Legacy <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/legacy-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media</a> outlets have been insisting for years that <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> has not been covertly suppressing conservative accounts. After the release of the second iteration of the Twitter Files, the world learned that those outlets had been thoroughly duped, even as they sneered at conservatives for bemoaning the evident <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censorship</a>.
Journalist Bari Weiss <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitters-underhanded-actions-targeting-libs-of-tiktok-revealed-in-new-twitter-files-release" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> on Thursday evening that the social media company built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending on the platform, and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts and even trending topics without telling users. Former company bosses such as founder Jack Dorsey, chief executive Parag Agrawal, and head of legal Vijaya Gadde collaborated to censor multiple popular conservative accounts. The latter two executives were dismissed after <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> took over the company several weeks ago.
For years, however, Twitter executives had insisted that no such censorship had taken place. “People are asking us if we shadow ban. We do not,” a blog <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2018/Setting-the-record-straight-on-shadow-banning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> from 2018 co-authored by Gadde herself claimed. Dorsey answered with a simple “No” when <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1316537705023578115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> by commentator Dave Rubin in 2020 whether the company shadow bans “based on political beliefs.”
The only entities which spread the outright lie more fervently than Twitter itself were legacy media outlets.
The New York Times claimed in a 2018 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/us/politics/twitter-shadowbanning.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> that the controversy over shadow banning was based on semantics, insisting that the practice only refers to algorithmically shutting down traffic due to the content on a given page. “Is Twitter shadow banning Republicans? No, it is not,” correspondent Liam Stack declared in reaction to an <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/43paqq/twitter-is-shadow-banning-prominent-republicans-like-the-rnc-chair-and-trump-jrs-spokesman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from Vice News which found that the platform limited search results when users looked for prominent conservatives on the platform. The Gray Lady then amplified a statement from Twitter provided to Vice — “As we have said before, we do not ‘shadowban’” — and mocked Republicans such as RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for feeling “vindicated” by the report.
The agent of the suppression was not an impersonal algorithm, but zealously censorious executives. Weiss found that some accounts, such as the one belonging to talk show host Dan Bongino, were <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slapped</a> with a “search blacklist.” Twitter likewise placed a “do not amplify” directive on the account of conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Weiss determined that Twitter executives had also been playing semantic games, preferring the term “visibility filtering” to the more widespread term “shadow ban.”
Meanwhile, a similar <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/twitter-denies-conservative-shadow-banning-claims-alters-search/story?id=56841398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from ABC News said that “President Donald Trump seized upon the claim and contended that such a move constitutes illegal discrimination, even as the company and digital experts defended the platform and pointed to faults and misunderstandings in the story.” A third <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/twitter-is-not-shadow-banning-republicans.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a> from Intelligencer — simply entitled “Twitter Is Not ‘Shadow Banning’ Republicans” — argued that the notion of the shadow ban “has persisted among the conspiracy-minded, as a great weapon of censorship, generally thought to be perpetrated by liberal Silicon Valley operatives at the expense of conservatives.”
Another <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/27/17620194/twitter-shadow-ban-trump-conservatives-search-results" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from The Verge contributing editor Casey Newton explicitly advised Twitter to “ignore the phony outrage” over shadow banning. “A consequence of covering the intersection of social media and democracy is that sometimes you wind up having to discuss things that are very dumb,” he wrote. “And yet how Twitter reacts to the attendant criticism could determine whether the company ever gets a handle on the abuse its platform is so well known for.”
An <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/tech/twitter-algorithm-political-rhetoric/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> from CNN Business published in 2019 whined that Twitter had even increased the reach of “extreme political rhetoric” from conservative accounts, including Kirk, one of the influencers who was manually targeted by the platform’s executives, as revealed by Weiss.
“There is some irony to the amplification of these right-wing voices,” CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy wrote. “Trump and other prominent Republicans have long accused Twitter of ‘shadow banning’ users with conservative viewpoints, an accusation Twitter has strongly denied. In reality, not only is Twitter not ‘shadow banning’ these right-wing personalities for their political viewpoints, the platform’s algorithm is actually amplifying some of their tweets to audiences who do not even follow their accounts.”

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Here Are The News Outlets That Spread Twitter Execs’ Lies About Not Shadow-Banning Conservatives

