Why are democrats worried about Musk buying Twitter?

[Winehole23]

Still suspended


@ChrisfromST
Account suspended
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[Spurminator]

https://twitter.com/TheWorthyHouse/status/1594812734700404736?s=20

"...for the period ending 6/30/22."

LOL what?? :lmao

[Spurminator]

"My buffet restaurant is still profitable during the height of COVID, based on these sales numbers for the period ending 12/31/19."

[Winehole23]

Twitter fails to pay EU staff on time


While staff in the UK and Germany have not been paid, those in the Netherlands and Ireland have been—suggesting that the problem is one of staffing and operations, rather than a systematic refusal to pay workers. “The company is just not run well,” said one former UK staff member affected.


Twitter did not respond to a request to comment on this story. It is unclear whether it has any communications staffers still employed after layoffs.https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/twitter-missed-payroll-for-some-european-staff-this-month/

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fiq4JyqXoAAY0OB?format=jpg&name=medium

[Ef-man]

Still suspended

@ChrisfromST
Account suspended
Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules. Learn more


"I want to belong to a club that won't accept me as a member.” - qchrisy

[Blake]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fiq4JyqXoAAY0OB?format=jpg&name=medium

Poor Elon doesn't get it

[velik_m]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fiq4JyqXoAAY0OB?format=jpg&name=medium

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[Winehole23]

1597300125243944961I guess brand safety is not a thing for El:loln

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Figis8RXkAIKpLP?format=jpg&name=medium

[Winehole23]

degraded functionality and lack of accessibility are other reported problems


I’ve seen a lot of technical and ideological takes on Elon Twitter but wanted to share the marketing perspective. For background I’m a director at a medium sized b2b tech company (not in finserv anymore) running a team that deploys about $80M in ad spend/year. Twitter was 8-10% of our media mix and we have run cost per engagement (ie download a white paper, register for an event) campaigns successfully since 2016.

I had my team keep our campaigns live for 2 weeks post-takeover on the bet that efficiency would improve with fewer advertisers and the risks were managed and probably overblown. I was wrong and I think the things we saw in these last 2 weeks means many more advertisers will bail on the platform in the coming weeks (for non-ideological or virtue signaling reasons):

- Performance fell significantly. CPMs didn’t drop but our engagement went way down. Maybe it’s a shift in users on the platform, maybe it’s ad serving related.

- Serious brand safety issues. Our organic social and CS teams got dozens of screenshots of our ads next to awful content. Replies to our posts with hardcore antisemitism and adult spam remained up for days even when flagged.

- Our entire account team turned over multiple times in 2 weeks. We had multiple people (AE, AM, analyst, creative specialist) supporting our account and they all vanished without so much as an email. We finally got an email with a name for an AM last week but they quit and we don’t have a new one yet.

- Ads UI is very buggy and login with SSO and 2FA broken. One of my campaign managers logged in last week and found all our paused creatives from the past 6 years had been reactivated. Campaign changes don’t save. These things cost us real money.https://www.teamblind.com/post/I-told-my-team-to-pause-our-750Kmonth-Twitter-ads-budget-last-week-4dnbo1Ft

[Joseph Kony]

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50 year old posting pepe memes is some top tier cringe. its so obvious how much he cares :lol

[benefactor]

:lmao :lmao Fat Hands getting absolutely bodied in this thread
Almost 17 hours later, its just silence. He's a bitch...and his bullshit has become borderline insufferable. He's far from prime DMC that used to run Sybok and Expert. He's an author of one of the funniest posts in the in the history of this forum. But just look at what he has been reduced to. He's like Darrin with more words. Its a shameful decline.

[Fat Hands]

Seriously DMC, fuck your shtick and your come and go. Let's see another picture of your fat ass hand. You want to see mine? I'll post it just like I posted a pic of myself in the Avante thread. I have a crooked pinky from an old football injury and a fucked up ring finger from hitting a guy with an uppercut in the fucking jaw and breaking my hand. In the words of Alec Baldwin..."you see pal, thats who I am, and you're nothing." It's why people like you and Joey are bitches that can only log in and talk about nothing. Both of you are actually nobodies.
Let's have a hand-off. I'll put my hand against your hand, and if anyone can see your hand after that you win. Deal?

Fuck I'm hungry.

[benefactor]

Let's have a hand-off. I'll put my hand against your hand, and if anyone can see your hand after that you win. Deal?

Fuck I'm hungry.
:lol

[Winehole23]

Big "I have a racecar bed" energy, plus right wing virtue signaling.

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[Blake]

Big "I have a racecar bed" energy, plus right wing virtue signaling.

1597306669369024513

Lol caffeine free diet coke.

It's my favorite diet cola tbh but I'm not gonna brag about slamming 4 of them either

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597405399040217088?s=20

Huzzah.

[Blake]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597405399040217088?s=20

Huzzah.

Still waiting to speak freely on Twitter, huh.

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597405399040217088?s=20

Huzzah.Unless you're talking about dead schoolkids.

Or you're Qhris.:lol

[Spurminator]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597405399040217088?s=20

Huzzah.

He sounds mad. Things must not be going very well.

[Joseph Kony]

Qhris thinks Twitter is America :lol

[Ef-man]

He sounds mad. Things must not be going very well.

Life is hard when you are unemployed and living in your mom's basement. Sad but true.

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FisRKP7aMAACHkK?format=jpg&name=medium

[Blake]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FisRKP7aMAACHkK?format=jpg&name=medium

:lol the verification is the chef's kiss

[Winehole23]

:lol

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[Monostradamus]

lol

[Isitjustme?]

Someone asks Free Speech Musk his take on the China protests (since he does business there) and Twitter hides all the replies lol

1597451405782310913

https://i.imgur.com/YVG2eAf.jpg

[Blake]

:lol

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The old Twitter would have allowed that

[Leetonidas]

:lol

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"Free speech" :lmao

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FirXer0WYAEb8mg?format=jpg&name=medium

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1597313126344847360?s=20

[Leetonidas]

:lol pretending to care about workers in China

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1597619967062863874?s=20

[Monostradamus]

Big government good now

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1597619967062863874?s=20

Why do you think government should intervene here, Qhris?

Explain your interventionist stance.

[Brazil]

:lol

[Spurminator]

Free enterprise bad now

[leemajors]

The govt is much more concerned with Twitters CSAM team being halved.

