Twitter Files: Adam Schiff's office asked Twitter to suspend journalists they didn't like

The latest release of "Twitter Files" shared on Tuesday uncovered posts that revealed California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff's office asked the tech giant to suspend certain accounts that were critical of the left.

Substack journalist, Matt Taibbi reported that Twitter "received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned." In other words, those journalists who refused to slant their reporting to favor the Democrats should be silenced because that's how banana republics operate.

You may recall that Schiff publicly lied about former President Donald Trump regarding so called Russian collusion. He never admitted the lie nor apologized for spreading it, because, as Saul Alinsky said, "The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results." 

And that obviously includes lying.

An example Taibbi shared was a request sent to Twitter in November 2020 by Schiff's office. Schiff hoped the company would do something about  "alleged harassment from QAnon conspiracists" against Schiff's staff. One of the targets for removal was aide Sean Misko.

"Remove any and all content about Mr. Misko and other Committee staff from its service- to include quotes, retweets, and reactions to that content," the request to Twitter read. "Suspend the many accounts, including @GregRubini and @paulsperry, which have repeatedly promoted false QAnon conspiracies."

The office also asked Twitter to "stop the spread of future misinformation on Twitter" regarding committee staff and  "label and reduce the visibility of any content."

Taibbi wrote that the company initially declined to go along with Schiff's request saying "we don't do this," but noted that Sperry was later suspended.

It was also revealed that when Musk initially took over Twitter, the so called "Twitter Files" were vetted by the company's deputy general counsel Jim Baker. It was done without Musk's knowledge and involved the Hunter Biden story, which Baker covered up under the guise that " . . . we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked," adding, "it's reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted."

So the story got buried and Baker got fired.

Additionally, Taibbi reported, "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." 

The second installment of the "Twitter Files" was published by The Free Press editor Bari Weiss. The posts revealed Twitter's "blacklisting" of prominent conservatives, including Fox News' Dan Bongino, Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk, as well as Stanford University's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who opposed the COVID lockdowns and the groupthink during the pandemic.

One of the most egregious banning on the platform was the popular account Libs of TikTok, which never violated its "hateful conduct" policy but were suspended several times for allegedly doing so. The only thing that Libs of TikTok was guilty of was reposting the posts of idiots on the Left, thus showing the public how crazy the Left is.

Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter testified under oath to Congress in 2018 that the company did not censor or shadow-ban conservatives. He has never been indicted for lying.

Third, fourth and fifth installments of the "Twitter Files" focused on Trump's permanent suspension from the platform over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021. Taibbi wrote about how Twitter circulated tweets related to the election that were "flagged" by the FBI as being problematic. 

Independent reporter Michael Shellenberger wrote that Dorsey was "phoning it in" while on vacation at the time when his deputies were pushing to de-platform Trump. His former head of trust and safety [an oxymoron] Yoel Roth was leading the charge to get Trump thrown off Twitter and censor others over tweets about the 2020 election.

It was discovered that Roth met on a weekly basis with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the office of the Director of National Intelligence in the weeks leading up to the election.

Why the hell were the FBI and NIA getting involved in politics? And worse, why the hell are they violating the First Amendment rights of citizens? 

It seems like the only 'problematic' information they want to censor is the information that's a problem for them. Trump's tweets from Jan. 6 didn't violate any Twitter rules and staffers seemed to recognize that. But it was Vijaya Gadde, then-Twitter's head legal chief, who suggested that Trump's posts could be "coded incitement to further violence." 

Soon thereafter, Twitter's "scaled enforcement team" suggested that based on how Twitter interprets Trump's tweets, it could violate the violence incitement policies.

It's time for Adam Schiff and his band of Schiff-heads, to resign. Congress has no legal authority to make demands of the free speech of private companies.

That's bananas.

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Brian Stelter: there's a "fear" Elon Musk is Twitter's biggest shareholder

Is it karma that the Compromised News Network's Brian Stelter's initials are BS? Probably. 

