) logo with Cryptocurrency Dogecoin logo “Doge” – TWEET, “as promised” – TWEET, IMG, beginning Apr 3 (US 2nd?) “metamorphasis” – TWEET, the crypto price went up! – READ
April 1, 2023 – Elon Musk releases Twitter source code to GitHub – TWEET, CODE, LISTEN
March 30, 2023 – The Joe Rogan Experience #1963: Michael Shellenberger – LISTEN
March 29, 2023 – Gateway Pundit: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Has No Answer For How or Why IRS Agents Showed Up Unannounced to Twitter Files Journalist Matt Taibbi’s Home – READ, WATCH
March 28, 2023 – Zero Hedge: Twitter Source Code Leaked Online, Musk Hunts Perpetrator; Values Firm At $20 Billion – READ “Twitter has asked for a subpoena to force Github to disclose who was behind the leak.”
March 27, 2023 – Gateway Pundit: IRS Targets Twitter Files Journalist Matt Taibbi! IRS Agent Showed Up Unannounced to Taibbi’s Home on Same Day He Testified Before Congress – READ
March 17, 2023 – NY Post | Opinion: Private-federal censorship machine targeted TRUE ‘misinformation’ – READ
- Re Twitter File #19 – focused on “Stanford University’s Virality Project, which federal agencies bankrolled to engage in “detecting and mitigating the impact of false and misleading narratives related to COVID-19 vaccines.”…”…the project was “deputized by [Homeland Security] to censor millions of . . . opinions . . . about COVID.”
- “The Virality Project recommended that social-media companies suppress “stories of true vaccine side effects” and “true posts which could fuel [vaccine] hesitancy.”
- Taibbi concludes, “America’s information mission went from counterterrorism abroad, to stopping ‘foreign interference’ from reaching domestic audiences, to 80% domestic content, much of it true. The ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ is out; but truth-policing is not.”
- “the media has largely ignored the Twitter Files revelations…”
March 17, 2023 [US] – Matt Taibbi: TWITTER FILES #19 – The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine – Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories” – THREAD
March 13, 2023 – Fox News | : Matt Taibbi speaks out on Democrats’ ‘outrageous’ treatment during Twitter Files hearing – WATCH
They went from counter terroism to going after true material [vaccine injury] within the space of a couple of years
Matt Taibbi
March 10, 2023 – Michael Shellenberger Substack | Public: EXPOSED: America’s Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex – U.S. government officials, agencies, and contractors are violating the First Amendment – READ
- “A highly-organized network of U.S. government agencies and government contractors has been creating blacklists and pressuring social media companies to censor Americans, often without them knowing it.”
March 10, 2023 – Fox News: Matt Taibbi calls out ‘Censorship-Industrial Complex’ in latest Twitter Files – Taibbi testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee looking into weaponization of federal government – READ
March 10, 2023 – Matt Taibbi : TWITTER FILES [#18]: Statement to Congress – THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX – THREAD
March 9, 2023 – Town Hall: One Democrat’s Attempt to Smear ‘Twitter Files’ Journalists Completely Backfired – READ
March 9, 2023 – House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government: Hearing on Twitter Documents About Content Moderation Decisions – WATCH
RSBN: LIVE: Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files – (2h 33min) (ignore first couple seconds) – WATCH
March 8, 2023 – NY Post: Matt Taibbi rips ‘spineless’ media for ignoring FTC’s demand for Twitter to reveal journalists – READ
- “The Federal Trade Commission’s demand that Twitter reveal the names of journalists who were granted access to company records is being assailed as “an outrageous attack on the First Amendment.” – Mainstream media fail to cover the story
March 8, 2023 – Fox News | Sean Hannity: Jim Jordan: FTC probing Musk Twitter takeover may be most ‘egregious threat’ to First Amendment – WATCH
March 4, 2023 – Epoch Times: State-Funded ‘Anti-Disinformation’ Campaign Flagged Americans as Foreign Shills: Twitter Files – READ
March 2, 2023 (3rd Aust) – NY Post: How the feds spend $74M a year to try to censor Americans – READ, US government-funded research tagged Americans for Twitter ban: report – READ
- “In 2016, President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13721 to establish the “Global Engagement Center” to “counter the messaging and diminish the influence of international terrorist organizations…GEC is based in the State Department but also partners with the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.”
