Twitter’s Yoel Roth met regularly with the FBI and DHS and took their orders from the FBI on what to censor.The same FBI that Trump was overseeing as head of the executive branch.
This was a Deep State rebellion against an elected leader. The Democrats accused Republicans of what they were doing all along. A coup. Insurrection.
“Examining the entire election enforcement Slack, we didn’t see one reference to moderation requests from the Trump campaign, the Trump White House, or Republicans generally. We looked.”
Remember that Twitter was the well every legacy media outlet and influential voice would go to for their marching orders.
1. THREAD: The Twitter Files
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
1. THREAD: The Twitter Files
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
2. The world knows much of the story of what happened between riots at the Capitol on January 6th, and the removal of President Donald Trump from Twitter on January 8th…
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
3. We’ll show you what hasn’t been revealed: the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
4. This first installment covers the period before the election through January 6th. Tomorrow, @Shellenbergermd will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th. On Sunday, @BariWeiss will reveal the secret internal communications from the key date of January 8th.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
5. Whatever your opinion on the decision to remove Trump that day, the internal communications at Twitter between January 6th-January 8th have clear historical import. Even Twitter’s employees understood in the moment it was a landmark moment in the annals of speech. pic.twitter.com/tQ01n58XFc
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
6. As soon as they finished banning Trump, Twitter execs started processing new power. They prepared to ban future presidents and White Houses – perhaps even Joe Biden. The “new administration,” says one exec, “will not be suspended by Twitter unless absolutely necessary.” pic.twitter.com/lr66YgDlGy
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
7. Twitter executives removed Trump in part over what one executive called the “context surrounding”: actions by Trump and supporters “over the course of the election and frankly last 4+ years.” In the end, they looked at a broad picture. But that approach can cut both ways. pic.twitter.com/Trgvq5jmhS
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
8. The bulk of the internal debate leading to Trump’s ban took place in those three January days. However, the intellectual framework was laid in the months preceding the Capitol riots.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
9. Before J6, Twitter was a unique mix of automated, rules-based enforcement, and more subjective moderation by senior executives. As @BariWeiss reported, the firm had a vast array of tools for manipulating visibility, most all of which were thrown at Trump (and others) pre-J6.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
10. As the election approached, senior executives – perhaps under pressure from federal agencies, with whom they met more as time progressed – increasingly struggled with rules, and began to speak of “vios” as pretexts to do what they’d likely have done anyway.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
11. After J6, internal Slacks show Twitter executives getting a kick out of intensified relationships with federal agencies. Here’s Trust and Safety head Yoel Roth, lamenting a lack of “generic enough” calendar descriptions to concealing his “very interesting” meeting partners. pic.twitter.com/kgC4eGykcO
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
12. These initial reports are based on searches for docs linked to prominent executives, whose names are already public. They include Roth, former trust and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, and recently plank-walked Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
13. One particular slack channel offers an unique window into the evolving thinking of top officials in late 2020 and early 2021.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
14. On October 8th, 2020, executives opened a channel called “us2020_xfn_enforcement.” Through J6, this would be home for discussions about election-related removals, especially ones that involved “high-profile” accounts (often called “VITs” or “Very Important Tweeters”). pic.twitter.com/xH29h4cYt9
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
15. There was at least some tension between Safety Operations – a larger department whose staffers used a more rules-based process for addressing issues like porn, scams, and threats – and a smaller, more powerful cadre of senior policy execs like Roth and Gadde.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
16. The latter group were a high-speed Supreme Court of moderation, issuing content rulings on the fly, often in minutes and based on guesses, gut calls, even Google searches, even in cases involving the President. pic.twitter.com/5ihsPCVo62
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
17. During this time, executives were also clearly liaising with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies about moderation of election-related content. While we’re still at the start of reviewing the #TwitterFiles, we’re finding out more about these interactions every day.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
