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Matt Taibbi

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Jan 3, 2023

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27.They also received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned. Here, the office for Democrat and House Intel Committee chief Adam Schiff asks Twitter to ban journalist Paul Sperry:

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45737757)

"Freedom to say what you think -- *not* freedom from having elected federal officials leverage the power that comes with their positions in the government to successfully demand that you be punitively punished for the content of things that you foolishly chose to say in public which they didn't like hearing. What part of that don't you understand, Trumpkins? Maybe crack open a 'Con Law' book sometime and Google the word 'nuance' sometime, Conturds."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45738423)

36.By the weeks before the election in 2020, Twitter was so confused by the various streams of incoming requests, staffers had to ask the FBI which was which

37.“I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR WORK LOAD”: Requests poured in from FBI offices all over the country, day after day, hour after hour: If Twitter didn’t act quickly, questions came: “Was action taken?” “Any movement?”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45737788)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394309424996353?s=20

35.They were even warned about publicity surrounding a book by former Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokhin, who alleged “corruption by the U.S. government” – specifically by Joe Biden.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45737795)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394278617878529?s=20

25.Twitter was taking requests from every conceivable government body, beginning with the Senate Intel Committee (SSCI), which seemed to need reassurance Twitter was taking FBI direction. Execs rushed to tell “Team SSCI” they zapped five accounts on an FBI tip

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45737808)

As Twitter's refusal to honor the requests indicates, it recognized that it faced severe criminal and/or civil repercussions if it refused.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45760921)

Nobody is spilling the beans on all the corruption, which leads me to conclude the entire organization is rotten inside and out

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45737855)

It’s been 7 years since they started spying and literally falsifying evidence for wiretap warrants on Trump. To this day they have closed ranks and admitted no guilt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45738316)

What does the fact they are counterintel warrants have anything to do with my broader point, which is that it is clear the FBI has been completely compromised by deep state partisans for at least the past 7 years? And that in that time there has not been a flood of patriot FBI agents coming forth to spill the beans on it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45738446)

They earliest warning sign something was wrong was Flynn being prosecuted for "lying to the FBI." But it was main Justice prosecuting him, not the FBI, so the average right wing FBI dood would have figured it was shitlibs at DOJ making that happen. There's no way you can expect the average schlub at FBI to know what the fuck was happening until well after any of it had happened. It's not like the director sends emails to the whole staff saying "btw we are helping Joe Biden get elected, all else be damned." He had a cohort within the agency who handled that stuff and everyone else was told to mind their own business.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45738706)

And FBI schlubs are still doing guns drawn predawn raids on Roger Stone or some pastor protesting abortions or fucking NASCAR rope pulls

Zero people in the agency resigning en masse or going to media. Meanwhile McCabe was literally a sieve for CNN

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45738731)

Deep state =/= libs doing partisan bullshit. It's mostly a mindset certain people have that "we are protectors of the nation and we act with the authority of The Government and it's better for everyone if no one knows what we're doing." That attitude is goes back at least to 9/11 and is primarily a Bush thing. It wasn't obvious to anyone that it was being used to bring down Trump until well into the second half of his term. Deep state was initially used to refer to CIA/State Department and not DOJ/FBI. Trump was also an idiot for firing Comey and Wray was Trump's pick to replace Comey, so if anyone had to guess they would figured Trump fixed things when he put Wray, Sessions and Barr in charge. Mueller was not even using FBI resources as far as anyone could tell and his report all but exonerated Trump of any wrongdoing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45738738)

Sundance at Conservative Treehouse has had Warner on his shit list for years. i forget the details.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45737849)

Date: January 3rd, 2023 6:45 PM

Author: DrakeMallard (🦆)

Twitter was afraid the Dems would make good on legislation threats and so caved on what intel agencies wanted

https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/03/twitter-files-mark-warner-intelligence-agencies-docs/

Twitter staff relented to a pressure campaign spearheaded by a Democratic lawmaker in the fall of 2017, changing its advertising policy to allow for a closer relationship with U.S. intelligence agencies, according to internal documents published Tuesday by independent journalist Matt Taibbi.

Twitter executives did not believe that there was significant activity by Russian election interference groups on the platform as of Sept. 6, 2017, and had internally decided to direct concerned reporters to Facebook, who they believed to be facing the brunt of congressional scrutiny, according to Taibbi. However, Twitter faced renewed pressure after Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia — then the vice chair of the Senate’s Intelligence Committee — slammed the company later in the month for producing a “frankly inadequate” report on Russian activity on the platform, in which the company informed the committee that it had suspended just 22 of 2,700 accounts it had suspected of being aligned with Russian influence groups, according to Taibbi. (RELATED: FBI Paid Twitter Millions, Had Close Relationship With Execs And Staff, Emails Show)

“Warner has political incentive to keep this issue at the top of the news, maintain pressure on us and [the] rest of industry to keep producing material for them … ” wrote wrote vice president of public policy Colin Cromwell in a September 2017 email to founder and former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey and others whose names Taibbi redacted. “Democrats are also taking cues from Hillary Clinton, who in her ‘What Happened’ book tour is pointedly talking about [the] role of Russian propaganda and dirty tricks that were pushed through social media had in her demise.”

