Elon Musk exposes Twitter's election interference
Did Jack Dorsey flat out lie to Congress?
The drip drip drip of internal communications from Twitter paints an ugly picture of the Twitter staff using the “public square” to promote their left wing ideology and suppress conservative voices. However bad you think it was, it was almost certainly worse. The suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story is little more than the tip of an iceberg that seems dead centre on the tack Democrats have been sailing with a Titanic collision seemingly in the cards.
Testifying under oath to a Congressional Committee, Dorsey was asked directly if Twitter was censoring conservative voices, and his answer was “no”. He was asked if Twitter was “shadow banning” conservatives and his answer was “no”. Not even Bill Clinton can find a way to parse “no” to mean, well maybe or “that depends on what you mean by no”.
This exposure is getting ugly and will very likely expose direct links to the Democratic National Committee, the Biden White House and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I can’t wait for the next instalment.
Independent journalist Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) has been given the treasure trove of internal Twitter records and has started to write about what she has seen. Journalist Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) has been given similar access and has posted much of the Twitter records on Twitter itself. Twitter executives like Yoel Roth set up a project to censor Tweets.
Some internal mail confirms Twitter was in frequent contact with officials of the FBI.
Much of the early Twitter censorship was intended to limit communications by Donald Trump, at the time a sitting U.S. President, long before the January 6 events now notorious.
Trump was not the only person censored. So-called “Blacklists” were created to censor Tweets by those who did not promote Democrat talking points or ideology. Those censored incuded Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya), a renowned Stanford-educated medical expert, was censored for posting his concerns (now substantiated by peer reviewed research) that lockdowns harmed children. I suspect literally thousands of vulnerable children were harmed by the mandated “lockdowns”.
Blacklisted names included Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk, both conservative voices. Twitter publicly denied “shadow banning” but persisted with the censorship using a number of internal labels for the practice, the evidence of which is now public thanks to Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde and Kayvon Beykpour joined Roth as key actors in the censorship.
It is only a matter of time before the whole mess of Democrat interference in public discourse and democratic elections becomes widely known. Twitter is not alone in this likely criminal conduct. Apple and Facebook will also have some explaining to do, and if the next Adminstration is Republican you can expect to see changes to legislation that lets social media escape criminal liability for First Amendment violations.
The sharp decline in the trading price of Facebook and Apple may have some foundation in the risks exposure of misconduct and future legislative actions have for their future profitability. Facebook stock has fallen 65% in the last year and Apple stock has fallen 19%. In Facebook’s case, gross mismanagement is a contributing factor but in Apple’s case profit kept rising as the stock fell.
The 2024 Presidential election will be an interesting contest. A lot is at stake and the risks of social media continuing to interfere will bite back if they can’t persuade voters to re-elect Biden or another Democrat candidate.
In the meantime, I expect the Republican controlled Congress to dig into Twitter’s misconduct and possibly prosecute Jack Dorsey for overtly misleading Congress while under oath. There is no doubt Congress will delve into the Hunter Biden story and that story is rancid with disgusting corruption that may point to the involvement of Joe Biden in areas where he has denied knowledge. Democrats are likely to give Biden a pass if lying is his only sin, given the unenviable record of Trump’s in-office pronouncements. But if Biden is shown to have participated in criminal fraud, that may be another matter. Like Trump, he may ultimately face legal exposure.
It will make history books better reading if both Biden and Trump are prosecuted and convicted of criminal activity over the coming few years. As a historian (I graduated in History from Royal Military College of Canada winning the History medal and placing first in the faculty of Arts, so I can probably claim to be a “historian”) I would take the time to write a book about it.
Jack wasn’t accurate . It doesn’t mean he was lying . We don’t know but I’d bet his staff mislead him . What was going on between the staff and the FBI hopefully gets exposed by the House .
What crime did Trump commit other than people's trump dystopia syndrome?
He was a billionaire became politician, not taking a dime from his presidential salary.
Biden, on the other hand is a career politiian whom grew rich on his salary with a long hisotry of corruption involvement in his 40 years political life. When airforce one landed in China and Ukraine, his son Biden flew along and gained first hand billion contract/loan.
#Twittergate exposed all liberal democrat corruption including the one happening now in Arizona.