<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican</a> presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vivek Ramaswamy</a> revealed on Wednesday that he had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">locked</a> out of his LinkedIn account over opinions he expressed about climate activism and the Biden administration’s policies with respect to China, raising concerns that <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media</a> companies are attempting to control the narrative in the upcoming <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">election</a> cycle.
Ramaswamy, a former pharmaceutical entrepreneur who unexpectedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vivek-ramaswamy-top-private-sector-voice-against-esg-teases-possible-presidential-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entered</a> the presidential contest earlier this year, shared <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1661723333392474115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">screenshots</a> of an email he received from LinkedIn accusing him of “misinformation, hate speech, violence,” and other breaches of the platform’s user agreement.
“If they can do it to me, they can really do it to anybody,” Ramaswamy said in a video statement. “These aren’t really the actions of private companies. These are so-called privately held companies, or publicly traded private companies, that are doing the work of the government through the backdoor: silencing speech that the government would never dare to censor.”
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The email from LinkedIn added that the posts constituted “misleading or inaccurate information.” One status from Ramaswamy referenced by LinkedIn asserted that the Chinese Communist Party has been “playing the Biden administration like a Chinese mandolin” and “weaponized the ‘woke pandemic’ to stay one step ahead of us.” Another post contended that the “climate religion and its apostles in the ESG movement” would be opposed to shifting oil production away from the United States and toward Russia and China if they did not “have a different objective,” while a third said that “fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity.”
Ramaswamy added that the move from LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, is “even more dangerous than direct government censorship in many ways, because it is a hybrid of corporate power and state power together, doing what neither one of them could do on their own.”
LinkedIn recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/linkedin-to-dismiss-hundreds-of-employees-kills-chinese-app-initiative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shuttered</a> a Chinese career platform but continues to hire employees in the communist nation. The firm also faced backlash last month for implementing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/linkedin-allows-recruiters-to-filter-job-candidates-by-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">features</a> that let recruiters filter job candidates by race, sex, and other demographic characteristics.
Republican lawmakers, including presidential contenders, have long been subjected to social media censorship. Former President Donald Trump, currently considered a frontrunner in the Republican primary race alongside Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, was suspended from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter after the January 6 protests at the Capitol Building, although the platforms have more recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-restores-donald-trumps-account" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restored</a> access to his accounts.
Technology companies and social media platforms have drawn backlash in recent years for censoring information critical of the federal response to the pandemic and the efficacy of public health mandates, as well as content interpreted by executives to be hateful or violent in nature. Several installments of the Twitter Files, a set of internal documents which new Twitter owner Elon Musk provided to investigative journalists, indicated that former executives <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-twitter-files-shows-how-federal-state-governments-monitor-americans-social-media-posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worked</a> with federal officials to restrict the advancement of certain claims, as well as leveraged shadow bans and suspensions against conservative and moderate users.
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Some prominent social media companies have openly admitted to maintaining censorship operations. TikTok <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-ceo-reveals-the-details-of-platforms-massive-censorship-operation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> last month that the firm, controlled by Chinese technology company ByteDance, hires “tens of thousands” of employees dedicated to content moderation. The platform has emerged as the most popular social media site for American youth.

Vivek Ramaswamy

Social Media Platform Locks Account Of Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy

LinkedIn Locks Account Of Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy

2024 Election

Elections

Microsoft

Politics

Republicans

Social Media Censorship

<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> selected advertising executive Linda Yaccarino to replace him as chief executive officer of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>, drawing concern as users on the platform notice her connections to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> and her endorsements of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">content moderation</a>.
Yaccarino, who departed from NBCUniversal this week after serving as the company’s chair of global advertising and partnerships for more than a decade, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-in-talks-to-name-nbcuniversal-executive-and-top-world-economic-forum-official-as-new-twitter-ceo-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> as the new chief executive of Twitter on Friday. Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657050349608501249" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> that she would “focus primarily on business operations” while he directs his attention toward product design and technology.
Twitter users started to uncover the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindayaccarino/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">connections</a> that Yaccarino holds to entities such as the World Economic Forum, for which she chairs the Taskforce on Future of Work and sits on the Media, Entertainment and Culture Industry Governors Steering Committee. The World Economic Forum is a leading proponent of stakeholder capitalism, an approach to investing that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/esg-the-invisible-fist-of-the-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encourages</a> executives to consider the needs of employees, communities, and other parties in addition to shareholders, and the use of corporate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-woke-go-broke-amazon-installed-solar-panels-in-an-attempt-to-go-net-zero-they-kept-catching-fire-and-were-turned-off" target="_blank" rel="noopener">power</a> to advance political agendas.
Musk himself <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/are-they-trying-to-be-the-boss-of-earth-elon-musk-attacks-wefs-klaus-schwab-wanting-to-master-the-future" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> the World Economic Forum earlier this year for “trying to be the boss” of the entire planet as business leaders and government officials gathered at the organization’s annual summit in Switzerland.
Yaccarino also served as board chair for the Ad Council, an entity which creates public service announcements for nonprofits and governments. She partnered with the Biden administration to launch a campaign featuring Pope Francis in order to promote COVID vaccines.
Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1656898688739057665" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> on Friday that Yaccarino would not institute the shadow bans which frequently targeted conservatives under the previous management of Twitter. The phrase &#8220;RIP Twitter&#8221; nevertheless trended on the platform after he officially announced her appointment to work as chief executive.
Users also unearthed an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypZNWjPpOuI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> Yaccarino conducted with Musk last month in which she pressed him to amend his own spontaneous use of the platform and contended that advertisers “need to feel that there is an opportunity for them to influence” the site with respect to “content moderation.”
Yaccarino and Musk clashed as she asked Musk to reinstitute the “well populated, much loved influence council” that existed before he purchased the company last year. Musk countered that he would be “worried about creating a backlash among the public” should they believe that “their views are being determined” by a handful of elite marketing executives.
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“It’s totally cool to say that you want to have your advertising appear in certain places on Twitter and not in other places, but it is not cool to try to say what Twitter will do,” he remarked. “And if that means losing advertising dollars, we lose it, but freedom of speech is paramount.”
Musk, who also serves as chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, said he acquired Twitter at the end of last year in order to reserve a corner of the public square for open dialogue. The billionaire entrepreneur <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-takes-away-blue-check-verification-from-celebrities-and-news-outlets-confusion-and-hilarity-ensue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> a new revenue structure based on subscriptions rather than advertisements after he noted that a number of companies have ended their relationships with the platform at the behest of leftist organizations, dealing a significant blow to the business.
“Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> on the platform. “Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”

