2022-12 - Twitter files

The Crime Scene

Elon Musk said, "Twitter is both a social media platform and a crime scene" when he acquired Twitter.

By giving independent journalists access to Twitter data, several files were revealed, showing the extent to which US government agencies were involved in controlling the platform's content.

Beyond Twitter, the industrial and military organization of this involvement leaves no doubt that it extends to all other social networks and online media.

The unique message conveyed by the media is no longer a conspiracy, it is revealed and we even know how it is implemented in practice!

One could imagine a revolution, resignations, a scandal... But no; control over the media is precisely too powerful and it is in a deafening silence that freedom of expression dies (or is reborn?).

From another point of view, these revelations are also an additional mark of the non-existence of a political Europe. European users live in the same digital world as the United States; this means that the content accessible to them is censored in the same way, and that European states must deal with what American censorship allows...

The Twitter Files

Twitter files 1 - How Twitter censored the Hunter Biden laptop story at the request of candidate Biden. Describes the technical means used by Twitter to censor a topic and internal discussions, including official requests from the Democratic Party during the campaign.

Twitter files 2 - How Twitter "de-amplified" users or topics with secret blacklists.

Twitter files 3 in two parts - How Trump was censored on Twitter during the presidential campaign (October 2020 -> January 6, 2021). There is no longer any doubt that the 2020 presidential election was manipulated by the media!

Twitter files 4 - Preparing for the ban of Trump (January 7, 2021).

Twitter files 5 - The ban of Trump (January 8, 2021).

Twitter files 6 - Ongoing contacts between Twitter and the FBI.

Twitter files 7 - How the FBI influenced Twitter (and other platforms) to censor the Hunter Biden laptop case.

Twitter files 8 - How Twitter supported Pentagon propaganda operations. This is the "seen on Twitter" view of the military propaganda operations described here.

Additional information - Regular involvement of the CIA.

Twitter files COVID - Censorship of divergent opinions at the government's request.

Summary of the Twitter files as of 01/04/2023: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter?r=5mz1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Full list: https://the-twitter-files.com/

Twitter files 15 - Hamilton 68

Twitter files 15 - One of the most incredible Twitter files.

Hamilton 68 was a platform that claimed to monitor and demonstrate Russian influence on American media. This platform was cited by thousands of official press organs during the Trump years.

The platform was led by a former FBI agent (Clint Watts) and funded by a liberal think tank (Alliance for Securing Democracy). Its supervisory board included a former Russian ambassador, a political official close to Hillary Clinton (Podesta), and former leaders of the CIA, NSA, and US Homeland Security.

Hamilton claimed to have identified over 600 Twitter accounts used by Russia to influence the press. The list of these accounts was never published, but Twitter analyzed them (under its previous owners!).

They discovered that these accounts were not really Russian or bots. They were simply normal users, mostly Americans, mostly pro-Trump, expressing their opinions on Twitter, which Hamilton 68 transformed into Russian propaganda to discredit them.

And this information published by Hamilton 68 was picked up without any research or analysis by Western media, including... fact-checking sites.

Hamilton 68 is the industrialization of disinformation, the propaganda at its source, a new demonstration of censorship exercised by the system.

What is no longer in doubt