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The fusion of corporations and the state is a classic hallmark of fascism. I know ignorant shitlibs like to water down and throw this term at anyone they don’t like, but the #twitterfiles show you their true colors: the state commanding corporations in pursuit of censorship.

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) December 3, 2022

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What are you talking about? That Taibbi confirmed there was no government involvement in the media response to the laptop story is the biggest reveal of Taibbi's thread to nowhere.

22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022

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Yup, Twitter effed this up on their own. The government didn't have to do anything.

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Twitter didn't eff up. Twitter did what it wanted to do. Just like Fox News does.

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IMO Twitter's action allowed the story more attention than it would have gotten otherwise (ultimately, voters don't really care about Hunter Biden). I don't think they got their desired result.

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I disagree. That story was the chosen right wing story for that election. Like caravans in 2018 and crime in 2022. Right wing media will boost their story at all costs. They rely on that forcing corporate media to do the same. The fact that corporate media didn't take the bait on this non-story is a good thing.

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Well it's more like a story of truth. The FBI had Hunters laptop on them and was advising Facebook and others not to trust the laptop story. Zuckerberg said on Rogan that the social media companies had weekly "Security briefings" with the FBI. He essentially said the FBI advised him that the story was russian disinfo. They immediately stopped the story from having any reach after. Days later, the rest of the soc media companies followed suit. Strange that...

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Don't forget 51 lying Intell officials who claim it was all "Russian disinformation".

They called us Election Deniers for two years for pointing out that Big Tech helped rig the 2020 election by censoring the Biden laptop.

Now their "Big Lie" has been revealed.

What else are they lying about?

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) December 3, 2022

Does movielover think seeing Hunter's junk would really help Trump win the election? Are GOPers that deranged?

so Elon Musk throws Matt Taibbi thousands of documents for the Twitter Files & Taibbi himself claims he saw evidence implicating Trump’s White House, the actual administration in power, and Taibbi decides to…dive into the Hunter Biden stuff!!

lmao pic.twitter.com/vewqjDEGcy

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 3, 2022

I used to be a liberal then I saw that Hunter Biden took pictures of his dong and now I hate critical race theory

— Mike MacLennan (@MacLennanMike1) December 3, 2022

All this Hunter Biden nothing burger really reconfirms is how absolutely reliant these guys are on social media to sway the outcome of elections. They were counting on it.

(Because that's where the 2016 collusion was happening.)

— The Dragnet News - Solidarity with 🇺🇦 🌻 (@Dragnet_News) December 3, 2022

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The fusion of corporations and the state is a classic hallmark of fascism. I know ignorant shitlibs like to water down and throw this term at anyone they don’t like, but the #twitterfiles show you their true colors: the state commanding corporations in pursuit of censorship.

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) December 3, 2022

yep

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What are you talking about? That Taibbi confirmed there was no government involvement in the media response to the laptop story is the biggest reveal of Taibbi's thread to nowhere.

22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022

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Yup, Twitter effed this up on their own. The government didn't have to do anything.

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Twitter didn't eff up. Twitter did what it wanted to do. Just like Fox News does.

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IMO Twitter's action allowed the story more attention than it would have gotten otherwise (ultimately, voters don't really care about Hunter Biden). I don't think they got their desired result.

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I disagree. That story was the chosen right wing story for that election. Like caravans in 2018 and crime in 2022. Right wing media will boost their story at all costs. They rely on that forcing corporate media to do the same. The fact that corporate media didn't take the bait on this non-story is a good thing.

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Well it's more like a story of truth. The FBI had Hunters laptop on them and was advising Facebook and others not to trust the laptop story. Zuckerberg said on Rogan that the social media companies had weekly "Security briefings" with the FBI. He essentially said the FBI advised him that the story was russian disinfo. They immediately stopped the story from having any reach after. Days later, the rest of the soc media companies followed suit. Strange that...

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Post a link. Matt Taibbi just said no such thing happened with Twitter in his thread to nowhere. Also, that was during Trump's Presidency so you must be really mad at Trump if you believe that.

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Pretty quiet in here once I started asking righties to post links to support their claims

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The fusion of corporations and the state is a classic hallmark of fascism. I know ignorant shitlibs like to water down and throw this term at anyone they don’t like, but the #twitterfiles show you their true colors: the state commanding corporations in pursuit of censorship.

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) December 3, 2022

yep

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What are you talking about? That Taibbi confirmed there was no government involvement in the media response to the laptop story is the biggest reveal of Taibbi's thread to nowhere.

22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022

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Yup, Twitter effed this up on their own. The government didn't have to do anything.

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Twitter didn't eff up. Twitter did what it wanted to do. Just like Fox News does.

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IMO Twitter's action allowed the story more attention than it would have gotten otherwise (ultimately, voters don't really care about Hunter Biden). I don't think they got their desired result.

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I disagree. That story was the chosen right wing story for that election. Like caravans in 2018 and crime in 2022. Right wing media will boost their story at all costs. They rely on that forcing corporate media to do the same. The fact that corporate media didn't take the bait on this non-story is a good thing.

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Well it's more like a story of truth. The FBI had Hunters laptop on them and was advising Facebook and others not to trust the laptop story. Zuckerberg said on Rogan that the social media companies had weekly "Security briefings" with the FBI. He essentially said the FBI advised him that the story was russian disinfo. They immediately stopped the story from having any reach after. Days later, the rest of the soc media companies followed suit. Strange that...

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Post a link. Matt Taibbi just said no such thing happened with Twitter in his thread to nowhere. Also, that was during Trump's Presidency so you must be really mad at Trump if you believe that.

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Pretty quiet in here once I started asking righties to post links to support their claims

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As many of us have long suspected, there were back channels between Twitter and the Biden 2020 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to ban critics or remove negative stories. Those seeking to discuss the scandal were simply "handled," and nothing else had to be said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer/amp/

There also is James Baker, the controversial former FBI general counsel involved in the bureau's Russia collusion investigation. He left the FBI and became Twitter's deputy general counsel.

