16. The latter group were a high-speed Supreme Court of moderation, issuing content rulings on the fly, often in minutes and based on guesses, gut calls, even Google searches, even in cases involving the President. pic.twitter.com/5ihsPCVo62

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022

Click on the picture

17. During this time, executives were also clearly liaising with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies about moderation of election-related content. While we’re still at the start of reviewing the #TwitterFiles, we’re finding out more about these interactions every day.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022

18. Policy Director Nick Pickles is asked if they should say Twitter detects “misinfo” through “ML, human review, and **partnerships with outside experts?*” The employee asks, “I know that’s been a slippery process… not sure if you want our public explanation to hang on that.” pic.twitter.com/JEICGRTyz7

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022

Saying fbi and dhs were involved

Ag87H2O said:

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frenchtoast said:

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This should be enough to get Trump reinstated at the White House.

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It's not about Trump anymore. He's part of a much bigger story.

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Absolutely correct.

The Democrats love to spout crap about climate change being an existential crisis.

Well this is a real one. Republicans have to take this opening and put the hammer down on these people once and for all. The future of the Republic depends on it.

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It certainly is bigger than Trump. Its one of the most overt exposes and revelations about how the cultural traitors that tend to own or run main elements of media are spawning narratives and attempting to mainstream completely regressive and even deviant ideas purely of Left worldview.

Pre-Elon Twitter is a microcosm of the Democratic Party-Media collusion at work and probably the blueprint for what was going on with the NYT and standard "legacy" news as well, not to mention that Zuckerberg to his credit partially backtracked and outed it regarding Facebook and FBI.

19. Pickles quickly asks if they could “just say “partnerships.” After a pause, he says, “e.g. not sure we’d describe the FBI/DHS as experts.” pic.twitter.com/d3EaYJb5eR

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022

Fascinating stuff that I'm glad is coming to light. It will get dismissed by the left, MSM, etc. and nothing will change, though.

20. This post about the Hunter Biden laptop situation shows that Roth not only met weekly with the FBI and DHS, but with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI): pic.twitter.com/s5IiUjQqIY

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022

Yoel Roth is Russia collusion

21. Roth’s report to FBI/DHS/DNI is almost farcical in its self-flagellating tone:
“We blocked the NYP story, then unblocked it (but said the opposite)… comms is angry, reporters think we’re idiots… in short, FML” (fuck my life). pic.twitter.com/sTaWglhaJt

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022

Weekly fbi meetings

23. Some of Roth’s later Slacks indicate his weekly confabs with federal law enforcement involved separate meetings. Here, he ghosts the FBI and DHS, respectively, to go first to an “Aspen Institute thing,” then take a call with Apple. pic.twitter.com/i771hD8aCD

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022

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Fascinating stuff that I'm glad is coming to light. It will get dismissed by the left, MSM, etc. and nothing will change, though.

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Oh yes things will change. Think of what DeSantis and the new Right can do with this--- CMs and go-alongs are going to have to get out of the way, they have been utterly discredited. The DNC and Big Tech actions in 2020 and since has been everything its alleged to be.

No slide 22. He miscounted.

24. Here, the FBI sends reports about a pair of tweets, the second of which involves a former Tippecanoe County, Indiana Councilor and Republican named @JohnBasham claiming “Between 2% and 25% of Ballots by Mail are Being Rejected for Errors.” pic.twitter.com/KtigHOiEwF

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

The FBI's second report concerned this tweet by @JohnBasham: pic.twitter.com/8J8j5GlUVx

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

25. The FBI-flagged tweet then got circulated in the enforcement Slack. Twitter cited Politifact to say the first story was “proven to be false,” then noted the second was already deemed “no vio on numerous occasions.” pic.twitter.com/LyyZ1opWAh

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

This is so entertaining and interesting to watch unfold.

I can only imagine what Twitter Execs and high ups are thinking right now. They know what else is coming. I bet this is pure agony for them. Just waiting for the other shoes to drop. When not if.

