The three-hour hearing showed that corporate-government collusion goes far deeper than the major platforms in Silicon Valley.

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The three-hour hearing showed that corporate-government collusion goes
far deeper than the major platforms in Silicon Valley.​

Shady Private Censors May Be Weaponization Probe's Next Target

The three-hour hearing showed that corporate-government collusion goes far deeper than the major platforms in Silicon Valley.

thefederalist.com

10 Mar w2023 ~~ By Tristan Justice

The Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held its second hearing Thursday with a focus on the “Twitter Files” that exposed corporate-government collusion in Twitter’s censorship regime. But the three-hour hearing showed the public-private partnership goes far deeper than the major platforms operating out of Silicon Valley.
Lawmakers heard testimony from independent Substack journalists Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, two of the primary reporters who published the series after Elon Musk took over the platform. The pair shared how the federal government uses private tech companies as conduits to regulate speech.
“We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, the DHS, the HHS, DoD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA,” Taibbi said in his opening statement. “A focus of this fast-growing network, as Mike noted, is making lists of people whose opinions, beliefs, associations, or sympathies are deemed ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ or ‘malinformation.’ That latter term is just a euphemism for ‘true but inconvenient.'”
Taibbi highlighted how the network of online disinformation police has created an entire industry dedicated to suppressing dissident speech by labeling such expression as “misinformation.”
“We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, the DHS, the HHS, DoD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA,” Taibbi said in his opening statement. “A focus of this fast-growing network, as Mike noted, is making lists of people whose opinions, beliefs, associations, or sympathies are deemed ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ or ‘malinformation.’ That latter term is just a euphemism for ‘true but inconvenient.'”
Taibbi highlighted how the network of online disinformation police has created an entire industry dedicated to suppressing dissident speech by labeling such expression as “misinformation.”
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GDI came under the spotlight last month when The Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky published a series on the index’s funding by the U.S. State Department.
“The Department of State has funded a deep-pocketed ‘disinformation’ tracking group that is secretly blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media, likely costing the news organizations vital advertising dollars,” Kaminsky reported, adding that GDI has raked in $330,000 in American taxpayers’ dollars.
NewsGuard is another censorship group subsidized by federal tax dollars that aims to discredit websites critical of establishment narratives. While GDI works with advertisers to recommend where to spend their marketing budgets, NewsGuard is a browser extension that rates the credibility of news organizations. The software, which is being deployed in schools nationwide, downgrades conservative websites while offering perfect scores to legacy outlets that botched the Hunter Biden laptop story. In September 2021, NewsGuard was the recipient of a nearly $750,000 contract from the Department of Defense.

Commentary:
A massive violation of the 1st Amendment by Maoist Democrats and government officials. They should at minimum n lose their of jobs and pensions. That would get government employees minds right on the issue.
The FBI paid twitter $3M for their services. Multiple companies participated in the operation. We want to know who they are! Rather than delegates from the islands seeking to expose those whistleblowers that have exposed the wrong- doers.
Government Controlling the narrative and media is illegal.

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[progressive hunter]

 

[Catsnmeters]

The three-hour hearing showed that corporate-government collusion goes
far deeper than the major platforms in Silicon Valley.​

Shady Private Censors May Be Weaponization Probe's Next Target

The three-hour hearing showed that corporate-government collusion goes far deeper than the major platforms in Silicon Valley.

thefederalist.com

10 Mar w2023 ~~ By Tristan Justice

The Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held its second hearing Thursday with a focus on the “Twitter Files” that exposed corporate-government collusion in Twitter’s censorship regime. But the three-hour hearing showed the public-private partnership goes far deeper than the major platforms operating out of Silicon Valley.
Lawmakers heard testimony from independent Substack journalists Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, two of the primary reporters who published the series after Elon Musk took over the platform. The pair shared how the federal government uses private tech companies as conduits to regulate speech.
“We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, the DHS, the HHS, DoD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA,” Taibbi said in his opening statement. “A focus of this fast-growing network, as Mike noted, is making lists of people whose opinions, beliefs, associations, or sympathies are deemed ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ or ‘malinformation.’ That latter term is just a euphemism for ‘true but inconvenient.'”
Taibbi highlighted how the network of online disinformation police has created an entire industry dedicated to suppressing dissident speech by labeling such expression as “misinformation.”
“We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, the DHS, the HHS, DoD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA,” Taibbi said in his opening statement. “A focus of this fast-growing network, as Mike noted, is making lists of people whose opinions, beliefs, associations, or sympathies are deemed ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ or ‘malinformation.’ That latter term is just a euphemism for ‘true but inconvenient.'”
Taibbi highlighted how the network of online disinformation police has created an entire industry dedicated to suppressing dissident speech by labeling such expression as “misinformation.”
~Snip~
GDI came under the spotlight last month when The Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky published a series on the index’s funding by the U.S. State Department.
“The Department of State has funded a deep-pocketed ‘disinformation’ tracking group that is secretly blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media, likely costing the news organizations vital advertising dollars,” Kaminsky reported, adding that GDI has raked in $330,000 in American taxpayers’ dollars.
NewsGuard is another censorship group subsidized by federal tax dollars that aims to discredit websites critical of establishment narratives. While GDI works with advertisers to recommend where to spend their marketing budgets, NewsGuard is a browser extension that rates the credibility of news organizations. The software, which is being deployed in schools nationwide, downgrades conservative websites while offering perfect scores to legacy outlets that botched the Hunter Biden laptop story. In September 2021, NewsGuard was the recipient of a nearly $750,000 contract from the Department of Defense.