Linda Yaccarino

Musk Draws Backlash For Picking World Economic Forum Leader, Supporter Of ‘Content Moderation’ To Run Twitter

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World Economic Forum

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> Judiciary Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) sent a letter on Monday to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/google" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google</a> parent company Alphabet after the firm failed to comply with a subpoena related to federal government officials working with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/big-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">technology</a> firms to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censor</a> content.
Lawmakers asked executives at Alphabet, as well as Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, for documents related to their alleged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-subpoenas-big-tech-executives-in-collusion-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suppression</a> of free speech. Jordan said that Alphabet insufficiently complied with the subpoena, which was issued on February 15 and required a return date of March 23, and redacted information in an improper manner.
“Despite explicit instructions enclosed with the subpoena to produce unredacted documents, Alphabet has frustrated the committee’s review of the responsive material by unilaterally redacting key information necessary to understand the context and content of the material,” Jordan said in the <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-05-08-jdj-to-donovan-re-alphabet.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Daniel Donovan, an attorney who represents Alphabet. “These redactions do not appear to be based on any applicable privilege, because Alphabet has asserted none, and the committee requires this material to be produced without redactions.”
Jordan said that Alphabet provided 4,049 pages of documents related to censorship efforts, a volume of materials that is not “appreciable” relative to the expected quantity of documents, and insisted that the materials be examined in a reading room, a requirement that “prevents and frustrates the committee’s understanding and use of those documents and fails to comply with the terms of the subpoena without the committee’s consent.”
The subpoena was largely focused on obtaining communications between executives at rival social media companies regarding the coordinated censorship of particular viewpoints. YouTube, the video-sharing platform controlled by Alphabet, most recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/facebook-and-instagram-threaten-to-permanently-ban-project-veritas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censored</a> footage from Project Veritas in which an executive from Pfizer said that the company uses “directed evolution” to mutate coronaviruses and create more potent variants and vaccines.
Technology companies have drawn particular backlash in recent years for censoring information critical of the federal response to the pandemic and the efficacy of lockdown mandates.
Lawmakers can hold individuals in contempt of Congress for intentionally interfering with a committee’s investigation, a move which would require a committee vote and a simple majority in the relevant chamber. Republicans currently have majorities on the House Judiciary Committee and the House of Representatives.
Jordan added that the committee might be “forced to consider the use of one or more enforcement mechanisms” should Alphabet fail to submit relevant documents on May 22.
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The investigation into the suppression of free speech by technology and social media companies occurs after several installments of the Twitter Files, a set of internal documents Twitter owner Elon Musk provided to investigative journalists, indicated that executives worked with federal officials to censor certain claims, as well as used shadow bans and suspensions against conservative and moderate users.
One <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-twitter-files-shows-how-federal-state-governments-monitor-americans-social-media-posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">edition</a> of the Twitter Files showed that the FBI contacted Twitter about the censorship of so many posts that employees congratulated each other in internal company communications for the “monumental undertaking” of reviewing them. Another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-twitter-files-show-fbi-paid-twitter-millions-influenced-execs-to-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a> showed that the FBI paid Twitter more than $3.4 million for their “legal process response,” apparently referencing the time executives spent coordinating with the agency.

Twitter Files

Jim Jordan Threatens To Crack Down On Google Parent Company For Not Complying With Censorship Investigation 

Jim Jordan Threatens To Crack Down On Alphabet For Not Complying With Censorship Investigation 

