Twitter Files Part 17 - PDF:https://files.catbox.moe/h7s6k7.pdf
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Originally Posted by Swordsmyth
#TwitterFiles Accountability: Former Twitter Execs Face Congress. Plus, Rogan's "Anti-Semitism" | SYSTEM UPDATE #37
"Former Twitter Execs—Yoel Roth, Vijaya Gadde, James Baker—confronted with #TwitterFiles revelations today in Congress. We'll break down and recap key take aways. Plus, @JoeRogan accused of anti-semitism." -- @SystemUpdate_
https://rumble.com/v28t2c2--system-update-37.html
CLIP:
#TwitterFiles Accountability: Former Twitter Execs Face Congressional Hearing | SYSTEM UPDATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6YL6JGks2o
Last edited by Occam's Banana; 02-09-2023 at 12:34 PM.
Jer. 11:18-20. "The Kingdom of God has come upon you." -- Matthew 12:28
[The Twitter Files: index of posts]
TWITTER FILES #16
Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment
Matt Taibbi (18 February 2023)
Compilations:
- Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...359867904.html
- PDF file: https://files.catbox.moe/j4i2tz.pdf
Tweets (1-8):
Tweets (9-17):
Last edited by Occam's Banana; 03-03-2023 at 02:36 PM.
Twitter Files Part 18 PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/j4i2tz.pdf
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
This will age as well as Musk saying he'd be releasing files related to Fauci.
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."
Calvin Coolidge
Given the wisdom of a few months, it's actually the government and "deep state", and a now shown - and not really talked about widely, wide range conspiracy.
It's exactly in the direction I was saying, but actually worse, because instead of some rich, yet unnamed groups, it's the government itself.
Just wait until we one day get a peek at the Internet backbone!Twitter: "A Fractal Rube Goldberg Machine"
Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...377810945.html
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/stat...67912377810945
[additional matter hidden to save space]
Jer. 11:18-20. "The Kingdom of God has come upon you." -- Matthew 12:28
[The Twitter Files: index of posts]
TWITTER FILES #17
New Knowledge, the Global Engagement Center, and State-Sponsored Blacklists
Matt Taibbi (02 March 2023)
Compilations:
- Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...901389322.html
- PDF file: https://files.catbox.moe/mzsrug.pdf
Tweets (1-9):
Tweets (10-16):
Tweets (17-22):
Tweets (23-31):
Tweets (32-39):
Tweets (40-47):
Tweets (48-51):
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Twitter Files Part 19
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/mzsrug.pdf
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
FYI This PDF is actually for #15
The person I get these from counted 2 of the supplementals before somebody changed them to not be official.
I'm not going to adjust my number system after having posted them with numbers.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
In short, we have another government sponsored agency, run by the usual suspects, attempting to censor US citizens in such a shoddy manner that even Twitter was laughing at them (at least early on).
The question is, when this shoddy info aligned with Twitter staff’s political agenda, did Twitter go ahead and use this faulty info as an excuse to censor people?
"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
"Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
"Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul
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The views and opinions expressed here are solely my own, and do not represent this forum or any other entities or persons.
The two "out of sync" items Swordsmyth counted as part of the main line of Twitter Files were not "changed [...] to not be official" - they were never actually part of the main line to begin with.The person I get these from counted 2 of the supplementals before somebody changed them to not be official.FYI This PDF is actually for#15#17
I'm not going to adjust my number system after having posted them with numbers.
The first one (counted here as being #9) is not part of the Twitter Files at all (not even as a supplement). It was just a Twitter thread by Rogan O'Handley (@DC_Draino), who called his thread "Twitter Files Part 9", apparently in an attempt to give it a publicity boost. That thread has since been deleted (I'm guessing because he caught a lot of flak over trying to hijack the "Twitter Files" moniker to promote his own stuff - and if he didn't catch any flak for that stunt, then he certainly should have.)
The other one (counted here as being #16) is identified in my own index as "TWITTER FILES supplement E" (see here). Having been released by Lee Fang (one of the reporters granted access to internal Twitter documents by Elon Musk), it is an "official" part of the Twitter Files - but not having been given an index number for whatever reason, it can only be treated as a supplement. And just to add to the chaos and confusion, unlike for the Fang supplement, Swordsmyth correctly did not assign an index number to the Taibbi supplement he posted here (which corresponds to "TWITTER FILES supplement D" in my index - see here).
Last edited by Occam's Banana; 03-04-2023 at 12:57 PM.
