"Twitter's contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary." That's the third tweet in the thread below and also the thesis of the latest damning Twitter drop courtesy of Elon Musk.
Here is the entire thread from Matt Taibbi, courtesy of Elon, about how deeply the previous regime at Twitter was involved with the FBI, in screenshots with images expanded for your viewing pleasure:
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[Editor note: Nice pronouns in your email signature, FBI agent...]
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And the finale:
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The FBI communicated with Twitter in a stunning display of corporate and government collusion to monopolize information and censor foes (Antifa has a word for this they like to shout). Also:
- From January 2020 to November 2022, "there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth."
- A "surprising number" of these emails were requests from the FBI to remove posts involving "election misinformation."
- The Department of Homeland Security was also involved. The agencies sent pre-flagged requests for moderation to Twitter on a regular basis.
- The Feds regularly asked for satirical posts to be removed and the users banned.
- Twitter executive Stacia Cardille spoke of her "soon to be weekly" meeting with individuals from "DHS, DOJ, FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence" in an email to Twitter General Counsel Jim Baker, the former FBI General Counsel who allegedly scrubbed references to the FBI from the first Twitter Files drop before Elon Musk fired him.
- The FBI was reportedly cozy enough with Twitter to have "no impediments to sharing" classified information with Big Tech executives.
- The pipeline of these requests was convoluted. In one case, The Election Integrity Project at Stanford flagged a video, which was then flagged by the Center for Internet Security, a partner of the Cyber and Internet Security Agency – the agency that Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde was involved with – that itself is a department of Homeland Security. The Swamp runs deep.
- Twitter also received moderation requests from state governments such as the government of California.
And Taibbi ended with this:
