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Previously: Twitter Files #6 Shows the Government Telling Twitter to Shut It Down
Matt Taibbi has added a supplemental to the Twitter Files he did over the weekend, showing yet more government interference in Twitter’s censorship program.
You know what? It’s not even interference. The government was running Twitter’s censorship program. Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d threatened Jack Dorsey.
The FBI responded to Taibbi’s most recent report, saying it is all very normal.
This is outrageous. The Chinaman named himself Elvis.
https://t.co/mz7AFoolHV July of 2020, San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan tells Twitter executive Yoel Roth to expect written questions from the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), the inter-agency group that deals with cyber threats. pic.twitter.com/V4zNYnF81W
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 18, 2022
https://t.co/0PiyFHVTrc would think that would be good news. The agencies seemed to feel otherwise.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 18, 2022
6.The task force demanded to know how Twitter came to its unpopular conclusion. Oddly, it included a bibliography of public sources – including a Wall Street Journal article – attesting to the prevalence of foreign threats, as if to show Twitter they got it wrong.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 18, 2022
This is what intelligence agencies in America always, always do – they plant stories in New York Times or Wall Street Journal, then they cite those stories as proof.
I’m surprised they didn’t note that Dick Cheney and the CIA did this to start the Iraq War. Cheney would plant stories about Iraq WMD hoaxes, then come out the next day holding up the newspaper.
8.He added he was not “comfortable with the Bureau (and by extension the IC) demanding written answers.” The idea of the FBI acting as conduit for the Intelligence Community is interesting, given that many agencies are barred from domestic operations.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 18, 2022
10.Roth suggested they “get on the phone with Elvis ASAP and try to straighten this out,” to disabuse the agencies of any notion that state propaganda is not a “thing” on Twitter.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 18, 2022
12.The FBI responded to Friday’s report by saying it “regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities.” pic.twitter.com/fkJrLjPKlN
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 18, 2022
https://t.co/p7t3Dnsk09 @BariWeiss and @ShellenbergerMD for more from the Twitter Files.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 18, 2022
Poor Billy Baldwin.
What did he even do?
Again, I’ll say: Twitter Files are interesting, even if it is all obvious. This is totally illegal, of course – and the FBI is not trying to deny it, they’re just saying they do it all the time and it’s very normal.
I really don’t want Elon to quit being CEO. This is all too much fun.