Thanks for the explain :thumbsup:
limited hangout
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul
"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
[The Twitter Files: index of posts]
TWITTER FILES #18
Statement to Congress: THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Matt Taibbi (09 March 2023)
Compilations:
- Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...742657027.html
- PDF file: https://files.catbox.moe/o7r12r.pdf
Related posts:
- video: Matt Taibbi Squares Off w/ House Dems Over #TwitterFiles
{Glenn Greenwald | SYSTEM UPDATE #52}- video: Censorship-Industrial Complex Targets Truth Online
{Rep. Thomas Massie @ Kennedy (FOX Business)}- article: EXPOSED: America's Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex
{Michael Shellenberger @ Substack}- Twitter thread: EXPOSED: America's Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex
{Michael Shellenberger @ Twitter}
Other links:
- PDF file: The Censorship-Industrial Complex
{Michael Shellenberger testimony @ House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government}- article: “True Stories … Could Fuel Hesitancy”: Stanford Project Worked to Censor Even True Stories on Social Media
{Jonathan Turley @ jonathanturley.org} [posted HERE (below) and HERE (thread)]
Tweets (1-7):
Tweets (8-15):
Tweets (16-22):
Tweets (23-30)
Tweets (31-37):
Tweets (38-44):
Tweets (45-51):
Last edited by Occam's Banana; 07-15-2023 at 06:17 AM.
Matt Taibbi Squares Off w/ House Dems Over #TwitterFiles. Plus, Daily Wire Reporter Leaves Over Anti-Trans Rhetoric | SYSTEM UPDATE #52
"We'll cover massive #TwitterFiles developments, as 1) new revelations drop and 2) both @MTaibbi & @ShellenbergerMD testify in front of Congress. Plus, an interview w/@buttonslives on her recent resignation from the Daily Wire." -- @SystemUpdate_
https://rumble.com/v2cel4c-system-update-show-52.html
CLIPS:
New #TwitterFiles Expose Far-Reaching "Censorship-Industrial Complex" | SYSTEM UPDATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiICNTnFpTg
Matt Taibbi Squares Off w/ House Dems Over #TwitterFiles | SYSTEM UPDATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoYjzdu4jy4
Last edited by Occam's Banana; 03-11-2023 at 03:16 AM.
//
EXPOSED: America's Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex
U.S. government officials, agencies, and contractors are violating the First Amendment
https://public.substack.com/p/expose...ret-censorship
Michael Shellenberger (09 March 2023)
Friends —
Over the last three months, a small group of independent journalists, including Leighton and I, have, thanks to the Twitter Files [or see here - OB], exposed the ways in which social media platforms have, under pressure from U.S. government agencies, censored ordinary Americans and spread disinformation.
Today, at 10 am ET, journalist Matt Taibbi and I will testify before Congress and reveal the existence of a secret censorship-industrial complex in the United States.
Our findings are shocking. A highly-organized network of U.S. government agencies and government contractors has been creating blacklists and pressuring social media companies to censor Americans, often without them knowing it.
We and others have already reported on some of the actions of this complex, including its disinformation campaigns. But the extent of its censorship was unknown to us until very recently. And, as importantly, we now understand the ways in which this complex simultaneously spreads disinformation and demands censorship.
What my 68-page testimony to Congress shows is an effort by U.S. government intelligence and security agencies to wage “information warfare” against the American people.
I do not doubt that some people will try to justify the behaviors we have documented. They will say such censorship is necessary for “fighting disinformation.”
But there is no moral or legal justification for the acts of state-sponsored censorship we document, much less for the fundamentally unAmerican censorship-industrial complex.
I believe that any reasonable person reading our report, no matter their politics, will be horrified by what is taking place and demand an end to it.
With our testimony, we are calling on Congress to defund and dismantle the censorship-industrial complex immediately.
Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Both are under attack.
Michael
PS: A written transcript of my verbal testimony, which summarizes our findings, is below. I hope you will consider reading the full 68-page document, which can be downloaded by clicking the “download” button.
[PDF file] The Censorship-Industrial Complex
U.S. Government Support for Domestic Censorship and Disinformation Campaigns, 2016 - 2022
Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to the House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (09 March 2023)
https://files.catbox.moe/eyei2t.pdf [see the article link (above) for original source link - OB]
[NOTE: The following is the "Executive Summary" from Shellenberger's testimony (see pages 4 to 10 of the PDF file linked above - OB]
The Censorship-Industrial Complex
My verbal testimony to Congress
by Michael Shellenberger
In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned of “the acquisition of unwarranted influence… by the military-industrial complex.” Eisenhower feared that the size and power of the “complex,” or cluster, of government contractors and the Department of Defense would “endanger our liberties or democratic processes.” How? Through “domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money.” He feared public policy would “become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
Eisenhower’s fears were well-founded. Today, American taxpayers are unwittingly financing the growth and power of a censorship-industrial complex run by America’s scientific and technological elite, which endangers our liberties and democracy. I am grateful for the opportunity to offer this testimony and sound the alarm over the shocking and disturbing emergence of state-sponsored censorship in the United States of America.
