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Journalist Matt Taibbi released the latest batch of The Twitter Files on Tuesday, this thread titled, “How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In.”
In August 2017, Twitter was not worried about getting caught up in the establishment’s claims of Russian election meddling disinformation spreading on social media and encouraged those interested to look into Facebook instead.
Soon, Democrat Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) began complaining the company wasn’t censoring enough of this supposed Russian propaganda.
Twitter Public Policy VP Colin Crowell later met with congressional leaders and reported back to the company, explaining Senator Warner said the Democrats were taking orders from Hillary Clinton to keep the Russiagate nonsense in the news and to pressure Big Tech to “keep producing material” for them.
That same week, Clinton had said, “It’s time for Twitter to stop dragging its heels and live up to the fact that its platform is being used as a tool for cyber-warfare.”
The company soon created a “Russia Task Force” to do the bidding of the Democrat politicians, but the group didn’t find any evidence of a coordinated scheme coming from Russia.
After accurately reporting their minimal findings regarding Russian activity, the leftist establishment again came after Twitter.
Congress claimed it might pass legislation costing Twitter advertising revenue if they didn’t play along with the phony Russia narrative.
With the tech company preparing to submit to congressional threats and remove accounts like Russia Today and Sputnik, someone in the halls of Congress leaked the legislation being crafted in an attempt to add 2700 additional accounts to the list of alleged Russian disinformation spreaders.
Soon, as Taibbi explained, Twitter was apologizing for and removing the same accounts they’d initially told the Senate were not a problem.
Internal company messages also revealed leadership understood that both journalists and the government now had them right where they wanted.
“Reporters now know that this is a model that works,” regarding the press publicly calling for accounts to be banned and in turn pressuring the company.
When it came to the intelligence community’s involvement in calling for accounts to be censored, Twitter leadership wrote, “We will not be reverting to the status quo.”
Taibbi ended the thread by informing followers he’d release another one shortly. CLICK HERE to read about that drop.