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2022-12-25 Government Corruption
Twitter Files author Taibbi slams Dem congressman after accusation of 'gaslighting' Americans
[FoxNews] Substack writer and journalist Matt Taibbi responded to Rep. Ted Lieu
...ostentatiously pro=abortion Dem representative-for-life from California who thinks the Catholic Church is a democracy...
, D-Calif., after he accused the Twitter Files author of "gaslighting" Americans by tweeting emails detailing the Federal Bureau of Investigation's communication with the social media giant.

".@elonmusk @mtaibbi @ShellenbergerMD are gaslighting you with their misleading "Twitter Files" posts. Here’s the truth: 1. FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
’s Foreign Influence Task Force does threat indicator sharing with companies. That’s a good thing. 2. Companies decide what to do with that information," Lieu said on Wednesday.

"Congressman, why is a 'Foreign Influence' task force sending Excel spreadsheets full of joke tweets from low-follower accounts in Maryland, Kentucky, and Ohio? Why does the FITF spend so much time reviewing domestic speech?" Taibbi said on Saturday.

Taibbi's response comes after he released a new version of the Twitter Files, outlining Twitter's previous communication with "other government agencies."

"Other government agencies" can stand for the Central Intellegence Agency, according to Taibbi.

"The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government — from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA," Taibbi said in a tweet.

Previously, Taibbi tweeted multiple internal files between Twitter workers and FBI employees as part of the sixth installment of the Twitter Files.

"Hello Twitter contacts, FBI the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
is notifying you of the below accounts which may potentially constitute violations of Twitter's Terms of Service for any action or inaction deemed appropriate within Twitter policy," one email FBI employee wrote in an email on Nov. 10.

In the email, an FBI employee listed several Twitter accounts which might violate the social media company's terms of service.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [29 views ]  Top

#1 “That word! I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-25 11:47||   2022-12-25 11:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Taibbi: A rancid leftist pretending to be a red pilled conservative.
Posted by M. Murcek  2022-12-25 11:53||   2022-12-25 11:53|| Front Page Top

#3 I am not a big Taibbi fan, but I am not flooded with articles about this from other outlets, left or right, either.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-12-25 12:42||   2022-12-25 12:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Ted Lieu is a sub-moron and has no business arguing with anyone smarter than Mazie Hirono (/low bar).
Taibbi, while a lib, has seemed to be honest in his bias and still written truthfully. What more can you ask for?
Posted by Frank G 2022-12-25 14:53||   2022-12-25 14:53|| Front Page Top

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