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December 9, 2022
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December 8, 2022, is another day that will live in infamy.

That date will go down in history as the day the bomb was dropped, but this one is a truth-bomb courtesy of new Twitter CEO Elon Musk and his journalist assistants Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, revealing the magnitude of the fraud that has been sold to us by social media, in this case Twitter. And the response to this needs to be just as unified and strong as anything FDR could have called for. This is as much a threat to our republic as any foreign power.

In “The Twitter Files, Part 2,” Weiss revealed --- appropriately, on Twitter --- that “teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics --- all in secret, without informing users.” And she told us that, contrary to what we’ve known up till now, former CEO Jack Dorsey WAS involved.



Twitter had both a “Trends Blacklist,” where such accounts as the great Libs Of TikTok were placed (Libs of TikTok was still there, as of December 7), and a “Search Blacklist,” where Dan Bongino spent some time. Eminent Stanford physician Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who dared to make the case that COVID lockdowns would harm children (“misinformation!”), was on the Trends Blacklist. There was also a “Do Not Amplify list,” which included Charlie Kirk of Turning Point, USA.

The names are self-explanatory.  Being on the Trends Blacklist prevented your tweet from trending. Being on the Search Blacklist made it hard for users to search for you. To accomplish these things, collectively known as “shadowbanning,” Twitter employed a “visibility filtering (VF) tool.” A Twitter engineer told Weiss, “We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do.”

The everyday content moderators who did most of the blacklisting were part of the Strategic Response Team—Global Escalation Team (SRT-GET). They “handled” about 200 cases a day. But above them, to handle “the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions” was a secret ivory-tower group called the “SIP-PES,” which stands for “Site Integrity Policy, Escalation Support.” This team included, among others, Vijaya Gadde, then-Head of Legal, Policy and Trust (and also Deputy General Counsel James Baker’s boss); Yoel Roth, then-Global Head of Trust and Safety; former CEO Parag Agrawal; and former CEO JACK DORSEY.

Within their bubble, they dealt with the high-follower and presumably most influential accounts that they deemed controversial. Decisions regarding these accounts were made off-book, as in, “no ticket or anything,” according to one Twitter employee.

Vijaya Gadde was one of the Twitter officials who insisted they didn’t engage in this. “Twitter exists to serve the public conversation, enabling important discussions around the world to occur. Favoring one specific ideology or belief goes against everything we stand for,” she lied in 2018.

As with Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss has an agreement that the documents she reports on have to be posted on Twitter first. But she said, “We’re just getting started with our reporting. Documents cannot tell the whole story here.” And there is still more; Taibbi will have a third installment. In the meantime, here’s Weiss’s complete Twitter thread…

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601025779021684736

Weiss tweeted that Twitter once had a mission ‘to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.’ Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.” Here’s more from BREITBART NEWS.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/12/08/visibility-filtering-twitter-files-reveals-shadowbanning-other-tools-used-to-censor-conservatives/

Miranda Devine, whose Hunter Biden laptop story in the NEW YORK POST was openly banned --- it couldn't even be shared privately --- and the POST locked out by Twitter, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Thursday night show to react. She found it “gratifying” that the top people at Twitter had been caught in their lies, “because they did lie.” She said she knows she was shadowbanned because now that Musk is in charge and her account is restored, her following is up by 40 percent, “and that’s just something that’s experienced by conservatives across the board.” She noted that while Bari Weiss is not a conservative –- her background includes THE NEW YORK TIMES –- all the accounts Weiss has named in her report have been conservative. “If there were left-wingers that had been banned,” Devine said, “you can bet that she would have named them, to be equal-opportunity.”
“I think Matt Taibbi was snowed,” Devine said, “probably by James Baker,” when he said a few things that “didn’t ring true,” such as that he hadn’t seen evidence of government involvement. (As you know if you read yesterday’s newsletter, former FBI general counsel Baker was just "exited" by Musk for withholding incriminating material to keep these reporters somewhat in the dark.)

She sees this as part of an “overall censorship scheme to stop anyone who went against the Biden administration, “against federal agencies like the CDC.”

She also thinks one reason Musk is doing this now is to get ahead of the revelations coming out of the brilliantly-timed lawsuit brought by the states of Missouri and Louisiana against the Biden administration for violating the First Amendment for allegedly “using the social media companies to do their dirty work.” That would have included the shadowbanning of Dr. Batthacharya for his sensible views on lockdowns that dared to challenge the capricious dictates of The Great Dr. Fauci.

Charlie Kirk, whose Twitter account had been knocked back 95 percent, said, “They’re treating my Twitter account with more scrutiny and censorship than the prime minister of Iran?? Than Hamas?? Than people who do actual terrorist-type damage.” Yes, that's what they did, and it's consistent with what our story yesterday about the FBI and DHS focusing so intently on what they’ve labeled “domestic terrorism” instead of actual terrorism.

“They saw what I had to say as a direct threat to the regime,” Kirk said, adding that he wants to know if they were told by the administration to do this. He recounted a “very warm” meeting he had with some of the Twitter employees, including Jack Dorsey, in the summer of 2018, in which Dorsey personally assured him that shadowbanning was not happening. “I didn’t really believe him at the time,” Kirk said, though he sort-of accepted that answer because he wasn’t yet experiencing the censorship that was to come after COVID hit in 2020. By then, he said, he “couldn’t even get a response out of Twitter.” That’s when he saw the company morph into “a Democrat SuperPAC.”

