I haven’t covered this at all and I should have considering how big a story it has been.

Suffice to say that the MSM have almost completely ignored it, but to me that just demonstrates how increasingly out of touch they are with the public and how they’re being left behind by Internet news sources like Substack and others.

What the series of reports over the last couple of months has proven is that a group of US government agencies, Leftist NGO’s and private sector Social Media corporations, all worked together over the last few years to push US government misinformation – aka lies – on to the public while at the same time silencing any voices that tried to speak up against this.

While the primary social media proof comes from Twitter – thanks entirely to new owner Elon Musk opening up the guts of the old corporate to examination by journalists like Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Bari Weiss and others – there’s no doubt that similar efforts were also underway involving Facebook, Google and other such corporations.

It’s a massive and likely ongoing breach of the 1st Amendment by the US government and it seems to have been led less by the politicians than bureaucracies that report to the President: the CDC, NIAID, NIH being the primary malefactors in the C-19 area, with the FBI the main one on the 2020 elections (especially with Hunter Biden) and the the January 6 Capitol riots, but the CIA is there as well.

The subjects on which this combination of censorship and propaganda have opearated have ranged from C-19 lockdowns, masks and vaccine mandates, to Hunter Biden’s laptop and the 2020 US elections.

Racket News have set up an website that indexes all of the Twitter files produced to date and updates them constantly (the latest as of this writing is Twitter #19 on March ) and also provides a summary of each one. I’ve added it to the Sidebar here under the Reference / News label.

The originals were all published first on Twitter, undoubtedly because Musk wants the traffic. But Twitter is of course not a good forum for long-firm articles, which is why the others have steadily transferred them to better formats. Unfortunately the index goes only to the original Twitter threads.

To me the most biggest ones are as follows:

  • TF 10 (Zweig), TF 13 (Berenson) & TF 19 (Taibbi) – Rigging the Covid-19 debate
    Including outright lies. Twitter personnel who’d liaised with Biden administration officials who were “very angry” that Twitter had not deplatformed more accounts. There were “countless” instances of Twitter banning or labeling “misleading” accounts that were true or merely controversial. A Rhode Island physician named Andrew Bostom, for instance, was suspended for, among other things, referring to the results of a peer-reviewed study on mRNA vaccines.

    Stanford University worked with four think-tanks (several the recipients of state awards) and multiple government agencies to create a cross-platform JIRA ticketing system called the Virality Project (VP) for seven major Internet platforms, including Twitter, Facebook/Instagram, Google/YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, and Medium… “seeding doubt and uncertainty in authoritative voices” like Facui’s “leads to a society that finds it too challenging to identify what’s true or false.” Therefore, people need to be shielded from difficult truths. 
  • TF 1 & 6 (Taibbi) & TF 7 (Shellenberger) – Hunter Biden, the FBI and Twitter
    The suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 election, which included blocking the Twitter account of the New York Post itself. The FBI had gamed this out for months beforehand with Twitter people, using an “imaginary” exercise where the Russians create false information about the Bidens. Given that the FBI had access to the laptop and its emails and other material for over a year and knew it was the real thing, this effort was hardly “imaginary” but it was the perfect trigger to pull when the Post published. The FBI even supplied Twitter executives with access to its own secret comms system – called Teleporter – to enable this and paid Twitter $3,415,323 for “processing requests” by the FBI.
    It didn’t stop there: not long after Musk gave access, Taibbi found that a former FBI agent working as Twitter’s Deputy Counsel, Jim Baker, was censoring the release of old files to Taibbi. Musk fired Baker.
  • TF 9, 11, 12 (Taibbi) – Twitter and OGA’s (Other Government Agencies)
    CIA officials attended at least one conference with Twitter in the summer of 2020, and companies like Twitter and Facebook received “OGA briefings,” at their regular “industry” meetings held in conjunction with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The FBI and the “Foreign Influence Task Force” met regularly “not just with Twitter, but with Yahoo!, Twitch, Cloudfare, LinkedIn, even Wikimedia.”

    At the close of 2017, Twitter made a key internal decision that while to the outside world the company would claim independence and promise that content would only be removed at “our sole discretion”, internally they would remove accounts “identified by the U.S. intelligence community” as “identified by the U.S.. intelligence community as a state-sponsored entity conducting cyber-operations” – which sounds reasonable until you see TF 12 showing that Twitter took in requests from everyone — Treasury, HHS, NSA, FBI, DHS, etc, – and also received personal requests from politicians like Democratic congressman Adam Schiff, who asked to have journalist Paul Sperry suspended.
  • TF 14, 15, 17 & 18 (Taibbi) – Russiagate and The Censorship Industrial Complex.
    Hamilton 68 was a project by an outfit called “Alliance for Securing Democracy” that claimed to track hundreds of Twitter accounts “linked Russian influence activities.” The good news is that Twitter rapidly realised how shit these were. The bad news is that MSM reporters used Hamilton 68 as the basis for countless news stories (see below).

    TF 17 looks at another such outfit, the “Global Engagement Center” (GEC) and “thinktanks” it funded to pull the same shite about thousands of Twitter accounts (“Hindu Nationalism”, “Anti-Macron”, etc)

    TF18 deals with yet another such group,  Stanford University, the Election Integrity Partnership, and the state funding of a slew of think-tanks, NGOs, and for-profit firms connected to the “anti-disinformation” movement. One of those, New Knowledge, was caught faking a Russian influence campaign in an Alabama Senate race, pushing on reporters the false idea that Republican Roy Moore was being followed by a slate of Russian bots.

Taibbi provides one great graphic of the power of the Hamilton 68 group – and thus the sheer uselessness of modern MSM reporters who don’t question what they’re handed as long as it supports the narrative of the day.