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From the 45th President of the United States— Donald Trump on Truth Social
Dec. 2, 2022
I am glad that everyone is now seeing the light on what I have been saying loud and clear for the last two years, that the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged and stolen by a combination of Democrats, Big Tech, “law enforcement,” and other bad actors. Sadly, we have become a corrupt Country, perhaps one of the most corrupt anywhere in the world. We MUST right this horrible wrong, and take our Country back! ***** Dec. 2, 2022
Wow! That’s a really big story about Twitter and various forms of government Fraud including, specifically, Election Fraud. The same level of Fraud took place with the other Big Tech companies, if not even worse (if that’s possible?). We are living in a VERY CORRUPT COUNTRY &, AS THEY ARE SAYING ALL OVER THE INTERNET, “NOTHING WILL BE DONE ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT & FBI ARE TOTALLY CORRUPT.” But they’ll keep investigating “boxes” that were legally & openly taken from the W.H. ***** December 3, 2022
Does anybody notice that the LameStream Media is REFUSING to report about, even a simple mention, the biggest Election Integrity and Interference Scandal in our Country’s History. Watch closely, you will (Continued on page 16)
Bombshell Twitter files suggest censorship driven by politics and connections, not facts
Twitter docs released by Musk and journalist suggest Democrats could manipulate speech on platform
"This is a battle for the future of civilization," Musk says in explaining why he released the files. "If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead." Taibbi posted a lengthy series of threads, which Musk retweeted, detailing the censorship.
By John Solomon
Elon Musk allowed Americans a glimpse inside his explosive "Twitter files" in a process certain to take many more days. But the first release of memos gave a sobering look suggesting censorship on the platform during the 2020 election was driven by politics and political connections more than facts.
Twitter's new owner used independent journalist Matt Taibbi to release a small first batch of internal documents Friday night, detailing how efforts to censor thought on the platform began, then accelerated during the last presidential election, building to a crescendo with the momentous October 2020 decision by the platform to block dissemination of a New York Post story about alleged corruption detailed on Hunter Biden's laptop.
Though fragmentary and framed by Taibbi's personal narrative, screenshots of the first memos made a compelling case that Twitter's executives censored the Hunter Biden laptop story in the final days of the 2020 campaign even though they lacked substantiation for the justification that the materials were derived from hacking and therefore in violation of the platform's rules of conduct.
"Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?" Twitter's former VP of Global Comms Brandon Borrman wrote in one such memo. Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker, thenTwitter deputy counsel, laid out the lack of evidence even more clearly. "I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked," he wrote. "At this stage, however, it is reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted."
Taibbi wrote he saw "no evidence ... of any government involvement in the laptop story."
The memos, according to Taibbi's narrative, also make clear that thenTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey was left out of the initial decisionmaking. Dorsey would later repudiate the censorship decision, calling it a mistake.
As Twitter scrambled and failed to find evidence to back its initial hacking claims, one of its research firms took a quick sounding of congressional reaction and gave an ominous warning.
The NetChoice firm surveyed nine Republicans and three Democrats and warned the social media giant a "blood bath" was brewing in the nation's capital, suggesting the censorship episode was poised to become Big Tech's "Access Hollywood moment."
California Democratic Rep. Rho Khanna wrote the company asking to discuss the backlash to the censorship of the story, making clear he believed Twitter had made an error of constitutional proportions. "This seems a violation of the 1st amendment principles," Khanna wrote a top Twitter executive.
Taibbi augmented the screenshots of memos with commentary he said he got from current and former Twitter employees. "Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn't going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it," Taibbi wrote, quoting one ex-employee.
Musk has cast the release of the files as part of larger battle to fight censorship in America, and he vowed Friday night that more of Twitter's internal files would be released Saturday along with his hosting of a question and answer session.
"This is a battle for the future of civilization," Musk tweeted Monday ahead of the release of the files. "If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead."
Some of the documents he and Taibbi released Friday night suggested that the Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee were able to manipulate speech on the platform through tools that Twitter made available.
The emails cited requests from "the Biden team" and "DNC" and include confirmations that Twitter "handled" their requests to delete posts.