The leftist "correspondent" seemed nervous and clammy about the world's richest person, Elon Musk becoming Twitter's largest shareholder at 9.2 percent, about twice as much as founder Jack Dorsey.

Musk woke up the nation Monday with an SEC filing the purchase of Twitter stock, nearly 73.5 million shares which caused the new price of the stock to rise 25 percent a the possibility of freedom to ring.

Musk is a "free speech guy" and recently appeared in a Babylon Bee interview, a company that was banned from Twitter for a satirical tweet saying that Rachel Levine, a man who believes himself to be a woman, won the "Man of the Year Award."

Twitter also banned former President Donald Trump and many others on  the right because they don't like what they have to say. What the Left labels 'misinformation" is information they disagree with and, in most cases, historically, conservatives have been more accurate with the information than the Left. And let's face it: a man is a man and a woman is a woman but got people banned from Twitter and other platforms just for pointing that out.

Musk has not been shy about saying Twitter is "failing to adhere to free speech principles" which he correctly insisted "fundamentally undermines democracy." He also asked his 80.3 million Twitter followers if a new social media platform was "needed."

Brian Stelter at CNN's annual "Hoes" event

On Monday, "Reliable Sources Daily," a show with an oxymoron for a title and a moron for a host, Brian Stelter who is "not gay," spoke about Musk's "surprise" move in a panel discussion with Clare Duffy. He asked her "whether he'll [Musk] continue to buy shares, become a bigger investor, and take action here."

"Elon has criticized Twitter for not allowing free enough speech. And so I think the big question will be whether he'll try to, you know, get Twitter to change its content moderation policies. He also suggested that maybe Twitter should make its algorithm open source so that people know how it works. So I think those are some of the changes we could potentially see, but, you know, Elon always also talks a big game," Duffy, not a fan of free speech said. "He knew what he was doing when he was sending out those tweets. And so, you know, it does suggest that he's gonna try to shake things up at Twitter."

By 'shake things up' Duffy means that he will allow diversity of opinions and not ban people for them, this is an unacceptable concept for the Left.

After CNN Business writer Sara O'Brien suggested "everyone wants to follow what the billionaires are doing" in response to Twitter's soaring stock value, Stelter, who may be suffering from trichotillomania, offered a outlook for anti-First Amendment advocates.

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"There's interest in billionaires, there's celebration of the Musk. There's also fear, I think, sometimes or wariness of- okay, so here's the richest man on the planet who just bought a big chunk of one of our most important communications tools," Stelter almost lisped. "He's also one of the biggest owners of satellites in the world. So he's incredibly powerful, incredibly, I don't know, am I allowed to use the word strange when talking about Elon Musk?"

Yes, you are allowed to say it Brian, because there's that old First Amendment thingy. 

See, I told you he is stupid.

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Trump pokes his finger in Zuckerberg's and Dorsey's eyeballs launching new communication platform

In a Fox News exclusive, former President Trump on Tuesday launched a communication platform that will soon give him the ability to communicate with his followers and anyone else who wants to do so. This comes after several months of being banned from sites run by leftists who simply don't want their garbage message stepped on, leftists like Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, CEOs of Facebook and Twitter respectively.

The platform will be known as "From the Desk of" and appears on DonaldJTrump.com/desk. It will allow Trump to post comments, videos and images, and while I don't know who will be a sponsor for the platform, if anyone, you can bet that if there will be, Mike Lindell will be the first to sign up.

The platform's technology appears to be powered by Campaign Nucleus— the "digital ecosystem made for efficiently managing political campaigns and organizations," created by Trump's former campaign manager, Brad Parscale.

And for your schadenfreude enjoyment, Trump's followers will be able to share his posts to Twitter and Facebook. Unfortunately, the platform has no feature to allow users to "reply" or otherwise engage, but perhaps it will in the future. Thus, it is a one-way communication.