- GEC “funded a secret list of subcontractors and helped pioneer an insidious — and idiotic — new form of blacklisting,”
- “GEC’s efforts vivify how federal censorship serves political convenience, not the truth”
March 3, 2023 – Matt Taibbi via Twitter: TWITTER FILES #17 – New Knowledge, the Global Engagement Center, and State-Sponsored Blacklists – THREAD
February 19, 2023 – Matt Taibbi via Twitter: Twitter Files #16 Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment – THREAD
- “5. Purely to show the bankruptcy of media in this area, let’s introduce a pair of loud new data points, and see if any press figures at all cover either of them.”
- “14. The real story emerging in the #TwitterFiles is about a ballooning federal censorship bureaucracy that’s not aimed at either the left or the right per se, but at the whole population of outsiders, who are being systematically defined as threats.”
- “15. Beginning in March [2023], we’ll start using the Twitter Files to tell this larger story about how Americans turned their counterterrorism machinery against themselves, to disastrous effect, through little-known federal agencies like the Global Engagement Center (GEC).”
February 9, 2023 – House Judiciary Select Subcommittee Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government – WATCH, READ, BACKUP, COMMITTEE – Chairman Jordan’s Opening Statement – WATCH, Twitter got played by the FBI – WATCH
February 8, 2023 – CSPAN: Twitter’s Response to Hunter Biden Laptop Story – WATCH, LAPTOP
- Former Twitter executives appeared before the House Oversight Committee, testifying there was “no conspiracy” at the company against conservative voices as they discussed Twitter’s response to the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story….
January 29, 2023 – TWITTER: Elon Musk response to Twitter File #15 “This is the biggest journalism scam in a very long time” – TWEET
January 28, 2023 – Matt Taibbi Substack | Racket: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud – The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork – READ, Jan 30 – Brief Addendum – READ
January 28, 2023Fox News: Latest Twitter Files show media, Dems relied on single source alleging ‘Russian bot’ activity: ‘It was a scam’ – Elon Musk says ‘shame on MSNBC’ for pushing misleading Russian bots narratives – READ
- Taibbi wrote Hamilton 68 “was the source of hundreds if not thousands of mainstream print and TV news stories in the Trump years.” …But behind the scenes, Twitter executives trashed Hamilton 68 and deliberated whether they should publicly rebuke ASD.”
January 28, 2023 – NY Post: Left-wing think tank responsible for thousands of fake Russia stories: new Twitter Files – READ, The Federalist – READ, Breitbart – READ
- “The Hamilton 68 “dashboard” was the brainchild of former FBI special agent and MSNBC contributor Clint Watts and operated under the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a think tank founded in 2017 — shortly after former President Trump took office.”
- “Hamilton dashboard falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots,” states Yoel Roth
- [Aug 2, 2017 – Alliance for Securing Democracy: Hamilton 68: A New Tool to Track Russian Disinformation on Twitter – READ, ARCHIVE, Jan 27, 2023 Fact Sheet – READ]
January 27, 2023 – Post Millennial: BREAKING: Russian bot tracker implicating 644 accounts as disinformation was a ‘scam’: Twitter Files – “Instead of tracking how ‘Russia’ influenced American attitudes, Hamilton 68 simply collected a handful of mostly real, mostly American accounts, and described their organic conversations as Russian scheming.” – READ
January 27, 2023 [Jan 28 Aust] – Matt Taibbi via Twitter: Twitter Files #15 MOVE OVER, JAYSON BLAIR: TWITTER FILES EXPOSE NEXT GREAT MEDIA FRAUD – introducing Hamilton 68 – THREAD
January 14, 2023 – Matt Taibbi: TWITTER FILES: Supplemental – More Adam Schiff Ban Requests, and “Deamplification” – THREAD
January 12, 2023 – Trending Politics: BREAKING: New Twitter Files Exposes How Democrat Politicians Knowingly Spread the Russiagate Lie – READ
January 12, 2023 – NY Post: Latest ‘Twitter Files’ reveal execs warned Dems of false Russian bot claims — but didn’t tell public – READ, Fox News Hannity – WATCH
January 12, 2023 – Matt Taibbi Substack: America Needs Truth and Reconciliation on Russiagate – The #TwitterFiles offer just the latest reasons why, but it’s long been obvious that unwinding the Big Lie would be a key first step on this country’s road to healing – READ
January 13, 2023 (US Jan 12) – Matt Taibbi via Twitter: Twitter Files #14; THE RUSSIAGATE LIES: One: The Fake Tale of Russian Bots and the – THREAD
