Hearing underway. US Atty Nils Kessler explaining govt request for life in prison including a terrorism enhancement.
Chris Gibbons, Fox's public defender, arguing for downward departures for 2 main counts–conspiracy to kidnap and use weapons of mass destruction. pic.twitter.com/JiM6IPpBDA
They use labels as a method to “other” you if you don’t follow their narratives. 🙂
I hate label debates. As WPost just proved ("conservative journalist" Matt Taibbi), they're designed to manipulate.
But I make this point because the key difference now – for Big Tech censorship and otherwise – is not "left v. right" so much as "pro v. anti-establishment":👇 pic.twitter.com/3lPim3oIoh
Part of this is that the majority of media employees are too dumb and insulated to understand anyone who isn't plagued by their disease of only seeing the world through the "Dem v. GOP" prism (most Americans don't).
But part is they now just use labels as punishment for dissent.
2. So far the Twitter Files have focused on evidence of Twitter’s secret blacklists; how the company functioned as a kind of subsidiary of the FBI; and how execs rewrote the platform’s rules to accommodate their own political desires.
4. The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19.
6. At the onset of the pandemic, according to meeting notes, the Trump admin was especially concerned about panic buying. They came looking for “help from the tech companies to combat misinformation” about “runs on grocery stores.” But . . . there were runs on grocery stores. pic.twitter.com/duzk2I1Y7T
8. When the Biden admin took over, one of their first meeting requests with Twitter executives was on Covid. The focus was on “anti-vaxxer accounts.” Especially Alex Berenson: pic.twitter.com/yBNeF2YbD3
10. Berenson sued (and then settled with) Twitter. In the legal process Twitter was compelled to release certain internal communications, which showed direct White House pressure on the company to take action on Berenson.
12. Culbertson wrote that the Biden team was “very angry” that Twitter had not been more aggressive in deplatforming multiple accounts. They wanted Twitter to do more. pic.twitter.com/lZTQV3yKeZ
14. But Twitter did suppress views—many from doctors and scientific experts—that conflicted with the official positions of the White House. As a result, legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded the public debate went missing.
16. Second, contractors, in places like the Philippines, also moderated content. They were given decision trees to aid in the process, but tasking non experts to adjudicate tweets on complex topics like myocarditis and mask efficacy data was destined for a significant error rate pic.twitter.com/lTISX00mo7
20. Exhibit A: Dr. Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School, tweeted views at odds with US public health authorities and the American left, the political affiliation of nearly the entire staff at Twitter. pic.twitter.com/K3kwQIdzHG
22. But Kulldorff’s statement was an expert’s opinion—one which also happened to be in line with vaccine policies in numerous other countries. Yet it was deemed “false information” by Twitter moderators merely because it differed from CDC guidelines.
24. In my review of internal files, I found countless instances of tweets labeled as “misleading” or taken down entirely, sometimes triggering account suspensions, simply because they veered from CDC guidance or differed from establishment views.
26. Internal records showed that a bot had flagged the tweet, and that it received many “tattles” (what the system amusingly called reports from users). That triggered a manual review by a human who– despite the tweet showing actual CDC data–nevertheless labeled it “Misleading”
28. Whether by humans or algorithms, content that was contrarian but true was still subject to getting flagged or suppressed
This tweet was labeled “Misleading,” even though the owner of this account, @_euzebiusz_, a physician, was referring to the results of a published study pic.twitter.com/i1MeLFvYQt
30. A review of Twitter log files revealed that an internal audit, conducted after Bostom’s attorney contacted Twitter, found that only 1 of Bostom’s 5 violations were valid. pic.twitter.com/ohlmHFOuQX
32. That this tweet was not only flagged by a bot, but its violation manually affirmed by a staff member is telling of both the algorithmic and human bias at play. Bostom’s account was suspended for months and was finally restored on Christmas Day.
34. In a surreal exchange, Jim Baker, at the time Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, asks why telling people to not be afraid wasn’t a violation of Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy. pic.twitter.com/SxvOKcvaT7
36. Remember @KelleyKga with the CDC data tweet? Twitter’s response to her is clarifying: “we will prioritize review and labeling of content that could lead to increased exposure or transmission.” pic.twitter.com/0izri6Vrfb
38. Information that challenged that view, such as showing harms of vaccines, or that could be perceived as downplaying the risks of Covid, especially to children, was subject to moderation, and even suppression. No matter whether such views were correct or adopted abroad.
“Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has not filed to run for president in 2024, his adviser Devin O’Malley said on Twitter on Monday after purported statement of candidacy filings appeared on the Federal Election Commission website.
