Helle Aufregung beim Spiegel. Die #TwitterFiles dagegen werden totgeschwiegen und vereinzelt relativiert. “Prosecute”= strafrechtlich verfolgen.

Twitter hat ganz offensichtlich einseitig und verdeckt Einfluss auf US-Wahlen genommen. Jeder aufrechte Demokrat müsste aufschreien und eine Untersuchung fordern…

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Something about censorship :

Facebook Appears to Have a Bunch of Former Spooks Censoring User Posts Too…


1. After learning that Twitter employs at least 15 former FBI agents, I searched Facebook. What I found is alarming

Facebook currently employs at least 115 people, in high-ranking positions, that formerly worked at FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS:

17 CIA
37 FBI
23 NSA
38 DHS

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2. All, but a few, of the former intelligence agents were hired, by Facebook after the 2016 Presidential Election & after the FBI established their social media-focused task force FTIF.

3. As @mtaibbi detailed in #TwitterFiles Part 6, we know there was massive coordination of censorship between the FBI & Twitter during 2020-2022.

Who is controlling “misinfo” censorship at Facebook?

Is there similar coordination between Facebook & the Intelligence community?
4. The following is a list (obtained through PUBLICLY available LinkedIn profiles) of former CIA/FBI/NSA/DHS that are currently working at Facebook, at least 10 work in the Trust & Safety (Misinfo) department. Many of the LinkedIn profiles are private so those will not be posted. .............

https://t-room.us/surveillance-technology/facebook-appears-to-have-a-bunch-of-former-spooks-censoring-users-posts-too/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1604641866342756352.html

#Twitterfiles 8, Auszüge aus den Tweets:

“Dennoch zeigen viele E-Mails aus dem Jahr 2020, dass hochrangige Twitter-Führungskräfte sich des riesigen Netzwerks gefälschter Konten und verdeckter Propaganda des Verteidigungsministeriums bewusst waren und die Konten nicht gesperrt haben.”

(…)

“Viele dieser geheimen Propagandakonten des US-Militärs haben, obwohl sie von Twitter erst 2020 (aber möglicherweise früher) entdeckt wurden, dieses Jahr weiter getwittert, einige wurden laut Aufzeichnungen, die ich überprüft habe, erst im Mai 2022 oder später ausgesetzt.”

(…)

“Das US-Propagandanetzwerk hat unermüdlich Narrative gegen Russland, China und andere fremde Länder verbreitet. Sie warfen dem Iran vor, „die Wassersicherheit des Irak zu bedrohen und das Land mit Crystal Meth zu überschwemmen“ und die Organe afghanischer Flüchtlinge zu entnehmen.”

Artikel von Lee Fang:

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/

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🦠💉 TWITTER FILES: SOCIAL MEDIA CENSURE - Stanfords Virality Project worked with government to launch a censoring plan for Covid-related content, getting onboard all major Internet platforms - even censoring true posts that could fuel hesitancy, or undermine trust in authorities - VP was trying to “fill the gap of things the government couldn’t do” legally

Excerpts:
TWITTER FILES #19 - The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine - Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories”.

“Reports of vaccinated individuals contracting Covid-19 anyway”; “natural immunity”; suggesting Covid-19 “leaked from a lab”; even “worrisome jokes”: All were characterized as “potential violations” or disinformation “events” by the Virality Project, a sweeping, cross-platform effort to monitor billons of social media posts by Stanford University, federal agencies, and a slew of (often state-funded) NGOs.

CHANGE OF STANDARDS FOR MISINFORMATION
Through July of 2020, Twitter’s internal guidance on Covid-19 required a story be “demonstrably false” or contain an “assertion of fact” to be actioned. But the Virality Project, in partnership with the CDC, pushed different standards.

TRUE STORIES THAT COULD FUEL HESITANCY - VP told Twitter that “true stories that could fuel hesitancy,” including things like “celebrity deaths after vaccine” or the closure of a central NY school due to reports of post-vaccine illness, should be considered “Standard Vaccine Misinformation on Your Platform.”

By March of 2021, Twitter personnel were aping VP language, describing “campaigns against vaccine passports,” “fear of mandatory immunizations,” and “misuse of official reporting tools” as “potential violations.”

VP warned against people “just asking questions,” implying it was a tactic “commonly used by spreaders of misinformation.” It also described a “Worldwide Rally for Freedom planned over Telegram” as a disinformation event.

DOES NOT PREVENT TRANSMISSION - The VP in April 2021 mistakenly described “breakthrough” infections as “extremely rare events” that should not be inferred to mean “vaccines are ineffective.”

Later, when “the CDC changed its methodology for counting Covid-19 cases among vaccinated people,” only counting those resulting in hospitalization or death, VP complained that “anti-vaccine” accounts RFK Jr. and “WhatsHerFace” retweeted the story to suggest “hypocrisy.” A few months later: “Breakthrough cases are happening.”

Even in its final report, VP claimed it was misinformation to suggest the vaccine does not prevent transmission, or that governments are planning to introduce vaccine passports. Both things turned out to be true.

The project’s central/animating concept was, “You can’t handle the truth.”

NATURAL IMMUNITY - A Cleveland Clinic study showed previous infection offered the “same immunity” as the vaccine, but VP said discovery was susbservient to narrative: “Whether or not… scientific consensus is changing, ‘natural immunity’ is a key narrative… among anti-vaccine activists.”

WHO ALSO CENSORING TRUE CONTENT - The Virality Project communications mirror those produced in the recent court case Louisiana vs Biden, which showed Facebook admitting to the WHO that it, too, was censoring true content.

VP TO DOING WHAT THE GOVERNMENT COULD NOT DO LEGALLY - In the last #TwitterFiles thread, we posted a video of EIP Director Alex Stamos describing that project as Stanford trying to “fill the gap of things the government couldn’t do” legally. (h/t Foundation for Freedom Online).

VP’s partners: DOD-funded Graphika, the National Science Foundation funded Center for an Informed Public (CIP), the GEC-funded DFRLab, and the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics, or CSMaP.

— TWITTER FILES #19 - released Mar 17, 2023 -- https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/just-in-another-twitter-files-drop-the-great-covid-19-lie-machine/
— "THE TWITTER FILES" - All twitter files in one place - https://www.twitterfiles.co/