This is when you know you’re in an abusive relationship with your government pic.twitter.com/1XxNHgYN7d
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) December 21, 2022
This is when you know you’re in an abusive relationship with your government pic.twitter.com/1XxNHgYN7d
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) December 21, 2022
TWITTER FILES PART 8: How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign
Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations.
Twitter has claimed for years that they make concerted efforts to detect & thwart gov-backed platform manipulation. Here is Twitter testifying to Congress about its pledge to rapidly identify and shut down all state-backed covert information operations & deceptive propaganda. […]
But behind the scenes, Twitter gave approval & special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological influence ops. Despite knowledge that Pentagon propaganda accounts used covert identities, Twitter did not suspend many for around 2 years or more. Some remain active.
A good summary here.
The Daily Mail has finally picked up the FBI angle.
1. TWITTER FILES: PART 7
The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop
How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) December 19, 2022
As of 2020, there were so many former FBI employees — “Bu alumni” — working at Twitter that they had created their own private Slack channel and a crib sheet to onboard new FBI arrivals.
3. Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
Heritage Minister @pablorodriguez: Facebook must pay $100M for links to news or stop linking to news under Bill C-18.
Facebook: Ok, we’ll stop linking to news.
Rodriguez: Stop intimidating Canadians.
We live in the stupidest of times.
Anyone recognize this person or car? pic.twitter.com/2U0Eyx7iwl
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022
The Twitter Files, Part 5: “I think we’d have a hard time saying this is incitement,” wrote one staffer.
25. But Twitter executives did ban Trump, even though key staffers said that Trump had not incited violence—not even in a “coded” way.
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 12, 2022
Less than 24 hours later they were eager to expand their new powers to Covid.
We got a 35yo guy working at Twitter since his late 20s. Swarthmore Political Science + Film & Media Studies, UPenn PhD in Communication. Aspen Institute’s “Commission on Information Disorder”; researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center’s “Dangerous Speech Project”, etc., etc.
He’s in position to shape the flow of speech in America at highest level, effecting the interactions and sightlines to information for millions of people. Has power to help cut off the President of the United States from his primary vehicle of digital communication to citizens…
Why, after Trump was elected, did Twitter hire over a dozen ex FBI/CIA agents and place them in Senior Management roles?
The Twitter Files, Part 4 begins…
1. TWITTER FILES, PART 4
The Removal of Donald Trump: January 7
As the pressure builds, Twitter executives build the case for a permanent ban
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) December 10, 2022
These threads take a while to develop, so be patient.
Biggest bombshell with regards to Twitters failure to remove child sexual abuse material dropping today or very soon. I have been asked to go on Spaces directly after the drop to unpack.
Buckle up.
Link to Eliza’s Spaces here. (7pm Eastern USA 6pm Central USA 4pm Pacific USA)
This Youtube account will be livestreaming the Spaces event when it begins. (I’ll change the address if I find something better).
And this is one hell of a thread, in response to a set of sudden resignations from Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council today.

Charlie Kirk: So let me get this straight… Not only was Anthony Fauci’s daughter a Twitter employee, but John Podesta’s niece just resigned from Twitter’s “Trust and Safety” Council??
And now, a new drop from Matt Taibbi.
1. THREAD: The Twitter Files
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
Busy night.
7:32pm Update: There’s some crazy stuff on Taibbi’s (ongoing) thread. do read it from beginning to end, but this portion about Mike Huckabee joke tweet is amazing.
With the deep state’s swamp creature now evicted, THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO: TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
1. A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022
Update from Andy Ngo: @MrAndyNgo; Bari doesn’t name too many names but the head of Twitter’s Strategic Response Team when secret actions were taken to stifle conservative accounts happened under Jeff Carlton, who worked for both CIA & FBI. He just deleted his LinkedIn.
Twitter’s Largest Advertiser [Apple] Returns to Platform, Has Now ‘Fully Resumed’ Spending
An FBI agent testified to Republican attorneys general this week that the FBI held weekly meetings with Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley ahead of the 2020 presidential election to discuss “disinformation” on social media and ask about efforts to censor that information.
On Tuesday, lawyers from the offices of Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana deposed FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan as part of their lawsuit against the Biden administration. That suit accuses high-ranking government officials of working with giant social media companies “under the guise of combating misinformation” to achieve greater censorship.
Chan, who serves in the FBI’s San Francisco bureau, was questioned under oath by court order about his alleged “critical role” in “coordinating with social-media platforms relating to censorship and suppression of speech on their platforms.”
During the deposition, Chan said that he, along with the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and senior Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials, had weekly meetings with major social media companies to warn against Russian disinformation attempts ahead of the 2020 election, according to a source in the Missouri attorney general’s office.
@elonmusk – What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!
Developing…
WOW. Matt Taibbi.
2. What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
Reaction from actor James Woods, who discovered today that he was targeted by the DNC.
.@RealJamesWoods tells Tucker Carlson that he will be suing the DNC following the bombshell revelations regarding Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Read more: https://t.co/meBInrZRHE pic.twitter.com/aygncjmShL
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) December 3, 2022
The people have spoken.
Trump will be reinstated.
Vox Populi, Vox Dei. https://t.co/jmkhFuyfkv
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2022
Kathie Griffin, Jorden Peterson & Babylon Bee have been reinstated.
Trump decision has not yet been made.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022