January 10, 2023 – Alex Berenson Substack: From the Twitter Files: Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb secretly pressed Twitter to hide posts challenging his company’s massively profitable Covid jabs – READ, Breaking Points – WATCH, Alex on Tucker Carlson – WATCH, Russell Brand comments – WATCH
“We’ll know more in a couple of weeks about Fauci and about Rochelle Walensky and about everything else“
Alex Berenson
January 10, 2023 – Alex Berenson via Twitter: [PART 13] My first #TwitterFiles report: 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! – THREAD
January 10, 2022 – Matt Taibbi Substack: On MSNBC and “Authoritarianism” – A brief response to the latest hit piece – READ, TWEET, TWEET
- “Here’s a brief list of talking heads at the network now claiming people like me, Glenn Greenwald, Tulsi Gabbard and Jimmy Dore are the ones guilty of funneling audiences to “authoritarianism””
January 9, 2022 – Chief Nerd: Matt Taibbi Says Twitter E-Mails Show the DNC Was “Super Enthusiastic” About Censorship – Jimmy Dore Show – EXCERPT
January 8, 2023 – Post Millennial: Elon Musk makes cuts to global content moderation team – He made cuts to “the company’s Trust and Safety Team overseeing global content moderation, hate speech and harassment, along with cuts from the teams in global appeals and state media and from the misinformation division.” – READ
January 7, 2023 – Spectator Australia: Thanks, Elon! The Twitter files expose shocking censorship and corruption – READ
- “So, thanks again Mr Musk, and 2022, for showing us that whole chunks of the media really are Pravda-like political actors, untrustworthy and not much more than left-wing PR firms.”
January 5, 2022 – Matt Taibbi Substack: Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary- For those who haven’t been following, a compilation of one-paragraph summaries of all the Twitter Files threads by every reporter. With links and notes on key revelations – READ
January 5, 2023 – The Higiwire Ep 301 (Jaxen Report) : THE TWITTER FILES: COVID EDITION – WATCH, FULL
- The first installment of ‘Covid’ Twitter Files shows bots, AI and foreign contractors were busy censoring American speech on the platform during the Covid response. Meanwhile, internal emails from separate litigation shows the CDC directing Twitter ‘Covid Misinformation’ censorship while also celebrating the deplatforming of Del Bigtree and The HighWire.
January 4, 2023 – Matt Taibbi via Twitter – The Twitter Files [PART 12]: Twitter and the FBI “Belly Button” – THREAD, Elon Musk” ” US govt agency demanded suspension of 250k accounts, including journalists & Canadian officials!” – TWEET
January 4, 2023 – Matt Taibbi via Twitter – The Twitter Files [PART 11] – How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In – THREAD
January 3, 2023 – The Daily Signal: ‘Twitter Files’ Reveal How the Left Uses Big Tech to Create an Illusion of Scientific Consensus and Stifle Debate, Especially on COVID-19 – READ
January 2, 2023 – Townhall: Musk Hints at the Subject of Upcoming Twitter Files – #FauciFiles “Later this week” – READ
2022
December 30, 2022 – Real America’s Voice with Terrance Bates: Kash Patel Reveals Jim Baker Is Behind FBI Mess – WATCH, BACKUP
December 29, 2022 – Kanekoa Substack: Elon Musk slams CISA censorship network as ‘propaganda platform’ – This DHS-backed censorship network used 120 analysts to censor millions of social media posts on elections and covid-19 – READ
December 29, 2022 – Daily Mail: ‘Hey, I just got here, man:’ Elon Musk admits to mistakes in his first two months as boss of Twitter in incredibly candid interview – as he defends new features and concedes having ‘absolute power’ is risky – READ All-In Podcast Ep 109 (Dec 24) – WATCH
December 29, 2022 – Judicial Watch on “O’Connor & Company”: FITTON: #TwitterFiles EXPOSE FBI & CIA Election Interference! – WATCH, READ
December 29, 2022 – National Review: Twitter Files: Platform Suppressed Valid Information from Medical Experts about Covid-19 – READ, Dr Simone Gold comments – WATCH
December 27, 2022 – David Zweig via Twitter: THE TWITTER FILES [PART 10]: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE – THREAD, The FreePress – ARTICLE, Elon Musk “Much more to The Twitter Files: Covid Editon than this introductory thread” – TWEET
December 27, 2022 – Robert Gouveia Esq: Twitter Files 9: CIA, Elvis Chan and Government Censorship – WATCH
December 26, 2022 – Mel K & Kash Patel | We the People Demand the Whole Truth – WATCH
December 25, 2022 – Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk: “Almost Every ‘Conspiracy Theory’ That People Had About Twitter Turned Out To Be True” – READ, All-In Podcast – EXCERPT, TWEET, The Post Millennial – READ,
“To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true. Is there a conspiracy theory about Twitter that didn’t turn out to be true? So far, they’ve all turned out to be true. If not more true than people thought.”
