Michael Shellenberger - The Twitter Files, Part 7

[George K]

The Thread:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1604871630613753856.html

[jon-nyc]

Kind of a weird piece. Doesn’t present anything novel that backs up it’s main assertion. Not at all.

[jon-nyc]

This could easily have been “Twitter Files 7 - Twitter trust and safety repeatedly stood up to the FBI and denied their requests for information outside of the formal subpoena process”.

And he would have had actual evidence to support that narrative! Not just innuendo.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Michael Shellenberger - The Twitter Files, Part 7:

This could easily have been “Twitter Files 7 - Twitter trust and safety repeatedly stood up to the FBI and denied their requests for information outside of the formal subpoena process”.

And he would have had actual evidence to support that narrative! Not just innuendo.

Or...."FBI pushes Twitter to kill stories with no evidence of crime."

Or..."Twitter lawyer (who was twice investigated for leaking) claims laptop was hacked with no evidence."

Or..."FBI tells US Senators of hacking campaign on Twitter...with no evidence."

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in Michael Shellenberger - The Twitter Files, Part 7:

@jon-nyc said in Michael Shellenberger - The Twitter Files, Part 7:

This could easily have been “Twitter Files 7 - Twitter trust and safety repeatedly stood up to the FBI and denied their requests for information outside of the formal subpoena process”.

And he would have had actual evidence to support that narrative! Not just innuendo.

Or...."FBI pushes Twitter to kill stories with no evidence of crime."

Or..."Twitter lawyer (who was twice investigated for leaking) claims laptop was hacked with no evidence."

Or..."FBI tells US Senators of hacking campaign on Twitter...with no evidence."

I don’t see it. Show me where he presents any evidence from the “Twitter files” for those three claims.

[George K]

@jon-nyc

"FBI pushes Twitter to kill stories with no evidence of crime."

Were the FBI warnings of a Russian hack-and-leak operation relating to Hunter Biden based on any new intel?

No, they weren't

“Through our investigations, we did not see any similar competing intrusions to what had happened in 2016,” admitted FBI agent Elvis Chan in Nov.

15. Indeed, Twitter executives repeatedly reported very little Russian activity.

E.g., on Sept 24, 2020, Twitter told FBI it had removed 345 “largely inactive” accounts “linked to previous coordinated Russian hacking attempts.” They “had little reach & low follower accounts."

Or..."Twitter lawyer (who was twice investigated for leaking) claims laptop was hacked with no evidence."

In response to Roth, Baker repeatedly insists that the Hunter Biden materials were either faked, hacked, or both, and a violation of Twitter policy. Baker does so over email, and in a Google doc, on October 14 and 15.

Or..."FBI tells US Senators of hacking campaign on Twitter...with no evidence."

In 2020, the FBI gave a briefing to Senator Grassley and Johnson, claiming evidence of “Russian interference” into their investigation of Hunter Biden.

The briefing angered the Senators, who say it was done to discredit their investigation.