Twitter Files: Rep. Adam Schiff's Office Requested Tech Giant To Suspend Accounts

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It was revealed in the latest "Twitter Files" that Rep. Adam Schiff's California office asked Twitter to suspend some accounts.

In the second of two sets of Elon Musk's "Twitter files" shared by Substack writer Matt Taibbi on Tuesday, he reports that Twitter "received a surprising request from officials calling for bans on people they don't like".

He shared an example sent from Schiff's office in November 2020, which contacted the tech giant on Twitter about taking action against Schiff employees "for alleged harassment of QAnon conspirators," including assistant Sean Misko.

"Please remove any content, including quotes, retweets and responses, relating to Mr. Misko and other commission staff in your department," read a Twitter request. "Close multiple accounts, including @GregRubini and @paulsperry, repeatedly promoting fake QAnon conspiracies. "

© AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Correspondent. Adam Schiff of California, a member of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, spoke to reporters after Tuesday's hearing at the Capitol in Washington. , June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Photo AP/Patrick Semansky

Schiff's office called on Twitter to "end future misinformation on Twitter" about committee staff and to "reduce the flag and visibility of any content."

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"Twitter also declined Schiff's request at the time," Taibi wrote, citing a Twitter response from Schiff's office that repeatedly said "we don't do that." However, as Taibi points out, Sperry was subsequently fired.

Schiff's office did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

Much of chapter twelve of "The Twitter Archives" focuses on the State Department's Center for Global Engagement (GEC), which Taibi describes as its "analytics/intelligence arm," to moderate and often curate Twitter content. . It all started in February 2020 when he used the media to confront the tech giant during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

"The GEC identified the account as a 'Russian person and representative' based on criteria such as describing the coronavirus as an engineered biological weapon, 'research at a Wuhan institute' and 'linking the emergence of the virus at the CIA.'" Tabi wrote. The stat also flagged the account that retweeted the news that Twitter had banned the popular ZeroHedge in the US, saying the episode "brought yet another wave of misinformation stories." ZH published a report suggesting that the virus originated in a laboratory."

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As reported by Tybee in Episode 11, Twitter experienced a "PR crisis" after the 2016 presidential election, as Democrats pushed for action against alleged Russian influence on the platform, just as Facebook did in 2017. Taibi concluded that Twitter had influenced the intellectual community.

© Lloyd Bishop / NBCU Photo Bank / NBCUniversal Getty Images via Getty Images Substack writer Matt Taibi reports on the first episode of "Twitter Files," which focuses on the tech giant's decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story. Lloyd Bishop/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images

Each part of the "Twitter Files" is shared in long Twitter threads by Elon Musk-influenced journalists to address various controversies. Taibi went viral in early December with the first episode of "The Twitter Files," which focused on the internal Twitter controversy that led Hunter Biden to censor a laptop story in the 2020 presidential race, while some officials struggled to explain how he "hacked" the breach. did . Materials.” “Techniques

It was later revealed that the first set of "Twitter files" had been reviewed without Musk's knowledge by Twitter assistant general counsel Jim Baker, who was previously an FBI adviser and involved in the Russia investigation. Kasturi immediately fired Baker.

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Baker informed Taibi of the removal of Hunter Biden's story, telling colleagues at the time, "I support the conclusion that we need more data to assess whether the material was hacked," but added: "It's reasonable for us to think it might have been." .that they can and must take care of that'.

Additionally, Taibi first reported, "While multiple sources recall hearing a 'general' warning from federal police that summer, there is no evidence (that I've seen) of government involvement in the laptop story." It's unclear whether Baker's review of the "Twitter files" led Taibi to this conclusion, and Baker has rejected files that the FBI allegedly played a role in suppressing the Twitter story on Biden's laptop.

© Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images Jim Baker was fired as Twitter's general counsel by Elon Musk after it emerged that Musk had unknowingly reviewed the first batch of Twitter files. Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Images/Getty Images

The second episode, posted by Barry Weiss, editor of The Free Press, revealed a "blacklist" of conservatives on Twitter, including Fox News host Dan Bongino, Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk and Dr. Joy Bhattacharya of Stanford University, a member of the Covid groupthink, is an old enemy. The epidemic came against restrictions.

Internal contacts also revealed that Twitter staff acknowledged that TikTok's popular right-wing Libs account had never violated its "hateful conduct" policy, despite being disciplined multiple times for allegedly doing so.

The revelations contradict what former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told Congress in 2018, when he testified under oath that Twitter does not censor or silence conservatives.

Sections three, four and five of the "Twitter File" on former President Trump's permanent suspension from January 2021 events on Capitol Hill.

Tybby reported how Twitter posted election-related tweets from various users for the 2020 election, which the FBI "flagged" as problematic.

© Daniel Zuchnick/WireImage, Barry Weiss hired freelance journalists Matt Taibbi and Barry Weiss to report on Elon Musk's "Twitter Files." Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage, Barry Weiss

Freelance writer Michael Shellenberger revealed that while Dorsey was on the phone while on vacation while aides pushed for Trump's removal, former Twitter trust and security chief Yoel Roth led efforts to censor other users specifically for tweets about the 2020 election. Chariot is known. Met weekly with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the weeks leading up to the election.