The internal company documents released by Musk reinforce what we have seen previously in other instances of Twitter censorship. A recent federal filing revealed a 2021 email between Twitter executives and Carol Crawford, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's digital media chief. Crawford's back-channel communication sought to censor other "unapproved opinions" on social media; Twitter replied that "with our CEO testifying before Congress this week [it] is tricky."

At the time, Twitter's Dorsey and other tech CEOs were about to appear at a House hearing to discuss "misinformation" on social media and their "content modification" policies. I had just testified on private censorship in circumventing the First Amendment as a type of censorship by surrogate. Dorsey and the other CEOs were asked about my warning of a "'little brother' problem, a problem which private entities do for the government that which it cannot legally do for itself." In response, Dorsey insisted that "we don't have a censoring department."

The implications of these documents becomes more serious once the Biden campaign became the Biden administration. These documents show a back channel existed with President Biden's campaign officials, but those same back channels appear to have continued to be used by Biden administration officials.

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The fusion of corporations and the state is a classic hallmark of fascism. I know ignorant shitlibs like to water down and throw this term at anyone they don’t like, but the #twitterfiles show you their true colors: the state commanding corporations in pursuit of censorship.

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) December 3, 2022

yep

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What are you talking about? That Taibbi confirmed there was no government involvement in the media response to the laptop story is the biggest reveal of Taibbi's thread to nowhere.

22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022

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Yup, Twitter effed this up on their own. The government didn't have to do anything.

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Twitter didn't eff up. Twitter did what it wanted to do. Just like Fox News does.

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IMO Twitter's action allowed the story more attention than it would have gotten otherwise (ultimately, voters don't really care about Hunter Biden). I don't think they got their desired result.

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I disagree. That story was the chosen right wing story for that election. Like caravans in 2018 and crime in 2022. Right wing media will boost their story at all costs. They rely on that forcing corporate media to do the same. The fact that corporate media didn't take the bait on this non-story is a good thing.

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Well it's more like a story of truth. The FBI had Hunters laptop on them and was advising Facebook and others not to trust the laptop story. Zuckerberg said on Rogan that the social media companies had weekly "Security briefings" with the FBI. He essentially said the FBI advised him that the story was russian disinfo. They immediately stopped the story from having any reach after. Days later, the rest of the soc media companies followed suit. Strange that...

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Post a link. Matt Taibbi just said no such thing happened with Twitter in his thread to nowhere. Also, that was during Trump's Presidency so you must be really mad at Trump if you believe that.

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Pretty quiet in here once I started asking righties to post links to support their claims

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As many of us have long suspected, there were back channels between Twitter and the Biden 2020 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to ban critics or remove negative stories. Those seeking to discuss the scandal were simply "handled," and nothing else had to be said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer/amp/

There also is James Baker, the controversial former FBI general counsel involved in the bureau's Russia collusion investigation. He left the FBI and became Twitter's deputy general counsel.

The internal company documents released by Musk reinforce what we have seen previously in other instances of Twitter censorship. A recent federal filing revealed a 2021 email between Twitter executives and Carol Crawford, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's digital media chief. Crawford's back-channel communication sought to censor other "unapproved opinions" on social media; Twitter replied that "with our CEO testifying before Congress this week [it] is tricky."

At the time, Twitter's Dorsey and other tech CEOs were about to appear at a House hearing to discuss "misinformation" on social media and their "content modification" policies. I had just testified on private censorship in circumventing the First Amendment as a type of censorship by surrogate. Dorsey and the other CEOs were asked about my warning of a "'little brother' problem, a problem which private entities do for the government that which it cannot legally do for itself." In response, Dorsey insisted that "we don't have a censoring department."

The implications of these documents becomes more serious once the Biden campaign became the Biden administration. These documents show a back channel existed with President Biden's campaign officials, but those same back channels appear to have continued to be used by Biden administration officials.

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Backchannel? Wow. Sounds nefarious.

Both President Trump and candidate Biden made requests of Twitter that were honored. Would be nice if Fox News did the same for Democrats.

so Elon Musk throws Matt Taibbi thousands of documents for the Twitter Files & Taibbi himself claims he saw evidence implicating Trump’s White House, the actual administration in power, and Taibbi decides to…dive into the Hunter Biden stuff!!

lmao pic.twitter.com/vewqjDEGcy

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 3, 2022

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What did the Democrats at Twitter suppress for the Republicans to help the Republicans win the presidential election?

The issue is that the world knows Hunter Biden is a crack-addled ne'er-do-well who no one in the real world would want to do business with. So why did they?

Because his father has a decades-long history--going back to being Senator MNBA--of trading his influence for income. https://t.co/tnYEI7dJfv

— Shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) December 4, 2022

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The fusion of corporations and the state is a classic hallmark of fascism. I know ignorant shitlibs like to water down and throw this term at anyone they don’t like, but the #twitterfiles show you their true colors: the state commanding corporations in pursuit of censorship.

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) December 3, 2022

yep

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What are you talking about? That Taibbi confirmed there was no government involvement in the media response to the laptop story is the biggest reveal of Taibbi's thread to nowhere.

22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022

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Yup, Twitter effed this up on their own. The government didn't have to do anything.

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Twitter didn't eff up. Twitter did what it wanted to do. Just like Fox News does.

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IMO Twitter's action allowed the story more attention than it would have gotten otherwise (ultimately, voters don't really care about Hunter Biden). I don't think they got their desired result.

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I disagree. That story was the chosen right wing story for that election. Like caravans in 2018 and crime in 2022. Right wing media will boost their story at all costs. They rely on that forcing corporate media to do the same. The fact that corporate media didn't take the bait on this non-story is a good thing.