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Google

House Republicans

Jim Jordan

<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> CEO Shou Zi Chew revealed on Thursday that the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media</a> platform has “tens of thousands” of employees dedicated to <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/social-media-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">content moderation</a>.
American lawmakers have raised concerns over allegations that information on TikTok, which is controlled by Chinese technology company ByteDance, can be manipulated by associates of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ccp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese Communist Party</a>. Some have also noted that TikTok is one of several large social media sites which tend to censor conservative viewpoints. Chew affirmed in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zC8-06198g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> at a TED conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, that his company has a massive content moderation operation based in Ireland which uses <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artificial intelligence</a> systems to censor posts.
“There are some bad actors who come on the internet, they post bad content. Our approach is that we have very clear community guidelines. We’re very transparent about what is allowed and what is not allowed on our platform. No executives make any ad hoc decisions,” Chew said. “Based on that, we have built a team that is tens of thousands of people plus machines in order to identify content that is bad, and actively, proactively remove it from the platform.”
Chew added that the content moderation staffers constitute “one of the most important cost items” at his firm but are “completely worth” the expense. He admitted that human personnel are necessary since the AI systems used by his company are “not perfect.”
“You have to complement them with a lot of human beings,” he continued. “A lot of the progress in AI in general is making that kind of content moderation capabilities a lot better. We’re going to get more precise, we’re going to get more specific.”
TikTok has indeed censored a number of commentators for ambiguous reasons. Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing noted on Wednesday that Brett Cooper, the host of The Daily Wire’s &#8220;Comments Section,&#8221; had been permanently <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1648773268004827137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> from TikTok for uncertain reasons. Cooper <a href="https://twitter.com/imbrettcooper/status/1649175634986270722" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Thursday that she had been reinstated after public and legal pressure.
“We still don’t know why I was banned in the first place. They won’t give us an answer. They never do,” she recounted. “I’m proud to be on a team that never bends a knee, always fights smart, and consistently wins.”
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Beyond the concerns some lawmakers have cited over the company’s content moderation practices, Democratic and Republican officials alike have accused TikTok of permitting members of the Chinese Communist Party to access American user data. President Joe Biden and several state officials have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-unanimously-votes-to-ban-tiktok-on-government-devices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> TikTok from government devices over data security and surveillance concerns after reports <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktoks-parent-company-in-china-planned-to-use-platform-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicated</a> that ByteDance staffers in China used the platform to monitor the locations of specific American users.
Chew insisted in his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-ceo-swears-company-is-not-an-agent-of-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testimony</a> before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last month that a forced sale of TikTok to an American company would not resolve the national security issues cited by lawmakers. “I am well aware that the fact that ByteDance has Chinese founders has prompted concerns that our platform could be used as or become a tool of China or the Chinese Communist Party,” the executive remarked. “Divestment doesn’t address the fundamental concerns that I have heard, as a change in ownership would not impose any new restrictions on data flows or access. This is not an issue of nationality.”

Shou Zi Chew

TikTok CEO Reveals The Details Of Platform’s Massive Censorship Operation

TikTok CEO Discusses Massive Censorship Operation

Chinese Communist Party

Social Media

TikTok

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/babylon-bee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Babylon Bee</a> CEO Seth Dillon said Wednesday that the satire outlet, podcaster Tim Pool, and Minds, Inc. filed a <a href="https://envisage.law/mtb-v-ca/">lawsuit</a> against California&#8217;s attorney general, alleging a new law regulating social media companies violates the First Amendment.
In a Substack <a href="https://sethdillon.substack.com/p/the-babylon-bee-is-suing-californias?r=1b5q9&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>, Dillon wrote that the plaintiffs filed the complaint against California attorney general Rob Bonta to stop state officials from enforcing AB 587, a new law that took effect this year that requires social media companies to file quarterly reports detailing content moderation policies with the Attorney General&#8217;s Office.
Such content moderation policies include several speech categories the state could label as misinformation/disinformation, extremism/radicalization, and hate speech. Failing to file reports could lead to the state imposing fines for non-compliance.
According to the lawsuit, AB 587 was &#8220;written with the express intent to discourage expression&#8221; of constitutionally protected viewpoints and failed the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/vagueness_doctrine#:~:text=1)%20A%20constitutional%20rule%20that,Amendments%20of%20the%20U.S.%20Constitution." target="_blank" rel="noopener">vagueness doctrine</a> of the Fourteenth Amendment, which requires criminal laws to state explicitly and definitely what conduct is punishable.
&#8220;If Big Tech is tasked by the state with eliminating hateful or misinformative content, they&#8217;ll stuff everything they don&#8217;t like into those categories, including opinions, jokes, and even factual statements,&#8221; Dillon said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve already experienced it first hand.&#8221;
Last year, Twitter banned The Babylon Bee from the social media platform for an article that jokingly named Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, as &#8220;Man of the Year.&#8221; However, Elon Musk, a vocal fan of The Babylon Bee, restored the account after acquiring the platform.
However, while the former Twitter regime worked actively to censor and ban prominent accounts like the Bee, California lawmakers penned the new law that demands more action from social media companies to silence voices the state considers hate and harassment, claiming many of the deadly attacks nationwide share a common thread on social media.
&#8220;They&#8217;re linked to social media shooters who are radicalized, often with a toxic brew of white supremacy and extremist ideology, through the incredible power of social media,&#8221; California State Senator Jesse Gabriel, author of AB 587, told <a href="https://abc7.com/ca-bill-ab-587-social-media-companies-hate-and-harassment-policies/11985656/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC</a> last year.
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&#8220;We&#8217;re not telling you what to do, but tell policymakers, and tell the public, what you&#8217;re doing,&#8221; Gabriel added.
Upon signing it into law, California Governor Gavin Newsom said the state would &#8220;not stand by as social media is weaponized to spread hate and disinformation that threaten our communities and foundational values as a country.&#8221;
Dillon, however, argued that lawmakers made the law too vague and called it a censorship bill, despite state officials claiming it&#8217;s about transparency.
&#8220;We need laws that prohibit viewpoint discrimination, not laws that compel it under threat of penalties (and under the guise of good-faith content moderation),&#8221; Dillon said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a good thing when people are allowed to speak freely,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s a bad thing when Big Tech and the government work together to decide what we&#8217;re allowed to say. Why? Because they often get it wrong. Even worse, they get it wrong on purpose.&#8221;

California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks during a press conference in Los Angeles

Babylon Bee, Tim Pool File Lawsuit Against California Attorney General Over New Social Media Law

Babylon Bee CEO, Tim Pool File Lawsuit Against California Attorney General Over New Social Media Law

