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Twitter Files Journalist Drops Bombshell

According to Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi, the censorship-industrial complex rules social media interaction across the board with an iron fist. He got a glimpse into it with what happened at Twitter but everyone knows that things are just as bad for all the other major platforms.

Social media partnership

Social media platforms are all working side-by-side with government officials to censor and shape the political conversation. It wasn’t hard for the liberal left to transition George Orwell’s Big Brother into a less sinister little sister. While listening in on all your private conspiracies, the surveillance state can now give you driving directions and recipe advice. When Taibbi got to testify on Capitol Hill, he educated lawmakers on how vastly expansive the partnership is.

When Twitter Files reporters were given access to internal documents last year, “we first focused on the company, which at times acted like a power above government.” They soon leaned it was much deeper. “Twitter was more like a partner to government,” Taibbi explains.

The social media giant held “a regular ‘industry meeting’ with FBI and DHS, and developed a formal system for receiving thousands of content reports from every corner of government: HHS, Treasury, NSA, even local police. Emails from the FBI, DHS and other agencies often came with spreadsheets of hundreds or thousands of account names for review. Often, these would be deleted soon after.

For instance, one list provided to the social media staffers was labeled “Iranian State Linked Accounts.” It “included an Iraq War veteran, a former Chicago Sun-Times reporter and the progressive news outlet Truthout.” The abuse was rampant and obvious to the team of independent journalists doing the review work.

We came to think of this grouping – state agencies like DHS, FBI, or the Global Engagement Center (GEC), along with ‘NGOs that aren’t academic‘ and an unexpectedly aggressive partner, commercial news media – as the Censorship-Industrial Complex.

A list of members

In case you were wondering exactly who is in this Censorship-Industrial Complex, the social media company compiled a list in 2020 as part of the working group they set up for streamlined censorship of conservative ideas and anything which didn’t fit the official narrative.

On it are such well recognizable names as “The National Endowment for Democracy, the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab, and Hamilton 68’s creator, the Alliance for Securing Democracy.” Those, Taibbi points out, “are key.

According to Taibbi, “NGOs ideally serve as a check on corporations and the government. Not long ago, most of these institutions viewed themselves that way. Now, intel officials, ‘researchers,’ and executives at firms like Twitter are effectively one team – or Signal group, as it were.

It’s not good for social media platforms to have that much power. the “Information Disorder” summit held at taxpayer expense at the Aspen Institute back in August of 2021 is described as “the Censorship-Industrial Complex’s Woodstock.

At the conclave, “top executives from Twitter, Facebook and Google” concluded that the government should “mandate disclosure of data” from social media companies, having a “holding area” for influencers guilty of so-called “bad behavior,” demonetization and even “take steps to restrict false information, even if it means losing some freedom to access and publish content.” That is exactly what they did.

The Twitter Files show the principals of this incestuous self-appointed truth squad moving from law enforcement/intelligence to the private sector and back, claiming a special right to do what they say is bad practice for everyone else: be fact-checked only by themselves.

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