The filings, appearing on a U.S. federal holiday, prompted some news outlets including Britain’s Sky News to report that Pence had filed to run for president, and the link to the website was circulated by several users on Twitter.
O’Malley, who was press secretary for Pence when he was vice president, tweeted “Former Vice President Mike Pence did not file to run for President today” and later confirmed to Reuters that he is an adviser to Pence.
The filings appeared on the FEC website as “raw” filings that have yet to be processed by the commission. It was unclear who filed them.”
But I don’t get why they were worried. It’s not like their media sycophants were going to report on it either way.
A reminder, these numbers do not include known gotaways. CBP sources tell us there were at least 73,000 known gotaways in the month of November alone. These are people who are detected or seen, but there is no manpower to get to them for capturer. @FoxNews
Contrary to what J6 promoters and Pelosi herself insist, her office was in constant comms with Paul Irving, her sergeant-at-arms, and Capitol police about Jan 6 beginning at least a month before. Jamie Fleet is a shared staffer for Pelosi and House Adm committee: pic.twitter.com/p6Mt9GKTJX
This sorta blew me away. Despite claims there were no serious threats related to Jan 6 (this is noted repeatedly in Irving's comms) Irving conducts a walkthrough of evacuation route–not sure who participated. Congress evacuated afternoon of Jan 6. pic.twitter.com/iAbYGptlTb
As crime in Portland surged after the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots & fallout from the riots, there are not enough public defenders for criminal suspects. As a result, DA Mike Schmidt's office says they have to drop or dismiss hundreds of serious felony cases. https://t.co/yk6QFHuEe0
“Mollie Hemingway on Monday’s edition of FOX News’ ‘Special Report’ commented on the growing number of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border as the deadline on Title 42 nears.
“We have turned over our border willfully to control by the cartels who engage in human trafficking,” Hemingway said. “There are all sorts of crimes committed against women and children because of the cartel’s control over our borders. There is the drug crisis we have allowed to happen. And we have done it by willingly tearing down whatever things did work in the previous administration to control the border. It’s a bipartisan problem because Republicans under Senator Mitch Mcconnell have done nothing to stop what the Biden administration has done.””
Dr Rachel Levine says he’s a woman, he lied. Adam Schiff said he had proof of Trump Russian collusion, he lied. Eric Swalwell said he didn’t have sex with a CCP spy, he lied. Fauci said the taxpayer funded Covid-19 virus didn’t come from the Wuhan lab, he lied.
Wandering Views 
Yep.
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The farce continues.
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They use labels as a method to “other” you if you don’t follow their narratives. 🙂
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The next shoe to drop is the Covid shoe.
Our govt lies about everything now.
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Here it is.
https://www.thefp.com/p/how-twitter-rigged-the-covid-debate
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Need a good laugh?
Here ya’ go….
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Or never mind?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-pence-did-not-file-to-run-for-president-adviser-says/ar-AA15GJvu
“Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has not filed to run for president in 2024, his adviser Devin O’Malley said on Twitter on Monday after purported statement of candidacy filings appeared on the Federal Election Commission website.
The filings, appearing on a U.S. federal holiday, prompted some news outlets including Britain’s Sky News to report that Pence had filed to run for president, and the link to the website was circulated by several users on Twitter.
O’Malley, who was press secretary for Pence when he was vice president, tweeted “Former Vice President Mike Pence did not file to run for President today” and later confirmed to Reuters that he is an adviser to Pence.
The filings appeared on the FEC website as “raw” filings that have yet to be processed by the commission. It was unclear who filed them.”
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Now it’s even funnier. 🙂
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Now who’s colluding with Russia?
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Of course.
But I don’t get why they were worried. It’s not like their media sycophants were going to report on it either way.
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The fix was in.
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Of course, because clowns run the show there.
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Correct!
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/12/26/mollie_hemingway_republicans_under_mcconnell_have_done_nothing_to_stop_what_biden_has_done_to_the_border.html
“Mollie Hemingway on Monday’s edition of FOX News’ ‘Special Report’ commented on the growing number of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border as the deadline on Title 42 nears.
“We have turned over our border willfully to control by the cartels who engage in human trafficking,” Hemingway said. “There are all sorts of crimes committed against women and children because of the cartel’s control over our borders. There is the drug crisis we have allowed to happen. And we have done it by willingly tearing down whatever things did work in the previous administration to control the border. It’s a bipartisan problem because Republicans under Senator Mitch Mcconnell have done nothing to stop what the Biden administration has done.””
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Also correct.
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