Babylon Bee

California

Courts

Gavin Newsom

Elon Musk on Friday fulfilled a promise to release some of the code underlying how <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> filters and presents the information that users see.
Twitter released computer code it called &#8220;the algorithm&#8221; on Github revealing some of the inner workings of the black box that determines which tweets a user sees — which is far more complicated than simply showing all tweets from people you follow.
&#8220;Most of the recommendation algorithm&#8221; was released and &#8220;the rest will follow,&#8221; Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1641874582473695246" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on the platform he owns. &#8220;No doubt, many embarrassing issues will be discovered, but we will fix them fast!&#8221; he added.
The algorithm is important because rather than focus on simply presenting a chronological feed from those a user follows — which would also take far less staff — Musk has said that he will de-amplify content freely. That means that while users might not be censored outright the way they would under the old regime, they could be reaching significantly fewer people, without even realizing that anything was happening, similar to a form of soft &#8220;shadow-banning.&#8221;
Engineers <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that the &#8220;For You&#8221; feed consists half of people you follow, and half of people you don&#8217;t. &#8220;This requires a recommendation algorithm to distill the roughly 500 million Tweets posted daily down to a handful of top Tweets that ultimately show up,&#8221; they explained.
The code also deals with &#8220;Trust and Safety,&#8221; which has in the past been used by Twitter to hide information such as the Hunter Biden laptop scandal just before the 2020 election.
However, the code only contains logic and machine learning models, not the data that powers it, so it is of limited use. For example, you can see code building the &#8220;Model to detect <a href="https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/tree/main/trust_and_safety_models" target="_blank" rel="noopener">toxic tweets</a>. Toxicity includes marginal content like insults and certain types of harassment. Toxic content does not violate Twitter terms of service.&#8221;
In part, it looks for keywords dealing with &#8220;politics,&#8221; &#8220;insults,&#8221; and &#8220;race,&#8221; but you can&#8217;t see what those keywords are. The end result of many factors is a “toxicity score” being assigned to each tweet.
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The code shows that Twitter keeps track of Democrats, Republicans, important users (called VITs), and Musk himself, saying, “These author ID lists are used purely for metrics collection. We track how often we are serving Tweets from these authors and how often their tweets are being impressed by users. This helps us validate in our A/B experimentation platform that we do not ship changes that negatively impacts one group over others.”
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It also references blacklisted topics and searches.
Under &#8220;SpaceSafetyLabels,&#8221; it includes DoNotAmplify, CoordinatedHarmfulActivity, CivicIntegrityMisinfo, MedicalMisinfo, GenericMisinfo, HighToxicity, and UkraineCrisis.
It lists as &#8220;Deprecated&#8221; safety labels named MisinfoCovid19, MsinfoBrazilianElection, MsnfoCovid19Vaccine, MsnfoFrenchElection, MsnfoPhilippineElection, and MsnfoUsElection.&#8221;
It sets a &#8220;tweet safety level&#8221; based on factors like TweetContainsHatefulConductSlurLowSeverity.
&#8220;The [[VisibilityReason]] feature represents a VisibilityFiltering [[SPAM.FilteredReason]], which contains safety filtering verdict information including action (e.g. Drop, Avoid) and reason (e.g. Misinformation, Abuse),&#8221; a code comment says.
It also orchestrates a &#8220;misinfo nudge.&#8221;
And it considers policy violations, which include ElectionInterference, MisinformationVoting, HackedMaterials, MisinformationCivic AbusePolicyUkraiseCrisisMisinformation, MisinformationMedical, and MisinformationGeneral.
Last week following the Nashville shooting, many conservatives were banned for calling attention to a “Trans Day of Vengeance” set to take place on Saturday, even though the original far-Left accounts were not <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-reporter-suspended-from-twitter-over-story-about-trans-day-of-vengeance-scheduled-for-same-week-as-nashville-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> when they originally promoted the event.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/luke-rosiak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Luke Rosiak</a>, an investigative reporter for The Daily Wire, was suspended from <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> on Tuesday after he posted a link to a story about activists scheduling a transgender “Day of Vengeance” the same week of the shooting at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.
Police said that a 28-year-old woman who identified as a transgender man killed three 9-year-old children and three adults at The Covenant School, which is associated with the conservative evangelical Covenant Presbyterian Church. Authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-christian-school-shooter-identified-as-transgender-authorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that the shooter, whom The Daily Wire will not name in accordance with company policy, executed a “targeted attack” and left behind a “manifesto.”
Rosiak noted on Monday that the suspected shooter executed her attack days before the Trans Radical Activist Network called for a “Day of Vengeance” on Saturday, April 1. Twitter removed a post from Rosiak linking to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-radicals-plan-day-of-vengeance-in-d-c-alongside-firearms-training" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> he wrote earlier this month about the activists.
“The shooting of a Christian school by a transgender comes the same week that activists scheduled a ‘Trans Day of Vengeance,’ with the group also raising money for firearms training,” Rosiak had said in the tweet.
Rosiak, who said he has been on Twitter for 13 years but has “never had a single strike,” received an alert indicating that the tweet violated “rules against violent speech” and stating that the social media platform does not permit users to “share abusive content, harass someone, or encourage other people to do so.”
He was told that he must delete the original post to regain access to his account; he appealed the decision, observing that he was not “advocating for violence” but rather “stating a fact and noting disapprovingly” that others had been calling for violence. Trans Radical Activist Network indeed <a href="https://twitter.com/ResistanceTrans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retains</a> its account on Twitter.
“The activists, which describe their ‘Day of Vengeance’ alongside references to Molotov cocktails and specifically mentioned Tennessee, advertised this event on Twitter itself, and their accounts have not been banned,” Rosiak told The Daily Wire in reaction to his suspension. “Are trans activists mass-reporting factual tweets to prevent the public from learning about their actions, and does Elon Musk&#8217;s system allow organized groups of leftists to game it that way?”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/josh-hawley-calls-for-federal-hate-crime-investigation-into-shooting-at-nashville-christian-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> on federal officials to investigate whether the Nashville massacre was a hate crime against Christians, had <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1640722177002545159" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retweeted</a> the post from Rosiak. “This kind of hateful rhetoric, ‘genocide’ and ‘day of vengeance,’ must be condemned,” the lawmaker said. “The hate crime massacre in Nashville exposes where rhetoric like this can lead.”
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Rosiak, who broke the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bombshell story</a> about school officials in Loudoun County, Virginia, attempting to conceal a sexual assault in a women’s bathroom perpetrated by a boy allegedly wearing a skirt, has not been the first conservative to be suspended from Twitter even after Elon Musk assumed control of the platform last year. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) each briefly lost <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/utah-senator-mike-lee-suspended-from-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">access</a> to their account in recent weeks.
The suspected shooter sent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-shooter-sent-chilling-messages-to-a-friend-moments-before-entering-christian-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">messages</a> to her former middle school basketball teammate moments before the attack, saying she was “planning to die today” and that the friend would “probably hear” about her on the news. “My family doesn’t know what I’m about to do,” she added. “One day this will make more sense. I’ve left more than enough evidence behind.”