[Isitjustme?]

https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1597313126344847360?s=20

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[Blake]

https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1597313126344847360?s=20

No doubt he posted from his iphone

[Winehole23]

Free enterprise bad now"deciding your business isn't a good fit for my advertising dollars is censorship"

[Winehole23]

THE US CONGRESS NEEDS TO PUT A STOP TO THIS NOW

[Monostradamus]

No doubt he posted from his iphone
lol yep

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[leemajors]

There's a Gigafactory in Shanghai, :lol

[Blake]

lol yep

1597316316020367360

Rofl

[Winehole23]

From last year: Musk reportedly asked PRC authorities to muzzle online critics of Tesla


Previously focused on state-run media, Tesla is now trying to build relationships with auto-industry publications and influencers on platforms such as Weibo and WeChat, for example by inviting them on factory tours, and conducting group “discussion sessions” with policymakers, consumers, and media outlets. According to people familiar with the matter, it’s also complained to the government over what it sees as unwarranted attacks on social media, and asked Beijing to use its censorship powers to block some of the postshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-07-05/tesla-s-fall-from-grace-in-china-shows-perils-of-betting-on-beijing

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1597732306562781184?s=20

:tu

[Winehole23]

The govt is much more concerned with Twitters CSAM team being halved.advertisers too

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[Spurminator]

Chris would rather a billionaire make more money than children be safe from rapists smh smh

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1597732306562781184?s=20

:tu

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Any comment on Elon's recommending the Chicoms take over democratic Taiwan, Qhris?

[ElNono]

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1597732306562781184?s=20

:tu

Response:

https://media.tenor.com/rsm1PQhJMD4AAAAM/tim-cook-apple.gif

[Monostradamus]

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1597732306562781184?s=20

:tu
lol every time
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[Leetonidas]

Republicans made corporations into entities with free speech. Apple is exercising it's 1A rights. Cope harder

[DarrinS]

Apple ain't gonna block browsers, so whatevs

[ChumpDumper]

:lol Darrin just posting words now.

[ChumpDumper]

I wonder if Elon indeed found this helpful.

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[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1597775086462808064?s=20

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1597775086462808064?s=20

Is there an actual threat or is this just "Elon sez"?

[Blake]

Republicans made corporations into entities with free speech. Apple is exercising it's 1A rights. Cope harder

No no apple pulling ads from Elon's Twitter = un-American

[Blake]

Apple ain't gonna block browsers, so whatevs

Lol you didn't care about Twitter until your team captains told you to care, so whatevs

[Spurminator]

Apple ain't gonna block browsers, so whatevs

Apple isn't going to remove the Twitter app from the app store either, that's just a red herring scare tactic invented by the GOP again to keep you guys feeling oppressed.

[Leetonidas]

It really is sad how many people are so obsessed with social media these days. Only maintain a fb for family out of state. Crazy to hear people crying about free speech infringement just because they can't post garbage on social media :lol

[ElNono]

Apple isn't going to remove the Twitter app from the app store either, that's just a red herring scare tactic invented by the GOP again to keep you guys feeling oppressed.

I think the issue comes from the $8 sub... Apple technically should get 30% of that per the dev contract... at least for subs that come from the app.

[Spurminator]

I think the issue comes from the $8 sub... Apple technically should get 30% of that per the dev contract... at least for subs that come from the app.

True, I should have specified that they're not going to remove it because of content. Either way, I'm sure it will be spun into "conservatives being censored."

[daboom1]

Musk confirms Twitter interfered in elections.

[ChumpDumper]

Musk confirms Twitter interfered in elections.

:lolMusk just endorsed DeSantis.

[Monostradamus]

Musk confirms Twitter interfered in elections.
We already knew all about the Russian Trump bots tbh

[daboom1]

JA4ntnBKqno

[ChumpDumper]

JA4ntnBKqno
Apple stock is up 4% today.

:lmao Qhris

CRUSHED!

[leemajors]

Look who’s completely backpedaling on attacking Apple :lol

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1597772444286455808?s=20

Most of us already know :tu

[Blake]

https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1597772444286455808?s=20

Most of us already know :tu

You're still banned tho

[boutons_deux]

Apple is Twit's single biggest advertiser

Excellent tactics to piss off Apple and dare Apple to remove Twit app from app store

50+ of Twit's 100 biggest advertisers have quit advertising

Musk's has a panel of extreme right wing nut jobs advising him to purge Dem, left Tweeters

[velik_m]

EU warns Musk that Twitter faces ban over content moderation -FT

Nov 30 (Reuters) - The European Union has threatened Elon Musk's Twitter with a ban unless the billionaire abides by its strict rules on content moderation, setting up a regulatory battle over the future of the social media platform, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

EU industry chief Thierry Breton made the threat during a video meeting with Musk on Wednesday, the FT reported, citing people with knowledge of the conversation.

Breton told Musk he must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching an "arbitrary" approach to reinstating banned users and agreeing to an "extensive independent audit" of the platform by next year, according to the report.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-warns-musk-that-twitter-faces-ban-over-content-moderation-ft-2022-11-30/

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1597775086462808064?s=20


Is there an actual threat or is this just "Elon sez"?

Elon lied.

Elon admits he lied.

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[daboom1]

Musk flexed and Cook caved. Good stuff, thanks for the update :tu :lol

[leemajors]

Musk flexed and Cook caved. Good stuff, thanks for the update :tu :lol

lol how do you get shit this twisted. Musk folded

[ChumpDumper]

Musk flexed and Cook caved. Good stuff, thanks for the update :tu :lol
Musk lied and admitted publicly he lied. You're welcome.:tu

[Monostradamus]

lol how do you get shit this twisted. Musk folded
It’s Simple Chris we’re talking about here. He probably also thinks he’s the one who rejected Jenna, not the other way around.

[Monostradamus]

Can you just shut the fuck up? You go away forever then just come back and vomit your worthless ass shtick on this forum. At least guys like Chump and Winehole hang and engage with the give and take even if they sort of also contribute to the nonsense. You hide like a bitch just like Dale does then roll through to placate the hunger of your attention seeking needs. You literally don't contribute a fucking thing. You are a slightly smarter hodgepodge of derp, ducks and koriwhat. You aren't clever or cute. You are just stupid. A known commodity of idiocy that this community tolerates because very few people cross that line enough times to hit get the ban hammer.

You think you work people into a corner with your arguments and snark but you are just DMC the clown. Outside of the forum idiot royalty that hangs here every person in this place can see right through you. Beep your red nose again DMC. We all wait with baited breath on one of your tired responses.
lol, DerpMC saw this and immediately went back into hiding.

[Ef-man]

Musk lied and admitted publicly he lied. You're welcome.:tu

Elon Musk publicly retracted his accusations that Apple had threatened to remove Twitter from its App Store — two days after his claim unleashed a tsunami of Republican attacks and threats of reprisals against the iPhone-maker.

Plus, qcrisy is still suspended from twitter and Jenna

https://www.politico.com/musk-bends-knee (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/30/musk-cook-twitter-apple-app-store)

[hater]

:lmao imagine pretending you live in a free country :lmao

[Leetonidas]

"Musk flexed" :lmao :lmao

[boutons_deux]

Evidence grows of left-wing Twitter purge directed by Musk

Musk is apparently overseeing what critics claim is a purge of anti-fascist voices, The Intercept reported (https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/) Tuesday.

https://www.rawstory.com/twitter-purge

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Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk

Elon Musk appears to have

outsourced decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform’s right-wing extremists.

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/ (https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/)

[ElNono]

"Musk flexed" :lmao :lmao

:lmao

[Isitjustme?]