News Outlets Pushed Twitter's Lies About Not Shadow-Banning

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Pop star Elton John announced that he was leaving Twitter, claiming that &#8220;misinformation&#8221; was going to &#8220;flourish unchecked&#8221; on the site thanks to new company policies.
“All my life I’ve tried to use music to bring people together,” John tweeted on Friday. “Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world. I’ve decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked.”
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All my life I’ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world.   I’ve decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked.
&mdash; Elton John (@eltonofficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/eltonofficial/status/1601200277276659712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“I love your music,” Twitter CEO Elon Musk responded. “Hope you come back. Is there any misinformation in particular that you’re concerned about?”
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I love your music. Hope you come back. Is there any misinformation in particular that you’re concerned about?
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601275664098725891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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When a Twitter user pointed out that it was possible someone else with a leftist perspective actually wrote the verbiage in John’s tweet, Musk noted that celebrities often don’t write the posts under their name.
“It’s true that most celebrities don’t write their own posts. More should. Way better to hear directly from them,” he replied.
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It’s true that most celebrities don’t write their own posts. More should. Way better to hear directly from them.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601290351922159616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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One area Musk has changed Twitter&#8217;s misinformation policy has been related to the discussion of COVID.
According to an update note posted on Twitter’s <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blog</a> and “<a href="https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/covid19.html#2021-jul-dec" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transparency report</a>,” as of November 23, the platform is no longer enforcing policies it used to combat “misleading information” during the COVID pandemic. But there was no formal announcement of a policy change; news broke Tuesday when several conservative users posted screenshots of the updated policy. The policy change is the latest move in Elon Musk’s effort to reform Twitter into a “free speech” platform.
“Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,” the note reads.
Conservatives shared screenshots of the updated policy Tuesday and celebrated the change by posting facts about COVID-19 that were once deemed “misinformation” by Twitter.
According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/tech/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>, between January 2020 and September 2022, the platform suspended more than 11,000 accounts and took down more than 100,000 individual posts for violating the misinformation policy. Notable users suspended included Republican Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, journalist Alex Berenson, mRNA vaccine researcher Dr. Robert Malone, cardiologist Dr. Peter McCollough, and former San Francisco Giants player Aubrey Huff.
The day after Twitter announced the policy change, CEO Elon Musk announced a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-announces-blanket-amnesty-for-suspended-users" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blanket amnesty</a> for users suspended from the platform. On November 23, Musk tweeted a poll asking whether or not to unban users that had been permanently suspended. “Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?” he wrote.
More than three million users voted in the poll, and the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of amnesty; nearly three-quarters of voters, 72.4%, voted “yes,” while just 27.6% voted “no.”
“The people have spoken,” Musk wrote after the poll concluded. “Amnesty begins next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.”
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Elton John Quits Twitter, Cites ‘Misinformation.’ Elon Musk Asks Him One Question.

Elton John Quits Twitter, Cites 'Misinformation.' Elon Musk Asks Him One Question. 

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed late on Thursday new product features that will soon come to Twitter.
Musk made the revelations after journalist Bari Weiss released the second installment of &#8220;The Twitter Files,&#8221; which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitters-underhanded-actions-targeting-libs-of-tiktok-revealed-in-new-twitter-files-release">showed</a> how Twitter built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending on the platform, and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts and even trending topics without informing users.
Many users responded to the proof that Twitter had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitters-underhanded-actions-targeting-libs-of-tiktok-revealed-in-new-twitter-files-release">suppressing</a> conservative accounts to manipulate conversations on the platform by asking if action had been taken against their accounts since Weiss gave only a few examples.
&#8220;Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal,&#8221; Musk tweeted.
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Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601042125130371072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Musk later added that the platform would soon &#8220;start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts.&#8221;
&#8220;These are obvious account deletions with no tweets &amp; no log in for years,&#8221; he added.
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These are obvious account deletions with no tweets &amp; no log in for years
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601124608282742785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Musk responded to a question about whether &#8220;any political candidates — either in the US or elsewhere — [were] subject to shadowbanning while they were running for office or seeking re-election&#8221; by answering, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;
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Yes
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601123235755487233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Most engineers don’t feel strongly about politics, but do want to work with other great engineers,&#8221; Musk added. &#8220;Silicon Valley has world’s best engineering talent, but is co-located with San Francisco, which is far left. Thus, far left gained control of an incredibly powerful info weapon.&#8221;
Musk also took a shot at President Joe Biden for not bringing home U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan during a prisoner swap in which the administration freed convicted Russian terrorist Viktor Bout, who plotted to sell weapons to terrorists for the purpose of killing U.S. federal agents, in exchange for WNBA player Brittney Griner.
&#8220;Never leave a marine behind,&#8221; Musk tweeted. &#8220;Never.&#8221;
Bout was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-offers-to-release-notorious-russian-terrorist-in-exchange-for-brittney-griner-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> on terrorism charges back in 2011 for trying to sell tens of millions of dollars worth of missiles to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to shoot down U.S. military helicopters.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-democrat-senator-blasts-biden-over-releasing-terrorist-for-griner-deeply-disturbing-decision">slammed</a> President Joe Biden for releasing Bout.
“This should be a moment of deep reflection for the United States government to recognize we have a serious problem with hostage-taking of Americans,” Menendez said in a statement. “The Russians and other regimes that take American citizens hostage cannot pretend that there is equivalence between the Brittney Griners of the world and people like Viktor Bout, the so-called ‘Merchant of Death.’ Nothing could be further from the truth, and we cannot ignore that releasing Bout back into the world is a deeply disturbing decision.”
“We must stop inviting dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans overseas as bargaining chips, and we must try to do better at encouraging American citizens against traveling to places like Russia where they are primary targets for this type of unlawful detention,” he continued.

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Musk Announces New Twitter Features, Reveals Company Targeted Political Candidates; Takes Shot At Biden