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Daily Wire Reporter Suspended From Twitter Over Story About Trans ‘Day Of Vengeance’ Scheduled For Same Week As Nashville Shooting

Daily Wire Reporter Luke Rosiak Suspended From Twitter Over Story About Trans 'Day Of Vengeance'

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Matt Taibbi, an independent journalist who reported on collusion between government agencies and former executives of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>, was visited by an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/internal-revenue-service-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IRS</a> official on the same day he testified before Congress about the weaponization of the federal government.
Several installments of the Twitter Files, a set of internal documents Twitter CEO <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> provided to Taibbi and other handpicked reporters, indicate that the platform had multiple ways of silencing conservatives, such as shadow bans and outright suspensions. IRS agents appeared at Taibbi’s residence in New Jersey on March 9, the same day he testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
The agent left a note instructing him to call the agency four days later; Taibbi was informed during the call that his 2018 and 2021 tax returns were rejected over identity theft concerns.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter on Monday, which was <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-matt-taibbi-twitter-files-jim-jordan-daniel-werfel-lina-khan-84ee518" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seen</a> by the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal, to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel demanding information about the home visit.
Taibbi provided the House Judiciary Committee with documents proving his IRS return from 2018 had been electronically accepted; the agency and his accountants had not told him about any concerns with the filing over the past five years. The return from 2021 was rejected, refiled, and then rejected for a second time. Taibbi said the issue with the return was not “monetary.”
Dealing with the IRS can be a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-joe-bidens-new-irs-army-will-impact-your-taxes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">difficult</a> and time-consuming process. Worries about increased audit rates have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irs-has-not-yet-finalized-how-middle-class-will-be-affected-by-80-billion-windfall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emerged</a> over the past several months after the Inflation Reduction Act provided the agency with an $80 billion windfall to double the size of its workforce.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board noted that the IRS typically starts with a letter or a request for information from the taxpayer rather than a surprise house call.
Michael Shellenberger, another independent journalist behind the Twitter Files initiative who testified before lawmakers on March 9, <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1640504232724799492" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quipped</a> on social media that the sudden IRS visit was an “amazing coincidence.” Taibbi <a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1640512613317591040" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he would not comment on the matter pending an answer to the letter, although he added that he is “not worried” for himself.
Various <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-twitter-files-shows-how-federal-state-governments-monitor-americans-social-media-posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">editions</a> of the Twitter Files published by Taibbi indicate federal agencies, particularly the FBI, contacted Twitter about the censorship of so many posts that employees congratulated each other in internal company communications for the “monumental undertaking” of reviewing them. “Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content,” Taibbi recounted in one report.
Democratic lawmakers on the subcommittee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-house-dems-try-to-bully-twitter-files-journos-into-revealing-sources-fail-miserably" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> Taibbi and Shellenberger of improperly colluding with Musk to advance the entrepreneur’s interests, demanding they provide information about their sources, which is broadly considered a violation of the right to freedom of the press.
Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-USVI) asked for the name of the “individual that gave you permission to access the emails,” while Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) asked for the date on which Musk purportedly approached the journalists regarding the initiative. Jordan accused his colleagues of attempting to pressure the reporters, calling the effort “a violation of the First Amendment.”

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IRS Agent Visited The Home Of ‘Twitter Files’ Journalist On The Same Day He Testified About Government Weaponization

IRS Agent Visited The Home Of Journalist Matt Taibbi On The Same Day He Testified About Government Weaponization