18. Policy Director Nick Pickles is asked if they should say Twitter detects “misinfo” through “ML, human review, and **partnerships with outside experts?*” The employee asks, “I know that’s been a slippery process… not sure if you want our public explanation to hang on that.” pic.twitter.com/JEICGRTyz7
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
19. Pickles quickly asks if they could “just say “partnerships.” After a pause, he says, “e.g. not sure we’d describe the FBI/DHS as experts.” pic.twitter.com/d3EaYJb5eR
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
20. This post about the Hunter Biden laptop situation shows that Roth not only met weekly with the FBI and DHS, but with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI): pic.twitter.com/s5IiUjQqIY
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
21. Roth’s report to FBI/DHS/DNI is almost farcical in its self-flagellating tone:
“We blocked the NYP story, then unblocked it (but said the opposite)… comms is angry, reporters think we’re idiots… in short, FML” (fuck my life). pic.twitter.com/sTaWglhaJt— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
23. Some of Roth’s later Slacks indicate his weekly confabs with federal law enforcement involved separate meetings. Here, he ghosts the FBI and DHS, respectively, to go first to an “Aspen Institute thing,” then take a call with Apple. pic.twitter.com/i771hD8aCD
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
24. Here, the FBI sends reports about a pair of tweets, the second of which involves a former Tippecanoe County, Indiana Councilor and Republican named @JohnBasham claiming “Between 2% and 25% of Ballots by Mail are Being Rejected for Errors.” pic.twitter.com/KtigHOiEwF
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
The FBI's second report concerned this tweet by @JohnBasham: pic.twitter.com/8J8j5GlUVx
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
25. The FBI-flagged tweet then got circulated in the enforcement Slack. Twitter cited Politifact to say the first story was “proven to be false,” then noted the second was already deemed “no vio on numerous occasions.” pic.twitter.com/LyyZ1opWAh
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
26. The group then decides to apply a “Learn how voting is safe and secure” label because one commenter says, “it’s totally normal to have a 2% error rate.” Roth then gives the final go-ahead to the process initiated by the FBI: pic.twitter.com/lyZm4gmT19
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601367426129543169?s=20&t=jXXaoEWcLTHPPMBrtw0s-g
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Tell us something we DON’T know. The 2020 election WAS STOLEN and it should be given back to the rightful winner, DONALD J. TRUMP. WE ALL KNOW IT. YOU KNOW IT. THE WORLD KNOWS IT.
You liberals, leftists, and Democrats, INCLUDING some RINOS, are the most EVIL AND VILE PEOPLE PEOPLE ON THE PLANET, RIGHT BESIDE ISIS and the rest of the extremists, like the CLIMATE CHANGE THUGS AND CREATURES who think THEY RULE THIS PLANET. I got news for you: SATAN OWNS YOU, so you can just spend eternity with him IF YOU DO NOT REPENT. YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED………
The government of the United States, the administrative state, or put succinctly, the fascist/Marxist bosses are at war against the American people, and even with their brain-dead followers who are marching lock-step to their own graves. The question is how does one fight back without the looming slaughter? The alphabet agencies who all have guns to keep Americans in line are completely compromised. Honesty, integrity, a firm understanding of what America is about, of the Constitution and its importance have faded into the fog of ignorance, stupidity, mental illness, and viciousness. In Canada the RCMP is compromised. A dark curtain has descended over North America. Where are the leaders? What must be done? I know one thing: it will take commitment from each and every one of us to regain our freedom.
And of course, their motives for overthrowing Trump are as clear as the day is long in summer and short in winter. These are the ones, for example, who’ve been itching for war with Russia on the flimsiest of pretexts, for example. And of course, Biden is by no means whatsoever “our” President, but THEIR President. “Their” being, of course, the globalist elites, WEF, Deep State, China, Ukraine, illegal aliens, drug cartels, human traffickers, pedophiles, groomers, criminal gangs et al.
And also, the Left claims Trump committed 17 felonies while Biden committed none. Oh really? This is the end product of a weaponized “justice” system straight out of a Third World banana republic. Those that think that, I contend, should move to a place like Brazil. What is really the case is: The Deep State goes all out of their way to protect their own – while leaving everyone else (like Trump who is NOT of “them”) hang out to dry.
Time will tell to see what transpires from this debacle that was uncovered. Both the 2020 and the 2022 elections were stolen.
So you have found evidence, please show it. 63 courts could not find it nor could any news channel, but you did. Incredible nonsense.
One of the other -icked -itches of the -est has once again made a smarmy move under directions from who-ever tells the Democrat Party ICONS what to do. __ Oh Hum ! Sleaze comes in all colours. _ MikeSr
You can’t find fraud if you refuse to look at it.
You can’t find what you don’t look for. Liberal Obama judges and the media were not looking.
One of the other -icked -itches of the -est has once again made a smarmy move under directions from who-ever tells the Democrat Party ICONS what to do. __ Oh Hum ! Sleaze comes in all colours. _ MikeSr
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