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The latest release of the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter Files</a>&#8221; Thursday evening revealed that leftists at the highest level of the company, who have all since been fired or been forced to resign, targeted one of the most popular right-wing accounts on the platform with repeated suspensions despite the fact that they secretly admitted that she did not do anything wrong.
Journalist Bari Weiss released a long Twitter thread in which she showed how Twitter built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending on the platform, and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts and even trending topics in secret, without informing users.
Weiss noted the different layers of censorship that existed at Twitter and that the highest level was the “Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support,” known as “SIP-PES.”
&#8220;This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust &amp; Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others,&#8221; Weiss said. &#8220;This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. &#8216;Think high follower account, controversial,&#8217; another Twitter employee told us. For these &#8216;there would be no ticket or anything.’”
Weiss showed how Libs of TikTok was placed on a &#8220;Trends Blacklist&#8221; and that a special note was placed on the account that said action could not be taken on the account &#8220;without consulting with SIP-PES.&#8221;
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16. One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@libsoftiktok</a>—an account that was on the “Trends Blacklist” and was designated as “Do Not Take Action on User Without Consulting With SIP-PES.” <a href="https://t.co/Vjo6YxYbxT">pic.twitter.com/Vjo6YxYbxT</a>
&mdash; Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601018810495995904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The account—which Chaya Raichik began in November 2020 and now boasts over 1.4 million followers—was subjected to six suspensions in 2022 alone, Raichik says. Each time, Raichik was blocked from posting for as long as a week,&#8221; Weiss said. &#8220;Twitter repeatedly informed Raichik that she had been suspended for violating Twitter’s policy against &#8216;hateful conduct.’”
However, those at the highest level secretly admitted that they knew Libs of TikTok did not violate any of the site&#8217;s rules, yet they wanted her suspended.
Twitter said in a secret memo:
<blockquote>Site Policy Recommendation
Site Policy recommends placing @LibsOfTiktok ([LTT] 1.3M followers, not verified) in a 7-day timeout at the account level [meaning, not for a specific Tweet] based on the account&#8217;s continued pattern of indirectly violating Twitter&#8217;s Hateful Conduct Policy by tweeting content that either leads to or intends to incite harassment against individuals and institutions that support LGBTQ communities. At this time, Site Policy has not found explicitly violative Tweets, which would result in a permanent suspension of the account.
This type of enforcement action [repeated 7-day timeouts at the account-level] will not lead to permanent suspension, however: should LTT engage in any other direct Tweet-level violations of any of Site Policy&#8217;s policies, we will move forward with permanent suspension.
Assessment
Since its most recent timeout, while LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy, the user has continued targeting individuals/allies/supporters of the LGBTQIA+ community for alleged misconduct.</blockquote>
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19. But in an internal SIP-PES memo from October 2022, after her seventh suspension, the committee acknowledged that “LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy.&quot; See here: <a href="https://t.co/d9FGhrnQFE">pic.twitter.com/d9FGhrnQFE</a>
&mdash; Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601020845224128512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Weiss then showed how Twitter took a much different approach when Libs of TikTok reported that she was the victim of harassment on the platform that violated its terms of service.
&#8220;Compare this to what happened when Raichik herself was doxxed on November 21, 2022. A photo of her home with her address was posted in a tweet that has garnered more than 10,000 likes,&#8221; Weiss said. &#8220;When Raichik told Twitter that her address had been disseminated she says Twitter Support responded with this message: &#8216;We reviewed the reported content, and didn&#8217;t find it to be in violation of the Twitter rules.&#8217; No action was taken. The doxxing tweet is still up.&#8221;
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22. When Raichik told Twitter that her address had been disseminated she says Twitter Support responded with this message: &quot;We reviewed the reported content, and didn&#39;t find it to be in violation of the Twitter rules.&quot; No action was taken. The doxxing tweet is still up. <a href="https://t.co/tUeaBP1bS4">pic.twitter.com/tUeaBP1bS4</a>
&mdash; Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601022887556571136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Twitter’s Underhanded Actions Targeting ‘Libs Of TikTok’ Revealed In New ‘Twitter Files’ Release

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The second installment of the so-called &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter Files</a>&#8221; was released Thursday evening after the company turned over documents to a journalist who then started to publish the findings on the platform.
Musk released internal company communications through journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday about the company’s censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election and about how the platform removed content at the behest of the Democrat Party.
However, Taibbi&#8217;s release of the documents was somewhat muddled because one of the people that he was reporting on, former Twitter Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker — the same Jim Baker at the center of Trump-era drama at the FBI — was the person who was vetting the content that was being sent to Taibbi. Baker was subsequently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-twitter-files-compromised-after-lawyer-involved-in-the-controversy-was-behind-vetting-the-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> by the company after this was revealed earlier this week.
The second installment of the Twitter files was released by Bari Weiss in a similar manner that Taibbi released his installment of the files, slowly tweeting out content, making people wait several minutes before the next tweet was published, which annoyed many users.
&#8220;A new Twitter Files investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users,&#8221; Weiss tweeted. &#8220;Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a &#8216;Trends Blacklist,&#8217; which prevented his tweets from trending.&#8221;
&#8220;Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino (@dbongino), who at one point was slapped with a &#8216;Search Blacklist,’” Weiss continued.
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4. Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino (<a href="https://twitter.com/dbongino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dbongino</a>), who at one point was slapped with a “Search Blacklist.” <a href="https://t.co/AdOK8xLu9v">pic.twitter.com/AdOK8xLu9v</a>
&mdash; Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601012181138407425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Weiss further noted that another major conservative account was hit with a &#8220;Do Not Amplify&#8221; restriction.
Weiss highlighted how executives at the company, including leftist Vijaya Gadde, then-Head of Legal Policy and Trust, had previously denied that the company took these actions.
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7. What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning.
&mdash; Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601014175366402048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team &#8211; Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 &#8216;cases&#8217; a day,&#8221; Weiss said. &#8220;But there existed a level beyond official ticketing, beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company’s policy on paper. That is the &#8216;Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support,&#8217; known as &#8216;SIP-PES.'&#8221;
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14. This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust &amp; Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others.
&mdash; Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601017754324062208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Weiss then documented how the popular conservative account Libs of TikTok was censored by the platform.
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16. One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@libsoftiktok</a>—an account that was on the “Trends Blacklist” and was designated as “Do Not Take Action on User Without Consulting With SIP-PES.” <a href="https://t.co/Vjo6YxYbxT">pic.twitter.com/Vjo6YxYbxT</a>
&mdash; Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601018810495995904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Twitter Releases Documents Showing It Took Secret Actions Against Conservatives

