When Russian agents re-share popular posts on social media, the U.S. government attempts to censor the legitimate political perspectives of American citizens. Likewise, they advocate for action to be taken toward accounts that have simply interacted with content from QAnon-linked profiles. — We all know that Twitter is popular for breaking news, political discourse, and, let’s face it, a whole lot of memes. But what happens when the government starts getting involved in moderating speech on one of the most widely used social media platforms? Well, it’s not a pretty picture.

From the Federalist Party to John F. Kennedy, politicians have suppressed left-leaning political perspectives — and even democrats like JFK are not innocent. Since then, the country has become progressively more left and the political right now bears the brunt of censorship. — Political censorship in the United States has been common throughout its history. Both the Republican and Democratic parties have tried to censor the public dialogue. Contrary to how the news media wants to portray the issue, permitting political parties to censor the public is dangerous.

Matt Taibbi released another Twitter Files thread on Christmas Eve, giving us a look into Twitter’s relationship with CIA and how the U.S. government censored users on topics relating to Ukraine, Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba. — “I invited the FBI [to the Information Operations conference with Carnegie], and I believe the CIA will virtually attend too.” — Stacia Cardille, Former Twitter attorney Matt Taibbi released another installment of the Twitter Files on Christmas Eve. …

The Intercept’s Lee Fang released the eighth installment of the Twitter Files, and it was the best to date. The files prove that Twitter helped the U.S. use fake Twitter accounts to spread disinformation and manipulate public opinion in foreign countries. — Twitter made it a goal to shut down foreign influence campaigns on social media. Unfortunately, while they worked hard to prevent non-U.S. nations from creating fake profiles to spread disinformation, they built a special framework to support the U.S. government in its efforts to propagandize the public.

On Monday, Michael Shellenberger released the seventh installment of the Twitter Files detailing the FBI’s involvement in the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story. — The seventh installment of the Twitter Files describes the FBI pressuring Twitter to provide user data without warrants. In fact, they wanted Twitter to change their terms of service so that third party data providers could offer Twitter’s public data feed to members of the Intelligence Community (IC).

Matt Taibbi released the sixth installment of the Twitter Files on Friday. He posted communications between the FBI and Twitter, and an FBI agent actually responded to this release of the Twitter files. — “A lot of companies we deal with are adversarial to us. Like T-Mobile is totally adversarial. They love leaking things we’re saying if we don’t get our process right.” — Unnamed FBI Agent On Friday, Matt Taibbi released the sixth installment of the Twitter Files. An FBI agent reached out…

An unbiased perspective from someone who didn’t vote for Donald Trump: The fifth installment of the Twitter Files revealed that employees pushed to have Trump banned even though his Tweets on that day didn’t violate any of the rules. — After the events of January 6th, Twitter changed their public interest approach to the Donald Trump case. Previously, they would give preferential treatment to world leaders with the rationale that their speech, right or wrong, needs to be seen and heard in order for the public to hold them accountable.

Michael Shellenberger released the fourth set of Twitter Files on Saturday which contained internal communications regarding the upcoming January 8 ban on Donald Trump’s account. …

This is an unbiased viewpoint of the third installment of the Twitter Files. Matt Taibbi focused specifically on the censorship of Donald Trump between October 2020 and the January 6 Fiasco. — “Whatever your opinion on the decision to remove Trump that day, the internal communications at Twitter between January 6th — January 8th have clear historical import.” — Matt Taibbi Matt Taibbi released the third installment of the Twitter Files on Friday. This is the first installment covering the events of…