Taibbi - The Twitter Files, Part 6 - The FBI connection

[George K]

There's a lot there, describing how the FBI told Twitter to "Take a look at these accounts."

Here's the thread:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1603857534737072128.html

[Jolly]

Constant and pervasive.

[George K]

The FBI responds:

In response to the "Twitter Files," a spokesperson for the FBI told Fox News Digital, "The FBI regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities. Private sector entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their customers after the FBI has notified them."

Taibbi responds to the response:

[Horace]

The only reason this isn't a bipartisan outrage, is because the left knows as well as anybody, that the interference was largely on their side. As always, the overriding "principle" people have, is self-interest.

Imagine the fainting couch industry boom, if conservative ideology was felt to have taken over the FBI, and this stuff was happening to the left.

[Jolly]

Maybe the public is catching up...

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/12/17/harvard-harris-64-believe-twitter-engaged-in-political-censorship-interference-in-2020-elections-and-74-want-prosecutions-n518453