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A prominent House Democrat raising concerns about hate speech on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> received a terse response Thursday directly from Twitter CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a>.
Singling out &#8220;Elon Musk&#8217;s Twitter,&#8221; Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) shared statistics showing a rise in &#8220;slurs&#8221; against black people, women, Jewish people, and gay men. &#8220;These numbers are abysmal – and unacceptable,&#8221; Schiff said in a tweet, adding that he and Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) were &#8220;demanding action&#8221; in response to the numbers.
Musk replied to the tweet hours later. &#8220;False, hate speech impressions are actually down by 1/3 for Twitter now vs prior to acquisition,&#8221; Musk retorted.
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False, hate speech impressions are actually down by 1/3 for Twitter now vs prior to acquisition <a href="https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CommunityNotes</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600944225964593152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Musk also tagged Community Notes, a feature previously called Birdwatch, which allows crowd-sourced notes meant to counter misleading information to be affixed to tweets.
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Community Notes ftw <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> <a href="https://t.co/8R4bcVd7HS">pic.twitter.com/8R4bcVd7HS</a>
&mdash; Johnna Crider (@JohnnaCrider1) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnnaCrider1/status/1600947242340614144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Since the Telsa and SpaceX boss completed his $44 billion purchase of Twitter in late October, Musk has <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593673339826212864" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pledged negative and hate tweets</a> would be &#8220;max deboosted &amp; demonetized.&#8221; He claimed on November 23 that hate speech impressions were <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595630109116989440" target="_blank" rel="noopener">down by a third</a> from &#8220;pre-spike levels,&#8221; but groups that study online platforms claim there has been a spike in slurs against marginalized groups in recent weeks.
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Hate speech impressions down by 1/3 from pre-spike levels. Congrats to Twitter team! <a href="https://t.co/5BWaQoIlip">pic.twitter.com/5BWaQoIlip</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595630109116989440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times published a report</a> earlier this month about researchers warning of an unprecedented surge in hate speech since Musk took over Twitter. This same report acknowledged a &#8220;relatively small&#8221; number of slurs posted per day — numbers in the low thousands — but otherwise focused on these groups raising the alarm and Twitter&#8217;s struggle to reassure concerned advertisers.
The newspaper posted the report on Twitter, noting their findings and featuring a quote from Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, saying the new Twitter CEO &#8220;sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business.&#8221; Musk responded to the tweet, saying, &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598755659499044879" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utterly false</a>.&#8221;
In a letter to Musk, dated Thursday, Schiff and Takano cited the findings by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit operation, and <a href="https://takano.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/reps-takano-schiff-call-on-elon-musk-to-tamp-down-hate-speech-on-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked four questions</a> about specific measures Twitter is taking to fight hate speech.
“With rapidly changing and unclear policies on content moderation on Twitter, amid documented negative trends and public evidence, we are concerned about the individual and community harm arising from Twitter, including how that could spill from online into real life,&#8221; the members wrote. &#8220;We are seeking further information about your plans for content moderation and the capability of your workforce to implement and enforce your policies.&#8221;