Elon Musk on All-In Podcast
December 24, 2022 – Elon Musk on Twitter: re World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Young Global Leaders program – “I was invited to WEF, but declined” – TWEET, Referenced ARTICLE, WEF – MORE
December 24, 2022 – Post Millennial – BREAKING: Twitter censored information about Ukraine war, Covid vaccines under direction from US intelligence agencies: Twitter Files – ARTICLE
December 24, 2022 – Matt Taibbi on Twitter: The Twitter Files [PART 9] – TWITTER AND “OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES” – THREAD, SUBSTACK, Fox News – WATCH, Response to Ted Lieu – TWEET
December 23, 2022 – House Judiciary Committee: House GOP Wants FBI’s Twitter Censorship, Reimbursement Records – READ
December 23, 202 – Judiciary Committee PRESS RELEASE: House Judiciary Republicans Press for Documents Between FBI and Twitter – READ
December 21, 2022 – Lee Fang via Twitter: TWITTER FILES PART 8 How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign – THREAD, Elon Musk – TWEET
December 19, 2022 – NY Post: FBI paid Twitter $3.4M for doing its dirty work on users, damning email shows – READ
- “The FBI paid Twitter nearly $3.5 million of taxpayer cash to ban accounts largely linked to conservative voices and target so-called “foreign influence” operations ” re Twitter Files #7
- “The FBI was literally paying Twitter to censor Americans just before the 2020 election!” Tom Fitton – REF
December 19, 2022 – Fox News | Tucker Carlson: Michael Shellenberger calls for full investigation of ‘politicized’ FBI ‘elements” WATCH – says the FBI’s Infiltration of Twitter Looked Like a Psy-Op – EXCERPT
December 20, 2022 – Michael Shellenberger via Twitter: Twitter Files PART 7 – The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop – THREAD, Elon Musk: “Government paid Twitter millions of dollars to censor info from the public” – TWEET, $$ – TWEET – Michael Shellenberger on the FBI “Hyping the Russian Misinformation Threat” to Aid the Democrats – WATCH
- “In Twitter Files #7, we present evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community (IC), aimed at senior executives at news and social media companies, to discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published.” – TWEET
December 19, 2022 – Igor Chudov Substack: DEBATE: Is Elon Musk Out of His Mind? – Cannot mention competing social networks on Twitter! – READ, Twitter Support – THREAD (note the tweet has since been removed)
December 19, 2022 – Daily Mail: Twitter Files bombshell as emails show even chief censor feared the FBI was breaking the law helping US intelligence engage in domestic operations: Yoel Roth was ‘uncomfortable’ being grilled over ‘state propaganda’ on the app – READ
December 18, 2022 – Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk Considers Stepping Down as Head of Twitter – Here’s How You Can Save Freedom of Speech – READ, Elon Must Poll – TWEET, Poll Results – TWEET
December 18, 2022 – Gateway Pundit: TWITTER FILES SUPPLEMENTAL DROPS: Matt Taibbi Releases Twitter and Federal Task Force – READ
December 18, 2022 (Sunday night US time) – Matt Taibbi via Twitter: Twitter Files Supplemental – THREAD, Thread reader – READ, Elon Musk “Elvis [Chan] is in the building” – TWEET
December 16, 2022 – Just The News: Musk blasts ‘Twitter Files’ journalist for ‘virtue-signaling’ on doxxing suspensions – Musk has cited concerns for his personal security and that of his children as justification for the suspensions and the doxxing policy and did not take kindly to Weiss’s stance on the issue. – READ, Suspensions – ARTICLE, ARTICLE
December 16, 2022 – Gateway Pundit: FBI Responds to Twitter Files, Pt. 6 – Shows Their Utter Contempt for the American People and First Amendment Law – READ