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Well it's more like a story of truth. The FBI had Hunters laptop on them and was advising Facebook and others not to trust the laptop story. Zuckerberg said on Rogan that the social media companies had weekly "Security briefings" with the FBI. He essentially said the FBI advised him that the story was russian disinfo. They immediately stopped the story from having any reach after. Days later, the rest of the soc media companies followed suit. Strange that...

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Post a link. Matt Taibbi just said no such thing happened with Twitter in his thread to nowhere. Also, that was during Trump's Presidency so you must be really mad at Trump if you believe that.

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Pretty quiet in here once I started asking righties to post links to support their claims

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As many of us have long suspected, there were back channels between Twitter and the Biden 2020 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to ban critics or remove negative stories. Those seeking to discuss the scandal were simply "handled," and nothing else had to be said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer/amp/

There also is James Baker, the controversial former FBI general counsel involved in the bureau's Russia collusion investigation. He left the FBI and became Twitter's deputy general counsel.

The internal company documents released by Musk reinforce what we have seen previously in other instances of Twitter censorship. A recent federal filing revealed a 2021 email between Twitter executives and Carol Crawford, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's digital media chief. Crawford's back-channel communication sought to censor other "unapproved opinions" on social media; Twitter replied that "with our CEO testifying before Congress this week [it] is tricky."

At the time, Twitter's Dorsey and other tech CEOs were about to appear at a House hearing to discuss "misinformation" on social media and their "content modification" policies. I had just testified on private censorship in circumventing the First Amendment as a type of censorship by surrogate. Dorsey and the other CEOs were asked about my warning of a "'little brother' problem, a problem which private entities do for the government that which it cannot legally do for itself." In response, Dorsey insisted that "we don't have a censoring department."

The implications of these documents becomes more serious once the Biden campaign became the Biden administration. These documents show a back channel existed with President Biden's campaign officials, but those same back channels appear to have continued to be used by Biden administration officials.

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Backchannel? Wow. Sounds nefarious.

Both President Trump and candidate Biden made requests of Twitter that were honored. Would be nice if Fox News did the same for Democrats.

so Elon Musk throws Matt Taibbi thousands of documents for the Twitter Files & Taibbi himself claims he saw evidence implicating Trump’s White House, the actual administration in power, and Taibbi decides to…dive into the Hunter Biden stuff!!

lmao pic.twitter.com/vewqjDEGcy

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 3, 2022

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What did the Democrats at Twitter suppress for the Republicans to help the Republicans win the presidential election?

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I don't think it's clear that the Hunter Biden story would have had any impact on the election at all.

They didn’t take the bait. The New York Post story was shunned. Social media platforms treated it as manufactured propaganda with questionable sourcing.

And conservative elites have been PISSED ever since.
(2/x)

— dave karpf (parody account) (@davekarpf) December 3, 2022

Trump got impeached the first time for trying to condition congressionally-approved military aid to Ukraine on Zelenskyy announcing an “investigation” of Biden corruption.

He wanted the appearance of corruption, so he could wrap the media’s attention around it.
(4/x)

— dave karpf (parody account) (@davekarpf) December 3, 2022

It didn’t work this time. They’ve been pouting ever since.

It’s a lot like a kid who loses a video game and starts slamming the controller, insisting it’s rigged or the system is cheating.

It’s NOT FAIR! Their plan was supposed to WORK! (6/x)

— dave karpf (parody account) (@davekarpf) December 3, 2022

They’re gonna keep bitching about it for years. It’s going to be louder and emptier than the Benghazi hearings.

The scandal is that their clever propaganda effort sank like a lead balloon. And that has to be SOMEONE ELSE’S fault.

That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
(Fin)

— dave karpf (parody account) (@davekarpf) December 3, 2022

i am in possession of irrefutable proof that some right wing influencers were used to launder this information in an attempt to scandalize the mundane

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) December 3, 2022

Except it's just the first of several releases.

Hunter Biden isn't an expert on energy, Ukraine, or China. He isn't a subject matter expert, isn't an accomplished lawyer, and doesn't have decades of experience with any of these areas. And he doesn't even speak Ukranian or Mandarin.

Hunter's laptop emails allegedly reveal that "the big guy" got 10%, and that Hunter Biden was tired of paying all the expenses for the family. Not to mention tawdry family details, pictures of hookers, crack use, and explosive claims by the young women in the family.

(ShipwreckedCrew is a former DOJ attorney with decades of experience as an attorney.)

The issue is that the world knows Hunter Biden is a crack-addled ne'er-do-well who no one in the real world would want to do business with. So why did they?

Because his father has a decades-long history--going back to being Senator MNBA--of trading his influence for income. https://t.co/tnYEI7dJfv

— Shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) December 4, 2022

RedState: Hunter Biden Was Set to Earn Millions For "Making Introductions" for the Benefit of Chinese Intelligence Operatives

By Shipwreckedcrew | 8:00 AM on October 15, 2020

"...Hunter Biden, drug addict and general ne're do well, is negotiating eight-figure "consulting" deals with Chinese businessmen tied to Chinese military just for making introductions and the world is supposed to shrug?..."

"...The terms as outlined included that six individuals identified by Hunter would receive "remuneration packages" from the venture. Biden was to be designated either the "Chair" or "Vice-Chair" of the enterprise depending on what CEFC would agree to....The deal also listed "10 Jim" and "10 held by H for the big guy?" Neither Jim nor the "big guy" was identified further...."

Joe Biden has a brother named James B. "Jim" Biden.

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Except it's just the first of several releases.

Hunter Biden isn't an expert on energy, Ukraine, or China. He isn't a subject matter expert, isn't an accomplished lawyer, and doesn't have decades of experience with any of these areas. And he doesn't even speak Ukranian or Mandarin.

Hunter's laptop emails allegedly reveal that "the big guy" got 10%, and that Hunter Biden was tired of paying all the expenses for the family. Not to mention tawdry family details, pictures of hookers, crack use, and explosive claims by the young women in the family.