Taibbi said that the censorship machine impacted both "celebrities and unknowns alike" and that while both Republicans (Continued on page 16) ByBen Whedon
Twitter owner Elon Musk, through alternative journalist Matt Taibbi, released a series of internal documents on Friday suggesting that the Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee were able to manipulate speech on the platform through tools that Twitter made available.
That manipulation included the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story first reported by the New York Post. The emails appear to cite requests from "the Biden team" and "DNC" and include confirmations that Twitter "handled" their requests to delete posts.
Taibbi said that the censorship machine impacted both "celebrities and unknowns alike" and that while both Republicans and Democrats had access to it, the censorship was skewed by a liberal bias among the Twitter workforce.
"It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer," Taibbi wrote, as he slowly narrated the release of the documents with individual tweets.
Taibbi posted a lengthy series of threats, which Musk retweeted, detailing the operation, which included screenshots showing that Democratic operatives could submit requests to the platform to remove tweets and that these requests were honored. operatives doing exactly that. "By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine," Taibbi wrote. "One executive would write to another: 'More to review from the Biden team.' The reply would come back: 'Handled.'"
A second post, showed screenshots with
takedown requests from the Democratic National Committee.
The thread went on to address the Hunter Biden laptop story, with Taibbi saying he saw ""no evidence... of any government involvement in the laptop story." He further asserted that the company's decision to throttle the story was made at the highest levels, but was done without the knowledge of then-CEO Jack Dorsey.
He then posted a series of tweets showing email correspondence between Twitter employees, with some expressing concern that the decision was made in error. Among them was former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker, who advocated that the company assume the story came from hacked materials, but also asserted that "we need more facts."
Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Rho Khanna wrote in to the company asking to discuss the backlash to the censorship of the story. He received a quick reply detailing Twitter policy, to which Khanna responded by expressing concerns that suppressing the story was violating the First Amendment.
The Patriot Pony, December 5, 2022
Election lawsuits pile up in Arizona, as counties, candidates challenge 2022 midterms
One lawsuit seeks to prevent the certification of the 2022 election in Arizona.
ByNatalia Mittelstadt
As the 2022 midterm election is nearing certification in Arizona, lawsuits and court rulings are piling up amid continuing revelations of myriad failures in the administration of the election in Maricopa County.
After Maricopa experienced a host of problems on Election Day at many of its vote centers, one county subsequently chose not to certify its election by the Monday deadline, while another county certified "under duress," according to two supervisors on the county board.
The Mohave County Board of Supervisors received an email from Secretary of State Katie Hobbs' office on Monday saying that they could face felony charges if they didn't certify the election that day.
"[W]e were instructed by our attorney that if we did not canvass the election that we would be facing a possible class 6 felony, which is four months or up to five-andthree-quarters years in prison," one of the supervisors on the Mohave County board, Chairman Ron Gould, told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show on Thursday. "So if you have a choice of vote yes to canvass or vote no and go to jail, do you really have a choice?"
Gould revealed that he's seeking the Arizona attorney general's opinion regarding Hobbs' claim that supervisors who decline to certify face criminal liability.
"[W]e're going to try to get an attorney general's opinion of, 'Is this the proper interpretation of the law?'" he said. "We might find that out just from the way the judge behaves towards Cochise County, because they're going through essentially what we thought might happen in Mohave."
Meanwhile, a lawsuit against Hobbs and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to prevent state certification of the elections for statewide office in Arizona is set to have its first hearing on Friday. The date for state certification is Dec. 5.
The lawsuit, which seeks to block certification of the state's elections for governor, U.S. Senate, attorney general and secretary of state, was filed on Tuesday by Josh Barnett, who lost in the GOP primary in August for a House seat from Arizona's First Congressional District. The hearing begins at 11:30 a.m. MT on Friday at the Maricopa County Superior Court.
The case challenges the Nov. 8 election in Maricopa County, citing "a systemic county-wide obstacle of malfunctioning electronic voting equipment exacerbated by systemic maladministration of the emergency by officials of the Board of Supervisors, the Recorder's Office, and Election Board members on the ground at 223 Voter Centers throughout Maricopa County."