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> account which belongs to former President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> was restored more than two years after its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspension</a>.
Trump has been restricted from posting videos since the protests at the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, after which YouTube and other social media firms asserted that he had incited violence. The account is “no longer restricted and the ability to upload new content is restored,” YouTube Vice President of Public Policy Leslie Miller said in a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/03/17/trump-youtube-suspension-restored" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> provided to Axios.
&#8220;We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, balancing that with the importance of preserving the opportunity for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run up to an election,&#8221; Miller commented. &#8220;This channel will continue to be subject to our policies, just like any other channel on YouTube.&#8221;
YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, will not restore videos on the Trump account removed from the platform after January 6 for purportedly inciting violence. Trump, who is a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, will now be permitted to buy YouTube advertisements.
A number of social media firms have likewise lifted previous suspensions on Trump. Meta, which controls Facebook and Instagram, ended Trump’s suspension two months ago and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meta-to-end-trumps-suspension-across-platforms-in-near-future" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> that the penalty imposed after January 6 was “an extraordinary decision taken in extraordinary circumstances.” The company nevertheless vowed to enforce “certain guardrails” on Trump in the future.
Content moderators defended their controversial move, insisting they did not want to interfere in debate surrounding elections and that the decision had been approved by an oversight board. Meta said that Trump faces “heightened penalties for repeat offenses” for past behavior on the platforms, which will also “apply to other public figures whose accounts are reinstated from suspensions related to civil unrest under our updated protocol.”
Twitter CEO Elon Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-elon-musk-to-reinstate-trump-on-twitter-trump-has-repeatedly-stated-he-wont-come-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinstated</a> Trump on the platform at the end of last year following an informal survey the billionaire entrepreneur conducted with his followers. Trump, who launched a social media company called Truth Social after he left office, had stated that he will not return to Twitter even if Musk were to reinstate his account. Trump is also contractually required to post all content to Truth Social and wait six hours before sharing the content on other platforms.
“I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth,” Trump previously commented. “The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter.”
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Trump has more than 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube, while his <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">account</a> on Twitter has some 87.4 million followers.
Musk previously <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> advertisers that he acquired Twitter to foster a “common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.” He has expressed a desire to refrain from promoting what he deems to be radical content on the site and vowed that the social media platform would not become a “free-for-all hellscape” where users could breach the law with impunity or splinter into “echo chambers.”

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The personal <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> account of Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Lee</a> (R-UT) was restored after a brief suspension on Wednesday.
The lawmaker said that the reason for the suspension was not immediately clear. “Twitter did not alert me ahead of time, nor have they yet offered an explanation for the suspension,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1630999446149373953" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> from his official account during his suspension. “My team and I are seeking answers.”
The suspension came after Lee posted a number of tweets on Tuesday exhorting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to release Navy Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis, who is serving a three-year prison sentence for his purported role in a fatal car crash two years ago. The lawmaker told Kishida that he had until midnight to release the sailor before Lee sought to remove military aid from Japan, with which the United States is an ally.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve made your choice,&#8221; Lee said shortly after the midnight deadline, according to a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-mike-lee-demands-release-us-navy-vet-imprisoned-japan-threatens-consequences" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Fox News. &#8220;I hope you&#8217;re ready for some conversations on the Senate floor that you&#8217;re not likely to enjoy. This issue isn&#8217;t going away, and neither am I.&#8221;
A number of lawmakers, including Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), asked Twitter CEO Elon Musk why Lee was suspended. The world’s richest man acquired Twitter at the end of last year for $44 billion and announced that he wanted to return freedom of expression to the platform.
Lee&#8217;s account was <a class="c-link" href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1631014946208206855" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1631014946208206855" data-sk="tooltip_parent">restored</a> on Wednesday afternoon, although the lawmakers says there is “still no explanation” from the company on what happened. Musk then <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1631030915810967552" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> that the account was &#8220;incorrectly flagged as impersonation.&#8221;
Lee was suspended less than one month after Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) temporarily lost access to his Twitter account after he changed his profile photo to an image from a hunting trip with his wife, Cindy Daines. The post stood in violation of Twitter rules against “graphic violence or adult content in profile images,” according to a <a href="https://twitter.com/RachelDumke9/status/1622940946076672006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notice</a> from the social media company shared by Daines spokeswoman Rachel Dumke. “We consider graphic violence to be any form of gory media related to death, serious injury, violence, or surgical procedures,” the notice continued.
The picture, which showed Cindy Daines and her husband posing next to an antelope she had killed, appeared to show little blood apart from some drops on the animal’s front leg. There were no firearms or other weapons shown in the picture.
Musk vowed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-being-fixed-musk-responds-after-gop-senator-was-locked-out-of-twitter-over-hunting-picture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolve</a> the issue after officials such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) voiced concern. “This is being fixed,” the entrepreneur remarked. “Policy against showing blood in profile pic is being amended to ‘clearly showing blood without clicking on the profile pic.’ The intent is to avoid people being forced to see gruesome profile pics.”
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Musk previously <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> advertisers that he purchased the company to “have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.” At the same time, he has expressed a desire to refrain from promoting what he deems to be radical left-wing and right-wing content on the site; he vowed that the social media platform would not become a “free-for-all hellscape” where users could breach the law with impunity or splinter into “echo chambers.”

