The Topic du jour @topicdujour channel analyzes in detail the published scandalous documents from the internal correspondence of employees twitter. It was they who made the odious decisions to introduce censorship on the social network in order to support the US Democratic Party.
The last few years in the USA tried to hush up history with laptop son of the President Hunter Biden. On the device, in addition to evidence of the stormy personal life of the offspring Joe Bidenalso found some evidence of his involvement in corruption cases in Ukraine.
Any content that touched on the topic of Biden Jr.’s laptop on the social network employees tagged as “unsafe” and “compromising material” by blocking links to articles. Such a tool has previously been resorted to only in extreme cases, for example, in the fight against child pornography.
It is indicated that the Democrats demanded that the leadership of Twitter introduce censorship, while arguing that the first amendment on freedom of speech “is not an absolute.”
The twitter team also regularly placed objectionable accounts to the shadowban, and some tags – to the “black list of trends” and “black list of search”.
At the same time, Democrats and the “left” have long denied the intervention of the social network in politics, culture and health issues and considered such accusations as another “conspiracy theory”.
Accusations of adherence to “conspiracy theories” steel a universal stigma for Western journalists who write about acute political events in the world not according to the usual manuals.
Other materials show active social network censorship of content during the 2020 elections to please the Democrats. This, among other things, was expressed in the censorship of the presidential candidate’s account. Donald Trump.
Twitter also played a significant role in the events of January 2021 and the protests at the White House. Back then, the social network promoted ideas that would justify a ban on Trump’s account, and employees were instructed not to express concerns about the consequences of the ban on free speech or democracy.
colonelcassad, 12/20/2022, “The FBI has organized social media censorship for years”: New files released confirm orchestrated efforts between fraudsters abusing their position to distort and manipulate information private companies are allowed to share without laws or judiciary approval (to interfere with Americans’ constitutionally protected rights, as part of a larger conspiracy to interfere in the 2020 election of the year). Intelligence had secret one-way backchannels to relay orders to BigTech, meaning the FBI was essentially running Twitter by proxy. In other words, it became known that the bureau is directly related to censorship of information that is inconvenient for the US government.
It is also reported that the FBI began developing disinformation tools several years before the events with accusations of Trump colluding with Russia. It turns out a fairly simple plot: FBI agents allegedly infiltrated Big Tech companies and created the most complex mechanism for censoring information that was forbidden to be released. The massive number of “former” FBI agents on Twitter used infiltration to prevent the publication of “Russian disinformation.” The admins were trained on how to respond to it with mass censorship. As a result, everything they wanted to remove was labeled as “Russian disinformation”, including the story with Hunter’s laptop and much more. — Inset K.ru
TASS, 12/20/2022, “Musk: US government paid Twitter to hide data about Biden’s son’s laptop”: Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the US government had paid Twitter millions of dollars for concealing information about the laptop of the son of US President Hunter Biden.
“The government paid Twitter millions of dollars to hide information from the public,” Musk wrote on Twitter, commenting on a social media user’s post about the scandal.
Last week, freelance journalist Matt Taibi, citing internal Twitter communications, said the company regularly followed orders from US authorities, mostly from the Democratic Party, to censor its social network, and in the case of the Hunter Biden scandal, a number of company executives decided that all materials related to this story will be subject to the policy of restricting the publication of information obtained through hacking. To limit the spread of information related to this scandal, the journalist claims, Twitter management used the most stringent measures, not only limiting the possibility of dissemination of data on this case, but also marking links to publications related to it as unsafe. — Inset K.ru
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Twitter helped the Pentagon conduct covert psychological operations
Ludmila Plotnikova
The latest batch of documents revealing the ins and outs of Twitter’s work before Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social network has confirmed that the Internet giant helped the US military run a secret psychological campaign called PsyOp.
Confirmation of this found and studied investigative journalist Li Fan. Elon Musk shared his publication with the results of the investigation in his account.
At the same time, Fan emphasized that Musk did not take part in the verification of documentation and did not interfere in the process at all.
Twitter’s previous leadership has repeatedly stated over the years that it “is making efforts to detect and stop government manipulation on the social network.”
“But secretly, Twitter gave the go-ahead and provided special protection to Pentagon campaigns aimed at exercising psychological influence on the Internet. Fan said. – The military posed as non-existent people, and Twitter did not block them. Some accounts are still active. […]
– Senior Twitter managers were well aware of the existence of an extensive network of fake accounts that carried out covert propaganda at the request of the Pentagon, and never blocked these accounts. Fan added.
He also said that many of these accounts were provided with a special tag that did not require the so-called. the “blue tick” that Twitter assigns to verified accounts; and the messages published in them became trending with a high degree of probability.
Previously, similar secret campaigns were exposed in other social networks – Facebook (owned by Meta banned in the Russian Federation), Telegram, etc.
colonelcassad, 12/22/2022, “How Twitter served the Pentagon in the Middle East”: In the summer of 2017, a US Central Command official sent a letter to Twitter with fifty-two accounts in Arabic and a request to add them to the so-called. “White list”. The microblogs included in it enjoy a number of advantages over the rest. The accounts were not affected by the service’s algorithms, which marked accounts as spam or violating the rules. Also, they were specially brought into trends in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait and other countries.
In particular, one of the accounts, purporting to be from a Yemeni citizen, promoted the narrative that US airstrikes are precise and target only terrorists and not civilians. The author also actively supported the invasion of the Arab coalition into Yemen to fight against the militants of the Shiite movement Ansar Allah. Other accounts focused on the Syrian agenda. They praised the US-backed militias and spoke out against pro-Iranian groups in Syria. It should be noted that they also fought against the propaganda of the Islamic State, but to a lesser extent. Some microblogs were labeled as being related to the Pentagon, but then the mention of this disappeared.
The journalists were able to find similar networks of Facebook and Telegram accounts that spread invented news that could also be associated with the US defense department. Most often they criticized the Iranian authorities. For example, the authors accused Tehran of threatening Iraq’s water security and smuggling drugs into the country, and promoted rumors that the Iranian authorities allegedly harvested organs from Afghan refugees. — Inset K.ru
