Thursday, January 5, 2023

Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary, by Matt Taibbi

 "It’s January 4th, 2023, which means Twitter Files stories have been coming out for over a month. Because these are weedsy tales, and may be hard to follow if you haven’t from the beginning, I’ve written up capsule summaries of each of the threads by all of the Twitter Files reporters, and added links to the threads and accounts of each. At the end, in response to some readers (especially foreign ones) who’ve found some of the alphabet-soup government agency names confusing, I’ve included a brief glossary of terms to help as well.

TWITTER AND THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY

THE “EXITING” OF TWITTER DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL JIM BAKER

TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS

THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP, October 2020 - January 6th, 2021

THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP, January 7th, 2021.

THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP, January 8th, 2021

TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY

THE FBI AND HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP

HOW TWITTER QUIETLY AIDED THE PENTAGON’S COVERT ONLINE PSYOP CAMPAIGN

TWITTER AND “OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES”

HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

HOW TWITTER LET THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY IN

TWITTER AND THE FBI “BELLY BUTTON”

The second thread shows how 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."