26. The group then decides to apply a “Learn how voting is safe and secure” label because one commenter says, “it’s totally normal to have a 2% error rate.” Roth then gives the final go-ahead to the process initiated by the FBI: pic.twitter.com/lyZm4gmT19

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

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11. After J6, internal Slacks show Twitter executives getting a kick out of intensified relationships with federal agencies. Here’s Trust and Safety head Yoel Roth, lamenting a lack of “generic enough” calendar descriptions to concealing his “very interesting” meeting partners. pic.twitter.com/kgC4eGykcO

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022

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Yuck it up, Shecky

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not often you see a reference to Shecky Greene around here. Well done.

Use this to abolish both FBI and DHS, and especially the newer DHS of Myorkas. One of Bush43's greatest boondoggles and there is very little possibility anything useful its doing couldn't be swiftly replaced.

27. Examining the entire election enforcement Slack, we didn’t see one reference to moderation requests from the Trump campaign, the Trump White House, or Republicans generally. We looked. They may exist: we were told they do. However, they were absent here.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

31. In one case, former Arizona governor Mike Huckabee joke-tweets about mailing in ballots for his “deceased parents and grandparents.” pic.twitter.com/Sj5vALHdhT

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

Not sure what happened to 28, 29 and 30

Interesting seeing the inner workings of a leftist coup.

Yet people vote Democrat.

Good times ahead I'm sure.

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The FBI's second report concerned this tweet by @JohnBasham: pic.twitter.com/8J8j5GlUVx

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

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This goes to apparent real time cases of election shenanigans and frauds being tweeted in Pennsylvania on Election Day (back in 2020), and being immediately spiked by Twitter so that they were not exposed. Apparently, several other situations.)

If we are lucky, the Twitter dumps will prove DNC - Big Tech enabling election fraud and that in fact, "fortifying" was the code word for Biden's alleged theft machine of Oct 24, 2020 video.

32. This inspires a long Slack that reads like an @TitaniaMcGrath parody. “I agree it’s a joke,” concedes a Twitter employee, “but he’s also literally admitting in a tweet a crime.”

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

The group declares Huck’s an “edge case,” and though one notes, “we don’t make exceptions for jokes or satire,” they ultimately decide to leave him be, because “we’ve poked enough bears.”

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

33. "Could still mislead people... could still mislead people," the humor-averse group declares, before moving on from Huckabee pic.twitter.com/vibLHqv9Kt

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

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27. Examining the entire election enforcement Slack, we didn’t see one reference to moderation requests from the Trump campaign, the Trump White House, or Republicans generally. We looked. They may exist: we were told they do. However, they were absent here.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

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This is what I was wanting to see, and it's great that it gave the left a week to say "both sides were doing it." Suck it libs.

Yes, yes. Closer to direct indications of rigging going into Election Day. Keep em coming.

33. Roth suggests moderation even in this absurd case could depend on whether or not the joke results in “confusion.” This seemingly silly case actually foreshadows serious later issues: pic.twitter.com/nOi50BdeaC

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

Trump was right again. Why are we destroying him again?

34. In the docs, execs often expand criteria to subjective issues like intent (yes, a video is authentic, but why was it shown?), orientation (was a banned tweet shown to condemn, or support?), or reception (did a joke cause “confusion”?). This reflex will become key in J6.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

Would be nice to see something about Chris Wallace and Fox just before Sept 29th, 2020.

35. In another example, Twitter employees prepare to slap a “mail-in voting is safe” warning label on a Trump tweet about a postal screwup in Ohio, before realizing “the events took place,” which meant the tweet was “factually accurate”: pic.twitter.com/4r6nJ3JDmY

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022

36. “VERY WELL DONE ON SPEED” Trump was being “visibility filtered” as late as a week before the election. Here, senior execs didn’t appear to have a particular violation, but still worked fast to make sure a fairly anodyne Trump tweet couldn’t be “replied to, shared, or liked”: pic.twitter.com/E0bkjISGBj

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022