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[spurraider21]

1579627776231247874

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[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1598271337704759296?s=20

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1598271337704759296?s=20

:rollin

It's always a conspiracy.

[Monostradamus]

1598190871043747841
lol “within 6 months”

like how does he say that with a straight face after all the Cybertruck proclamations?

[Spurminator]

Conservatards on vaccines, without evidence: " Bill Gates is microchipping the vaccines!"

Conservatards to Elon Musk: "Please implant wires directly into my brain, daddy!"

[leemajors]

Jesus Tulsi is dumb

[daboom1]

Jesus Tulsi is dumb

I bet you she is racist also.

[ChumpDumper]

She is a weird cult member for sure.:tu

[leemajors]

I bet you she is racist also.

No, she has no idea what the GDPR is and will never bother to learn, much like yourself.

[ChumpDumper]

I don't find the Good Liars particularly funny, but the Manor HS teacher they infuriated is in the process of finding out after trying to censor himself.

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Free speech FTW!

[spurraider21]

guys why are advertisers leaving my website? i mean it definitely cant be from stuff like this just hours after this guy talked about how he liked hitler and thinks we should stop dissing nazis all the time because they did some great things. cant be. must be the woke mind virus

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[leemajors]

guys why are advertisers leaving my website? i mean it definitely cant be from stuff like this just hours after this guy talked about how he liked hitler and thinks we should stop dissing nazis all the time because they did some great things. cant be. must be the woke mind virus

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And days after attacking another company for making a sound business decision

[daboom1]

Musk lied and admitted publicly he lied. You're welcome.:tu

Congress got interested and Cook caved. Elon wins. Huzzah. :tu

[ChumpDumper]

Congress got interested and Cook caved. Elon wins. Huzzah. :tu
Elon said there was never a threat. How could Congress get interested in a threat that didn't exist?

You're saying Elon is lying now.:lol

Elon wins what?

50% fewer major advertisers!:lmao

$8 blue checks!:rollin

[Tyronn Lue]

:lol

[spurraider21]

Elon said there was never a threat. How could Congress get interested in a threat that didn't exist?

You're saying Elon is lying now.:lol

Elon wins what?

50% fewer major advertisers!:lmao

$8 blue checks!:rollin
qris waiting for his account to be reinstated so that he can give surrogate daddy musk $8

https://i.imgur.com/n08A8NO.jpg

[spurraider21]

:lmao

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conservatives 2 false idols have been the fake christian trump and the green energy loving, microchip implanting, china placating, globalist musk

[Blake]

Elon said there was never a threat. How could Congress get interested in a threat that didn't exist?

You're saying Elon is lying now.:lol

Elon wins what?

50% fewer major advertisers!:lmao

$8 blue checks!:rollin

Yeah but what about the new red checks? Yellow? Green?

How much will a Trump-orange cost?

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598781280015073281?s=20

https://www.gif-maniac.com/gifs/9/8977.gif

[ChumpDumper]

Must not have been that great.

[Blake]

Elon going full conspiracy tard.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol is Twitter down or is it just me?

Really slow.

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao

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[Blake]

All five people left scrambling to double check

[Leetonidas]

:lmao still desperately huffing hunter Biden copium like anyone cares but the retards on the right

[CosmicCowboy]

:lmao still desperately huffing hunter Biden copium like anyone cares but the retards on the right

Well we know what they will be talking about on the Sunday talk shows.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol nothing burger

[spurraider21]

so after the time in which they were supposed to release all the facts... they were still double checking their facts? :lol

[Nathan89]

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How many Americans on how many platforms do democrats censor to win elections?

[Nathan89]

Democracy is when censor your political opponents to win elections.

[Nathan89]

Now you know why dems were losing their shit about Elon owning Twitter.

This is why their cult members are removing ads from the platform.

They can't handle this. They can't handle a semi fair platform.

[daboom1]

Now you know why dems were losing their shit about Elon owning Twitter.

This is why their cult members are removing ads from the platform.

They can't handle this. They can't handle a semi fair platform.

Rack it.

Biden Team calling the shots on Twitter was the reason they banned POTUS. The game is rigged as always when it comes to the Democrats.

[daboom1]

"This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right."

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/summary?id=D000067113

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjAuzYgWQAIspZ0?format=png&name=large

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598852182572298241?s=20

[spurraider21]

Democracy is when censor your political opponents to win elections.
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[spurraider21]

:lmao "no evidence that ive seen of any government involvement in the laptop story"

good night :lmao

[spurraider21]

so the big scoop is that twitter hq panicked about how to deal with the NYP story, they went ahead and deleted tweets that were literally just posting hunder nudes, and then in a state of panic and stupidity, blocked the story for a period of time. it was a fuckup and a mistake.

they didnt receive any specific instruction from the government or law enforcement to block the laptop story

so stuff we already knew. huge scoop

[spurraider21]

1598827602403160064

How many Americans on how many platforms do democrats censor to win elections?
those posts were hunter nudes lmao

free speech is when you can post nudes without peoples consent on twitter

[ElNono]

so the big scoop is that twitter hq panicked about how to deal with the NYP story, they went ahead and deleted tweets that were literally just posting hunder nudes, and then in a state of panic and stupidity, blocked the story for a period of time. it was a fuckup and a mistake.

they didnt receive any specific instruction from the government or law enforcement to block the laptop story

so stuff we already knew. huge scoop

$44 billion to cater to the stupidest part of the population :lmao:lmao:lmao

[spurraider21]

crazy how none of these explosive internal emails read like "hmm how can we protect biden's campaign? lets shut this shit down". obviously theyd never publicly state as much, but internally? not even then apparently

no. it just looks like people who improvised and made bad judgment calls

[spurraider21]

:lmao even gorka is mad

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of course, what musk is referencing is contradicting by Taibbi's own tweet threat... wherein he stated he saw no evidence of the government instructing them to block the laptop story lmao

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598864377750306816?s=20

:tu

[spurraider21]

hopefully the other parts are more exciting. would really suck if elon paid 44 billion for this political vanity project for a nothingburger

[leemajors]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598864377750306816?s=20

:tu

https://media.giphy.com/media/l41JKgW7xQ9T2bA9q/giphy.gif

[Blake]

Now you know why dems were losing their shit about Elon owning Twitter.

This is why their cult members are removing ads from the platform.

They can't handle this. They can't handle a semi fair platform.

:lmao still waiting to see which dems were losing their shit over Elon owning Twitter

[Blake]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598864377750306816?s=20

:tu

Brought to you by the pillow guy.

[pgardn]

Democracy is when censor your political opponents to win elections.

Communist Dictatorship loving Nathan defining democracy.

[Winehole23]

The notion that Trump lost the election because Twitter had their thumb on the scale on a late breaking story indirectly connected to Biden is wildly improbable. The more elegant explanation is that Trump is broadly disliked and his response to COVID was crass and incompetent (but for Operation Warp Speed.)

[Winehole23]

Democracy is when censor your political opponents to win elections.Biden wasn't the government in 2020. Asking Twitter to take down revenge porn isn't censorship, and neither is taking it down.