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Update: Jake Crain&#8217;s Twitter thread detailing allegations about Lia Thomas has been restored by Twitter. Original story below: 
Daily Wire host Jake Crain&#8217;s Twitter thread detailing some disturbing allegations made about Lia Thomas&#8217; romantic and sexual life appears to have been censored by Twitter.
In conjunction with an exclusive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swim-champ-riley-gaines-drops-shocking-claims-about-lia-thomas-on-crain-co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines on &#8220;Crain &amp; Company&#8221; Wednesday, Crain posted a 14-tweet-long thread revealing social media posts in which Thomas&#8217; social circle alludes to strange sexual fetishes and makes graphic references to transgender surgeries. Several hours after the tweets were posted, all except two were listed as unavailable on Twitter, leaving Crain, Gaines, and the public searching for answers.
&#8220;It looks like the vast majority of the tweets in this thread have been removed, is that a glitch or was it intentional @elonmusk?&#8221; Crain <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeCrain_/status/1626007614319472640?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> Wednesday evening.
&#8220;Nothing posted was even opinionated. It was simply just bringing to light pictures already posted on a public page,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1626008701248192520?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gaines</a> replied. &#8220;More proof of media actively denying truth to fit their narrative.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to Twitter Comms via direct message, but as of the publishing of this piece has not received a response. Neither Twitter Support nor CEO Elon Musk have their DMs open, and there is no way to contact Twitter directly.
Crain posted the <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeCrain_/status/1625866875149090817?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">original thread</a> on Wednesday morning. &#8220;This is a 🧵 we never expected to write&#8230;&#8221; Crain wrote. &#8220;We sat down with NCAA women’s swimmer @Riley_Gaines_ and she shared some info about Lia Thomas. So we did some digging &amp; now we have a LOT of questions. Is THIS what the NCAA thinks a woman is? WARNING: What we found is jarring.&#8221;
&#8220;Lia Thomas appears to have two Instagram accounts,&#8221; Crain began. &#8220;His public account ‘LiaKThomas,’ featuring a small handful of generic photos promoting messages like &#8216;let trans kids play.&#8217; Then, a private account… ‘LiaThimas.’” Crain included screenshots of Thomas&#8217; public Instagram page and the locked private page.
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2. Lia Thomas appears to have two Instagram accounts. His public account ‘LiaKThomas,’ featuring a small handful of generic photos promoting messages like “let trans kids play.” Then, a private account… ‘LiaThimas.’ <a href="https://t.co/Mx2nHQZzFG">pic.twitter.com/Mx2nHQZzFG</a>
&mdash; Jake Crain (@JakeCrain_) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeCrain_/status/1625866880954077184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;In our research, we found the observant @whereswawro, who identified multiple IG posts about AGP (autogynephilia) that ‘LiaThimas’ allegedly engaged with,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;AGP is “a male’s propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female.”
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3. In our research, we found the observant <a href="https://twitter.com/whereswawro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@whereswawro</a>, who identified multiple IG posts about AGP (autogynephilia) that ‘LiaThimas’ allegedly engaged with. AGP is “a male’s propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female.” <a href="https://t.co/wCS51dQo2o">https://t.co/wCS51dQo2o</a> <a href="https://t.co/JE82z89sdb">pic.twitter.com/JE82z89sdb</a>
&mdash; Jake Crain (@JakeCrain_) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeCrain_/status/1625866886851223553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Crain then linked to a separate Twitter thread from Nicole Wawro, who hosts &#8220;The Feminist Recovery Program&#8221; on social media. The tweet includes three screenshots of Instagram posts dealing with autogynephilia, or AGP, which Thomas liked on what appears to be his private account.
“Perhaps most troubling however, are all of Lia Thomas&#8217; self-admissions of being &#8216;AGP&#8217; through the form of repeated likes,&#8221; Wawro alleged. &#8220;Autogynephilia: a form of sexual response in biological males characterized by sexual arousal over the idea of being or becoming female.&#8221; Much of Wawro&#8217;s thread is also unavailable.
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Perhaps most troubling however, are all of Lia Thomas&#39; self-admissions of being &quot;AGP&quot; through the form of repeated likes 🚨Autogynephilia: a form of sexual response in biological males characterized by sexual arousal over the idea of being or becoming female 🧵<a href="https://twitter.com/ReduxxMag?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ReduxxMag</a> <a href="https://t.co/zq9IQRgzOK">pic.twitter.com/zq9IQRgzOK</a>
&mdash; Nicole Wawro (@whereswawro) <a href="https://twitter.com/whereswawro/status/1598214988790779904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Crain then switched gears. &#8220;A similar image, liked by ‘LiaThimas,’ is still found on the Instagram account of Gwen Weiskopf, Lia’s alleged romantic partner,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Gwen, who identifies Lia as his &#8216;girlfriend,&#8217; is also a &#8216;transgender woman.&#8217; According to a GoFundMe for Gwen’s breast augmentation, he’s also an &#8216;unlicensed social worker&#8217; living in Philadelphia (aka the City of Brotherly Love).&#8221;
&#8220;Unlike the private ‘LiaThimas’ account, the account of Lia’s alleged romantic partner, Gwen Weiskopf, is open to the public at ‘estrogwentigone.&#8217; Meet Gwen…&#8221; Crain tweeted, showing several screenshots of Weiskopf&#8217;s Instagram posts, including several posts in various states of undress. “Besides posing in front of bondage gear &amp; in bikinis with a genital bulge, Gwen posts dark &amp; satanic artwork. One liked by ‘LiaThimas’ ironically jokes that Lia will bring about the ‘collapse of Western Civilization,’ and another of Lia as a demonic dominatrix character.&#8221;
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7. Besides posing in front of bondage gear &amp; in bikinis with a genital bulge, Gwen posts dark &amp; satanic artwork. 
One liked by ‘LiaThimas’ ironically joking that Lia will bring about the &quot;collapse of Western Civilization,” and another of Lia as a demonic dominatrix character. <a href="https://t.co/0eYQALKJn8">pic.twitter.com/0eYQALKJn8</a>
&mdash; Jake Crain (@JakeCrain_) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeCrain_/status/1625866917595545601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Are Gwen &amp; Lia an exclusive couple, or in a polyamorous sex pod?&#8221; Crain asked, referring to a group of multiple people in relationships who form one polyamorous group. &#8220;One user ‘crybaby_hellbitch,’ writes &#8216;nice polycule,&#8217; (liked by Gwen) on a photo of Lia, Gwen, and two other trans people. In the post, Gwen tags a third member via a stuffed animal in bed with Lia. Gwen (in the dark top) has also posted photos with one member from the transgender &#8216;polycule&#8217; post, and a third additional person who identifies as a &#8216;mean transexual according to their IG bio, each kissing one another on a trio beach trip.&#8221;
