by Chris Black
“But it’s a private company goy and if you don’t like censorship, go make your own platform”.
Matt Taibbi has added a supplemental to the Twitter Files he did over the weekend, showing yet more government interference in Twitter’s censorship program.
1.THREAD: Twitter Files Supplemental
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 18, 2022
It’s not even interference. The government was basically running Twitter’s censorship program.
They most probably also threatened Jack Dorsey into submission.
The FBI responded to Taibbi’s most recent report, saying it is all very normal.
12.The FBI responded to Friday’s report by saying it “regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities.” pic.twitter.com/fkJrLjPKlN
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 18, 2022
This is totally illegal, of course – and the FBI is not trying to deny it, they’re just saying they do it all the time and it’s very normal.