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2022-12-17 Government Corruption
FBI 'Deep State' team of 80 people regularly handed Twitter lists of people to BAN - including actor Billy Baldwin and satire accounts, new trove of Musk's 'Twitter Files' reveal
[MAIL] A new trove of internal communications from Twitter suggests that the FBI maintained persistent contact with company employees in recent years, frequently proposing user bans, including for strident Trump critic and actor Billy Baldwin, and what appear to be satire accounts.

'Twitter's contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,' argued journalist Matt Taibbi, who shared the documents in a Twitter thread on Friday afternoon.

FBI officials, meeting with Twitter executives, told them there was 'no impediment' to sharing classified information with them, according to an internal memo.

The files were the latest in a series of documents to be released after Twitter's new owner Elon Musk gave a group of hand-picked journalists access to the company's internal records.

'Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth,' claimed Taibbi.

'But a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts,' he added.

Those singled out were shocked, with one asking how 'an amoeba' like himself had come onto the FBI's radar, while another said it was 'crazy' that the FBI was 'policing jokes'.

A third added: 'Anyone who cannot discern obvious satire from reality has no place making decisions for others or working for the feds.'

Possibly related: AP - Hacker claims breach of FBI’s critical-infrastructure portal InfraGard.

Russia, Russia, Russia.....

PJ - Elon Musk Shows How Twitter Served as the FBI's Lapdog

American Thinker - Digging deeper into 'Twitter Files 6'

Hot Air - Matt Taibbi: Twitter Files part 6 - the FBI connection (Update)
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-17 00:21|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 'Twitter's contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,' argued journalist Matt Taibbi, who shared the documents in a Twitter thread on Friday afternoon.

Having 'embedded' assets is a big plus. How many other social media platforms and news outlets did the "Team of 80" service ?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-17 00:59||   2022-12-17 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Sound Health - Twittergate deepens: FBI refuses to reveal how many social media firms it is secretly influencing
Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-17 04:22||   2022-12-17 04:22|| Front Page Top

#3 FBI's InfraGard - Parnership for Protection
Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-17 04:43||   2022-12-17 04:43|| Front Page Top

#4 FBI InfraGard source application form.

  • Must be a US Citizen, 18 years of age, currently employed or formerly employed at Twitter, Facebook, Google, TikTok, .....
  • Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-17 04:56||   2022-12-17 04:56|| Front Page Top

    #5 I guess that explains why Elon and his son were targeted for doxing in realtime - hoping that something would happen.
    Is there another 80 people working with Facebook, and others with other social media platforms?
    Posted by CrazyFool 2022-12-17 05:02||   2022-12-17 05:02|| Front Page Top

    #6 Proof that free speech and the truth scares them.

    An honest man has no fear of the truth.
    Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-17 06:18||   2022-12-17 06:18|| Front Page Top

    #7 As Herod said in The Quick and the Dead: "Put a fox in the hen house and you'll have chicken for dinner every night."
    Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-17 08:35||   2022-12-17 08:35|| Front Page Top

    #8 Twittergate deepens: FBI REFUSES to reveal how many social media firms it is secretly influencing - amid accusations it broke the law by pushing Twitter to remove accounts and hand over user location details, new trove reveals
    Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-17 08:39||   2022-12-17 08:39|| Front Page Top

    #9 Twittergate deepens: FBI REFUSES to reveal how many social media firms it is secretly influencing

    Raises hand. Ooh, ooh, I know! All of them.
    Posted by Angesh Clase3351 2022-12-17 23:05||   2022-12-17 23:05|| Front Page Top

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