Musk Fires Back At Schiff Over Hate Speech On Twitter

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SpaceX is preparing to launch Japan&#8217;s first privately-led mission to the moon.
The ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 is set to blast off on Sunday at 2:38 a.m. ET from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the same day that NASA&#8217;s Orion capsule is expected to return from its Artemis 1 moon mission.
The Falcon 9 used in the launch is the world&#8217;s first orbital-class reusable rocket. It generates more than 1.7 million pounds of thrust at sea level. Sunday&#8217;s planned launch would be the fourth flight for the powerful rocket.
Following liftoff, the Mission 1 lander will make its four-month journey ahead of Japan&#8217;s first unmanned lunar landing. Only the U.S., the former Soviet Union, and China have successfully conducted a soft landing on the moon&#8217;s surface.
The mission is expected to land on the moon&#8217;s surface near the end of April 2023.
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The Japanese space company ispace, established in 2010, seeks to &#8220;lay the groundwork for unleashing the moon&#8217;s potential and transforming it into a robust and vibrant economic system,&#8221; according to its founder.
“We look forward to contributing to NASA’s Artemis program as a commercial lunar transportation service and pioneering the development of future industries and connecting the Earth to the Moon and beyond,” <a href="https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=3939" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace.
The United Arab Emirates will also be part of the mission. The moon rover aboard the lander is a 22-pound robot named Rashid, the Middle East&#8217;s first such rover to reach the moon.
A new mission control located at the <a href="https://www.mbrsc.ae/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre</a> in Dubai will monitor the Rashid rover during its operations on the lunar surface. Rashid is expected to investigate an unexplored moon region for about two weeks while gathering data on soil, dust, and electrically charged particles, including taking thousands of images.
The Rashid Space Centre&#8217;s objective is to become the first Arab nation to reach another planet, setting its sights on a manned Mars landing by 2117. <a href="https://www.emiratesmarsmission.ae/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hope probe</a> reached the martian surface in 2021, making UAE the first Middle Eastern nation to do so.
The Falcon 9 will also transport a tiny NASA cubesat called Lunar Flashlight. The device will hunt for icy water inside craters near the moon&#8217;s south pole.
&#8220;We are bringing a literal flashlight to the moon — shining lasers into these dark craters to look for definitive signs of water ice covering the upper layer of lunar regolith,&#8221; Barbara Cohen, Lunar Flashlight principal investigator at NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a <a class="hawk-link-parsed" href="https://phys.org/news/2022-11-nasa-lunar-flashlight-smallsat-readies.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-url="https://phys.org/news/2022-11-nasa-lunar-flashlight-smallsat-readies.html" data-component-tracked="1">statement</a>.
&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to see our mission contribute to our scientific understanding of where water ice is on the moon and how it got to be there,&#8221; Cohen added.
The SpaceX launch was initially scheduled for November 30. The mission has experienced multiple setbacks related to updates to Falcon 9.
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After further inspections of the launch vehicle and data review, we&#39;re standing down from tomorrow&#39;s launch of <a href="https://twitter.com/ispace_inc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ispace_inc</a>&#39;s HAKUTO-R Mission 1; a new target launch date will be shared once confirmed
&mdash; SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1598106762850500609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The live stream of the launch will be available at <a href="https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=ispace-m1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpaceX.com</a>, with coverage starting 15 minutes before liftoff.
Monday, December 12 at 2:31 a.m. ET is the scheduled backup date in the case of a delay.
The launch is not the only moon mission in recent months. NASA&#8217;s Artemis 1 mission conducted a near-moon operation to test ahead of its next planned human landing on the lunar surface scheduled for 2024 or 2025.
Several additional countries have announced new or expanded plans for major space projects. Last month, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol <a href="https://spacenews.com/134853-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that his government would establish a space agency similar to NASA by the end of the year. Plans include a robotic moon landing in 2032 and on Mars in 2045.
Three Chinese astronauts <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/04/1140637573/china-astronauts-tiangong-space-station" target="_blank" rel="noopener">returned</a> to Earth on Sunday after six months aboard China&#8217;s new Tiangong station. The nation began work on its own space station after being excluded from the International Space Station over concerns about connections between China&#8217;s space agency and the People&#8217;s Liberation Army.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-launches-first-of-two-remaining-modules-needed-to-complete-permanent-orbiting-space-station" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, another long-term goal of the Tiangong Space Station is to serve as the refueling station for an upcoming Hubble-like telescope that China hopes to launch in 2024. China plans to put its first astronauts on the moon and send a Mars sample return rover to the red planet by 2030.
India&#8217;s space agency also has a program in development to launch a space station into orbit by 2030. It will be designed to hold a small crew for up to 20 days at a time and be entirely led by Indian astronauts, <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2022/11/could-the-quad-help-with-indias-space-station-dreams/#:~:text=Kailasavadivoo%20Sivan%2C%20then%20the%20chairman,station%20would%20be%20fully%20indigenous." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the Diplomat.
The <a href="https://www.esa.int/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Space Agency</a> includes 22 member nations and has often partnered with many of NASA&#8217;s missions in recent years, including its Artemis program.

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How does he find the time?
Multibillionaire Elon Musk is busy running the electric vehicle company Tesla, launching rockets into the cosmos via SpaceX as he aims to put a man on Mars, and now he&#8217;s the top twit on Twitter, tweeting his little heart out.
But somehow he also oversees a bizarre program to design brain implants for humans — which new reports say has led to the deaths of some 1,500 animals on which the devices are being tested.
Musk said last week that a wireless &#8220;brain chip&#8221; developed by Neuralink could go into human clinical trials within six months. But a new report says since 2018, the company has killed about 1,500 animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-neuralink-faces-federal-probe-employee-backlash-over-animal-tests-2022-12-05/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Reuters.
The global news agency also said the medical device company &#8220;is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths,&#8221; according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the investigation and company operations.
Reuters also said the the federal probe, which had not been previously reported, was &#8220;opened in recent months by the US Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Inspector General at the request of a federal prosecutor, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation.&#8221;
It&#8217;s not the first time Neuralink has come under fire. In February, an animal rights group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), filed a complaint, claiming monkeys have been killed in botched surgeries to implant the chips.
&#8220;The group alleged that surgeons used the wrong surgical glue twice, which led to two monkeys suffering and ultimately dying, while other monkeys had different complications from the implants,&#8221; Reuters reported.
Treatment of monkeys burst into the headlines again last week when the PCRM launched a new <a href="https://www.pcrm.org/news/news-releases/ahead-elon-musks-show-and-tell-doctors-group-reveals-disturbing-truth-behind" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. The site says Neuralink&#8217;s experiments at the University of California, Davis, &#8220;resulted in chronic infections, seizures, paralysis, internal bleeding, and declining psychological health.&#8221;
&#8220;Hundreds of pages of public records revealed animals suffering from sloppy experiments that resulted in chronic infections, seizures, paralysis, internal bleeding, and declining psychological health before they were killed,&#8221; the site said.
&#8220;In two separate incidents, experimenters filled holes in monkeys’ skulls with an unapproved adhesive, which seeped through to the animals’ brains. In one monkey, the adhesive caused bleeding in her brain, and she vomited so much from the resulting side effects that she developed open sores in her esophagus,&#8221; the PCRM said.
“When it comes to Neuralink, Elon Musk is just a modern-day P.T. Barnum,” said Ryan Merkley, director of research advocacy with the Physicians Committee. “He’s a showman who makes big promises while hiding the grisly details from the public. We’re pulling back the curtain on him.”
Musk, though, says surgeries on animals are used only at a later stage of research in an effort to confirm that the device works rather than to test early hypotheses.
&#8220;We’re extremely careful,&#8221; he said, to make sure that testing is &#8220;confirmatory, not exploratory,&#8221; <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2022/12/06/musks-neuralink-investigated-over-killing-1500-animals-in-tests-17884516/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the UK&#8217;s Metro.
The federal probe will determine if that&#8217;s true.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Elon Musk: Running Tesla And Twitter, Heading To Mars — And Killing Monkeys?

