For journalist Matt Taibbi, the “takeaway” from the “Twitter files” is that what most people think of as the “deep state” is really a tangled collaboration of state agencies, private contractors and (sometimes state-funded) NGOs: “The lines become so blurred as to be meaningless.”
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defense, 12/19/22
The latest “Twitter files” document dumps expose the role the FBI and other federal agencies played in policing content on Twitter, including their attempt to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.
The documents also shed light on the internal discussions and policy changes leading to the suspension of then-President Donald Trump’s account.
The revelations are the latest in an ongoing series of insights into Twitter’s internal operations, prior to Elon Musk’s takeover, stemming from documents released in stages by journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, and author and writer Michael Shellenberger. …
