53. “Interstitial,” one of many nouns used as a verb in Twitterspeak (“denylist” is another), means placing a physical label atop a tweet, so it can’t be seen.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
53. “Interstitial,” one of many nouns used as a verb in Twitterspeak (“denylist” is another), means placing a physical label atop a tweet, so it can’t be seen.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
54. PII has multiple meanings, one being “Public Interest Interstitial,” i.e. a covering label applied for “public interest” reasons. The post below also references “proactive V,” i.e. proactive visibility filtering. pic.twitter.com/GSCjAPaBjG
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
This project was preposterous yet its leaders were unable to see this, having become infected with groupthing, coming to believe – sincerely – that it was Twitter's responsibility to control, as much as possible, what people could talk about, how often, and with whom.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
57. The firm’s executives on day 1 of the January 6th crisis at least tried to pay lip service to its dizzying array of rules. By day 2, they began wavering. By day 3, a million rules were reduced to one: what we say, goes
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
Yes. Not seeing any grounds for ridicule of "election deniers" any more. This kind of collusion tends to just affirm taking the rest of the short step and just seeing it true for what has gone since. This is an entirely pretend regime--the only question is whichh overseas agenda is it serving.Ag87H2O said:
48. The significance is that it shows that Twitter, in 2020 at least, was deploying a vast range of visible and invisible tools to rein in Trump's engagement, long before J6. The ban will come after other avenues are exhausted.
Even though it was highly suspected, confirmation this was going on is chilling.
Free speech is under attack by the left and it has been amplified 1000x over Twitter and likely all social media over the past two years. Thank God Musk is able to do what he is doing. He may have been the only person on the planet that could.
56. When panic first breaks out on J6 there’s a fair share of WTF-type posts, mixed in with frantic calls for Twitter to start deploying its full arsenal of moderation tools. “What is the right remediation? Do we interstitial the video?” asks one employee, in despair: pic.twitter.com/bWSPTlrzz9
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
57. This “Freedom or Death” tweet from #StopTheSteal gadfly Mike Coudrey elicits heated reactions: pic.twitter.com/NeBnL4e5YB
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
58. Roth groans about Coudrey: “THIS asshole,” but still seems determined to stick at least superficially to rules, itching to act “if” this “constitutes incitement.” pic.twitter.com/HjdlhvcIJ4
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
Yes. Check out 6:50aggiehawg said:Hi! Remember me? I'm one of the "some" who were dissed.Stat Monitor Repairman said:
Reminding y'all that everything that some of us said was happening has been confirmed to have happened the way we said it did.
Again.
You know. Just in case there was any confusion over that.
"... what we say goes."Agthatbuilds said:57. The firm’s executives on day 1 of the January 6th crisis at least tried to pay lip service to its dizzying array of rules. By day 2, they began wavering. By day 3, a million rules were reduced to one: what we say, goes
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
60. Minutes later, Roth executed the historic act of “bouncing” Trump, i.e. putting him in timeout. “I hope you… are appropriately CorpSec’d,” says a colleague. pic.twitter.com/KDr6ZFle8h
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
This theme of Policy perhaps being stressed by queries from Communications executives – who themselves have to answer the public’s questions – occasionally appears. Two days later, you see chatter about pulling Comms out of the loop: pic.twitter.com/sPxGcXtOpy
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
61. The first company-wide email from Gadde on January 6th announced that 3 Trump tweets had been bounced, but more importantly signaled a determination to use legit “violations” as a guide for any possible permanent suspension: pic.twitter.com/p6WmbS2MsA
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
Breaking: Seconds ago, Twitter Elections & Crisis Response Lead, Patrick Conlon, wiped his LinkedIn detailing his past intelligence work in the US Department of Defense! (He was implicated in the latest #TwitterFiles by @mtaibbi.)
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) December 10, 2022
But I have an archive: https://t.co/kXkJL5mUsE pic.twitter.com/0egqd8ge7e
64. By the end of the first day, the top execs are still trying to apply rules. By the next day, they will contemplate a major change in approach. Watch @shellenbergerMD this weekend for the play-by-play of how all that went down.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
65. By January 8th, which @BariWeiss will describe Sunday, Twitter will be receiving plaudits from “our partners” in Washington, and the sitting U.S. president will no longer be heard on the platform.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
66. Lastly, people on the left, right, and in between want to know what else is in the #TwitterFiles, from suppression/shadow-banning of leftists to lab-leak theorists, or amplification of military propaganda or conservative accounts. We know everyone has questions.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
67. And while we’ve stumbled on tidbits here and there about topics ranging from COVID to foreign policy, the reality is the data sets are enormous and we’re still working through them.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
More is coming. Good night, all.
Excellent. Looks some on the right have figured out the need of having groups whose only purpose is capturing activist stuff as posted against its inevitable deletion and attempt to memory-hole it.aezmvp said:
Andy Ngo has a slack/discord/teams with these people and is grabbing screen shots. I'm convinced of it.
Run of the mill republicans won't abolish the FBI or DHS. We need MAGA Republicans.C@LAg said:have to win the government to be able to do that, and these entities are fighting against the Republicans to do so.titan said:
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.
chaca5151 said:
I wish there was an easier way to read a this ****
chaca5151 said:
I wish there was an easier way to read a this ****