The Twitter Files, state attorneys general lawsuits [for example, see this thread - OB], and investigative reporters have revealed a large and growing network of government agencies, academic institutions, and nongovernmental organizations that are actively censoring American citizens, often without their knowledge, on a range of issues, including on the origins of COVID, COVID vaccines, emails relating to Hunter Biden’s business dealings, climate change, renewable energy, fossil fuels, and many other issues.
I offer some cautions. I do not know how much of the censorship is coordinated beyond what we have been able to document, and I will not speculate. I recognize that the law allows Facebook, Twitter, and other private companies to moderate content on their platforms. And I support the right of governments to communicate with the public, including to dispute inaccurate and misleading information.
But government officials have been caught repeatedly pushing social media platforms to censor disfavored users and content. Often, these acts of censorship threaten the legal protection social media companies need to exist, Section 230.
“If government officials are directing or facilitating such censorship,” notes George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, “it raises serious First Amendment questions. It is axiomatic that the government cannot do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly.”
Moreover, we know that the U.S. government has funded organizations that pressure advertisers to boycott news media organizations and social media platforms that a) refuse to censor and/or b) spread disinformation, including alleged conspiracy theories.
The Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, and Graphika all have inadequately-disclosed ties to the Department of Defense, the C.I.A., and other intelligence agencies. They work with multiple U.S. government agencies to institutionalize censorship research and advocacy within dozens of other universities and think tanks.
It is important to understand how these groups function. They are not publicly engaging with their opponents in an open exchange of ideas. They aren’t asking for a national debate over the limits of the First Amendment. Rather, they are creating blacklists of disfavored people and then pressuring, cajoling, and demanding that social media platforms censor, deamplify, and even ban the people on these blacklists.
Who are the censors? They are a familiar type. Overly confident in their ability to discern truth from falsity, good intention from bad intention, the instinct of these hall monitor-types is to complain to the teacher — and, if the teacher doesn’t comply, to go above them, to the principal. Such an approach might work in middle school and many elite universities, but it is anathema to freedom and is an abuse of power.
These organizations and others are also running their own influence operations, often under the guise of “fact-checking.” The intellectual leaders of the censorship complex have convinced journalists and social media executives that accurate information is disinformation, that valid hypotheses are conspiracy theories, and that greater self-censorship results in more accurate reporting. In many instances, censorship, such as labeling social media posts, is part of the influence operation aimed at discrediting factual information.
The censorship industrial complex combines established methods of psychological manipulation, some developed by the U.S. military during the Global War on Terror, with highly sophisticated tools from computer science, including artificial intelligence. The complex’s leaders are driven by the fear that the Internet and social media platforms empower populist, alternative, and fringe personalities and views, which they regard as destabilizing. Federal government officials, agencies, and contractors have gone from fighting ISIS recruiters and Russian bots to censoring and deplatforming ordinary Americans and disfavored public figures.
Importantly, the bar for bringing in military-grade government monitoring and speech-countering techniques has moved from “countering terrorism” to “countering extremism” to countering simple misinformation. The government no longer needs a predicate of calling you a terrorist or extremist to deploy government resources to counter your political activity. The only predicate it needs is simply the assertion that the opinion you expressed on social media is wrong.
These efforts extend to influencing and even directing conventional news media organizations. Since 1971, when the Washington Post and New York Times elected to publish classified Pentagon papers about the war in Vietnam, journalists understood that we have a professional obligation to report on leaked documents whose contents are in the public interest, even when they had been stolen. And yet, in 2020, the Aspen Institute and Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center urged journalists to “Break the Pentagon Papers principle” and not cover leaked information to prevent the spread of “disinformation.”
Government-funded censors frequently invoke the prevention of real-world harm to justify their demands for censorship, but the censors define harm far more expansively than the Supreme Court does. The censors have defined harm so broadly, in fact, that they have justified Facebook censoring accurate information about COVID vaccines, for example, to prevent “vaccine hesitancy.” Their goal, clearly, is not protecting the truth but rather persuading the public. That is the purpose of open debate and the free exchange of ideas.
And, increasingly, the censors say their goal is to restrict information that “delegitimizes” governmental, industrial, and news media organizations.That mandate is so sweeping that it could easily censor criticism of any part of the status quo, from elected officials to institutions to laws. This extreme, reactionary attitude is, bluntly, un-American.
