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National News See other National News Articles Title: Taibbi and Shellenberger Take the Twitter Files to Congress This is the big one. We’re blowing the lid off the Dems and their censorship, once and for all. New York Post: Journalist Matt Taibbi eviscerated Twitter and other social and mainstream media outlets during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, saying their collusion with the federal government over “disinformation” had created “a form of digital McCarthyism” in the 21st century. “Effectively, news media became an arm of a state-sponsored thought- policing system,” Taibbi, 53, told members of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government in his opening statement. “We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation ‘requests’ from every corner of government: the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA.” Taibbi — who along with fellow reporters Michael Shellenberger and Bari Weiss was granted access last year to Twitter’s internal communications by CEO Elon Musk — said his “Twitter Files” investigation revealed that the social media giant collaborated with the US government “to turn the internet into an instrument of censorship and social control” as part of an “anti-disinformation” push. He said the so-called “Twitter Files” found the government’s actions pose a “grave threat to people of all political persuasions,” citing the suppression of The Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020. “It’s not possible to instantly arrive at truth. It is however becoming technologically possible to instantly define and enforce a political consensus online, which I believe is what we’re looking at,” Taibbi told Congress — a reality, he said, that Shellenberger has termed the “Censorship-Industrial Complex.” … Taken as a whole, the social media companies’ commitment to policing free speech, Taibbi said, violates the original purpose of the internet. It has basically nullified the internet. I watched some clips. It’s whatever. The funniest thing was that disgusting yenta Washerwoman Schultz saying that Taibbi is just in it for the money, which really did seem like some kind of joke. She was like “so, you make money by working, huh? That’s very convenient.” Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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