(ShipwreckedCrew is a former DOJ attorney with decades of experience as an attorney.)

The issue is that the world knows Hunter Biden is a crack-addled ne'er-do-well who no one in the real world would want to do business with. So why did they?

Because his father has a decades-long history--going back to being Senator MNBA--of trading his influence for income. https://t.co/tnYEI7dJfv

— Shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) December 4, 2022

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It's not any more impactful when you post this tweet more than once in the same thread.

Also, your tweet doesn't even attempt to explain why Hunter Biden's millions are more outrageous than the billions The Trump family and Elon Musk got. It seems like Hunter Biden's corruption is a few orders of magnitude less than The Trumps or Elon Musk.

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The fusion of corporations and the state is a classic hallmark of fascism. I know ignorant shitlibs like to water down and throw this term at anyone they don’t like, but the #twitterfiles show you their true colors: the state commanding corporations in pursuit of censorship.

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) December 3, 2022

yep

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What are you talking about? That Taibbi confirmed there was no government involvement in the media response to the laptop story is the biggest reveal of Taibbi's thread to nowhere.

22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022

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Yup, Twitter effed this up on their own. The government didn't have to do anything.

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Twitter didn't eff up. Twitter did what it wanted to do. Just like Fox News does.

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IMO Twitter's action allowed the story more attention than it would have gotten otherwise (ultimately, voters don't really care about Hunter Biden). I don't think they got their desired result.

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I disagree. That story was the chosen right wing story for that election. Like caravans in 2018 and crime in 2022. Right wing media will boost their story at all costs. They rely on that forcing corporate media to do the same. The fact that corporate media didn't take the bait on this non-story is a good thing.

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Well it's more like a story of truth. The FBI had Hunters laptop on them and was advising Facebook and others not to trust the laptop story. Zuckerberg said on Rogan that the social media companies had weekly "Security briefings" with the FBI. He essentially said the FBI advised him that the story was russian disinfo. They immediately stopped the story from having any reach after. Days later, the rest of the soc media companies followed suit. Strange that...

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Post a link. Matt Taibbi just said no such thing happened with Twitter in his thread to nowhere. Also, that was during Trump's Presidency so you must be really mad at Trump if you believe that.

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Pretty quiet in here once I started asking righties to post links to support their claims

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As many of us have long suspected, there were back channels between Twitter and the Biden 2020 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to ban critics or remove negative stories. Those seeking to discuss the scandal were simply "handled," and nothing else had to be said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer/amp/

There also is James Baker, the controversial former FBI general counsel involved in the bureau's Russia collusion investigation. He left the FBI and became Twitter's deputy general counsel.

The internal company documents released by Musk reinforce what we have seen previously in other instances of Twitter censorship. A recent federal filing revealed a 2021 email between Twitter executives and Carol Crawford, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's digital media chief. Crawford's back-channel communication sought to censor other "unapproved opinions" on social media; Twitter replied that "with our CEO testifying before Congress this week [it] is tricky."

At the time, Twitter's Dorsey and other tech CEOs were about to appear at a House hearing to discuss "misinformation" on social media and their "content modification" policies. I had just testified on private censorship in circumventing the First Amendment as a type of censorship by surrogate. Dorsey and the other CEOs were asked about my warning of a "'little brother' problem, a problem which private entities do for the government that which it cannot legally do for itself." In response, Dorsey insisted that "we don't have a censoring department."

The implications of these documents becomes more serious once the Biden campaign became the Biden administration. These documents show a back channel existed with President Biden's campaign officials, but those same back channels appear to have continued to be used by Biden administration officials.

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Backchannel? Wow. Sounds nefarious.

Both President Trump and candidate Biden made requests of Twitter that were honored. Would be nice if Fox News did the same for Democrats.

so Elon Musk throws Matt Taibbi thousands of documents for the Twitter Files & Taibbi himself claims he saw evidence implicating Trump’s White House, the actual administration in power, and Taibbi decides to…dive into the Hunter Biden stuff!!

lmao pic.twitter.com/vewqjDEGcy

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 3, 2022

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What did the Democrats at Twitter suppress for the Republicans to help the Republicans win the presidential election?

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You tell me. I'm not the one obsessed with this non-story. Maybe more revenge porn and dick pics?

A better question is why didn't Taibbi report on President Trump's requests and what were the conditions Taibbi agreed to with Musk that he admitted to on his substack?

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Because it's practically non-existent because the staff at Twitter leans left.

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Except it's just the first of several releases.

Hunter Biden isn't an expert on energy, Ukraine, or China. He isn't a subject matter expert, isn't an accomplished lawyer, and doesn't have decades of experience with any of these areas. And he doesn't even speak Ukranian or Mandarin.

Hunter's laptop emails allegedly reveal that "the big guy" got 10%, and that Hunter Biden was tired of paying all the expenses for the family. Not to mention tawdry family details, pictures of hookers, crack use, and explosive claims by the young women in the family.

(ShipwreckedCrew is a former DOJ attorney with decades of experience as an attorney.)

The issue is that the world knows Hunter Biden is a crack-addled ne'er-do-well who no one in the real world would want to do business with. So why did they?

Because his father has a decades-long history--going back to being Senator MNBA--of trading his influence for income. https://t.co/tnYEI7dJfv

— Shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) December 4, 2022

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It's not any more impactful when you post this tweet more than once in the same thread.

Also, your tweet doesn't even attempt to explain why Hunter Biden's millions are more outrageous than the billions The Trump family and Elon Musk got. It seems like Hunter Biden's corruption is a few orders of magnitude less than The Trumps or Elon Musk.

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The issue is that the Democrats and Twitter colluded to stop the conversation for many Americans to decide on the outcome of an election. Government and big tech got together so that the public couldn't decide this issue for themselves by censoring it.