Elon Musk: Running Tesla And Twitter, Heading To Mars -- And Killing Monkeys?

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He’s the Forrest Gump of the Democrats’ never-ending effort to get Donald Trump, popping up at key junctures to lend a black-gloved hand to the cause. And now he’s looking for work.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-dni-john-ratcliffe-on-twitter-files-james-baker-an-olympic-champ-on-interfering-in-elections/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Baker</a>, who shares a name and little else with former <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/story/transcript-james-baker-remembers-ronald-reagan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Reagan’s legendary adviser</a>, was a top FBI lawyer in 2016 when the bureau shamefully tried to frame Trump as a stooge of Russia. He helped get two absurd lies started by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign into the bureau&#8217;s bloodstream and opened the entire Trump operation up to secret surveillance.
The first ridiculous lie Baker helped spread was that Trump communicated with the Kremlin by sending mysterious <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/agent-who-probed-alfa-bank-claims-under-fbi-investigation-for-crossfire-hurricane-fisa-errors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bat signals from Trump Tower</a> to a Russian bank, and the other one was that a dossier full of phony dirt on Trump was legit. Baker can take a bow for his central role in ginning up a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/02/politics/mueller-report-cost/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$32 million investigation</a> that went nowhere and hamstrung an entire presidency.
Now, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-twitter-files-compromised-after-lawyer-involved-in-the-controversy-was-behind-vetting-the-files/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Baker has resurfaced at Twitter</a>, where we – and new owner Elon Musk – are only just learning of his continued efforts to throw sand in the gears of transparency. After leaving his FBI gig in 2017, Baker did a short stint at <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/05/14/723134967/jim-baker-writes-in-lawfare-why-i-do-not-hate-donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lawfare</a>, the Democratic Party’s dirty legal tricks headquarters, then took a seven-figure job as Twitter’s deputy general counsel in June of 2020.
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In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600237095364096000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Three employers, but the same basic job: Get the Orange Man while covering up tracks and wiping fingerprints.
It was Baker who advised Twitter not to allow sharing of the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 election. Polls suggest the laptop story, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reminder-these-50-intelligence-officers-claimed-without-evidence-that-new-york-posts-hunter-biden-story-was-russian-disinformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broken by the New York Post</a> and full of shocking evidence of the younger Biden selling his father&#8217;s influence, would have <a href="https://tippinsights.com/shock-poll-8-in-10-think-biden-laptop-cover-up-changed-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">swung the election</a> if social media platforms Twitter and Facebook, together with legacy media outlets, hadn’t squashed it. But Baker wasn’t done sabotaging free speech from inside Twitter, even though he is now.
When Musk turned over the platform’s internal communications to a pair of respected journalists, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-twitter-files-show-2020-was-rigged-not-stolen-but-trump-is-hurting-himself/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Taibbi</a> and Bari Weiss, so they could raise the curtain on Twitter’s partisan, swamp-directed “content moderation,” Baker sprang into action one last time. Since Musk hadn’t yet rooted him out, Baker was the one in position to screen the communications given to Taibbi and Weiss.
Taibbi’s bombshell first review of the behind-the-scenes deliberations that led to killing the laptop story showed Twitter’s old regime looking hapless and corrupt. The Democrats appeared to dictate the platform’s social justice warriors&#8217; every decision. Baker let one email through that he undoubtedly thought portrayed him as a wizened attorney, out to protect the company.
“It’s reasonable for us to assume that they may have been [hacked] and that caution is warranted,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-fbi-lawyer-turned-twitter-counsel-supported-decision-to-suppress-hunter-biden-laptop-story-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Baker opined</a> about the laptop to Twitter&#8217;s social justice warriors.
Astute observers like Miranda Devine, the indefatigable New York Post reporter and author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=laptop+from+hell+miranda+devine&amp;adgrpid=1346902504718127&amp;hvadid=84181633375201&amp;hvbmt=bp&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=83836&amp;hvnetw=o&amp;hvqmt=p&amp;hvtargid=kwd-84181892496714%3Aloc-190&amp;hydadcr=20615_13322643&amp;tag=mh0b-20&amp;ref=pd_sl_5trisix487_p" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide</a>,” noticed there was a dog that wasn’t barking in the first tranche of emails, texts, and Slack messages pored over and poured out by Taibbi.
Where was the FBI?
Yoel Roth, whose job at Twitter involved silencing conservatives and bore the absurd title of “global head of safety &amp; integrity,” had already let slip that the FBI had warned Twitter that the laptop story was coming, claiming that it was a Russian disinformation operation.
“I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,” he said in a Dec. 21, 2020 sworn declaration to the Federal Election Commission. “I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.”
That jibes perfectly with Facebook founder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evidence-of-fbi-meddling-in-2020-election-mounts-after-zuckerbergs-hunter-biden-laptop-revelation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Zuckerberg’s August revelation</a> to podcast king Joe Rogan that the FBI had warned the company just before the 2020 election that a “dump” of “Russian propaganda” was on the way.
Yet nothing in the first batch of Twitter files implicated the FBI. If you find that suspicious, so did Musk. He “<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600237095364096000?s=20&amp;t=ctk9fY6WnPtFKEQrEKWiqA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exited</a>” the FBI operative post haste, allowing him to join fan favorites <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-rehires-recently-fired-twitter-employees-rahul-ligma-and-daniel-johnson-says-firing-them-was-the-biggest-mistake/ar-AA14bGnG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ligma and Johnson</a> on the sidewalk outside Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters.
With the fox out of the henhouse, we may soon see more proof of the FBI’s complicity in burying the Hunter Biden laptop story. As for seeing more of James Baker, tune in to MSNBC. They’re probably reviewing his resume right now.