December 17, 2022 – NY Post: FBI treated Twitter as a ‘subsidiary,’ flagged tweets and accounts for ‘misinformation’ – READ, Zero Hedge – READ, Just The News – READ
- “Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth,” – TWEET
- Some mundane from Elvis Chan, others “surprisingly” to take action on “election misinformation” – TWEET
- 80 FBI agents tasked to communicate with Twitter – TWEET
- “The takeaway: what most people think of as the “deep state” is really a tangled collaboration of state agencies, private contractors, and (sometimes state-funded) NGOs. The lines become so blurred as to be meaningless.”- TWEET
December 17, 2022 – Matt Taibbi via Twitter: The Twitter Files, PART 6 – TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY – THREAD
December 15, 2022 – Shellenberger Substack: Twitter Broke Its Own Rules To Ban Trump While Keeping World Leaders Who “Incited Violence” – Company employees concluded Trump’s tweets did not incite violence before making up reasons for why they did – READ
December 14, 2022 – NY Post: ‘My fault alone’: Jack Dorsey takes ‘blame’ for scandals revealed in ‘Twitter Files’ – READ, Jack Dorsey Blog post re The Twitter Files – HERE
December 14, 2022 – CHD | The Defender: Matt Taibbi: ‘Definite Conclusive Proof’ U.S. Government Colluded With Social Media Executives on Censorship – READ
December 14, 2022 – Glenn Beck: Why Hunter Biden’s 2nd laptop, Twitter, & Soros all relate – WATCH
December 13, 2022 – NY Post: Yoel Roth, ex-Twitter exec, forced to flee home amid ‘Twitter files’ release: report – READ
December 13, 2022 – The Conservative Tree House: Tucker Carlson Asks the Right Question: “Could It Be That Twitter Is Actually an Intelligence Gathering Apparatus and Propaganda Tool” – READ
December 13, 2022 – Glenn Beck: THIS is what the Twitter censorship story is REALLY about – WATCH
December 13, 2022 – Fox News | Tucker Carlson: Twitter was functioning as an arm of the FBI – WATCH
December 12, 2022 – Stay Free with Russell Brand #044: The Truth About Twitter Files, With Matt Taibbi – WATCH
December 12, 2022 – NY Post: Fifth ‘Twitter files’ release details furious debate to ban Trump — despite no policy violations – READ
December 12, 2022 – Post Millennial: BREAKING: Twitter employees painted Trump as ‘terrorist’ leader, ‘American patriots’ as rioters to justify ban – READ
December 12, 2022 – Zero Hedge: The Twitter Files: The Corporate Media Ignores The Biggest Story Of The Decade – READ
December 13, 2022 – Bari Weiss via Twitter: The Twitter Files PART 5 – THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM TWITTER – THREAD
December 11, 2022 – Gateway Pundit: Press Sec Claims Gov Does Not Collude with Social Media, Here’s What Jen Psaki Said a Year Ago – READ
December 11, 2022 – NY Post: The media’s silence on the ‘Twitter Files’ is shameful – READ
December 11, 2022 – Elon Musk: “Twitter is a…crime scene” – TWEET
December 11, 2022 – TN News by Matt Taibbi: Note to Readers on the “Twitter Files” – Explaining a few things I couldn’t before, and getting back on schedule here at TK News – READ
December 11, 2022 – Michael Shellenberger via Twitter: The Twitter Files PART 4 – The Removal of Donald Trump: January 7 – As the pressure builds, Twitter executives build the case for a permanent ban – THREAD
December 10, 2022 – NY Post: Elon Musk threatens Twitter employees with legal action if they leak to press – READ
December 10, 2022 – NY Post: ‘Twitter Files’ part 3 details ‘internal debate’ over Trump’s ban after Jan. 6 riot – READ
December 10, 2022 – Matt Taibbi via Twitter: The Twitter Files PART 3 – The Removal of Donald Trump – Part One: October 2020-January 6th 2021 – THREAD
December 10, 2022 – NY Post: ack Dorsey told Congress under oath Twitter was not shadow-banning – READ
December 10, 2022 – Glenn Beck: Everything inside Elon Musk’s 2nd ‘Twitter Files’ EXPLAINED – WATCH