Congress should immediately cut off funding to the censors and investigate their activities. Second, it should mandate instant reporting of all conversations between social media executives, government employees, and contractors concerning content moderation. Third, Congress should limit the broad permission given to social media platforms to censor, deplatform, and spread propaganda.
Whatever Congress does, it is incumbent upon the American people to wake up to the threat of government censorship. “Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry,” Eisenhower noted, “can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
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EXPOSED: America's Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex
Twitter thread by @ShellenbergerMD
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...607174146.html
[compiled from https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/...19725607174146 to https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/...23652331368448]
Michael Shellenberger (09 March 2023)
EXPOSED: America's Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex
U.S. government officials, agencies, and contractors are violating the First Amendment
My testimony to Congress
[article] EXPOSED: America's Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex
U.S. government officials, agencies, and contractors are violating the First Amendment
https://public.substack.com/p/expose...ret-censorship [or see this post - OB]
Over the last three months, a small group of us have, thanks to the Twitter Files, exposed the ways in which social media platforms have, under pressure from U.S. government agencies, censored ordinary Americans and spread disinformation.
At 10 am ET, @mtaibbi & I will testify before Congress to share shocking new findings: a highly-organized network of government agencies and contractors has been creating blacklists and pressuring social media companies to censor Americans, often without them knowing it.
We have already reported on some of the actions by this complex.
But the extent of its censorship was unknown to us until very recently.
And, as importantly, we now understand the ways in which this complex simultaneously spreads disinformation and demands censorship.
My 68-page testimony to Congress lays out an effort by U.S. government intelligence and security agencies to wage “information warfare” against the American people.
(The full document can be downloaded here)
[PDF file] The Censorship-Industrial Complex
U.S. Government Support for Domestic Censorship and Disinformation Campaigns, 2016 - 2022
Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to the House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (09 March 2023)
https://files.catbox.moe/eyei2t.pdf [see the previously-linked article (above) for original source link - OB]
I do not doubt that some people will try to justify the behaviors we have documented. They will say such censorship is necessary for “fighting disinformation.”
But there is no moral or legal justification for the acts of state-sponsored censorship we document, much less for the fundamentally unAmerican censorship-industrial complex.
I believe that any reasonable person reading our report, no matter their politics, will be horrified by what is taking place and demand an end to it.
With our testimony, we are calling on Congress to defund and dismantle the censorship-industrial complex immediately.
Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Both are under attack.
[... "Executive Summary" from Shellenberger's testimony (see pages 4 to 10 of the PDF file linked above, or see this post) ...]
All of the above is just a summary
To read the full, 68-page report/testimony, please visit Public
[article] EXPOSED: America's Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex
U.S. government officials, agencies, and contractors are violating the First Amendment
https://public.substack.com/p/expose...ret-censorship [or see this post - OB]
[PDF file] The Censorship-Industrial Complex
U.S. Government Support for Domestic Censorship and Disinformation Campaigns, 2016 - 2022
Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to the House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (09 March 2023)
https://files.catbox.moe/eyei2t.pdf [see the previously-linked article (above) for original source link - OB]
And stay-tuned for a bombshell up-coming TWITTER FILES thread from @mtaibbi [see this post - OB]
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Twitter Files Part 20 - Taibbi
THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/o7r12r.pdf
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
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Last edited by Occam's Banana; 03-14-2023 at 06:49 PM.
[The Twitter Files: index of posts]
TWITTER FILES #19
The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine: Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories”
Matt Taibbi (17 March 2023)
Compilations:
- Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...631432195.html
- PDF file: https://files.catbox.moe/gg2dfp.pdf
Related posts:
Tweets (1-9):
Tweets (10-15):
Tweets (16-20):
Tweets (21-27):
Tweets (28-35):
Tweets (36-42):
Tweets (43-45):
Last edited by Occam's Banana; 07-15-2023 at 06:17 AM.
Me still waiting for the Fauci files...
Jer. 11:18-20. "The Kingdom of God has come upon you." -- Matthew 12:28
Twitter Files Part 21
PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/gg2dfp.pdf
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
'True Stories … Could Fuel Hesitancy': Stanford Project Worked to Censor Even True Stories on Social Media
written by jonathan turley - march 20, 2023
While lost in the explosive news about Donald Trump’s expected arrest, journalist Matt Taibbi released new details on previously undisclosed censorship efforts on social media. The latest Twitter Files revealed a breathtaking effort from Stanford’s Virality Project to censor even true stories. After all, the project insisted “true stories … could fuel hesitancy” over taking the vaccine or other measures. The effort included suppressing stories that we now know are legitimate such as natural immunity defenses, the exaggerated value of masks, and questions over vaccine efficacy in preventing second illnesses. The work of the Virality Project to censor even true stories should result in the severance of any connection with Stanford University.
