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The Twitter Files, Part Six

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may not mind it because you're side won. But that is incredibly short-sided. What if the FBI decides to sway an election to a candidate you don't support sometime in the future? See where this is going?

Yeah, like what if one of the parties had their emails hacked by a foreign state, and then a week or so before the election, against their own policy, the FBI issued a press release about how they were urgently reopening an investigation not into the hack but into possible wrongdoing by the hacked candidate? And then later acknowledged there was no wrongdoing? You're right; I really hate to think about what the fallo…

But the FBI was not actively hacking the emails. You are really just proving my point about the FBI unnecessarily involving itself in these issues. They are supposed to be impartial. That's this story should be taken seriously from a bipartisan perspective.

Re: The Twitter Files, Part Six

#32

The FBI working with Twitter to censor the free speech of Americans is apparently not newsworthy enough for HN readers.

Probably because it's relatively small potatoes after the Snowden PRISM revelations. And that the new ownership of Twitter is illustrating that the platform is irrevocably compromised regardless of who was doing it. If it wasn't the feds, it'd be the legions of for-pay spambots that are always there.

Re: The Twitter Files, Part Six

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The FBI working with Twitter to censor the free speech of Americans is apparently not newsworthy enough for HN readers.

Possibly. It's unclear how botted or Discorded this place has become. Some weird brigading makes me suspect it has quite a bit.

You reckon it's the FBI?

Re: The Twitter Files, Part Six

#34
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, like what if one of the parties had their emails hacked by a foreign state, and then a week or so before the election, against their own policy, the FBI issued a press release about how they were urgently reopening an investigation not into the hack but into possible wrongdoing by the hacked candidate? And then later acknowledged there was no wrongdoing? You're right; I really hate to think about what the fallo…

But the FBI was not actively hacking the emails. You are really just proving my point about the FBI unnecessarily involving itself in these issues. They are supposed to be impartial. That's this story should be taken seriously from a bipartisan perspective.

Looks like in this election their meddling was bipartisan, one of Taibbi's very own examples was jokingly intended to mislead GOP voters.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857581503569929

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"Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content." Is this a violation of the 1st Amendment or a way to skirt around it?

The problem was that it was entirely one way. This was not about dangerous misinformation. Many of the accounts they wanted suppressed were low-follower accounts making jokes. A ton of FBI agents paid to sway an election. Even if you are comfortable with the outcome of the election, what about future elections when they decide to back a candidate you do not support?

What do you mean by one way? They clearly asked for scrutiny of pro-Democratic tweeters in addition to pro-Republican ones:

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857581503569929

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857590299103232

Perhaps you should actually read Taibbi's work in this thread.

Re: The Twitter Files, Part Six

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3. Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary. 4. Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth. How is this constant? This is just 1 request every 7 days . I figured it would be more. Also, it's called the FBI. Their job is to investigate federal matters, which includes content on socia…

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Re: The Twitter Files, Part Six

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3. Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary. 4. Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth. How is this constant? This is just 1 request every 7 days . I figured it would be more. Also, it's called the FBI. Their job is to investigate federal matters, which includes content on socia…

Twitter Yoel Roth. It's clear from the emails attached in the link that there were other people within Twitter being contacted.
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