[Ef-man]

:lmao "no evidence that ive seen of any government involvement in the laptop story"

good night :lmao

Rack it! :tu

[Spurminator]

lmao Musk cultists hitting refresh for hours on a Friday for this nothingburger.

[Winehole23]

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[spurraider21]

Democracy is when censor your political opponents to win elections.
Agreed. Can’t believe the trump white house did this

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[daboom1]

https://media.giphy.com/media/l41JKgW7xQ9T2bA9q/giphy.gif

5 star movie :tu

[Winehole23]

Trump thinks twittergate supersedes the US Constitution and election law, begs for a do over, like alphas do.

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[Isitjustme?]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598864377750306816?s=20

:tu

https://i.imgflip.com/730klu.jpg

[DarrinS]

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[DarrinS]

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[ChumpDumper]

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Hey Darrin. You still afraid?

[ChumpDumper]

And no Elon, it's not a violation of the first amendment. Stop lying.

[Spurminator]

If only there was some way to access NY Post news stories without Twitter.

[Ef-man]

Hey Darrin. You still afraid?

Nah, Karrin all in to see dick pics!

Happy hour is a hell of a time! :lmao

[DarrinS]

Nah, Karrin all in to see dick pics!

Happy hour is a hell of a time! :lmao

Russian dicksinfo, tbh

[ChumpDumper]

Russian dicksinfo, tbh

You're afraid.

[Ef-man]

Russian dicksinfo, tbh

More like airport restroom wide stance Karrin coming out. :tu

[Winehole23]

Political bias is 100% ok if it's in favor of Republicans.

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[ElNono]

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This is fake news. NY Post account was reinstated on Oct 30th, well before the election.

[Leetonidas]

1599031293207285762

Another moron who doesn't understand how 1A works :lol

[Spurminator]

This is fake news. NY Post account was reinstated on Oct 30th, well before the election.

There's no saving people who have a kneejerk distrust of anything reported by "the MSM" but are willing to take tweets by BlueShiftBlog as gospel.

[Leetonidas]

https://i.imgflip.com/730klu.jpg

:lmao pretty much why no one cares when these clowns cry about :cry corruption :cry because it's all bullshit and they don't actually care as long as it's their team doing it

[Isitjustme?]

Russian dicksinfo, tbh
You do seem to be pretty upset that Hunter Bidens dick pics got removed from Twitter. Did you like them a lot or something??

[CosmicCowboy]

You do seem to be pretty upset that Hunter Bidens dick pics got removed from Twitter. Did you like them a lot or something??

Are you actually claiming the NY Post posted pornographic photos?

[Winehole23]

Genius level leadership


The World Cup has historically been a boon for Twitter, bringing in record traffic and an influx of advertising dollars.

But this time, when the global soccer tournament started on Nov. 20, Twitter’s U.S. ad revenue was running at 80 percent below internal expectations for that week, three people with knowledge of the figures said.



In tandem, Twitter was rapidly cutting its revenue projections. The company previously forecast that it would generate $1.4 billion in the last three months of the year, down from $1.6 billion a year ago because of the global economic downturn. But as Twitter kept missing its weekly advertising targets, that number slid to $1.3 billion, then to $1.1 billion, two people said.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-advertising-targets-missed.html

[spurraider21]

1599031293207285762
Darrin refuses to discuss the source of his “the laptop is fake” discussion :lol

[spurraider21]

1599046457646288897
The tweet Musk was referring to was not about the nyp story itself being buried. they were specific tweets where nudes were requested to be taken down :lol

[spurraider21]

Are you actually claiming the NY Post posted pornographic photos?
In addition to the blocking of the Post story itself, the “twitter files” drop yesterday talked separately about people asking specific tweets to be removed. Those were of nudes from the laptop. Musk pondered if it was a first amendment violation that Twitter specifically responded to those requests lol

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1599110949080039425?s=20

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1599110949080039425?s=20


:lmao "no evidence that ive seen of any government involvement in the laptop story"

good night :lmao

Rack it.

[Isitjustme?]

The tweet Musk was referring to was not about the nyp story itself being buried. they were specific tweets where nudes were requested to be taken down :lol

Darrin's thirst for these dick pics is a little unsettling

[DarrinS]

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[spurraider21]

to the problem with twitter/big tech is that unrelated people like "tom scocca", ben collins, "simon owens" and some other people coming to similar conclusions?

next time you say "muh russia" ill just search "muh russia" on twitter, copy the first 6 responses here, and say that your groupthink is a very serious issue. more so than corruption, even

[Isitjustme?]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1599110949080039425?s=20
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Whens he getting around to upsetting the right??

[Spurminator]

1598900365248065537

You're not even going to acknowledge that you posted fake news, are you? :lol memory hole it just like everything else.

[spurraider21]

1519415674111672325
Whens he getting around to upsetting the right??
he banned a guy who loves nazis and hitler

that's the line

[Isitjustme?]

Are you actually claiming the NY Post posted pornographic photos?

Talking about this

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Those are the dick pics DarrinS crying over and sad he can't see no more. Chris misses em too and dearly at that

[Isitjustme?]

Macho right wing guys sad at the dearth of Hunter Biden dick pics on Twitter pre-Elon smh

[CosmicCowboy]

In addition to the blocking of the Post story itself, the “twitter files” drop yesterday talked separately about people asking specific tweets to be removed. Those were of nudes from the laptop. Musk pondered if it was a first amendment violation that Twitter specifically responded to those requests lol

Again, are you claiming that the NY Post tweeted pictures of Bidens dick?

[Isitjustme?]

Again, are you claiming that the Washington Post tweeted pictures of Bidens dick?

Brain as dense as a black hole

[CosmicCowboy]

Brain as dense as a black hole

More like your made up fake news. I will be happy to bet you $100 that the NY Post didn't tweet pictures of Hunter Bidens dick.

[DarrinS]

Macho right wing guys sad at the dearth of Hunter Biden dick pics on Twitter pre-Elon smh

Don't know why you keep repeating this. Literally no one is sad about that.

[daboom1]

Whens he getting around to upsetting the right??

I'm sorry this is happening to you.

[Blake]

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F Twitter

[Blake]

I'm sorry this is happening to you.

Qris getting everything backwards on cue

[Blake]

More like your made up fake news. I will be happy to bet you $100 that the NY Post didn't tweet pictures of Hunter Bidens dick.

Lol big timer betting $100

[CosmicCowboy]

Lol big timer betting $100

You want to make it more?

