We just reported about the release of the Twitter Files Part II. This release pertains to blacklisting, or what we’ve come to know as “shadowbanning.”
As journalist Bari Weiss detailed, conservative personalities like Charlie Kirk and Dan Bongino were “blacklisted,” with the visibility of what they were saying suppressed. Other people who said things against the narrative, such as for COVID, were also blacklisted, even if they were prominent scientists, such as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
All this was going on, even as Twitter denied it was happening. They claimed they didn’t shadowban, and they certainly didn’t do it based on political ideology. Yet, the files confirm it was going on.
Here’s what Jack Dorsey the former Twitter CEO told Dave Rubin back in 2020.
Do you shadowban based on political beliefs? Simple yes or no will do…
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) October 14, 2020
No
— jack (@jack) October 15, 2020
They called it “visibility filtering” instead of shadowbanning. https://t.co/ZPcpXuaOnK pic.twitter.com/7UMaSjEyw0
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) December 9, 2022
See, it wasn’t really suppression or shadowbanning, just “visibility filtering.” No one could see what you said.
Here was the lie, back in 2018.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 9, 2022
Conservatives, particularly those who were revealed to have been blacklisted, were outraged.
We ALWAYS knew we were a target of the Twitter suppression machine. ALWAYS. Yet liberals insisted it was another “conspiracy theory.” Tonight is vindication, yet I expect no apologies from liberals. They live to abuse power and they’ll make no apologies for doing so.
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) December 9, 2022
To those “journalists” attempting to minimize:
The #TwitterFiles are, objectively, exposing the most powerful censorship operation ever conducted.
They worked side-to-side with Facebook and the US government to manipulate the world’s discourse. https://t.co/6AxYvgq0YO
— David Steinberg (@realDSteinberg) December 9, 2022
Democrat politicians and liberal media members will read the latest #TwitterFiles and be angry. The anger is that they can no longer get away with their scam.
They will now try to destroy the platform. We're already seeing the strategy of claiming it's a hate site. https://t.co/69L8gzokZw
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) December 9, 2022
Indeed, they likely knew it was coming, and that’s why Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tweeted about taking “action” against Twitter for “hate speech”–without evidence and in violation of everything we understand about the government not being involved in suppressing speech.
they lied, relentlessly to our face, for years. we were right about everything. https://t.co/B0DYUh2g3J
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) December 9, 2022
Weird how Twitter’s mass “visibility filtering” of prominent conservatives coincided with Democrats winning three elections in a row
Must be a coincidence
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) December 9, 2022
That last tweet was so true, as we saw in 2020 with the Hunter Biden laptop story that may have impacted the election.
Libs of TikTok also was on the list.
All I can keep thinking is that I must be doing something right for them to go to these great lengths to censor me. I promise you, I will never stop.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 9, 2022
Now, the next thing that needs to be dropped is how much the Democrats were involved in this blacklisting.
As I wrote the other day, America First Legal revealed there was a “secret portal” between Twitter and the government to do things like suppress COVID “misinformation.”
Who are the Nazis and the fascists here? Hint: it isn’t the Republicans who were trying to control and shut down speech.
But Musk said that new changes were coming, promising transparency to show people if they’ve ever been shadowbanned; if they have been in the past, there will be information on how to appeal it.
Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022
Considering the potential breadth of the censorship here, it would be hard to estimate how much this may have interfered in elections and all kinds of other discourse, in the U.S. and around the world. That’s why this revelation and reaction by Musk is so monumental: there’s now a level playing field, and this is why the left is so panicked.
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