James Baker left the FBI and then resurfaced at Twitter.

The FBI’s Forrest Gump Strikes Again Before Getting Twitter’s Ligma, Johnson Treatment

The FBI's Forrest Gump Strikes Again Before Getting Twitter's Ligma, Johnson Treatment

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Twitter CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> called out Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales on Tuesday after leftist editors on the site were pushing to have a page removed on last week&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-releases-hunter-biden-files-tweets-deleted-at-behest-of-team-biden-exec-was-key-behind-censorship-decision">release</a> of &#8220;The Twitter Files.&#8221;
Musk released internal company communications through journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday about the company’s censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election and about how the platform removed content at the behest of the Democratic Party.
The story appeared on Wikipedia under the page name &#8220;Twitter Files Investigation&#8221; and <a href="https://archive.ph/ytFYA">featured</a> the following short explanation of what has so far been released:
<blockquote>Twitter Files is a Substack article by Matt Taibbi published in December 2022. It presented internal emails amongst Twitter employees who were discussing moderation of content related to the New York Post article that fomented the Hunter Biden laptop controversy. Officials of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party asked Twitter employees to remove tweets they flagged.</blockquote>
Writer Ian Miles Cheong flagged the conversations that Wikipedia&#8217;s editors were having about the page for Musk to see on Twitter.
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&#8220;Wikipedia is voting on the deletion of the entry for Elon Musk’s Twitter Files because the editors have deemed it a &#8216;nothing burger&#8217; that is &#8216;not notable&#8217; because the media didn’t give it enough coverage,&#8221; Cheong tweeted. &#8220;These people work hand in hand with the MSM to shape the narrative.&#8221;
Cheong included in his tweet screenshots from editors at Wikipedia that wanted the page removed.
Some of the comments from editors included:
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<li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know where to start explaining why this should be deleted. It&#8217;s a disaster. Maybe we can have a Twitter Files article, but not this one.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Delete: This was generally ignored by the media (with good reason) and thus failed to establish notability.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Delete: I would suggest a merge, but there&#8217;s not really anything here. Even as a stub it suffers from being unsourced in some places and poorly sourced in others, suggesting a lack of notability. It also doesn&#8217;t have a clearly defined topic. Is this about an investigation, or is this about a Substack article? While the title suggests the former and the lede suggests the latter, the content of the article is actually about neither. There is no investigation, and the article lacks any notable information about what the self-published article had to offer. The original revision was much larger than the current one because once you trim out the poorly written editorialized sensationalism there&#8217;s not really anything left.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Delete: This is a three-sentence description of a self-published internet page. Not Notable.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Delete: &#8212; under the scope of the laptop article.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Delete: &#8211; this self-published blogpost (with a grandiose title) lacks significant coverage in reliable sources. If relevant, discourse relating to the blogpost could be covered under the laptop page. I don&#8217;t think a merge is necessary.&#8221;</li>
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Musk responded, &#8220;Most of Earth: &#8216;The MSM is biased.&#8217; Wikipedia: &#8216;Cite MSM source to confirm this claim.&#8217; 🤣🤣 Wikipedia has a non-trivial left-wing bias. @jimmy_wales, what are your thoughts?&#8221;
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Most of Earth: “The MSM is biased.” Wikipedia: “Cite MSM source to confirm this claim.” 🤣🤣
Wikipedia has a non-trivial left-wing bias.<a href="https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jimmy_wales</a>, what are your thoughts?
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600200000763756544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-releases-hunter-biden-files-tweets-deleted-at-behest-of-team-biden-exec-was-key-behind-censorship-decision">Musk Releases ‘Hunter Biden’ Files: Tweets Deleted At Behest Of Team Biden, Exec Was Key Behind Censorship Decision</a>

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Elon Musk Calls Out Wikipedia Founder After Leftist Editors Plot To Remove Page On ‘The Twitter Files’

Elon Musk Calls Out Wikipedia Founder After Leftist Editors Plot To Remove Page On 'The Twitter Files'