[spurraider21]

Again, are you claiming that the NY Post tweeted pictures of Bidens dick?
no. where on earth did i claim that?

i dont know if you missed it, but there was a big twitter thread. an exclusive given to this guy named Matt Taibbi where twitter released their information on what went down with the NYP hunter biden story

there were basically 2 angles to the story

1) that there is and has been a direct line from campaigns and government bodies to basically flag tweets for twitter to to decide whether to take action on. taibbi noted that this happened both with the biden campaign as well as with the trump white house. as an example of this, he shared an internal twitter email where they said "here are some things the biden campaign flagged for us to look at" with like 4 or 5 links to tweets. upon examination with the wayback machine, these were basically all dick picks or nudes.

this is also the part people are talking about in regards to "the government (or campaigns) are causing twitter to censor their opponents!!". because they have a more streamlined route to flag stuff than an average user just hitting the "report tweet" button and hoping something happens. but all the examples that were provided of this... were dick picks. so this is why people in this thread are discussing dick picks. its one of the 2 major legs of the story

2) the other leg of the story is the actual censorship of the NYP article. Taibbi EXPLICITLY says that he has no evidence or indication that there was any outside/government direction re: how twitter was supposed to handle the laptop story. instead he basically chronicled how twitter staff (though basically leaving out and borderline exonerating Jack himself) fumbled the ball, put the cart before the horse, and treated the entire NYP story as being against their "hacked material" policy even though there was no formal determination that the materials were hacked, but merely on the basis that they could not confirm whether or not it was hacked (if this seems shaky, its because it is), and basically nobody in the chain knew how to undo their fuckup of blocking the story.

everybody, including jack himself over 2 years ago now, have owned that twitter botched its handling of the NYP story. but this isnt tied to the whole "political players using twitter to silence opponents" thing because taibbi himself said there was no evidence that this happened re: the laptop story

[CosmicCowboy]

no. where on earth did i claim that?

i dont know if you missed it, but there was a big twitter thread. an exclusive given to this guy named Matt Taibbi where twitter released their information on what went down with the NYP hunter biden story

there were basically 2 angles to the story

1) that there is and has been a direct line from campaigns and government bodies to basically flag tweets for twitter to to decide whether to take action on. taibbi noted that this happened both with the biden campaign as well as with the trump white house. as an example of this, he shared an internal twitter email where they said "here are some things the biden campaign flagged for us to look at" with like 4 or 5 links to tweets. upon examination with the wayback machine, these were basically all dick picks or nudes.

this is also the part people are talking about in regards to "the government (or campaigns) are causing twitter to censor their opponents!!". because they have a more streamlined route to flag stuff than an average user just hitting the "report tweet" button and hoping something happens. but all the examples that were provided of this... were dick picks. so this is why people in this thread are discussing dick picks. its one of the 2 major legs of the story

2) the other leg of the story is the actual censorship of the NYP article. Taibbi EXPLICITLY says that he has no evidence or indication that there was any outside/government direction re: how twitter was supposed to handle the laptop story. instead he basically chronicled how twitter staff (though basically leaving out and borderline exonerating Jack himself) fumbled the ball, put the cart before the horse, and treated the entire NYP story as being against their "hacked material" policy even though there was no formal determination that the materials were hacked, but merely on the basis that they could not confirm whether or not it was hacked (if this seems shaky, its because it is), and basically nobody in the chain knew how to undo their fuckup of blocking the story.

everybody, including jack himself over 2 years ago now, have owned that twitter botched its handling of the NYP story. but this isnt tied to the whole "political players using twitter to silence opponents" thing because taibbi himself said there was no evidence that this happened re: the laptop story

Was responding to isitjustme's claim of dick pics. To the best of my knowledge no dicks were ever shown and any "nude" pics were blurred or blacked out.

[boutons_deux]

Elmo added back 12000 banned shitposters

As a result, Twitters advertising revenue targets continue to be missed
$1B interest payment due next year

[boutons_deux]

Elmo's conned investors will see no return on their investment for at least two or three years

[Blake]

You want to make it more?

Nobody would take that bet for $1

How about we bet a million bucks that cows actually do fart

[Blake]

Elmo added back 12000 banned shitposters

Lol but not ChrisfromST tho

[spurraider21]

Was responding to isitjustme's claim of dick pics. To the best of my knowledge no dicks were ever shown and any "nude" pics were blurred or blacked out.
Yes. He claims dick picks were removed from twitter and in some cases were removed after first having been flagged by members of the Biden campaign. People have been super upset that Twitter allows political entities like campaigns to have a direct line to them to flag tweets for removal. In this case they were all dick picks. So people are upset that at the Biden campaigns request, dick picks were removed

see part 1 of my last comment

[ElNono]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1599110949080039425?s=20

:lmao paid 44 billion to cry online

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/alx/status/1599183264132247552?s=20

[Blake]

https://twitter.com/alx/status/1599183264132247552?s=20

Nothing burger.jpg

[CosmicCowboy]

Nobody would take that bet for $1

How about we bet a million bucks that cows actually do fart

Then he should quit claiming there were dick pics if he won't back up his bullshit.

As for your cowfart bullshit that is a dead issue. Try to keep up cuckboy.

[ElNono]

https://twitter.com/alx/status/1599183264132247552?s=20

Elon desperate for attention :lmao

[Th'Pusher]

Then he should quit claiming there were dick pics if he won't back up his bullshit.

As for your cowfart bullshit that is a dead issue. Try to keep up cuckboy.
:lol you’re literally unable to keep up with what’s being said in this thread even after SR21 spelled it out for you.

[Blake]

As for your cowfart bullshit that is a dead issue. Try to keep up cuckboy.

How many more times are you gonna say it's a dead issue

[Isitjustme?]

Don't know why you keep repeating this. Literally no one is sad about that.

Literally all they asked to be deleted were dick pics and you're upset, Darrin. How an I supposed to interpret this other than you wanting the dick pics back?

:lol

[ChumpDumper]

Don't know why you keep repeating this. Literally no one is sad about that.

I asked you to post in your own words what specific items on the laptop you think would have led Joe Biden to lose the 2020 presidential election.

Since you failed to answer that simple question multiple times, I can only conclude you're afraid to answer because the answer is nothing would save your Trump because he was a massive failure as president.:tu

[ChumpDumper]

:lolI would've paid $8 to post this under a variation of the screen name.

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

In a way, this all goes back to swift boating John Kerry. Having successfully gotten media gatekeepers to amplify their bullshit once, they keep doing it over and over again, hoping for the same result. In 2016, it worked.

Better luck next time, losers.

[daboom1]

v5fKBLwiLAQ

[ElNono]

v5fKBLwiLAQ

lmao Lake, another BIG loser

[Winehole23]

NYT didn't run the Twittergate story last week because Elon refused to share source documents for independent verification.

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[boutons_deux]

A bunch of lefty professors on Twitter were stripped of all of their followers

[spurraider21]

Don't know why you keep repeating this. Literally no one is sad about that.
one of the big points everybody is harping on re: the "twitter files" is the one where they have an email saying "biden team wants us to look at these as well" and then somebody responded saying "done" or "handled" or whatever.

the responses has been "omg proof that twitter words with DNC, etc." so yes, people are sad about this.

each of the requests identified in that email were dick picks

[Winehole23]

NYT didn't run the Twittergate story last week because Elon refused to share source documents for independent verification.