Trump’s new platform surfaced Tuesday, after advisers had told Fox News that the former president planned to "move forward" to create a social media platform of his own after being banned from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat after the Capitol riot. Not surprisingly, not one of those platforms banned Rep. Maxine Waters and other Democrats who called for violence as in the George Floyd case should he have been found not guilty, and in other riots that CNN described as "mostly peaceful" as businesses burned in the background.

It unclear, at this point, if this platform is part of those plans, or if there is a separate project underway.

On Wednesday, Facebook's leftist Oversight Board is expected to announce whether they plan to ban Trump permanently from Facebook and Instagram where they haven't banned propaganda outlets for Iran and Palestine.

If they do decide to maintain a ban of Trump, perhaps it's time for those on the right to grow a pair and take a stand. 

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'Unplanned' movie causes Twitter explosion

Twitter went ballistic on Sunday after scores of folks were upset because they weren't able to follow the pro-life movie "Unplanned," which was shown in movies over the weekend.

The ongoing "mysterious" problems with the movie's Twitter account come after it was somehow banned on Saturday and was only reinstated later in that day after enough people complained. Twitter did not provide details on why the account was suspended and nobody can imagine why Jack Dorsey, a strong proponent of free speech, would allow such a thing to happen . . . just kidding.

On Sunday, thousands of people noted that every time they tried to follow the movie's account that their Twitter accounts automatically unfollowed the account moments later. 

Is it possible that Twitter advocates infanticide and is afraid to allow people to see the pro-life side of the issue and the rights of those who cannot advocate for themselves?

Actress Patricia Heaton tweeted: 

"Hey @jack - why aren’t you letting me follow @UnplannedMovie ? I’ve tried eight times to support my friend @AbbyJohnson and @Twitter won’t let me. Others are having the same issue. Please correct this. Thank you."

NewsBusters VP Dan Gainor tweeted: 

"What @Twitter is doing now is deliberately aimed at hurting @UnplannedMovie. I hope lawyers go after them. Eh @pnjaban? I'd love to see @jack cope with a few million documents worth of discovery."

Attorney and Fox News contributer Harmeet K. Dhillon tweeted: 

"Twitter is censoring @unplannedmovie and also interfering with the rights on this platform of over 100,000 other Twitter account holders to learn about the film. Who will hold Twitter accountable?"

Guy Benson tweeted: 

"Add me to the list. I’ve now defaulted back to not following @UnplannedMovie several times, despite my efforts to follow the account. @TwitterSupport"

Jason Howerton noted that "Unplanned" was not trending despite tens of thousands of recent tweets.

When will Twitter be considered a publisher and allow all sides a voice to speak?

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Bake the Cake but Don't Eat Chick-fil-A

Twitter Cowardly Executive Orifice (CEO) Jack Dorsey chickened out over Chick-fil-A after virtue signalers on the left told him he was wrong to eat at the Christian-owned franchise due to their religious views on gay marriage.

Now even food has become political. How stupid.

Dorsey [no relation to novelist Tim Dorsey, thankfully] tweeted a photo of a purchase he made at Chick-fil-A using a mobile application.

After liberal 'better-than-thou' twits bashed Dorsey for eating at an establishment whose ownership follows the precepts of Christianity and does not acknowledge the legitimacy of same-sex marriage, the chicken-poop CEO folded and apologized for removing the hand up his butt that controls his actions.

The left hand is once again up high into his nether regions.

The "biblical definition of a family," as Chief Executive Officer (the other CEO) Dan Cathy said in 2012, is between one man and one woman.

The Certainly Not News (CNN) network's Soledad O'Brien was among the most prominent idiots to call out Dorsey for having the audacity to not make every aspect of his life into a political statement. She indicated that Dorsey "sinned" publicly by eating at the Christian-owned franchise.

"You're right," Dorsey said in a meek, mouse-like tone. "Completely forgot about their background."

Ironically, in 2012 at an event, O'Brien had Chick-fil-A as her sponsor.

What a putz!

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