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The Twitter Files
When Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he made internal communications traffic available to select journalists. This traffic included internal and external communications. Journalists would choose topics and search terms, then Twitter lawyers would deliver the results. According to Michael Shellenberger, the original focus of the investigation was to discover political bias within Twitter and the censorship of Twitter users holding different beliefs. The investigation took a turn when journalists discovered a network of individuals, government organizations and non government organizations pressuring Twitter to censor specific accounts. This activity was under the guise of tamping down on foreign disinformation, though the effort may have also been a political element as it swept up ordinary Americans.
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The Twitter Files: Part 1: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
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Posted 9 months ago | January 03 2023
Part 1 of the Twitter Files shows the creation of tools and moderator teams for the purpose of moderating content on the...
The Twitter Files: Part 2: Twitter's Secret Blacklists
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Posted 9 months ago | January 04 2023
Part 2 of the Twitter Files shows the methods that Twitter used to manipulate the visibility of individual tweets and en...
The Twitter Files: Part 3: The Removal of Donald Trump
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Posted 9 months ago | January 04 2023
Part 3 of the Twitter Files covers the internal actions at Twitter leading up to the account banning of Donald Trump
The Twitter Files: Part 4: The Removal of Donald Trump: January 7
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Posted 9 months ago | January 05 2023
On January 7th, Twitter executives struggle to reconcile current Twitter policy with Donald Trump's Tweets. Justificati...
The Twitter Files: Part 5: The Removal of Trump from Twitter
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Posted 9 months ago | January 05 2023
The Twitter Files: Part 6: Twitter, the FBI Subsidiary
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Posted 9 months ago | January 05 2023
Part 6 of the Twitter Files covers the relationships between Twitter, government organizations and government adjacent o...
The Twitter Files: Part 7: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop
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Posted 9 months ago | January 06 2023
Part 7 of the series covers how high ranking members of the intelligence community, sought to influence executives at ne...
The Twitter Files: Part 8: How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign
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Posted 9 months ago | January 06 2023
The Twitter Files Part 8 covers cooperative efforts between the US Department of Defense and Twitter to enable and boost...
The Twitter Files: Part 9: Twitter and Other Government Agencies
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Posted 9 months ago | January 06 2023
The Twitter Files: Part 10: How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
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Posted 8 months ago | January 09 2023
The Twitter Files part 10 covers how Twitter handled Covid information in it's platform. How were decisions made and wh...
The Twitter Files: Kanekoa Thread: CISA censorship network
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Posted 8 months ago | January 18 2023
While not an official Twitter FIle release, Twitter user @KanekoaTheGreat assembled a thread that took releases do date,...
The Twitter Files: Part 11: How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In
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Posted 8 months ago | January 09 2023
The Twitter Files Part 11 shows the history of how pressure on Twitter from the media and a few congressional members ov...
The Twitter Files: Part 12: Twitter and the FBI “Belly Button”
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Posted 8 months ago | January 09 2023
The Twitter Files Part 12, gives insight into how the FBI originally started out as the primary contact for Government r...
The Twitter Files: Part 13: Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb pressed Twitter to hide posts challenging Covid Vaccines
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Posted 8 months ago | January 09 2023
The Twitter Files: Part 14: Russiagate
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Posted 8 months ago | January 13 2023
Part 14 of the Twitter Files covers communications with elected officials and internal communications within Twitter reg...
The Twitter Files: Unnumbered: How the pharmaceutical industry lobbied social media to shape content around vaccine policy
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Posted 8 months ago | January 16 2023
The Twitter Files: Part 15: Hamilton 68, Alliance for Securing Democracy and Russian Bots
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Posted 8 months ago | January 28 2023
Twitter Executives Testify in Congress regarding Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story
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Posted 7 months ago | February 08 2023
The Twitter Files: Part 16: Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment
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Posted 7 months ago | February 19 2023
The Twitter Files: Part 17: Global Engagement Center and State-Sponsored Blacklists
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Posted 7 months ago | March 02 2023
The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, financed by the US Government, specifically the Global Engagement ...
Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified to Congress regarding Censorship on Social Media Platforms discovered during their Twitter FIles reporting.
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Posted 6 months ago | March 10 2023
Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified to House Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee. Matt and...
The Twitter Files: Statement to Congress: The Censorship-Industrial Complex
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Posted 6 months ago | March 09 2023
The Twitter Files: Part 19: Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories”
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Posted 6 months ago | March 17 2023
Renee DiResta and her role in Political Disinformation Censorship Industry
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Posted 5 months ago | April 14 2023
Michael Shellenberger appears on The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss the Twitter Files
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Posted 5 months ago | April 14 2023
The Twitter Files: Fauci Pharma Files
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Posted 5 months ago | April 28 2023
The Twitter Files: Part 20: The Information Cartel
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Posted 5 months ago | April 26 2023
The Twitter Files: Censoring of Tucker Carlson
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Posted 5 months ago | April 27 2023
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation applied pressure on Twitter to sensor accounts critical of Trudeau
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Posted 4 months ago | May 09 2023
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation used pressure techniques, such as pulling advertising dollars and using connection...
Twitter Files Journalists release a Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know
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Posted 4 months ago | May 10 2023
The Twitter Files: Censorship by Turkish Government
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Posted 4 months ago | May 16 2023
This Twitter Files entry covers internal communications, government letters and court orders involving censorship reques...
The Twitter Files: Internal Company Emails Expose Why Privileged Reporters Likely Hate Elon Musk and Twitter 2.0
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Posted 4 months ago | May 17 2023
The Twitter Files: Twitter Provided Privileged Access to Taylor Lorenz
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Posted 4 months ago | May 18 2023
Twitter Files Extra: The Covid Censorship Requests of Australia's Department of Home Affairs
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Posted 4 months ago | May 23 2023
The Twitter Files confirm a Monday report in "The Australian," showing the Australian government worked overtime to moni...
The Twitter Files: Twitter’s lawyers were not confident they could win a lawsuit vs Alex Berenson over banning his account for mRNA vaccine reporting
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Posted 4 months ago | June 01 2023
Twitter Files Extra: How the Anti-Disinformation Field Got Organized
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Posted 3 months ago | June 07 2023
The Twitter Files: The FBI is helping Ukraine censor Twitter users, including journalists
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Posted 3 months ago | June 08 2023
Twitter Files: Brown University's Claire Wardle Aids Censorship
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Posted 3 months ago | June 14 2023
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