1599613128727150593other outlets (including Fox) passed on the story for similar reasons in 2020


After the story came out, the Post didn’t share the material with other outlets for them to do their own investigations. In other words, coverage necessarily depended on taking the Post’s word for things, which is by itself a disincentive for other outlets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/18/forgotten-and-ignored-context-emergence-hunter-biden-laptop-story/

[CosmicCowboy]

So if the pictures were real, were the emails real?

[ChumpDumper]

So if the pictures were real, were the emails real?

What emails do you think would have kept Biden from becoming president had they become pubic knowledge like they actually did before the election?

[daboom1]

A bunch of lefty professors on Twitter were stripped of all of their followers

Elon purged bot and spam accounts :tu

[ChumpDumper]

Elon purged bot and spam accounts :tuHave you been reinstated yet, Qhris?

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1599723595596374017?s=20

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1599531610147168256?s=20

[leemajors]

Tulsi and Ron have reading comprehension issues like you, Qris

[Monostradamus]

Have you been reinstated yet, Qhris?
Chris hates Jews and loves Hitler, so doubtful.

[ElNono]

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1599723595596374017?s=20


https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1599531610147168256?s=20

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

[Winehole23]

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[leemajors]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2022/12/05/elon-musk-twitter-bedrooms/?sh=1c73707ad791

Seems fun

[Leetonidas]

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Proof that the right literally doesn't care about nepotism or corruption

[boutons_deux]

Proof that the right literally doesn't care about nepotism or corruption

They haven't cared about GOVERNING for a couple decades or more.

proof? block everything from the Dems (McConnell blocked 400 Dem bills in 2019/20) and waste $10Ms of harassing, deflecting investigations of the Dems.

As fascists, they don't fucking care about anything but power and money, not America, not Americans, no allegiance to anything but themselves and their BigDonor corrupters.

[boutons_deux]

America is really fucked because the fascist Capitalist oligarchy is financing the Repug political machine to produce a one-party fascist govt forever. And there's no stopping it.

If Biden ends up with 51 Senators, he could conclude that SCOTUS has been corrupted, is severely damaging the USA, to justify expanding the court with 5 more judges like the current 3.

Scotus 8 Dems - 6 fascist Chrisitian assholes

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1599910242581504000?s=20

[ElNono]

https://twitter.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1599910242581504000?s=20

:lmao you probably ate this one up too

[Blake]

https://twitter.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1599910242581504000?s=20

Lol "exposed the truth"

[boutons_deux]

Note that Biden/Garland have not shut down Trash's HB investigation,

while Trash/Barr fucking fired the SDNY operation investigating Trash.

I bet Repugs dark-financed the election of the NY DA who shutdown the Trash investigation, causing 2 of his lawyers to quit.

[TSA]

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1600245829075288064

[spurraider21]

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1600245829075288064
FBI had zero role in the suppression of the Hunter Biden story

Sean Davis needs to go back and read through Taibbi's thread

[TSA]

FBI had zero role in the suppression of the Hunter Biden story

Sean Davis needs to go back and read through Taibbi's thread

In Yoel Roth’s deposition he said they were meeting weekly with the FBI and the FBI told him to watch out for Russian hack and leak material, specifically on Hunter Biden. FBI did the same with Facebook but don’t know if Hunter Biden was named. Zero role lol.

[spurraider21]

In Yoel Roth’s deposition he said they were meeting weekly with the FBI and the FBI told him to watch out for Russian hack and leak material, specifically on Hunter Biden. FBI did the same with Facebook but don’t know if Hunter Biden was named. Zero role lol.
they never made any specific outreach over the laptop story. nor was twitter's decision making to suppress it based on the FBI. per Taibbi's own Twitter Files

[TSA]

they never made any specific outreach over the laptop story. nor was twitter's decision making to suppress it based on the FBI. per Taibbi's own Twitter Files

You claimed they had zero role, they did, you were wrong and now you’re trying to move the goalposts to “specific outreach” lol. FBI had that laptop for almost a year before the Post story came out and they knew it wasn’t hacked materials…strange that never came up during their weekly meetings with Twitter.

Looking forward to next installment of Twitter files by Bari Weiss.

[TSA]

Yoel Roth, who at Twitter carried the Robespierrean title of Head of Site Integrity, has testified that he and other industry peers in the months before the 2020 election had “regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI … regarding election security.”

“During these weekly meetings, [Roth testified] the federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October … I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.” (Emphasis is mine).

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has also said the FBI was giving his social media platform a similar warning.

Let this sink in. Weeks before the story of Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop broke, FBI officials were laying the groundwork — at Twitter, at Facebook, and no doubt beyond — to squelch it.

When 5 former CIA chiefs lied, and meddled in our elections

All of this was the backstory for the moment when The New York Post — a conservative publication that is also one of the oldest and largest newspapers in the nation — broke the bizarre story that candidate-for-president Biden’s son had abandoned a laptop at a computer repair shop; that it had all sorts of embarrassing and incriminating material on it; and that it had made its way to the FBI for investigation.

This was a major news story from a serious organization. The New York Post often reports through a political lens, no doubt — but no more or less than does The New York Times or The Washington Post.

Twitter, moving swiftly to suppress The New York Post’s story, immediately shut down the entire newspaper’s Twitter account. It stayed shut down for two weeks — in a 21st century equivalent to the old game of smashing presses, and gathering up and burning newspapers.

We know from Zuckerberg that Facebook, also at FBI request, took similar emergency steps to shut the story down.

Is there any reason to believe the story was not suppressed across the Internet, from Reddit to Snapchat to TikTok?

At Facebook, Zuckerberg told podcaster Joe Rogan, they did not prevent ordinary citizens from sharing the New York Post story — but they did take action to limit how often the story appeared on feeds, so that “fewer people saw it.”

Twitter was even more ruthless. If ordinary Twitter users tried to share links to the story, Twitter removed them.

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Four days after The New York Post story had been released and then immediately squelched, more than 50 former intelligence officials — including five former CIA chiefs (John Brennan, Michael Hayden, John McLaughlin, Michael Morell and Leon Panetta) — signed a letter declaring the laptop story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

It was a hilarious formulation. These well-informed individuals surely knew the laptop story, as depressing as it is, was the real deal. They knew it because the Bidens did not deny it, among other things. It’s since been confirmed as an authentic story by everyone from CBS News to the U.S. Justice Department and The New York Times. So it’s real now, and it was real then. Hence the letter’s meaninglessly vague formulation — the story “has all the classic earmarks” of something is different than saying it actually is that something.

What a spectacle. Five former chiefs of the CIA — dozens of top intelligence officials — all of them openly using deception to meddle in the American democratic process. Remember: The laptop had been in the possession of the FBI. They knew exactly what it was! Yet they had just spent weeks briefing social media companies to watch out for a “Russian deception” involving the Hunter Biden laptop story, a story they all knew was actually true — and now they were doubling down on the deception with this corny public letter.

