{"id":48596,"date":"2022-12-27T13:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T18:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48596"},"modified":"2022-12-27T13:42:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T18:42:48","slug":"the-twitter-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48596","title":{"rendered":"The Twitter Saga Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

In understanding any of what was going on at Twitter, it is a good idea to refer to a series of articles posted at The Conservative Treehouse describing Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop<\/a>. The basic premise of the articles about Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop is that the business model for Twitter does not work unless various agencies prop it up. Twitter is the the U.S. government as Tik Tok is to the Chinese Communist government.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about some of the things we have recently learned about the collaboration between Twitter and various government agencies.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The CIA was among a number of security state agencies, including the State Department and the Pentagon, involved in censorship at Twitter, according to the ninth tranche of Twitter Files released by Elon Musk, via journalist Matt Taibbi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following the bizarre statement<\/a> released by the FBI, calling the Twitter Files reporting \u201cmisinformation\u201d spread by \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d with the \u201csole purpose of discrediting the agency,\u201d Taibbi posted a new tranche revealing much more widespread government involvement in censorship than previously known \u2014 adding<\/a>, \u201cWhy stop with one [agency]?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ninth release of Twitter Files displays aggressive efforts by the CIA and other agencies in the security state to force Twitter\u2019s hand in censoring various political opinions and speech, through constant contact with the company\u2019s executives, one of whom Taibbi reveals<\/a> is ex-CIA himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Taibbi writes that the FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter, describing the bureau as a \u201cdoorman\u201d for the other agencies to connect with Twitter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship,\u201d Taibbi writes<\/a>, \u201cencompassing agencies across the federal government \u2013 from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Taibbi explains how the government would push Twitter according to its theories about \u201cforeign influence\u201d that Twitter did not see borne out in its own data. Twitter would respond to the government\u2019s \u201cconstant pressure\u201d that there was no evidence for their assertions, however, Twitter still surrendered its independence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe #TwitterFiles show execs under constant pressure to validate theories of foreign influence \u2013 and unable to find evidence for key assertions,\u201d Taibbi writes<\/a>, providing<\/a> a number<\/a> of examples<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Due to a lack of technical evidence on our end, I\u2019ve generally left it be, waiting for more evidence,\u2019 he says. \u2018Our window on that is closing, given that government partners are becoming more aggressive on attribution\u2019,\u201d Taibbi reports<\/a>, adding<\/a>, \u201cTranslation: \u2018more aggressive\u2019 \u2018government partners\u2019 had closed Twitter\u2019s \u2018window\u2019 of independence.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The CIA did not respond for request for comment, Taibbi reports<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe CIA has yet to comment on the nature of its relationship to tech companies like Twitter. Twitter had no input into anything I did or wrote. The searches were carried out by third parties, so what I saw could be limited.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. We are running out of conspiracy theories–they are all turning out to be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In understanding any of what was going on at Twitter, it is a good idea to refer to a series of articles posted at The Conservative Treehouse describing Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop. The basic premise of the articles about Jack’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10348,1921,11084,15944,15901,11430,16117,2561],"class_list":["post-48596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart","tag-cia","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation-fbi","tag-jacks-magic-coffee-shop","tag-matt-taibbi","tag-the-conservative-treehouse","tag-tik-tok","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48597,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48596\/revisions\/48597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}