December 9, 2022 – NY Post: Twitter update will let you know if you’ve been ‘shadow banned’: Musk – READ
- Elon Musk: “Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal” – TWEET
December 9, 2022 – NY Post: Twitter — and Democrats — lied, lied and lied again about censorship – shadow banning internally referred to as “visibility filtering” and “amplification” limiting – READ
December 9, 2022 – NY Post: Twitter’s secret shadow bans are why the public has turned against ‘experts’ – READ
- The latest release of internal Twitter files shows that users who opposed COVID lockdowns, made fun of liberal TikTok videos, or just happened to be conservative were secretly restricted.” Yet Twitter officially said they didn’t shadow ban!
December 9, 2022 – NY Post: Elon Musk: Twitter blacklisting proves ‘the inmates were running the asylum’ – READ
December 8, 2022 – NY Post: Elon Musk warns evidence of Twitter censorship ‘may have been deleted’ – READ, Elon Musk – TWEET
December 8, 2022 – NY Post: Latest ‘Twitter Files’ reveal secret suppression of right-wing commentators – “shadow banning” – READ
December 8, 2022 – Barri Weiss via Twitter – The Twitter Files PART 2 – Twitter’s Secret Blacklist – THREAD
December 6, 2022 – Bret Weinstein via Twitter: “I thought everyone knew Alison Fauci worked at Twitter” – TWEET, The Blaze – ARTICLE
December 6, 2022 – NY Post: Elon Musk fires Twitter lawyer James Baker over ‘suppression’ of documents on Hunter Biden story – READ
December 6, 2022 – Daily Wire: Biden Admin Launches Investigation Into Elon Musk’s Company Neuralink: Report – ” over allegations that the company may have violated animal-welfare laws”- READ, coincidence? just days after Musk exposes Hunter Biden laptop coverup- TWEET
December 6, 2022 – America First Legal: AFL Lawsuit Uncovers More Damning CDC Documents Revealing Twitter’s “Partner Support Portal” for COVID-19 Related Censorship and the U.S. Government’s Advancement of “Social Inoculation” Against the “Infodemic” [Fourth set of CDC FOIA documents, these in relation to Twitter (note: not “Twitter Files” but relevant)] – READ, The Highwire – WATCH
December 5, 2022 – Fox News | Maria Bartiromo: ‘More to come’ on Twitter’s censorship of Hunter Biden story: Comer – Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., unpacks Twitter CEO Elon Musk releasing the Twitter Files on the Hunter Biden story and shares why House Republicans hope to investigate the Biden family business dealings – WATCH
December 5, 2022 – Fox Business: Musk’s ‘Twitter Files,’ revealing censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story, is a ‘distraction, White House says – READ
December 4, 2022 – NY Times: Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi, and a Very Modern Media Maelstrom – A release of internal documents from Twitter set off intense debates in the intersecting worlds of media, politics and tech – READ
December 3, 2022 – Banons War Room: Julie Kelly Explains The Secret Relationship Between Big Tech And The FBI Through Special Agent Elvis Chan – WATCH, American Greatness – ARTICLE, TWEET
December 3, 2022 – NY POST: Twitter files reveal familiar name in Hunter Biden laptop scandal: James Baker (Former FBI) – READ, Kash Patel explains James Baker’s link to Russiagate – WATCH
December 3, 2022 – NY Post: Matt Taibbi says Hunter Biden ‘Twitter Files’ has been a ‘whirlwind 96 hours for me’ – READ
December 3, 2022 – TK News: Note to readers – “in exchange for the opportunity to cover a unique and explosive story, I had to agree to certain conditions” – READ
December 3, 2022 – NY Post: Who is Vijaya Gadde, the Twitter exec involved in censoring Post’s Hunter Biden laptop bombshell? – READ, Vijaya Gadde former Twitter top lawyer made the decision – TWEET