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The fusion of corporations and the state is a classic hallmark of fascism. I know ignorant shitlibs like to water down and throw this term at anyone they don’t like, but the #twitterfiles show you their true colors: the state commanding corporations in pursuit of censorship.

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) December 3, 2022

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What are you talking about? That Taibbi confirmed there was no government involvement in the media response to the laptop story is the biggest reveal of Taibbi's thread to nowhere.

22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022

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Yup, Twitter effed this up on their own. The government didn't have to do anything.

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Twitter didn't eff up. Twitter did what it wanted to do. Just like Fox News does.

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IMO Twitter's action allowed the story more attention than it would have gotten otherwise (ultimately, voters don't really care about Hunter Biden). I don't think they got their desired result.

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I disagree. That story was the chosen right wing story for that election. Like caravans in 2018 and crime in 2022. Right wing media will boost their story at all costs. They rely on that forcing corporate media to do the same. The fact that corporate media didn't take the bait on this non-story is a good thing.

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Well it's more like a story of truth. The FBI had Hunters laptop on them and was advising Facebook and others not to trust the laptop story. Zuckerberg said on Rogan that the social media companies had weekly "Security briefings" with the FBI. He essentially said the FBI advised him that the story was russian disinfo. They immediately stopped the story from having any reach after. Days later, the rest of the soc media companies followed suit. Strange that...

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Post a link. Matt Taibbi just said no such thing happened with Twitter in his thread to nowhere. Also, that was during Trump's Presidency so you must be really mad at Trump if you believe that.

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Pretty quiet in here once I started asking righties to post links to support their claims

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As many of us have long suspected, there were back channels between Twitter and the Biden 2020 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to ban critics or remove negative stories. Those seeking to discuss the scandal were simply "handled," and nothing else had to be said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer/amp/

There also is James Baker, the controversial former FBI general counsel involved in the bureau's Russia collusion investigation. He left the FBI and became Twitter's deputy general counsel.

The internal company documents released by Musk reinforce what we have seen previously in other instances of Twitter censorship. A recent federal filing revealed a 2021 email between Twitter executives and Carol Crawford, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's digital media chief. Crawford's back-channel communication sought to censor other "unapproved opinions" on social media; Twitter replied that "with our CEO testifying before Congress this week [it] is tricky."

At the time, Twitter's Dorsey and other tech CEOs were about to appear at a House hearing to discuss "misinformation" on social media and their "content modification" policies. I had just testified on private censorship in circumventing the First Amendment as a type of censorship by surrogate. Dorsey and the other CEOs were asked about my warning of a "'little brother' problem, a problem which private entities do for the government that which it cannot legally do for itself." In response, Dorsey insisted that "we don't have a censoring department."

The implications of these documents becomes more serious once the Biden campaign became the Biden administration. These documents show a back channel existed with President Biden's campaign officials, but those same back channels appear to have continued to be used by Biden administration officials.

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Backchannel? Wow. Sounds nefarious.

Both President Trump and candidate Biden made requests of Twitter that were honored. Would be nice if Fox News did the same for Democrats.

so Elon Musk throws Matt Taibbi thousands of documents for the Twitter Files & Taibbi himself claims he saw evidence implicating Trump’s White House, the actual administration in power, and Taibbi decides to…dive into the Hunter Biden stuff!!

lmao pic.twitter.com/vewqjDEGcy

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 3, 2022

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What did the Democrats at Twitter suppress for the Republicans to help the Republicans win the presidential election?

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You tell me. I'm not the one obsessed with this non-story. Maybe more revenge porn and dick pics?

A better question is why didn't Taibbi report on President Trump's requests and what were the conditions Taibbi agreed to with Musk that he admitted to on his substack?

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Because it's practically non-existent because the staff at Twitter leans left.

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Post a link with your evidence

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The fusion of corporations and the state is a classic hallmark of fascism. I know ignorant shitlibs like to water down and throw this term at anyone they don’t like, but the #twitterfiles show you their true colors: the state commanding corporations in pursuit of censorship.

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) December 3, 2022

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What are you talking about? That Taibbi confirmed there was no government involvement in the media response to the laptop story is the biggest reveal of Taibbi's thread to nowhere.

22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022

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Yup, Twitter effed this up on their own. The government didn't have to do anything.

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Twitter didn't eff up. Twitter did what it wanted to do. Just like Fox News does.

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IMO Twitter's action allowed the story more attention than it would have gotten otherwise (ultimately, voters don't really care about Hunter Biden). I don't think they got their desired result.

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I disagree. That story was the chosen right wing story for that election. Like caravans in 2018 and crime in 2022. Right wing media will boost their story at all costs. They rely on that forcing corporate media to do the same. The fact that corporate media didn't take the bait on this non-story is a good thing.

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Well it's more like a story of truth. The FBI had Hunters laptop on them and was advising Facebook and others not to trust the laptop story. Zuckerberg said on Rogan that the social media companies had weekly "Security briefings" with the FBI. He essentially said the FBI advised him that the story was russian disinfo. They immediately stopped the story from having any reach after. Days later, the rest of the soc media companies followed suit. Strange that...

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Post a link. Matt Taibbi just said no such thing happened with Twitter in his thread to nowhere. Also, that was during Trump's Presidency so you must be really mad at Trump if you believe that.

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Pretty quiet in here once I started asking righties to post links to support their claims

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As many of us have long suspected, there were back channels between Twitter and the Biden 2020 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to ban critics or remove negative stories. Those seeking to discuss the scandal were simply "handled," and nothing else had to be said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer/amp/

There also is James Baker, the controversial former FBI general counsel involved in the bureau's Russia collusion investigation. He left the FBI and became Twitter's deputy general counsel.

The internal company documents released by Musk reinforce what we have seen previously in other instances of Twitter censorship. A recent federal filing revealed a 2021 email between Twitter executives and Carol Crawford, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's digital media chief. Crawford's back-channel communication sought to censor other "unapproved opinions" on social media; Twitter replied that "with our CEO testifying before Congress this week [it] is tricky."