Commentary:
A massive violation of the 1st Amendment by Maoist Democrats and government officials. They should at minimum n lose their of jobs and pensions. That would get government employees minds right on the issue.
The FBI paid twitter $3M for their services. Multiple companies participated in the operation. We want to know who they are! Rater tan delegates from the islands seeking to expose those whistleblowers that have exposed the wrong- doers.
Government Controlling the narrative and media is illegal.

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What services did the 3 million the FBI paid cover?

 

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What services did the 3 million the FBI paid cover?

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Obviously you're to ignorant to find out yourself.

FBI paid Twitter $3.4M for doing its dirty work on users, damning email shows

The FBI reimbursed Twitter to the tune of more than $3 million as it pushed the social media company to ban accounts.

nypost.com

 

[progressive hunter]

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Obviously you're to ignorant to find out yourself.

FBI paid Twitter $3.4M for doing its dirty work on users, damning email shows

The FBI reimbursed Twitter to the tune of more than $3 million as it pushed the social media company to ban accounts.

nypost.com

its so hard to have a discussion with people that are willfully ignorant,,

 

[Catsnmeters]

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Obviously you're to ignorant to find out yourself.

FBI paid Twitter $3.4M for doing its dirty work on users, damning email shows

The FBI reimbursed Twitter to the tune of more than $3 million as it pushed the social media company to ban accounts.

nypost.com

So what's the problem? Do you think Twitter should have to pay for legal requests from the FBI?

 

[progressive hunter]

So what's the problem? Do you think Twitter should have to pay for legal requests from the FBI?

now thats a pathetic a come back as ever been given,,

 

[Rambunctious]

The USA has become as or more corrupt than Mexico....

 

[Catsnmeters]

now thats a pathetic a come back as ever been given,,

Why? Do you think Twitter should absorb these costs?

 

[Rambunctious]

We better unite against this government corruption or this nation will not survive....

 

[Catsnmeters]

We better unite against this government corruption or this nation will not survive....

What corruption?

Do you think Biden is culpable for money the FBI paid to Twitter?

 

[progressive hunter]

Why? Do you think Twitter should absorb these costs?

why do you think its OK for the government to use tax payer money to silence political opponents and private citizens??

 

[progressive hunter]

What corruption?

Do you think Biden is culpable for money the FBI paid to Twitter?

you deflecting,,

 

[Catsnmeters]

why do you think its OK for the government to use tax payer money to silence political opponents and private citizens??

I don't. That isn't what the article said.

It was paid for legal fees.

 

[Catsnmeters]

you deflecting,,

No. I'm not.

I am asking a simple question(s).

Is Biden culpable and what should the punishment be?

 

[progressive hunter]

I don't. That isn't what the article said.

It was paid for legal fees.

legal fees to silence people,,

 

[progressive hunter]

No. I'm not.

I am asking a simple question(s).

Is Biden culpable and what should the punishment be?

thats a deflection from the government paying a private company to silence political opponents and private citizens,,

 

[Catsnmeters]

legal fees to silence people,,

That isn't what the article said.

Can you link something that supports your contention or are you just making stuff up?

 

[Catsnmeters]

thats a deflection from the government paying a private company to silence political opponents and private citizens,,

That isn't what the money was for.

 

[progressive hunter]

That isn't what the article said.

Can you link something that supports your contention or are you just making stuff up?

but its what happened,,,

the twitter files themselves does more than supports it, they flat out say thats whats happening,,