Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary
DEFEAT CAPITALISM AND ITS DEADLY SPAWN, IMPERIALISM
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Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi
EDITOR'S PREFATORY NOTE The only major and good piece written about the Twitter revelations I know of is by Lee Smith in the otherwise not readable Tablet Magazine: How the FBI Hacked Twitter This one is well-researched and well-written. It shows that the whole manipulation by the FBI was and is done in partisan interest with the war-mongering parts of the Democrats being the main beneficiary. The piece is quite long but I recommend reading it in full. You may think that the paragraph below is exaggerated. However, the evidence following it fully supports the conclusion: In fact, the FBI’s penetration of Twitter constituted just one part of a much larger intelligence operation—one in which the bureau offshored the machinery it used to interfere in the 2016 election and embedded it within the private sector. The resulting behemoth, still being built today, is a public-private consortium made up of U.S. intelligence agencies, Big Tech companies, civil society institutions, and major media organizations that has become the world’s most powerful spy service—one that was powerful enough to disappear the former president of the United States from public life, and that is now powerful enough to do the same or worse to anyone else it chooses. All of this was built in secret. All of it can be secretly used against any target. It is also interesting that the fake issue of 'Russiagate', like the 'Skripal affair' in Britain, was to a large part the preparatory buildup to the current war in Ukraine. While the Twitter files have now given us some knowledge of this they will not change anything. The Republicans are too weak, too corrupt, and too susceptible to blackmail to seriously get into the depth of the whole issue. (Twitter Files Show How The Deep State Conquered Social Media, b, Moon of Alabama, Jan 6, 2023)
The answer begins with Russiagate