At the time, Twitter's Dorsey and other tech CEOs were about to appear at a House hearing to discuss "misinformation" on social media and their "content modification" policies. I had just testified on private censorship in circumventing the First Amendment as a type of censorship by surrogate. Dorsey and the other CEOs were asked about my warning of a "'little brother' problem, a problem which private entities do for the government that which it cannot legally do for itself." In response, Dorsey insisted that "we don't have a censoring department."

The implications of these documents becomes more serious once the Biden campaign became the Biden administration. These documents show a back channel existed with President Biden's campaign officials, but those same back channels appear to have continued to be used by Biden administration officials.

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Backchannel? Wow. Sounds nefarious.

Both President Trump and candidate Biden made requests of Twitter that were honored. Would be nice if Fox News did the same for Democrats.

so Elon Musk throws Matt Taibbi thousands of documents for the Twitter Files & Taibbi himself claims he saw evidence implicating Trump’s White House, the actual administration in power, and Taibbi decides to…dive into the Hunter Biden stuff!!

lmao pic.twitter.com/vewqjDEGcy

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 3, 2022

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What did the Democrats at Twitter suppress for the Republicans to help the Republicans win the presidential election?

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You tell me. I'm not the one obsessed with this non-story. Maybe more revenge porn and dick pics?

A better question is why didn't Taibbi report on President Trump's requests and what were the conditions Taibbi agreed to with Musk that he admitted to on his substack?

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Because it's practically non-existent because the staff at Twitter leans left.

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Post a link with your evidence

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That was easy. It is an open secret.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/totals?id=D000067113

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Except it's just the first of several releases.

Hunter Biden isn't an expert on energy, Ukraine, or China. He isn't a subject matter expert, isn't an accomplished lawyer, and doesn't have decades of experience with any of these areas. And he doesn't even speak Ukranian or Mandarin.

Hunter's laptop emails allegedly reveal that "the big guy" got 10%, and that Hunter Biden was tired of paying all the expenses for the family. Not to mention tawdry family details, pictures of hookers, crack use, and explosive claims by the young women in the family.

(ShipwreckedCrew is a former DOJ attorney with decades of experience as an attorney.)

The issue is that the world knows Hunter Biden is a crack-addled ne'er-do-well who no one in the real world would want to do business with. So why did they?

Because his father has a decades-long history--going back to being Senator MNBA--of trading his influence for income. https://t.co/tnYEI7dJfv

— Shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) December 4, 2022

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It's not any more impactful when you post this tweet more than once in the same thread.

Also, your tweet doesn't even attempt to explain why Hunter Biden's millions are more outrageous than the billions The Trump family and Elon Musk got. It seems like Hunter Biden's corruption is a few orders of magnitude less than The Trumps or Elon Musk.

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The issue is that the Democrats and Twitter colluded to stop the conversation for many Americans to decide on the outcome of an election. Government and big tech got together so that the public couldn't decide this issue for themselves by censoring it.

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I suspect you could make similar arguments for every election since the country was founded. The network news didn't cover the story about my scurrilous opponent. Time and Newsweek didn't cover the story about the scoundrel running against me. Five of the six newspapers in this town buried the embarrassing story about the other guy on page 12. The telegraph office didn't include the juiciest details about my opponent. The town crier was in the tank for my opponent, etc.

You still haven't given me a reason why I should be more outraged about Hunter Biden than about Jared Kushner and the younger Trumps. For the record, I find both sides despicable and an embarrassment.

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movielover said:

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Except it's just the first of several releases.

Hunter Biden isn't an expert on energy, Ukraine, or China. He isn't a subject matter expert, isn't an accomplished lawyer, and doesn't have decades of experience with any of these areas. And he doesn't even speak Ukranian or Mandarin.

Hunter's laptop emails allegedly reveal that "the big guy" got 10%, and that Hunter Biden was tired of paying all the expenses for the family. Not to mention tawdry family details, pictures of hookers, crack use, and explosive claims by the young women in the family.

(ShipwreckedCrew is a former DOJ attorney with decades of experience as an attorney.)

The issue is that the world knows Hunter Biden is a crack-addled ne'er-do-well who no one in the real world would want to do business with. So why did they?

Because his father has a decades-long history--going back to being Senator MNBA--of trading his influence for income. https://t.co/tnYEI7dJfv

— Shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) December 4, 2022

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It's not any more impactful when you post this tweet more than once in the same thread.

Also, your tweet doesn't even attempt to explain why Hunter Biden's millions are more outrageous than the billions The Trump family and Elon Musk got. It seems like Hunter Biden's corruption is a few orders of magnitude less than The Trumps or Elon Musk.

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The issue is that the Democrats and Twitter colluded to stop the conversation for many Americans to decide on the outcome of an election. Government and big tech got together so that the public couldn't decide this issue for themselves by censoring it.

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I suspect you could make similar arguments for every election since the country was founded. The network news didn't cover the story about my scurrilous opponent. Time and Newsweek didn't cover the story about the scoundrel running against me. Five of the six newspapers in this town buried the embarrassing story about the other guy on page 12. The telegraph office didn't include the juiciest details about my opponent. The town crier was in the tank for my opponent, etc.

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Actually, twitter users did tweet about the laptop story. Democrats at the tech company then wrongly labeled it as misinformation and then took it down.

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Except it's just the first of several releases.

Hunter Biden isn't an expert on energy, Ukraine, or China. He isn't a subject matter expert, isn't an accomplished lawyer, and doesn't have decades of experience with any of these areas. And he doesn't even speak Ukranian or Mandarin.

Hunter's laptop emails allegedly reveal that "the big guy" got 10%, and that Hunter Biden was tired of paying all the expenses for the family. Not to mention tawdry family details, pictures of hookers, crack use, and explosive claims by the young women in the family.