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9. Gwen (in the dark top) has also posted photos with one member from the transgender “polycule” post, and a third additional person who identifies as a “mean transexual” according to their IG bio, each kissing one another on a trio beach trip. <a href="https://t.co/DTnSwdB38J">pic.twitter.com/DTnSwdB38J</a>
&mdash; Jake Crain (@JakeCrain_) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeCrain_/status/1625866930245574660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;One of the more shocking things we discovered: On 7/16/2022, Gwen posted a series of photos of himself &amp; Lia, with the caption &#8216;🍒🍒✂️,’” Crain wrote. &#8220;Supportive ‘crybaby_hellbitch’ commented ‘ballless beauties’ which Gwen and ‘LiaThimas’ both liked. On 8/6/2022, in the &#8216;polycule&#8217; IG post, Gwen posted a mysterious round shaped organ-looking item in a clear &#8216;ball&#8217; jar.&#8221;
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12. On 8/6/2022, in the “polycule” IG post, Gwen posted a mysterious round shaped organ-looking item in a clear “ball” jar. <a href="https://t.co/5Q0p5v9mm0">pic.twitter.com/5Q0p5v9mm0</a>
&mdash; Jake Crain (@JakeCrain_) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeCrain_/status/1625866951925944320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;These disturbing images raise serious questions about how the @NCAA defines what a woman is,&#8221; Crain concluded. &#8220;Check out our interview with @Riley_Gaines_ about the glaring difference between woke media’s sanitized portrayal of Lia vs. his life as seen on social media.&#8221;
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14. These disturbing images raise serious questions about how the <a href="https://twitter.com/NCAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NCAA</a> defines what a woman is. Check out our interview with <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a> about the glaring difference between woke media’s sanitized portrayal of Lia vs. his life as seen on social media: <a href="https://t.co/QR1204aKxb">https://t.co/QR1204aKxb</a> <a href="https://t.co/cLmtwrUXI8">pic.twitter.com/cLmtwrUXI8</a>
&mdash; Jake Crain (@JakeCrain_) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeCrain_/status/1625866960629125120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Former <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> executives who were ousted by <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> upon his purchase of the company accounted for their decisions to censor the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story before members of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday morning.
Officials leading the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media</a> platform created blacklists, prevented unfavorable tweets from trending, and restricted the visibility of entire accounts and trending topics without informing users. Republican lawmakers pressed former Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, former Deputy General Counsel James Baker, and former Global Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth about their decisions to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story published by The New York Post shortly before the 2020 election.
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) cited survey data indicating that many Americans who cast their ballots for President Joe Biden were unaware of the report and would have chosen another candidate if they had been informed of the story. He also lauded Musk, who acquired Twitter at the end of last year and presently serves as the company’s chief executive, for vowing to prioritize freedom of expression on the platform.
Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD), on the other hand, contended that revelations of collusion between Twitter and various intelligence agencies chronicled by the Twitter Files were “authentically trivial” and &#8220;silly.” He said the hearing was “all based on the obsessive victimology of right-wing politics.”
Internal documents from Twitter had revealed that Baker, who previously worked as general counsel for the FBI, had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-twitter-files-show-fbi-paid-twitter-millions-influenced-execs-to-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> to Roth that the materials from Hunter Biden’s unearthed laptop were either faked or hacked, even though The New York Post had included a receipt from the repair shop signed by the commander-in-chief’s son. Baker testified that he was innocent of any wrongdoing during his time at the company.
“I was not aware of and certainly did not engage in any conspiracy or other effort to do anything unethical, improper, or unlawful while I was at Twitter. Period,” he told lawmakers in his opening <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023.02.08-Jim-Baker-Testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “I did not act unlawfully or otherwise inappropriately in any manner with respect to Hunter Biden’s laptop computer. Indeed, documents that Twitter has disclosed publicly reflect that I urged caution with respect to the matter and noted that we needed more information to fully assess what was going on and to decide what to do.”
Gadde, who had pushed for the removal of former President Donald Trump from the platform and repeatedly denied that Twitter covertly limited the reach of some conservative accounts, defended the work of monitoring the “health of the public conversation” during her opening <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Opening-Statement-of-Vijaya-Gadde.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> but acknowledged that the Hunter Biden laptop story was not properly handled.
“In hindsight, Twitter should have reinstated The New York Post’s account immediately given the circumstances,” she commented. “There is no easy way to run a global communications platform that satisfies business and revenue goals, individual customer expectations, local laws, and cultural norms.”
Roth, unlike other executives, had spurned attempts by government agencies to acquire data from Twitter by noting the company’s policies against enabling surveillance activity. Evidence from the Twitter Files suggests that Roth, leading national security reporters, and fellow social media executives were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-twitter-files-show-fbi-paid-twitter-millions-influenced-execs-to-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nudged</a> by intelligence agents to censor stories about a document dump related to foreign influence upon the Biden family. Roth nevertheless <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Roth-House-Oversight-opening-statement-V4-Final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> that the cooperation between social media firms and law enforcement was not political in nature.
“In the recent reporting known as the Twitter Files, there was an attempt to portray interactions between Twitter and other social media platforms and the FBI as politically driven interference. My experience of these interactions was different,” he said. “Across the FBI, DHS, and other agencies, the professionals responsible for combating malign foreign interference in elections did so with integrity, and the utmost care and respect for the laws of this country.”
He admitted that Twitter “made a mistake” with respect to the Hunter Biden laptop story as they sought to apply rules against hacked materials.
“I’ll be the first to admit that we didn’t always get it right,” he continued. “Individual content moderation decisions will always be contentious, and reasonable minds can differ about whether a specific choice was right or wrong.”

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