December 3, 2022 – NY Post: What’s missing from the Twitter files: The truth about the FBI – by Miranda Devine – “What was missing were details of specific warnings we know the FBI made to Twitter about a Russian “hack and leak operation” involving Hunter during their weekly meetings with top executives of the social media giant in the days and weeks before The Post published its exclusive bombshell.” – READ
December 3, 2022 – The New American: Musk Releases “Twitter Files” That Detail Effort to Block Hunter Biden Laptop Story – READ
December 3, 2022 – NY Post: Hunter Biden laptop bombshell: Twitter invented reason to censor Post’s reporting – READ
December 3, 2022 – Matt Taibbi via Twitter: The Twitter Files PART 1 – TWITTER AND THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY – THREAD
December 3, 2022 – Elon Musk on Twitter: “What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!” – TWEET
December 2, 20222 – The Gateway Pundit: Crooked FBI Lawyer James Baker – One of the Architects of Spygate – Was Involved in Twitter’s Decision to Suppress Hunter Biden Laptop From Hell Story – READ
December 1, 2022 – Zero Hedge: Musk: Twitter Has “Interfered In Elections” – READ, CREDIT, Elon Musk – TWEET
November 28, 2022 – NY Post: Elon Musk teases details of Twitter suppression of Post’s Hunter Biden scoop ‘soon’ – READ
November 24, 2022 – Elon Musk on Twitter: Re making public all internal discussions re censoring Hinter Biden’s laptop story before 2020 election – “This is necessary to restore public trust” – TWEET, TWEET2, Zero Hedge – ARTICLE
November 17, 2022 – Axios: Elon Musk says he plans to find a new leader for Twitter – READ
November 9, 2022 – NY Post: Biden calls for federal investigation of Elon Musk over ‘relationships with other countries’ – READ
- President Biden called for a federal investigation of billionaire businessman Elon Musk, who recently purchased Twitter with a stated goal of restoring free-speech principles.
July 27, 2022 – America First Legal: AFL LAWSUIT REVEALS DAMNING CDC DOCUMENTS PROVING GOVERNMENT COLLUSION WITH BIG TECH TO CENSOR FREE SPEECH AND PROMOTE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PROPAGANDA – (re Carol Crafword @CDC) – READ
- CDC sends Twitter officials a chart of tweets it deemed to be “misinformation”- PDF
- Regular BOLO (Be On the LookOut) meetings where CDC would share what they categorized as “misinformation” with various social media companies, including Twitter and Facebook, and provide slide decks, requesting “Please do not share outside your trust and safety teams.” – PDF
- Express requests from Twitter to the CDC for help in identifying “misinformation” – PDF
- Twitter stating that coordination with CDC over vaccine misinformation was “tricky” because the Twitter CEO was testifying before Congress that week – PDF
- CDC recommends information about the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) [disclaimer] be added to tweets – PDF
2021
January 9, 2021 – NBC News: Twitter permanently suspends President Donald Trump – “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter’s official “Safety” account tweeted. – READ
January 6, 2021 – NY Post: Twitter removes tweets from President Trump, locks his account – READ
2020
The Hunter Biden Laptop Saga – The Biden Crime family? – MORE HERE
October 14, 2020 – NY Post: Twitter, Facebook censor Post over Hunter Biden exposé – stating it was “hacked material” – READ
October 14, 2020 – Washington Examiner: Facebook reduces visibility on Hunter Biden story before fact-checking’ – READ
October 14, 2020 – Washington Examiner: Twitter blocks New York Post Hunter Biden story, citing it as ‘potentially harmful’ – READ, TWEET
October 14, 2020 – New York Post: Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad – READ [This is the NY Post article Twitter BLOCKED]
