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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...

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THREAD: The Twitter Files, Part Six TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY

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The #TwitterFiles are revealing more every day about how the government collects, analyzes, and flags your social media content.

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THREAD: Twitter Files Supplemental

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On Friday, the first installment of the Twitter files was published here. We expected to publish more over the weekend. Many wondered why there was a delay.

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1.TWITTER FILES #19 The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories”

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2.“The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Spring 2020 emails… has been used to exacerbate distrust in Dr. Fauci.” “Increased distrust in Fauci’s expert guidance.”

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TWITTER FILES: Statement to Congress THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

1. TWITTER FILES:
Statement to Congress
THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

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“MONITOR ALL TWEETS COMING FROM TRUMP’S PERSONAL ACCOUNT/BIDEN’S PERSONAL ACCOUNT”

When #TwitterFiles reporters were given access to Twitter internal documents last year, we first focused on the company, which at times acted like a power above government.

2. “MONITOR ALL TWEETS COMING FROM TRUMP’S PERSONAL ACCOUNT/BIDEN’S PERSONAL ACCOUNT”

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1.THREAD: Twitter Files #14 THE RUSSIAGATE LIES One: The Fake Tale of Russian Bots and the #ReleaseTheMemo Hashtag

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2.At a crucial moment in a years-long furor, Democrats denounced a report about flaws in the Trump-Russia investigation, saying it was boosted by Russian “bots” and “trolls.”

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1.THREAD: The Twitter Files How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In

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2.In August 2017, when Facebook decided to suspend 300 accounts with “suspected Russian origin,” Twitter wasn’t worried. Its leaders were sure they didn’t have a Russia problem.

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1.THREAD: The Twitter Files TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES"

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After weeks of “Twitter Files” reports detailing close coordination between the FBI and Twitter in moderating social media content, the Bureau issued a statement Wednesday.

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1.THREAD: Twitter Files #15 MOVE OVER, JAYSON BLAIR: TWITTER FILES EXPOSE NEXT GREAT MEDIA FRAUD

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2.“I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is.”

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1.TWITTER FILES: Supplemental More Adam Schiff Ban Requests, and "Deamplification"

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2.Staff of House Democrat @AdamSchiff wrote to Twitter quite often, asking that tweets be taken down. This important use of taxpayer resources involved an ask about a “Peter Douche” parody photo of Joe Biden. The DNC made the same request: twitter.com/silerabbit/sta…

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TWITTER FILES #16 Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment

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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”:

2. The #TwitterFiles have revealed a lot: thousands of moderation requests from every corner of gov

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How journalism works when the press is real: One reporter does a story. It may not be the whole story, but it’s newsworthy. The next reporter finds the next piece of the puzzle. A third adds more. We compete, but all push the story forward. The TF response exposes a fake press:

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New Knowledge, the Global Engagement Center, and State-Sponsored Blacklists

1. TWITTER FILES #17
New Knowledge, the Global Engagement Center, and State-Sponsored Blacklist

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My old employer, Rolling Stone, won a National Magazine Award once for investigating the same topic — U.S. information operations. Now the magazine won’t touch any story that they can’t pin entirely on Republicans. A “counterculture” mag is protecting FBI, DHS, DOD.

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There is zero evidence that Trump had any influence on Twitter policies. On the other hand there are massive amounts of evidence that other politicians (including the Republican-Democrat duo of Richard Burr and Mark Warner) did have such influence... (1/2)

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What does it mean? Literally every news story arranges “cherry-picked” information. Except in the case of something like a Wikileaks dump, you’re always editing, leading with the strongest information, etc. No one’s claimed this reporting is factually wrong, so… (1/2)

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Here’s a story from the New York Times in February, 2017, sourced to “four current and former American officials”:

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(2/2) The Post should have gone scrambling back to re-examine all the stories, like this one, that they’d printed using that firm (or people who worked there) as a key source: washingtonpost.com/technology/201…

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