(ShipwreckedCrew is a former DOJ attorney with decades of experience as an attorney.)

The issue is that the world knows Hunter Biden is a crack-addled ne'er-do-well who no one in the real world would want to do business with. So why did they?

Because his father has a decades-long history--going back to being Senator MNBA--of trading his influence for income. https://t.co/tnYEI7dJfv

— Shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) December 4, 2022

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It's not any more impactful when you post this tweet more than once in the same thread.

Also, your tweet doesn't even attempt to explain why Hunter Biden's millions are more outrageous than the billions The Trump family and Elon Musk got. It seems like Hunter Biden's corruption is a few orders of magnitude less than The Trumps or Elon Musk.

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The issue is that the Democrats and Twitter colluded to stop the conversation for many Americans to decide on the outcome of an election. Government and big tech got together so that the public couldn't decide this issue for themselves by censoring it.

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I suspect you could make similar arguments for every election since the country was founded. The network news didn't cover the story about my scurrilous opponent. Time and Newsweek didn't cover the story about the scoundrel running against me. Five of the six newspapers in this town buried the embarrassing story about the other guy on page 12. The telegraph office didn't include the juiciest details about my opponent. The town crier was in the tank for my opponent, etc.

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Actually, twitter users did tweet about the laptop story. Democrats at the tech company then wrongly labeled it as misinformation and then took it down.

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Your initial mistake was thinking you could find news and the truth on Twitter. Also that after many, many debunked scandals, this time people would believe in the Hunter Biden story without a HUGE dose of skepticism. After all the time the laptop spent in the hands of partisan Republicans, I still have large suspicions that much of it could well be forgeries.

Deleting pornographic pictures of Hunter Biden was appropriate. Twitter's suppression of the New York Post story about Hunter’s laptop was far less defensible. But no amount of misguided rhetoric can transform a Twitter story into a government scandal. https://t.co/srFyYcFyDX

— David French (@DavidAFrench) December 3, 2022

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oski003 said:

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Eastern Oregon Bear said:

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oski003 said:

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Eastern Oregon Bear said:

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movielover said:

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Except it's just the first of several releases.

Hunter Biden isn't an expert on energy, Ukraine, or China. He isn't a subject matter expert, isn't an accomplished lawyer, and doesn't have decades of experience with any of these areas. And he doesn't even speak Ukranian or Mandarin.

Hunter's laptop emails allegedly reveal that "the big guy" got 10%, and that Hunter Biden was tired of paying all the expenses for the family. Not to mention tawdry family details, pictures of hookers, crack use, and explosive claims by the young women in the family.

(ShipwreckedCrew is a former DOJ attorney with decades of experience as an attorney.)

The issue is that the world knows Hunter Biden is a crack-addled ne'er-do-well who no one in the real world would want to do business with. So why did they?

Because his father has a decades-long history--going back to being Senator MNBA--of trading his influence for income. https://t.co/tnYEI7dJfv

— Shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) December 4, 2022

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It's not any more impactful when you post this tweet more than once in the same thread.

Also, your tweet doesn't even attempt to explain why Hunter Biden's millions are more outrageous than the billions The Trump family and Elon Musk got. It seems like Hunter Biden's corruption is a few orders of magnitude less than The Trumps or Elon Musk.

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The issue is that the Democrats and Twitter colluded to stop the conversation for many Americans to decide on the outcome of an election. Government and big tech got together so that the public couldn't decide this issue for themselves by censoring it.

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I suspect you could make similar arguments for every election since the country was founded. The network news didn't cover the story about my scurrilous opponent. Time and Newsweek didn't cover the story about the scoundrel running against me. Five of the six newspapers in this town buried the embarrassing story about the other guy on page 12. The telegraph office didn't include the juiciest details about my opponent. The town crier was in the tank for my opponent, etc.

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Actually, twitter users did tweet about the laptop story. Democrats at the tech company then wrongly labeled it as misinformation and then took it down.

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Your initial mistake was thinking you could find news and the truth on Twitter. Also that after many, many debunked scandals, this time people would believe in the Hunter Biden story without a HUGE dose of skepticism. After all the time the laptop spent in the hands of partisan Republicans, I still have large suspicions that much of it could well be forgeries.

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Facebook censored the story as well. People views the Hunter BIDEN story with skepticism because the government lied about it and told them too, just like their lies about Hillary's "Russian" dossier on Trump. Yes, people do use Twitter and Facebook for information, and they are incredibly influential. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/new-study-shows-twitter-is-the-most-used-social-media-platform-among-journa/626245/

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Deleting pornographic pictures of Hunter Biden was appropriate. Twitter's suppression of the New York Post story about Hunter’s laptop was far less defensible. But no amount of misguided rhetoric can transform a Twitter story into a government scandal. https://t.co/srFyYcFyDX

— David French (@DavidAFrench) December 3, 2022

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Conservatives have NEVER understood how the 1st A works. Or the rest of the constitution.

Liars, hypocrites, and morons.

New York Post: FBI, Big Tech, Big Media: Partners in collusion
By Michael Goodwin

"...Moreover, as Intercept reporter Lee Fang has detailed and as a former Twitter official confirmed, the FBI held weekly meetings in Silicon Valley with tech officials about policing disinformation. Of course, their definition of disinformation was so broad as to include virtually anything that made Joe Biden or Democrats
look bad."

"But knowing all that, it still would be naive to think we know the whole story. For example, we don't know who in the FBI was running the censoring operation, whether it was a rogue outfit or came from the top. Nor do we know if the operation continues now...."

"There is also a good chance the censorship effort involved other federal agencies. Fang and his Intercept colleague Ken Klippenstein reported in October that documents and court testimony show the Department of Homeland Security has "an expansive effort . . . to influence tech platforms." ..."

