Thread: THE TWITTER FILES #1 Shows What Really Happened - Twitter's Suppression of The NY Post Hunter Biden Laptop Story

So when Are Facebook and Zuckerberg Up? And Google, LinkedIn, YouTube, Apple, OH! And THE ELECTIONS - It's More and More Likely that Trump Really Won

You can read this yourself, a Twitter thread that is the culmination of over 11,000 documents showing conversations, email clips, and naming names on how the Hunter Biden Laptop story was suppressed by Twitter:

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1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

And so it begins: all 33 Tweets are in one thread

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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.

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3. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.

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4. Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true real-time global conversation possible for the first time.

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5. In an early conception, Twitter more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people “the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”

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6. As time progressed, however, the company was slowly forced to add those barriers. Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters.

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7. Slowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly.

Here, Twitter hones in on particular tweets, suppressing a set of 5 explicitly mentioned tweets, with a reply, “Handled” as with that mission accomplished:

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8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”

Above: The first Tweet in the thread was archived by someone, so it is still visible here by clicking first on this tweet, then clicking on the Wayback Machine, which leads to the image below (Viewer Discretion, Adult Content):

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Checked the wayback machine for some of these items. Here's the first one. Warning... pornographic content. https://t.co/GQskNPAlnG

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8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.” https://t.co/mnv0YZI4af

The thread of Tweets goes all the way to #33, in a rather exhausting display that concludes with a poll of Congress:

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33.Within a day, head of Public Policy Lauren Culbertson receives a ghastly letter/report from Carl Szabo of the research firm NetChoice, which had already polled 12 members of congress – 9 Rs and 3 Democrats, from “the House Judiciary Committee to Rep. Judy Chu’s office.”

Below: In summary and in reply:

charlie @bbqchucken

@HarrisonKrank @elonmusk @kylenabecker @micsolana All this stuff is happening IN EVERY BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT

Nathalie 🌹 @NatLovesFun

@elonmusk @micsolana 😮😮👇🙃😛

Lavern Spicer 🇺🇸 @lavern_spicer

In case you haven’t noticed, @HillaryClinton has turned off the replies to all her tweets as of tonight 😂

Catalina Lauf @CatalinaLauf

@elonmusk @micsolana My friend got a lifetime ban for the following tweets exposing big Pharma and Wall Street (she used to work on Wall Street) please see attachments below⬇️

David @DavidCaseWeeks5

@elonmusk @micsolana This is the kind of transparency the people of America expect. What will our government and representatives do with this information? I expect them to hold each of them accountable

Above: Bingo! I expect “someone” to hold “someone” responsible!

So when Are Facebook and Zuckerburg Up? And Google, LinkedIn, YouTube, Apple, OH! And THE ELECTIONS - It's More Likely that Trump Really Won.

Oh - and keep track of all the “self-cancelled” Twitter accounts, yes?

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