The filing notes that the Arizona attorney general's office inquired about Maricopa County's Election Day issues, while also alleging that procedures employed for checking out voters at vote centers weren't legal and that the county poll training manual had instructions about spoiling ballots that were also contrary to the law. As a result, "the election results are incurably uncertain," the lawsuit alleges.
While this lawsuit seeks to prevent certification of the election, lawsuits by the GOP nominees for governor and attorney general cannot move forward until after the state certifies the election.
Another election lawsuit concluded Thursday, after Cochise County initially chose not to certify its election on Monday.
The secretary of state's office sued Cochise for not certifying the election, arguing that the county Board of Supervisors' "duty is not discretionary."
On Thursday, a Pima County Superior Court judge ruled that the Cochise board must certify by 5 p.m. later that day, The Hill reported. In a 20 vote, with one supervisor absent from the emergency meeting, the board voted to certify the county’s election.
Trump
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see barely a mention. We have a CORRUPT MEDIA the likes of which has never been seen before, but fear not, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! ***** December 3, 2022 Thank you! ***** December 3, 2022
ELECTION INTERFERENCE AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE!!! ***** December 4, 2022
The D.A.s small and uneventful “Fringe Benefits” case (as opposed to Rape, Murder, or any one of many forms of Violent Crime which is taking place now in New York City at Record Levels), is a case the likes of which has never been charged or tried in such manner before (it is usually a small civil case, if even a case at all. Witch Hunt!). At Summation, the prosecutor made statements that weren’t true or factual in order to help his bad & nonexistent facts, and was called out by the Judge. SCAM!
Musk says Twitter under his leadership will put pressure on mainstream media to be more truthful
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ByJoseph Weber
New Twitter owner Elon Musk said Saturday night the social media platform now under his leadership will put pressure on the mainstream media to be more truthful –commenting about 24 hours after he helped release information suggesting censorship on the platform during the 2020 election was driven by politics and political connections more than facts.
Musk made the comment in a live Q&A session in which he discussed the release Friday evening of what he named the “Twitter Files” –a joint effort by him and independent journalist Matt Taibbi to expose how the platform handled the Hunter Biden laptop story.
They posted a series of tweets about how Twitter management suppressed on the site a New York Post story in late October 2020 about the contents of a recovered laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of then-Democrat presidential nominee, that had information about the Biden family’s overseas business dealings.
Musk in the Q&A told the audience that Twitter's goal under his ownership "should be toward truth," which he anticipates will also be a successful business model.
"If the new Twitter is successful in that, then the result would be that people will turn to Twitter to understand what is true, what is real, what narrative matters," said Musk, according to the Epoch Times.
He further argued the plan will "put a lot of competitor pressure on mainstream media and other social media companies to also be more truthful because otherwise they’ll simply keep losing people to Twitter.” Musk also countered reports that advertisers are leaving Twitter over his control of the company.
He said the site will "become successful and gain share from other social media and it will force other social media to stop toeing the line."
The new Twitter, he said, will give users an "unfiltered narrative" and allow them, through tweets, to have a say in what is the story.
He argued that within the mainstream media narratives are now controlled by a handful of editors and chiefs, The Times also reports.
"The Washington Journal, the New York Times, and Washington Post and a few others decide what the narrative is," he said. "Even if what they say is completely truthful, the people don’t really get a choice in what topics are covered, whereas in Twitter, they do.
"And it could be something really important to the world and the big news organizations don’t cover it for a reason." and Democrats had access to it, the censorship was skewed by a liberal bias among the Twitter workforce.
"It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer," Taibbi wrote, as he slowly narrated the release of the documents with more than three dozen individual tweets.
Taibbi posted a lengthy series of threads, which Musk retweeted, detailing the censorship, which included screenshots showing that Democratic operatives could submit requests to the platform to remove tweets and that these requests were honored.
One tweet showed a screenshot of Democratic operatives doing exactly that. "By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine," Taibbi wrote. "One executive would write to another: 'More to review from the Biden team.' The reply would come back: 'Handled.'"
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