Twitter Files

But I'd love to hear how anything compares to shutting down authorities during COVID, which cost millions of lives, covering up the Hunter Biden laptop and having 51 FBI agents lie about it, which swung an election to deplatforming a president off of social media to.

They're Schellenberger, Matt Taibbi, all these people who weren't even even aren't even right leaning, saying that the Twitter files are very clear about the fact that all the censorship heavily favored Democrats, heavily punished Republicans.

I have no I can't I don't even know what you're going to say.

Please tell me how you think this is.

So the things that I'm going to bring up are actually substantive and did happen and did have an effect on the American people.

The Twitter files, Hunter Biden's laptop story, the New York Post, that post was blocked or I guess suppressed for 24 to 48 hours.

Some accounts that were banned were for one to two weeks to act as if, and by the way, this was under Donald Trump.

Okay.

I...

Did they send out letters? Were they visited by anybody in the government during that time? Was there anything being sent down? You know, that may have sounded like a crazy idea, that question I just asked, before Twitter Files, before the control of social media, before COVID.

But reputation risk? What does that even mean? You can put a brand, uh, uh, uh, in positive light, negative light, i- any way that you, you turn, right? Uh, a- anywhere, for any reason.

Well, if you, if you-

That's one of the instances that's important to understand.

The second is that there was an effort that was discovered through the Twitter Files by my colleague, Matt Taibbi.

They...

Somebody had created a website, they called it a dashboard, called Hamilton 68.

... social media platforms.

I remember.

And one of the discoveries that, that I made when I did the Twitter Files was that Twitter kicked President Trump off of their social media platform in violation of Twitter's own terms of service.

Yeah.

Like, this is obviously coordinated.

There's collusion here, and that's not newsworthy? That's not something that should be, you know, covered? And apparently not, you know, but I very much, you know, thank you for that and obviously, you know, your work since then with the Twitter Files and everything that you've done to really stand up for free speech.

And, uh, you mentioned, you know, the d- digital forensic research lab there.

You, you mentioned the Atlantic Council, and those are two things that Matt and myself wanted to get into, uh-

Well, specifically, no, but, uh, I, I think I can pull back and, and maybe with a little bit of context, the, uh, an educated guess might appear, right? So-

Mm-hmm

... what, what we were looking at in the Twitter Files was really kind of an informal version of what was becoming formalized in a lot of other countries.

So, uh, almost every European country has one or another version of the same kind of law.

were somehow working behind the scenes to push the social media companies to censor on their behalf.

And in fact, we found out in the Twitter Files that the FBI had 80 agents going through content on Twitter, it was Twitter back then, not X-

Yeah

... and sending them takedown notices.

But by the time the Ukraine war started, well, at that point, it was when everything came crashing down.

The full weight of the U.S. government, not only as we've learned from Matt Taibbi with the Twitter files, people like journalists like me, other alt media faces, we were all shadow banned.

We had, you know, just...

Just a whole bunch of stuff happening all at once to make sure we were screaming into the void.

They were doing that for the longest time.

Just go back and look at the Twitter Files, and then ask Zuckerberg what they were doing over at Facebook during the 2020 election cycle.

Look at all of these things that they've wanted to control.

COVID was the perfect opportunity because you couldn't see it.