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Twitter CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> slammed Democratic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-francisco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> Mayor London Breed on Tuesday after the city announced that it was investigating reports that Musk had turned some of the offices at the company&#8217;s headquarters into bedrooms to accommodate his plans for an &#8220;extremely hardcore&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> workforce.
&#8220;San Francisco building inspectors are launching an investigation into reports Twitter has converted several office rooms at its headquarters into sleeping quarters for employees,&#8221; tweeted KQED Supervising Senior Editor Ted Goldberg. &#8220;&#8216;We need to make sure the building is being used as intended&#8217; [SF Department of Building Inspection] rep tells @KQEDnews.&#8221;
Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600272617759731712" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>, &#8220;So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities @LondonBreed!?&#8221;
Musk&#8217;s response to Breed included a link to a news <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-authorities-investigating-whether-a-17621718.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from the San Francisco Chronicle about a 10-month-old baby who reportedly overdosed on fentanyl after being exposed to the drug at a public playground.
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The city launched an investigation after Forbes <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2022/12/05/elon-musk-twitter-bedrooms/?sh=5a1329f2d791" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that employees at the tech giant had &#8220;modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors.&#8221;
Another room had a plant, the article said, while another room had bright orange carpet &#8220;a wooden bedside table and what appears to be a queen bed, replete with a table lamp and two office armchairs just begging for convivial workplace collaboration.&#8221;
The slightly modified rooms were an upgrade from a photo that gained attention in November that showed one employee sleeping in a sleeping bag behind an office table.
&#8220;When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork,&#8221; said employee Esther Crawford. &#8220;Since some people are losing their minds I&#8217;ll explain: doing hard things requires sacrifice (time, energy, etc). I have teammates around the world who are putting in the effort to bring something new to life so it&#8217;s important to me to show up for them &amp; keep the team unblocked.&#8221;
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When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SleepWhereYouWork?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SleepWhereYouWork</a> <a href="https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD">https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD</a>
&mdash; Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) <a href="https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/1587709705488830464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I work with amazingly talented &amp; ambitious people here at Twitter and this is not a normal moment in time. We are less than 1wk into a massive business &amp; cultural transition. People are giving it their all across all functions: product, design, eng, legal, finance, marketing, etc,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I love my family and I’m grateful they understand that there are times where I need to go into overdrive to grind and push in order to deliver. Building new things at Twitter&#8217;s scale is very hard to do. I&#8217;m lucky to be doing this work alongside some of the best people in tech.&#8221;
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In wake of the criticism and scrutinized attention Elon Musk has received since purchasing Twitter — and for “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-releases-hunter-biden-files-tweets-deleted-at-behest-of-team-biden-exec-was-key-behind-censorship-decision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Twitter Files</a>” leak — he has now come out and said that he is not suicidal.
“I do not have any suicidal thoughts. If I committed suicide, it’s not real,” Musk said on a December 6 “Twitter Spaces” call the day after “The Twitter Files” leak alleging widespread coordination between Democrats and Twitter to censor certain individuals.
His comments are pretty alarming when you think about it — but perhaps it&#8217;s warranted.
If you&#8217;ve been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-54-when-is-it-valid-for-a-woman-to-call-the-police-on-a-man-my-experience-with-a-stalker-men-s-opinions-on-botox-filler-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listening to my show</a>, then you know that I have been covering strange deaths surrounding people who are perceived as a threat to the government.
For example, last week we reported on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-50-the-mysterious-deaths-of-crypto-billionaires-pedophiles-in-ca-are-being-released-in-droves-biden-s-drag-queen-nuclear-waste-guru-charged-with-theft-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crypto king who literally tweeted </a>that he was going to be killed by the CIA and Mossad — and hours later he was found dead in the middle of the ocean, fully clothed with his wallet.
So we don&#8217;t know what happened there, but Musk does feel that it’s necessary to say that he is not suicidal.
Obviously, Musk is a huge threat to the government, the Democratic National Committee, and various people involved in the alleged censorship operation.
We know the Left — in all institutions — wants to control the flow of information so that they can accomplish their goals and consume power.
So, with COVID for instance — social media, the government, and the legacy media all wanted everybody to roll up their sleeves and get a vaccine, no questions asked. 
In order to do that, they needed to make sure the social media companies are staying in line by censoring speech and doling out a punishment every time someone says something that goes against the narrative.
What happens next?
It seems every time a person gets kicked off the platform, a biased fact-checker puts up a link next to the post in question that says, “Missing context.” By doing that, these social media platforms wind up furthering the ends of Big Pharma, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In other words, the Left is basically saying you cannot question the science.
So, since Musk is revealing all of that alleged corruption, it is fair to assume that his enemies could come after him in some way.
Personally, I don&#8217;t think that they would &#8216;suicide&#8217; him.
I think he is way too big to be suicided. 
What I can see happening, though, is the FBI swooping in, taking all of Twitter’s servers, and then trying to impoverish him by tying him up in the legal system as they accuse him of crimes he never committed.
It’s speculation, but I could 100% find it believable. That is how they will handle somebody like Musk.
It sounds like Musk believes something bad could happen to him as well.
“Frankly, the risk of something bad happening or literally even being shot is quite significant,” Musk also said during Twitter Spaces. “I’m definitely not going to be doing any open-air car parades, let me put it that way. It’s not that hard to kill me if somebody wanted to, so hopefully they don’t.”
Terrifying.
And he also said, “Maybe I should be more worried than I am, but I think generally if you do right by the people, you have the people on your side.”
There is no question that the people are on Musk’s side. The bigger question is whether or not the government is on his side.
I think it&#8217;s very clear that the government is not on his side.
Why would they want to help Musk? He isn’t helping the Left censor the flow of information.
The Biden administration has already come out and said they are keeping a “<a href="https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6316326452112#sp=show-clips" target="_blank" rel="noopener">close eye</a>” on Musk’s Twitter. They have launched a federal investigation into one of his companies — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-launches-investigation-into-elon-musks-company-neuralink-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neuralink</a> — over allegations that the company may have violated animal-welfare laws.
Across legacy media, Democrat allies in the media are already defaming Twitter as something dangerous and even fascist.
In reality, all Twitter is now is something that is not under the Left’s control — which is why they hate that Musk owns it.
So yes, I do think that something bad could happen to Musk — maybe not a &#8216;suicide,&#8217; but some other form of interference from our very own government.

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Elon Musk Warns He Isn’t ‘Suicidal’ — But His Enemies Can Get Him In Other Ways

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