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The Fifth Estate​
summary and analysis of the twitter files, a dangerous alliance of powers, and technology's nature brings the industry home​
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The Fifth Estate

pirate wires #85 // summary and analysis of the twitter files, a dangerous alliance of powers,
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Here's a good substack read

The Fifth Estate​

pirate wires #85 // summary and analysis of the twitter files, a dangerous alliance of powers, and technology's nature brings the industry home​


Mike Solana
23 hr ago

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Dangerous alliance. In 1787, Edmund Burke said there were “Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there [sits] a Fourth Estate more important than they all." The notion of some vital power beyond our government was imported to the New World, and today constitutes a core belief of the American liberal: there is no free people, we’re often told, without a free press independent of congress, the courts, and our president. But throughout the 20th Century thousands of media outlets gradually consolidated, and by the dawn of our internet era only a few giants remained. These giants largely shared a single perspective, and in rough agreement with the ruling class the Fourth Estate naturally came to serve, rather than critique, power. This relationship metastasized into something very close to authoritarianism during the Covid-19 pandemic, when a single state narrative was written by the press, and ruthlessly enforced by a fifth and final fount of power in the newly-dominant technology industry.

It was a dark alliance of estates, accurate descriptions of which were for years derided as delusional, paranoid, even dangerous. But today, on account of a single shitposting billionaire, the existence of the One Party’s decentralized censorship apparatus is now beyond doubt.

A couple weeks back, alleging proof Twitter acted with gross political bias, and in a manner that influenced U.S. elections (!), Elon Musk opened his new company’s internal communications to a small handful of journalists. They set immediately to breaking a series of major stories that have rewritten the history of Trump-era tech. Long story short, Twitter leadership lied to the public, relentlessly, for years, and everything the most paranoid among us ever said about the platform was true. “Trust and safety” is a euphemism for political censorship, with “expert” teams comprised almost exclusively of the most radical, joyless grievance studies majors you ever met in college. Their goal is to reshape American politics by dominating the bounds of what the public is permitted to consider American politics. In these efforts, they have mostly been succeeding.

On December 2nd, Matt Taibbi shared conversations from the company’s “trust and safety” team that led to Twitter’s suppression of the New York Post’s infamous Hunter Biden laptop story. While interesting, Taibbi’s most notable revelation came almost as a side: both major political parties, as well as the White House, maintained direct lines of communication with Twitter, which they used to formally request content be removed from the platform. The company responded enthusiastically to many of these requests, and the examples we have (for now) come from the Democratic Party. Critics have been quick to point out Trump was in the White House at the time, though less interested, for some reason, in what — if anything — he removed from the site.

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The Fifth Estate

pirate wires #85 // summary and analysis of the twitter files, a dangerous alliance of powers,
www.piratewires.com
 
Amazing how all these 'conspiracy theories' are suddenly seeing the light of day....
 
I can hardly wait until the backstory comes out of what these media moguls and government agents were chatting about behind our backs....
 
That seems to be a running theme with the alt lifestyle. It's ALWAYS about sex.
 
1. THREAD: The Twitter Files, Part Six
TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY

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@mtaibbi: 1. THREAD: The Twitter Files, Part Six TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY 2. The #TwitterFiles are revealing more every day about how the government collects, analyzes, and flags your social media content. 3. Twit...…
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Goldhedge said:
That seems to be a running theme with the alt lifestyle. It's ALWAYS about sex.
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Dunno GH. Cognitive dissonance when thinking about that, as sex.

Unbridled promiscuous fornication without inhibition, perhaps?

Golden Regards
Uncle
 
Recap in a nutshell

PODCAST​

The Brief: A Handy Cheat Sheet Of The Many Lies Exposed By Musk’s Release Of The Twitter Files​

Gregg is joined by Carl Szabo, NetChoice Vice President and General Counsel, and a well known free speech advocate.

Holden Caulfield quipped, “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.” But Twitter has him beat by a country mile.

Twitter executives long insisted they never rigged their platform to censor conservatives. It was a lie. Former CEO Jack Dorsey was asked point-blank under oath by Congress if his social media company “shadow-banned prominent Republicans.” “No,” he replied with a straight face. Another lie. He doubled-down when he told Sean Hannity, “We do not shadow-ban according to political ideology or viewpoints.” Not even close to the truth.