Weiss discussed the pressure Twitter management faced from employees for Trump's suspension, even as Free Press editors revealed that some policy-conscious Twitter employees did not believe Trump's tweets after Jan. 6 would violate their rules.

However, Twitter's then-chief legal officer, Vijaya Gadde, questioned whether Trump's tweets could be a "coded incitement to further violence". Shortly after, the so-called "broad enforcement team" suggested that Twitter's interpretation of Trump's tweets might violate its policy on promoting violence.

Part six of "The Twitter Files" examines Twitter's close relationship with the FBI. Taibi accused law enforcement agencies of acting as "accomplices" of the tech giants and leaking communications that regularly flagged Twitter users for tweets containing "potentially objectionable content" about the selection of FBI agents.

In response to the "Twitter Files," an FBI spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "The FBI routinely contacts private sector organizations to provide information about subversive, clandestine, clandestine, or criminal activities of foreign actors identified as having harmful effects. The private sector is unique, they Adopt their platform and decide what action, if any, to take for their clients after being notified by the FBI."

The FBI's ongoing relationship with Twitter has raised major red flags about potential First Amendment violations regarding users being punished for their tweets.

© Reuters/Yuri Gripus The FBI headquarters building is seen in Washington, where pro-Russian hackers in the US said they hacked the FBI's website this week. Reuters/Yuri Gripus

In episode seven, Shellenberger described Twitter's closeness with the FBI in the context of the Hunter Biden laptop story, the FBI's claims that Twitter shared sensitive user data, which Twitter denied, and repeated requests from the agency to find out if he was on Twitter. . Saw foreign activity before the 2020 election, which Twitter said wasn't happening at the time. On October 13, 2020, the day before the New York Post published its censored article on Hunter Biden, Twitter received ten declassified documents from the FBI via a secure one-way teleportation channel.

The February 2021 emails indicate that the FBI paid Twitter more than $3.4 million during their work since October 2019, due to Twitter's policy of seeking reimbursement in legal proceedings to produce information.

Roth participated in a so-called "hack-and-dump task force" with the Aspen Institute in September 2020 to discuss exactly how media and technology as large as a Hunter Biden laptop should be handled.

The FBI remains defiant amid criticism, Fox News said in a statement, "The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter represents an example of the traditional, long-standing and ongoing engagement between our federal government and the private sector, involving a variety of businesses. Many sectors and industries. Correspondence দ্বারা প্রমাণিত, এফবিআই নিজেকে এবং তার গ্রাহকদের রক্ষা করার প্রয়াসে প্রাইভেট সেক্টরকে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ তথ্য প্রদান করছে।... এটা দুর্ভাগ্যজনক যে ষড়যন্ত্র তাত্ত্বিক এবং অন্যরা একমাত্র আমেরিকান জনসাধারণকে ভুল তথ্য দিচ্ছে উদ্দেশ্য এজেন্সিকে বদনাম করার চেষ্টা করা।"

অষ্টম কিস্তি, অনুসন্ধানী প্রতিবেদক দ্য ইন্টারসেপ্ট লি ফ্যাং দ্বারা ভাগ করা, পেন্টাগনের বিদেশী প্রভাব প্রচারণার জন্য টুইটারের সমর্থন উন্মোচন করে, যা সামরিক বাহিনীকে টুইটারের নীতির বিরোধিতা করা সত্ত্বেও বিদেশীদের কাছে প্রচার প্রচারের জন্য ভূত অ্যাকাউন্ট ব্যবহার করতে দেয়। তাইবি টুইটারে "ওজিএ" (অন্য একটি সরকারী সংস্থা) এর সাথে তার ক্রমাগত মিথস্ক্রিয়া প্রকাশ করেছেন, সিআইএ সহ নয় পর্বে।

টুইটার ফাইলগুলির দশম তরঙ্গ, এবার লেখক ডেভিড জুইগ দ্বারা রিপোর্ট করা হয়েছে, কোভিড এবং তার তথাকথিত "ভুল তথ্য" নীতিগুলি কার্যকর করার জন্য প্ল্যাটফর্মের প্রচেষ্টার উপর দৃষ্টি নিবদ্ধ করেছে, যা ট্রাম্প এবং বিডেন প্রশাসনের "টুইটারের নির্বাহীদের সরাসরি চাপ দিয়েছিল" মধ্যপন্থী করার জন্য। প্ল্যাটফর্মের মহামারী। ” আপনার ইচ্ছা মত পূরণ করুন. জুইগ টুইটারের ইউএস হেড অফ পাবলিক পলিসি লরেন কালবার্টসনের লেখা একটি মেমোর দিকে ইঙ্গিত করেছেন, যা বলেছিল যে বিডেন দল "অবিশ্বাস্যভাবে ক্ষুব্ধ" যে টুইটার "হোয়াইট হাউসের সাথে বৈঠকের ভিত্তিতে একাধিক অ্যাকাউন্টের একটি প্ল্যাটফর্ম গঠন করার জন্য পদক্ষেপ নেয়নি।" "টুইটারের সংরক্ষণাগারে 2023 সালে বিশেষত কোভিড সম্পর্কে এবং যে শীর্ষ চিকিৎসক এবং বিজ্ঞানীরা হোয়াইট হাউসের স্বীকৃত বর্ণনার বিরোধিতা করার অভিযোগে টুইটারে "সক্রিয়ভাবে দমন" করা হয়েছে।

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