A key component of the pressure campaign was the looming threat of legislation that would hinder Twitter’s ability to display political advertisements, in conjunction with negative publicity from major news outlets, according to Taibbi. In response to the mounting public pressure, Twitter formed a task force on Oct. 2, 2017, to further investigate the influence of Russian operatives on the platform, but had concluded by Oct. 23 that only 17 of the 2500 accounts that were investigated were connected with Russia, according to Taibbi.

Just two of the accounts were found to be “significant” spenders, according to Taibbi. Both were state-sponsored news outlets, Russia Today and Sputnik, Taibbi reported.

Twitter was preparing to change its ad policy and remove the offending accounts in a bid to head off impending legislative threats, and had pledged to work with Sen. Warner and other Democratic politicians — as well as Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona — “on their desire to legislate,” according to Taibbi. However, after a Buzzfeed article leaked the initial list of 2,700 suspicious accounts in November, 2017, renewed pressure on the social media platform forced the company to apologize to politicians for inactivity on accounts that they had previously reported to be unproblematic, according to Taibbi.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45737862)

People never take me seriously when I tell them these committees matter. They control the MONEY. The same vice chair making calls to Twitter can also plus up the budget for whatever wing of the agency was engaging Twitter and no one would know any better. It's not like you can sift through appropriations bills (that may not even be public info), see a yuge line item for some program, and know it was Warner who made it rain, let alone why.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45738729)

Six months ago: "LMAO hey remember when you gullible retards thought lying charlatan Elon Musk would actually buy Twitter? LOLOLOL @ you retards."

*Elon buys Twitter*

Three months ago: "Holy shit has anyone ever overpaid more for anything than dumbass Elon Musk did for fucking Shitter? JFC what a dumbass can't wait to see him run this shit right into the ground, bye bye Twitter."

*Twitter hits new all-time-highs in real active users*

Three weeks ago: "LMAO wow, another round of mass 'firings' (wonder how many actually quit?) Twitter is LITERALLY going to collapse any day now, great job Elon! LOL @ Elon buttbois."

*Twitter is quickly optimized to work better and faster than ever, gets out of the fast-track to bankruptcy as Musk successfully cuts costs all over the place with no diminution in service quality*

Last week: "Oh look, another nothingburger from fElon Musky about bullshit that no one cares about that doesn't actually implicate elected officials demanding censorship from Twitter, wow great job guys. LJL it just doesn't stop with you nutjobs, oh wow 'durrr muh 1st Amendment' lmao learn to law idiots."

*Elon personally sets all-time records for Twitter followers, public polling shows that a majority or near-majority of Americans now think that the Covid vaccine is dangerous and the CDC lied to them about it, the mainstream media is totally untrustworthy and full of shit, the federal government actively colluded with social media to censor people, Biden and his family is corrupt, etc etc etc etc etc*

This week: "Lol fucking nerds, enjoy obsessing over your gay internet bullshit holy fuck no one except for your losers even cares get a life you fucking nerds who ever uses 'Twitter' anymore lmao it's 2023 dumbasses, no wonder women won't touch you. Fucking fags. FAGS! FAGGOTS!!!!"

Haha wow haha holy shit that's, uh, quite a narrative trajectory you (((libs))) have had on this issue over the last year. You guys must be "getting tired of winning" on all the Twitter stuff at this point!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45738008)

Weird, looks like Family Dinner(TM) ended 20 minutes ago (see http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264418&forum_id=2#45738308), but EPAH still hasn't found this thread yet even though he did make some time to "pwn" me in another thread after he finished washing the dishes and put away the delicious leftovers. Odd case. Hope he sees this thread soon!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45738412)

EPAH?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45740339)

"B-b-but TRUMP!"

Any other comments, Benzo? Or naw, that's it, that's the "response"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45742682)

OK so you're the better man because you actually really do deeply care about principles. Congrats, that's great.

So since you're a deeply principled man and not just a hypocritical piece of shit faggot partisan like me and the rest of my disgusting Trumpmos, would you like to weigh in with your principled substantive take on these revelations re Adam Schiff, now that you've adequately established that we're all pieces of shit and we've gotten that part out of the way?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45744112)

He was nearly as unhinged as that conservative treehouse guy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45745707)

For those keeping track at home:

Benzo -- "B-b-but Trump sucks!!!"

EPAH -- Absent for the 2nd day

Obeezy -- Absent for the 2nd day

Psycho Karen -- Absent for the 2nd day

Odd case. Not sure why XO's most prominent and brilliant libs are all struggling so hard ITT (or just studiously avoiding it entirely). Don't they usually love to come into political threads and fuck shit up and show these retarded conspiracy-minded Trumpmos a thing or two? Truly a "mystery" for "the ages," IMO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45743928)

Day 5: "No movement"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45760015)

"Haha yeah haha"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45762907)

so why not just take the L, have a laugh about it, and move on?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264395&forum_id=2#45763409)