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.
On December 2, 2022 journalist Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine began releasing the #TwitterFiles,[1][2] 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.[3]
Reminder: 2020 election outcome would differ with Hunter Biden laptop coverage: poll.[5] Andrew C McCarthy: “FBI Interference in the 2020 Election: The ‘Twitter Files’ Miss the Real Scandal.”[6]
And Musk confirmed Bari Weiss to join Matt Taibbi in releasing ‘Twitter Files.’[7]
This initial document dump focused on the decision making process that Twitter invoked to suppress the Laptop from Hell in the run up to the 2020 Presidential election. The internal emails released show that Twitter was absolutely engaging in political manipulation and, after they suspended the New York Post, the oldest newspaper in the United States, looking for some sort of policy justification for their political actions.
According to Taibbi, “The problem with the ‘hacked materials’ ruling, several sources said, was that this normally required an official/law enforcement finding of a hack. But such a finding never appears throughout what one executive describes as a ‘whirlwind’ 24-hour, company-wide mess.” Twitter execs could not find a justification for blocking the New York Post exposé on Biden family corruption under its own rules, so it consulted with the Biden camp and Democrats in Congress and received the go ahead.
In one incredible exchange, Twitter execs receive a list of accounts from the Biden Administration to “review.” The accounts were reportedly later suspended. Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna was the only Democrat that expressed concern that it will backfire, trying to mediate with Twitter execs and reminding them the First Amendment prohibits government suppression of free speech. The Twitter files reveal collusion between government and private sector business to suppress human rights, which is the original and basic definition of fascism.
Twitter rules “were enforced against the right, but not against the left”.[8]
The TwitterFiles also revealed familiar name in Hunter Biden laptop scandal: former FBI James A. Baker (DOJ). Baker has been featured repeatedly in the Russian investigations launched by the Justice Departmen It has been commented: “For many, James Baker is fast becoming the Kevin Bacon of the Russian collusion scandals.”[9][10]
In a ridiculous but not so funny reaction: former Twitter executive who suppressed Hunter Biden Laptop Story, lumps two separate unrelated entities and calls them both the exposer of radical liberalism Libsoftiktok,[11] and the satire Christian site Babylon Bee ‘Dangerous.’[12]
Rep. Kevin McCarthy stated: Google, Facebook should be investigated after Twitter files on Hunter Biden story.[13]
On the subject why major news outlets downplay the scandal, Musk stated “because they were complicit.”[14][15]
CNN: Twitter employees were saying “this feels like Russian disinformation” when deciding to censor tweets about the Hunter Biden laptop story.[16]
On Dec 5, White House spokesperson dismissed the embarrassing scandal. KJP: “we see it as an incident…as a coincidence.”[17][18]
On Dec 6, 2022, Musk announced, James Baker, former FBI counsel, was fired from Twitter after Hunter laptop revelations.[19][20]
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.[21]
2020 Presidential election interference
- See also: 2020 Presidential election
Twitter imposed new draconian censorship measures aimed at conservative users in October 2020.[22] One example is labeling criticism of mail-in balloting as ‘misinformation’. James Woods commented the new labeling is clear:
“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.”[23]
For the first time in American history social media companies took direct action against a major U.S. publisher,[24] The New York Post when it published a story on Biden-Burisma scandal.[25] 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.[26] 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.[27][28] Twitter and Facebook both had many foreign stockholders.[29] Twitter banned people who posted The New York Post story,[30] including White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing the article,[31] locked the Trump Campaign account less than 3 weeks before the 2020 Presidential election.[32] 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.[33] Wikipedia editors censored the Hunter Biden bombshell, and called the New York Post an ‘unreliable’ source.[34] Google also was reported to be meddling in U.S. Senate elections.[35] The Senate Judiciary Committee announced that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey would be subpoenaed to explain the meddling.[36] Former James Comey general counsel James A. Baker (DOJ), who was complicit in the Obamagate and FISA abuse scandals, is Twitter’s lead counsel.[37] The RNC made a formal complaint to the Federal Elections Commission which reads in part,
“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.”[38]
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.[39] 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.[40]
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 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.