Nor were any of them being called out over this obvious deception by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN or other leading media. No doubt no one wanted to accidentally help get Trump re-elected — to pull a Jim Comey, and then be trapped in Comey’s “nightmare I can’t awaken from”. (Twitter’s Site Security chief Roth might well have had the ghost of Comey in mind when he e-mailed colleagues they would continue to suppress The New York Post story, “Given the SEVERE risks here and the lessons of 2016 …”)

Twitter executives — under the watchful eyes of their FBI colleagues — were left all alone to try to sort through this moment. I almost feel sorry for them when I think of it. Did the professional journalists of America step up to help? Please. Sadly, the more “respectable” a news media is, the fewer ethics it still has. What about our politicians? Again, when it comes to upstanding or moral leaders, they too are an endangered species in our country. Taibbi could find only a single Congressional Democrat, the reliable Ro Khanna, who would reach out to Twitter to ask about the First Amendment implications of censoring a major newspaper story of critical public interest.

And when Twitter turned to their legal department, their top lawyer on the case was former FBI top lawyer Jim Baker, offering them soothing advice to stay the course.

https://mattbivens.substack.com/p/twitter-is-fun-again?r=5mz1&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

[Spurminator]

Blah blah blah muh dick pics, get over it faggot, you backed a retarded horse.

[ElNono]

Yoel Roth, who at Twitter carried the Robespierrean title of Head of Site Integrity, has testified that he and other industry peers in the months before the 2020 election had “regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI … regarding election security.”

“During these weekly meetings, [Roth testified] the federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October … I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.” (Emphasis is mine).

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has also said the FBI was giving his social media platform a similar warning.

That's not on the "TwiTtEr FiLeS". This is literally an opinion piece.

[ElNono]

And it obviously makes sense LEO would warn about election security, in light of Mueller findings of election interference in the 2016 election.

[TSA]

TWITTER IS HIRING AN ALARMING NUMBER OF FBI AGENTS

SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety and content.

Chief amongst these is the Federal Bureau of Investigations. The FBI is generally known as a domestic security and intelligence force. However, it has recently expanded its remit into cyberspace. “The FBI’s investigative authority is the broadest of all federal law enforcement agencies,” the “About” section of its website informs readers. “The FBI has divided its investigations into a number of programs, such as domestic and international terrorism, foreign counterintelligence [and] cyber crime,” it adds.

For example, in 2019, Dawn Burton (the former director of Washington operations for Lockheed Martin) was poached from her job as senior innovation advisor to the director at the FBI to become senior director of strategy and operations for legal, public policy, trust and safety at Twitter. The following year, Karen Walsh went straight from 21 years at the bureau to become director of corporate resilience at the silicon valley giant. Twitter’s deputy general counsel and vice president of legal, Jim Baker, also spent four years at the FBI between 2014 and 2018, where his resumé notes he rose to the role of senior strategic advisor.

Meanwhile, Mark Jaroszewski ended his 21-year posting as a supervisory special agent in the Bay Area to take up a position at Twitter, rising to become director of corporate security and risk. And Douglas Turner spent 14 years as a senior special agent and SWAT Team leader before being recruited to serve in Twitter’s corporate and executive security services. Previously, Turner had also spent seven years as a secret service special agent with the Department of Homeland Security.

When asked to comment by MintPress, former FBI agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley said that she was “not surprised at all” to see FBI agents now working for the very tech companies the agency polices, stating that there now exists a “revolving door” between the FBI and the areas they are trying to regulate. This created a serious conflict of interests in her mind, as many agents have one eye on post-retirement jobs. “The truth is that at the FBI 50% of all the normal conversations that people had were about how you were going to make money after retirement,” she said.

Many former FBI officials hold influential roles within Twitter. For instance, in 2020, Matthew W. left a 15-year career as an intelligence program manager at the FBI to take up the post of senior director of product trust at Twitter. Patrick G., a 23-year FBI supervisory special agent, is now head of corporate security. And Twitter’s director of insider risk and security investigations, Bruce A., was headhunted from his role as a supervisory special agent at the bureau. His resumé notes that at the FBI he held “[v]arious intelligence and law enforcement roles in the US, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East” and was a “human intelligence and counterintelligence regional specialist.” (On employment sites such as LinkedIn, many users choose not to reveal their full names.)

Twitter certainly has endorsed the FBI as a credible actor, allowing the organization to play a part in regulating the global dissemination of information on its platform.
Meanwhile, between 2007 and 2021 Jeff Carlton built up a distinguished career in the United States Marine Corps, rising to become a senior intelligence analyst. Between 2014 and 2017, his LinkedIn profile notes, he worked for both the CIA and FBI, authored dozens of official reports, some of which were read by President Barack Obama. Carlton describes his role as a “problem-solver” and claims to have worked in many “dynamic, high-pressure environments” such as Iraq and Korea. In May 2021, he left official service to become a senior program manager at Twitter, responsible for dealing with the company’s “highest-profile trust and safety escalations.”

Other former FBI staff are employed by Twitter, such as Cherrelle Y. as a policy domain specialist and Laura D. as a senior analyst in global risk intelligence.

Many of those listed above were active in the FBI’s public outreach programs, a practice sold as a community trust-building initiative. According to Rowley, however, these also function as “ways for officials to meet the important people that would give them jobs after retirement.” “It basically inserts a huge conflict of interest,” she told MintPress. “It warps and perverts the criminal investigative work that agents do when they are still working as agents because they anticipate getting lucrative jobs after retiring or leaving the FBI.”

Rowley – who in 2002 was named, along with two other whistleblowers, as Time magazine’s Person of the Year – was skeptical that there was anything seriously nefarious about the hiring of so many FBI agents, suggesting that Twitter could be using them as sources of information and intelligence. She stated:

Retired agents often maintained good relationships and networks with current agents. So they can call up their old buddy and find out stuff… There were certainly instances of retired agents for example trying to find out if there was an investigation of so and so. And if you are working for a company, that company is going to like that influence.”

Rowley also suggested that hiring people from various three-letter agencies gave them a credibility boost. “These [tech] companies are using the mythical aura of the FBI. They can point to somebody and say ‘oh, you can trust us; our CEO or CFO is FBI,’” she explained.

Twitter certainly has endorsed the FBI as a credible actor, allowing the organization to play a part in regulating the global dissemination of information on its platform. In September 2020, it put out a statement thanking the federal agency. “We wish to express our gratitude to the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force for their close collaboration and continued support of our work to protect the public conversation at this critical time,” the statement read.

One month later, the company announced that the FBI was feeding it intelligence and that it was complying with their requests for deletion of accounts. “Based on intel provided by the FBI, last night we removed approximately 130 accounts that appeared to originate in Iran. They were attempting to disrupt the public conversation during the first 2020 U.S. Presidential Debate,” Twitter’s safety team wrote.

