Matt Taibbi: The Media Has Completely Suppressed Proof That Democrats Constantly Asked Twitter to Ban Accounts on Grounds as Slender as "Mentioned Immigration."

He calls this latest Twitter files "Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment."

I'm not laughing.

Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi

Feb 18

TWITTER FILES #16
Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment

2. The #TwitterFiles have revealed a lot: thousands of moderation requests from every corner of government, Feds mistaking both conservatives and leftists for fictional Russians, even Twitter deciding on paper to cede moderation authority to the "U.S. intelligence community"...

3. These and at least a dozen other newsworthy revelations produced exactly zilch in mainstream news coverage in the last two months...

8. King's office declined comment. If Dick Nixon sniffed glue, this is what his enemies list might have looked like.

A "Republican" -- allegedly -- State Department official also asked Twitter to ban accounts... for being skeptical of Russiagate.

11.A government official, writing from a State department email, asks to "delete" 14 accounts that are engaged in legit speech and for which no evidence is shown they're Russian controlled or bots (in fact, we at Racket know some of these people). A clear First Amendment issue.

13. The fact that mainstream outlets ignored the Schiff story but howled about Teigen shows what they're about. Responses like this are designed to keep blue-leaning audiences especially focused on moronic partisan spats, obscuring bigger picture narratives.

14. The real story emerging in the #TwitterFiles is about a ballooning federal censorship bureaucracy that's not aimed at either the left or the right per se, but at the whole population of outsiders, who are being systematically defined as threats.

15. Beginning in March, we'll start using the Twitter Files to tell this larger story about how Americans turned their counterterrorism machinery against themselves, to disastrous effect, through little-known federal agencies like the Global Engagement Center (GEC).

He also asks anyone appearing on Angus King's Spreadsheet McCarthyism list to contact him.

posted by Ace at 03:26 PM

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