We have learned of an ever-expanding coalition of groups working with the government and social media to target and censor Americans, including government-funded organizations.
However, the new files are chilling in the details allegedly showing how the Virality Project labeled even true stories as “anti-vaccine” and, therefore, subject to censorship. These files would suggest that the Project eagerly worked to limit free speech and suppress alternative scientific viewpoints.
Taibbi describes the Virality Project as “a sweeping, cross-platform effort to monitor billions of social media posts by Stanford University, federal agencies, and a slew of (often state-funded) NGOs.”
1.TWITTER FILES #19
The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine
Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories” pic.twitter.com/v41dyC26ZR
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
He added: “We’ve since learned the Virality Project in 2021 worked with government to launch a pan-industry monitoring plan for Covid-related content. At least six major Internet platforms were ‘onboarded’ to the same JIRA ticketing system, daily sending millions of items for review.”
6.We’ve since learned the Virality Project in 2021 worked with government to launch a pan-industry monitoring plan for Covid-related content. At least six major Internet platforms were “onboarded” to the same JIRA ticketing system, daily sending millions of items for review.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
According to Taibbi, it targeted anyone who did not robotically fall in line with the CDC and media narratives, including targeting postings that shared “Reports of vaccinated individuals contracting Covid-19 anyway,” research on “natural immunity,” suggesting Covid-19 “leaked from a lab,” and even “worrisome jokes.”
That included evidence that it “knowingly targeted true material and legitimate political opinion, while often being factually wrong itself.”
The Virality Project warned Twitter that “true stories … could fuel hesitancy,” including stories on “celebrity deaths after vaccine” and the closure of a central New York school due to reports of post-vaccine illness.
The Project is part of the Cyber Policy Center at Stanford and bills itself as “a joint initiative of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Law School, connects academia, the legal and tech industry and civil society with policymakers around the country to address the most pressing cyber policy concerns.”
The Center launched the Project as a “a global study aimed at understanding the disinformation dynamics specific to the COVID-19 crisis.”
As with many disinformation projects, it became a source of its own disinformation in the effort to suppress alternative views.
It is being funded by Craig Newmark Philanthropies and the Hewlett Foundation.
On its website, it proclaims: “At the Stanford Internet Observatory our mission is to study the misuse of the internet to cause harm, and to help create policy and technical mitigations to those harms.” It defines its mission to maintain the truth as it sees it:
"The global COVID-19 crisis has significantly shifted the landscape for mis- and disinformation as the pandemic has become the primary concern of almost every nation on the planet. This has perhaps never happened before; few topics have commanded and sustained attention at a global level simultaneously, or provided such a wealth of opportunities for governments, economically motivated actors, and domestic activists alike to spread malign narratives in service to their interests."
What is even more disconcerting is that groups like the Virality Project worked against public health by suppressing such stories that are now considered legitimate from the efficacy of masks to the lab origin theory. It was declaring dissenting scientific views to be dangerous disinformation. Nothing could be more inimical to the academic mission. Yet, Stanford still heralds the work of the Project on its website.
There is nothing more inherently in conflict with academic values than censorship. Stanford’s association with this censorship effort is disgraceful and should be a matter for faculty action. This is a project that sought to censor true stories that undermined government or media narratives.
I am not hopeful that Stanford will sever its connection to the Project. Censorship is now the rage on campuses and the Project is the perfect embodiment of this movement. Cloaking censorship efforts in self-righteous rhetoric, the Project sought to silence those who failed to adhere to a certain orthodoxy, including scientific and public health claims that were later found flawed or wrong. The Project itself is an example of what it called “media and social media capabilities – overt and covert – to spread particular narratives.”
Stanford should fulfill its pledge in creating the Virality Project in fighting disinformation by eliminating the Virality Project.
Reprinted with permission from JonathanTurley.org.
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http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives...-social-media/
"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
"Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
"Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul
Proponent of real science.
The views and opinions expressed here are solely my own, and do not represent this forum or any other entities or persons.
The Covid Twitter Files Drop: Protecting Fauci While Censoring The Truth w/Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi, investigative journalist and author discusses the Censorship Information Complex revealed by the explosive Twitter files. The Virality Project is a collusion project to silence COVID -19 information about vaccines and approaches to the pandemic response. Stanford University along with other think tanks and government agencies targeted social media to control the conversation around the pandemic response.”Malinfornation" the new draconian government term for true information that is politically inconvenient.
https://rumble.com/v2e7fju-the-covid...truth-wma.html
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