Yet the evidence they supplied of this supposed threat to American democracy was notably weak. All four of the messages from this Iranian operation that Twitter itself shared showed that none of them garnered any likes or retweets whatsoever, meaning that essentially nobody saw them. This was, in other words, a completely routine cleanup operation of insignificant troll accounts. Yet the announcement allowed Twitter to present the FBI as on the side of democracy and place the idea into the public psyche that the election was under threat from foreign actors.

https://therealnews.com/twitter-is-hiring-an-alarming-number-of-fbi-agents

[ElNono]

Why wouldn't they? The FBI has a track record of excellence :tu

[TSA]

That's not on the "TwiTtEr FiLeS". This is literally an opinion piece.

Why did you quote parts that weren’t opinions?

[TSA]

Why wouldn't they? The FBI has a track record of excellence :tu

:rollin

[ElNono]

Why did you quote parts that weren’t opinions?

To point out that's not on the TwItTeR FiLeS

[ElNono]

:rollin

Not sure what's funny about this...

[Blake]

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1600245829075288064

We actually know Trump has the documents tho.

But hUnTeR laPtoP!

[Blake]

TWITTER IS HIRING AN ALARMING NUMBER OF FBI AGENTS

SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety and content.

Chief amongst these is the Federal Bureau of Investigations. The FBI is generally known as a domestic security and intelligence force. However, it has recently expanded its remit into cyberspace. “The FBI’s investigative authority is the broadest of all federal law enforcement agencies,” the “About” section of its website informs readers. “The FBI has divided its investigations into a number of programs, such as domestic and international terrorism, foreign counterintelligence [and] cyber crime,” it adds.

For example, in 2019, Dawn Burton (the former director of Washington operations for Lockheed Martin) was poached from her job as senior innovation advisor to the director at the FBI to become senior director of strategy and operations for legal, public policy, trust and safety at Twitter. The following year, Karen Walsh went straight from 21 years at the bureau to become director of corporate resilience at the silicon valley giant. Twitter’s deputy general counsel and vice president of legal, Jim Baker, also spent four years at the FBI between 2014 and 2018, where his resumé notes he rose to the role of senior strategic advisor.

Meanwhile, Mark Jaroszewski ended his 21-year posting as a supervisory special agent in the Bay Area to take up a position at Twitter, rising to become director of corporate security and risk. And Douglas Turner spent 14 years as a senior special agent and SWAT Team leader before being recruited to serve in Twitter’s corporate and executive security services. Previously, Turner had also spent seven years as a secret service special agent with the Department of Homeland Security.

When asked to comment by MintPress, former FBI agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley said that she was “not surprised at all” to see FBI agents now working for the very tech companies the agency polices, stating that there now exists a “revolving door” between the FBI and the areas they are trying to regulate. This created a serious conflict of interests in her mind, as many agents have one eye on post-retirement jobs. “The truth is that at the FBI 50% of all the normal conversations that people had were about how you were going to make money after retirement,” she said.

Many former FBI officials hold influential roles within Twitter. For instance, in 2020, Matthew W. left a 15-year career as an intelligence program manager at the FBI to take up the post of senior director of product trust at Twitter. Patrick G., a 23-year FBI supervisory special agent, is now head of corporate security. And Twitter’s director of insider risk and security investigations, Bruce A., was headhunted from his role as a supervisory special agent at the bureau. His resumé notes that at the FBI he held “[v]arious intelligence and law enforcement roles in the US, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East” and was a “human intelligence and counterintelligence regional specialist.” (On employment sites such as LinkedIn, many users choose not to reveal their full names.)

Twitter certainly has endorsed the FBI as a credible actor, allowing the organization to play a part in regulating the global dissemination of information on its platform.
Meanwhile, between 2007 and 2021 Jeff Carlton built up a distinguished career in the United States Marine Corps, rising to become a senior intelligence analyst. Between 2014 and 2017, his LinkedIn profile notes, he worked for both the CIA and FBI, authored dozens of official reports, some of which were read by President Barack Obama. Carlton describes his role as a “problem-solver” and claims to have worked in many “dynamic, high-pressure environments” such as Iraq and Korea. In May 2021, he left official service to become a senior program manager at Twitter, responsible for dealing with the company’s “highest-profile trust and safety escalations.”

Other former FBI staff are employed by Twitter, such as Cherrelle Y. as a policy domain specialist and Laura D. as a senior analyst in global risk intelligence.

Many of those listed above were active in the FBI’s public outreach programs, a practice sold as a community trust-building initiative. According to Rowley, however, these also function as “ways for officials to meet the important people that would give them jobs after retirement.” “It basically inserts a huge conflict of interest,” she told MintPress. “It warps and perverts the criminal investigative work that agents do when they are still working as agents because they anticipate getting lucrative jobs after retiring or leaving the FBI.”

Rowley – who in 2002 was named, along with two other whistleblowers, as Time magazine’s Person of the Year – was skeptical that there was anything seriously nefarious about the hiring of so many FBI agents, suggesting that Twitter could be using them as sources of information and intelligence. She stated:

Retired agents often maintained good relationships and networks with current agents. So they can call up their old buddy and find out stuff… There were certainly instances of retired agents for example trying to find out if there was an investigation of so and so. And if you are working for a company, that company is going to like that influence.”

Rowley also suggested that hiring people from various three-letter agencies gave them a credibility boost. “These [tech] companies are using the mythical aura of the FBI. They can point to somebody and say ‘oh, you can trust us; our CEO or CFO is FBI,’” she explained.

Twitter certainly has endorsed the FBI as a credible actor, allowing the organization to play a part in regulating the global dissemination of information on its platform. In September 2020, it put out a statement thanking the federal agency. “We wish to express our gratitude to the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force for their close collaboration and continued support of our work to protect the public conversation at this critical time,” the statement read.

One month later, the company announced that the FBI was feeding it intelligence and that it was complying with their requests for deletion of accounts. “Based on intel provided by the FBI, last night we removed approximately 130 accounts that appeared to originate in Iran. They were attempting to disrupt the public conversation during the first 2020 U.S. Presidential Debate,” Twitter’s safety team wrote.

Yet the evidence they supplied of this supposed threat to American democracy was notably weak. All four of the messages from this Iranian operation that Twitter itself shared showed that none of them garnered any likes or retweets whatsoever, meaning that essentially nobody saw them. This was, in other words, a completely routine cleanup operation of insignificant troll accounts. Yet the announcement allowed Twitter to present the FBI as on the side of democracy and place the idea into the public psyche that the election was under threat from foreign actors.

https://therealnews.com/twitter-is-hiring-an-alarming-number-of-fbi-agents

Lol "the real news.com"

:lol

[TSA]

To point out that's not on the TwItTeR FiLeS

Why?

[TSA]

Lol "the real news.com"

:lol

Do you ever contribute anything?

[TSA]

Not sure what's funny about this...

:rollin

[TSA]

We actually know Trump has the documents tho.

But hUnTeR laPtoP!

Oh look you contributed…whataboutism.

[Monostradamus]

Do you ever contribute anything?

one post later…


:rollin

[leemajors]

Not sure what's funny about this...

I don't agree with TSA's points, but the FBI has an extensive history of cock ups.

[TSA]

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1600245829075288064

https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1600284675699724289

https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1600284680791543808