In fact, Twitter was operating a giant political censorship machine applied with brute computer force. Tweets involving Democrats were amplified, derogatory information about Joe Biden was suppressed, and anyone who dared to criticize them found themselves diminished or vanished.

Twitter didn’t like the pejorative term “shadow-ban,” so it invented a synonymous in-house phrase. Staffers called it “visibility filtering.” Same thing, different jargon. They even composed a Blacklist. If you were on it, bye-bye.

Now, thanks to the transparency of the company’s new owner, Elon Musk, the so-called Twitter Files have laid bare the cavalcade of lies and devious machinations that we all suspected were happening behind closed doors.

A super-censor team composed of Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde (head of Legal, Policy and Trust), Yoel Roth (global head of Trust and Safety), and Parag Agrawal (also CEO) made many of the key decisions to kill legitimate stories and banish people whose views they didn’t like.

If you offered information or opinion with which the progressive elites at Twitter disagreed or objected, your tweets would magically disappear into a cyber black hole. Your followers would strangely dwindle. Any ideas and thoughts that didn’t conform strictly to Twitter’s woke orthodoxy of ideological purity were censored.

Twitter wasn’t practicing responsible content moderation, as they publicly claimed. No, they were unscrupulously enforcing a system of content oblivion. These are despicable people who have earned our contempt.

Pre-Elon Musk, Twitter contributed mightily to the alarming erosion of free speech in America. Over time, it became a sad monument to narrow-minded intolerance. Imperious executives were morally bankrupt and intellectually corrupt. They robbed people of the chance for speech they might wish to hear or to engage in vigorous public debate. It was antithetical to the principles of free expression. This unbridled power allowed Twitter to punish political adversaries and protect partisan allies. It did so with mendacious impunity and little regard for the public interest.

If you’re having trouble keeping up with the slow drip of the Twitter Files’ release, here is a handy cheat sheet of the ugly details exposed thus far:

Twitter Files — Part One: The platform censored the Hunter Biden laptop story in advance of the 2020 presidential election by claiming publicly that it violated their “hacked” policy, knowing full well that the laptop wasn’t hacked at all. They pretended it might be Russian disinformation, even though that excuse was nothing more than U.S. intelligence disinformation. Twitter took its marching orders from the Biden campaign team, Democratic operatives, and the FBI which was running a Biden protection racket.

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The Brief: A Handy Cheat Sheet of the Many Lies Exposed by Musk's Release of the Twitter Files | Gregg Jarrett

Gregg is joined by Carl Szabo, NetChoice Vice President and General Counsel, and a well known free speech advocate.
thegreggjarrett.com
 
Here is an interesting 'association'...




Trump and Elon attached at the hip??
 

Notes from the Twitter Files: Twitter and the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF)​

In a curious exchange, the government expresses annoyance with Twitter for reporting little "recent" foreign activity​

Matt Taibbi
34 min ago


“Protected voices”

paywall






 
Matt Taibbi
Dec 18 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
THE TWITTER FILES Supplemental

Thread by @mtaibbi on Thread Reader App

@mtaibbi: 1.THREAD: Twitter Files Supplemental 2.In July of 2020, San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan tells Twitter executive Yoel Roth to expect written questions from the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), the int...…
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Musk Stepping Down as Twitter CEO ReeEEeE Stream 12-18-22f​

first 10 mins is funny
2:26:00
TheSaltyCracker
 
Maybe someone can post the thread reader link?

TWITTER FILES 7 REVEAL IC COMMUNITY PLOT TO INFLUENCE THE ELECTION​

Supplemental Twitter files released yesterday provide context for part 7 released earlier this afternoon. The USIC pressured, gas lit and psyoped Twitter and the MSM into doing their bidding and suppressing the Hunter BIDEN LAPTOP AND MORE.
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Bari Weiss is one of the journalists diseminating the TWTR files - Rogan exposes her

She turned into a stuttering MESS after Joe Rogan challenged her!​

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