"The New York Times, for example, waited four days before printing a lazy article that tried to undermine the story by saying some Post newsroom employees were uncertain of its veracity. It's shocking even now to realize Times reporters had access to Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden's former partner, but refused to print that he confirmed the authenticity of the email naming Joe Biden as "the big guy" slated for a secret 10% cut in a joint venture with a Chinese conglomerate...."

"Did the president of the United States profit from the selling of access to him, and is he compromised in dealing with foreign powers? No one in Big Media seems to care.

"The other possibility for media complicity is they might have gone along as a favor to their FBI minders because it fit their shared agenda to defeat Trump and elect Biden.

"After all, they were teammates in a similar effort in 2016, the Russia hoax to try to elect Hillary Clinton. That one failed and they were determined to succeed this time. So better not look too closely at Biden...."

"Another unresolved piece of that alliance is the cabal of 51 former intelligence officers who signed a letter saying the laptop had "all the earmarks" of Russian disinformation. None had seen the laptop, but their letter became the story the media seized on and offered Joe Biden a lifeline in his next debate with Trump. Some signers still defend the letter, and not one has apologized for misleading the public...."

"And lest you forget their power, remember that Joe Biden was elected president because millions of voters were not allowed to learn The Post had unmasked his deep connections to his son's corrupt schemes.

"The people who did that are not threats to democracy. They are its destroyers."

https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/fbi-big-tech-big-media-partners-in-collusion/

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The fusion of corporations and the state is a classic hallmark of fascism. I know ignorant shitlibs like to water down and throw this term at anyone they don’t like, but the #twitterfiles show you their true colors: the state commanding corporations in pursuit of censorship.

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) December 3, 2022

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What are you talking about? That Taibbi confirmed there was no government involvement in the media response to the laptop story is the biggest reveal of Taibbi's thread to nowhere.

22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022

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Yup, Twitter effed this up on their own. The government didn't have to do anything.

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Twitter didn't eff up. Twitter did what it wanted to do. Just like Fox News does.

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IMO Twitter's action allowed the story more attention than it would have gotten otherwise (ultimately, voters don't really care about Hunter Biden). I don't think they got their desired result.

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I disagree. That story was the chosen right wing story for that election. Like caravans in 2018 and crime in 2022. Right wing media will boost their story at all costs. They rely on that forcing corporate media to do the same. The fact that corporate media didn't take the bait on this non-story is a good thing.

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Well it's more like a story of truth. The FBI had Hunters laptop on them and was advising Facebook and others not to trust the laptop story. Zuckerberg said on Rogan that the social media companies had weekly "Security briefings" with the FBI. He essentially said the FBI advised him that the story was russian disinfo. They immediately stopped the story from having any reach after. Days later, the rest of the soc media companies followed suit. Strange that...

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Post a link. Matt Taibbi just said no such thing happened with Twitter in his thread to nowhere. Also, that was during Trump's Presidency so you must be really mad at Trump if you believe that.

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Pretty quiet in here once I started asking righties to post links to support their claims

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As many of us have long suspected, there were back channels between Twitter and the Biden 2020 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to ban critics or remove negative stories. Those seeking to discuss the scandal were simply "handled," and nothing else had to be said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3760753-censorship-by-surrogate-why-musks-document-dump-could-be-a-game-changer/amp/

There also is James Baker, the controversial former FBI general counsel involved in the bureau's Russia collusion investigation. He left the FBI and became Twitter's deputy general counsel.

The internal company documents released by Musk reinforce what we have seen previously in other instances of Twitter censorship. A recent federal filing revealed a 2021 email between Twitter executives and Carol Crawford, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's digital media chief. Crawford's back-channel communication sought to censor other "unapproved opinions" on social media; Twitter replied that "with our CEO testifying before Congress this week [it] is tricky."

At the time, Twitter's Dorsey and other tech CEOs were about to appear at a House hearing to discuss "misinformation" on social media and their "content modification" policies. I had just testified on private censorship in circumventing the First Amendment as a type of censorship by surrogate. Dorsey and the other CEOs were asked about my warning of a "'little brother' problem, a problem which private entities do for the government that which it cannot legally do for itself." In response, Dorsey insisted that "we don't have a censoring department."

The implications of these documents becomes more serious once the Biden campaign became the Biden administration. These documents show a back channel existed with President Biden's campaign officials, but those same back channels appear to have continued to be used by Biden administration officials.

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Backchannel? Wow. Sounds nefarious.

Both President Trump and candidate Biden made requests of Twitter that were honored. Would be nice if Fox News did the same for Democrats.

so Elon Musk throws Matt Taibbi thousands of documents for the Twitter Files & Taibbi himself claims he saw evidence implicating Trump’s White House, the actual administration in power, and Taibbi decides to…dive into the Hunter Biden stuff!!

lmao pic.twitter.com/vewqjDEGcy

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 3, 2022

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What did the Democrats at Twitter suppress for the Republicans to help the Republicans win the presidential election?

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You tell me. I'm not the one obsessed with this non-story. Maybe more revenge porn and dick pics?

A better question is why didn't Taibbi report on President Trump's requests and what were the conditions Taibbi agreed to with Musk that he admitted to on his substack?

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Because it's practically non-existent because the staff at Twitter leans left.

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Post a link with your evidence

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That was easy. It is an open secret.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/totals?id=D000067113

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Post a link that proves your claim there was an imbalance between how Twitter responded to President Trump claims vs. Candidate Biden requests.

We don't know because Musk / Taibbi only talked about Hunter Biden's non-story because they have an agenda.

And even if they did, how is that different from what Fox News does every day?

A Rolling Stone Democrat writer who also penned the book "Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus" wants to help President Trump?

In 2020, Big Tech pumped millions of $$$$ into the elections in swing states while colluding with FBI in weekly meetings to censure and ban Americans.#TheCabal

— Election Wizard 🇺🇸 (@ElectionWiz) December 4, 2022