“I don’t think we’ll ever be able to measure the impact of what Twitter did to our voices online, in the calendar year of 2020...”

Of course, this is a fast-developing story and there is much more to come. It seems the next logical step is to very specifically reveal the role of the FBI and various intelligence agencies, as reflected in whatever it was James Baker didn't want the reporters to see.
RELATED NEWS:  PERKINS COIE WAS TWITTER'S OUTSIDE COUNSEL
In today's most shocking-but-not-surprising news, Twitter's outside counsel was reportedly Democrat powerhouse law firm Perkins Coie.  When Elon Musk was called out on this on Thursday, he tweeted, "Twitter isn't using Perkins Coie.  No company should use them until they make amends for [Michael] Sussmann's attempt to corrupt a Presidential election."
On Thursday, some observers were disputing that Perkins Coie really is gone at this time.  Let's hope Musk "exited" them at the same time he pushed James Baker out the door.  If there was any doubt that Twitter was a by-Democrats, for-Democrats propaganda operation, the fact that they were represented by Perkins Coie should dispel it.

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  • Howard Hagans

    12/09/2022 02:36 PM

    Mike: All this political stuff is so deep, I can't begin to understand it all. What I can see is this country is going to hell in a hand basket in a hurry. I just want to bury my head and say please God, do what you have to do to clean out all the garbage.

  • MaryAlice Phillips

    12/09/2022 01:34 PM

    This is hard to believe our government could treat us citizens this way, it tells me they care about themselves not AMERICA !! They are supposed to work for us !!! Donald Trump WAS THE best, he was and is for we the AMERICAN PEOPLE !!! CHRISTAINS donot treat people this way, I know GOD wants all to repent and come to him, I ask for GODS forgiveness all the time, also ask him to help this ADMINISTRATION TO MEND THEIR WAYS !!! I am 72 never have seen GOVERNMENT as CROOKED AND DISHONEST !!! Thanks Mike

  • Daryl Worley

    12/09/2022 01:27 PM

    duh! This just confirms what was already known. In today's climate nothing will become of it.

  • John E. Truitt

    12/09/2022 01:23 PM

    This is part of the same scandal which involved the massive election fraud in Nov. 2020 where Dominion voting machines were manipulated, postal workers brought ballots over state lines, other ballots were filledout in parking lots, dead people voted, mail-in fraud from people who were no longer citizens of the state, all in NV, AZ, GA, PA, WI, and MI. This is part of the FISA Court and Russian disinformation scheme. It is all connected. When all of this is put together, it will prove to be an American coup on a massive scale to defraud the American people of their Constitutional rights as citizens, of their freedoms, of their free and honest elections, and of their trust in their government and institutions of law. When all of this finally is exposed and brought to justice, and eventually written up for the American citizens to read, no one will believe the scale a d lengths those who perpetrated this went to. It far exceeds the FDR presidency and Socialism which followed and Watergate of the 1970s COMBINED!

  • Teresa L Gorman

    12/09/2022 01:20 PM

    But genuinely Mike, what can we do about it? What is actually our best recourse for setting the government straight about their boundaries...why do they keep pushing for a civil war? Martial law...what is the most effective, noticeable means of demanding an end to censorship, lies, the governments false narratives...I'm at a loss as I'm sure most decent Americans are at this point. Can't trust anything the Dems do/say anymore because of all the bad actors.

  • Ed Thompson

    12/09/2022 01:02 PM

    Ok so again we get more facts about the rats who ran Twitter. Just like Hillary, watch and wait for justice to happen! Bet we see pigs sprout wings and fly before any of these people get what they truly deserve. Including Hillary! Like all the people involved in letting the “sneak attack” on Pearl Harbor happen— top of the list was J.Edgar Hoover, (Smithsonian channel special on the attack and how it happened) Hillary will probably die of old age before any true documentaries about her life come out regardless of what we already know about her. Just her actions she took smashing her cellphone and computers was enough to put her behind bars but did it happen? The people who ran Twitter if anything will get a slap on the wrist and go to some other venue. Maybe hired by the FBI! America is in trouble. Pray.

  • Jerry

    12/09/2022 12:48 PM

    People ask the question why is Christian beliefs being attacked I will give my opinion this country is built on a Christian foundation what is this administration trying to? Well one doesn’t have to have 20 20 vision to see what is happening today

  • R Reedy

    12/09/2022 12:39 PM

    Maybe Twitter CEO was removed from day-to-day operations of the company, so he truthfully answered the question about shadowbanning.

  • Jerry

    12/09/2022 12:38 PM

    I am grateful that I have most of what I need if I was still taking care of a young family members going to the markets every other day having to pay the inflationary price for products and now the added cost of criminals stealing products every day either the stores will eventually close or raise their prices to pay extreme insurance bills and replacement fees for stolen products got to love the democratic template inflation theft criminal activity on every scale and all people pay for the complete insanity of the democratic template

  • Bette Solomon

    12/09/2022 12:37 PM

    Great work Governor Huckabee! Keep it up. May the Lord reveal all the Truth that is hidden beneath this thick layer of rotting corruption! Tar and feathers - good enough then, sufficient for the cause.
    Guantanamo would also be acceptable.