Twitter Files Part 6- the FBI Subsidiary

Twitter Files Part 6- the FBI Subsidiary

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foreign
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here we go again welcome to the Twitter
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files part 6 tweeted by Matt Tybee on
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December 16th entitled Twitter the FBI
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subsidiary
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the Twitter files are revealing more
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every day about how the government
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collects analyzes and flags your social
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media content Twitter's contact with the
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FBI was constant and pervasive as it
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were a subsidiary between January 2020
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and November of 2022 there were over 150
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emails between the FBI and former
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Twitter trust and safety Chief Joel Roth
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summer mundane like San Francisco agent
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Elvis Chan wishing Roth a happy New Year
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along with a reminder to attend our
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quarterly call next week others are
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requests for information into Twitter
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users related to active investigations
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but a surprisingly High number of
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requests by the FBI for Twitter to take
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action on Election misinformation even
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involving joke tweaks from low follower
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accounts the FBI's social media focused
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task force known as ftif created in the
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wake of the 2016 election swelled to 80
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agents and corresponded with Twitter to
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identify alleged foreign influence and
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election tampering of all kinds Federal
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intelligence and law enforcement reached
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into Twitter included the Department of
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Homeland Security which partnered with
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security contractors and think tanks to
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pressure Twitter to moderate content
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it's no secret the government analyzes
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both data of all sorts of purposes
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everything from tracking Terror suspects
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to making economic forecasts the Twitter
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file shows something new agencies like
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the FBI and DHS regularly sending social
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media content to Twitter through
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multiple entry points pre-flagged for
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moderation what stands out is the sheer
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quantity of reports from the government
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some are aggregated from public hotlines
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an unanswered question do agencies like
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FBI and DHS do in-house flagging work
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themselves or form it out you have to
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prove to me that inside the [ __ ]
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government you can do any kind of
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massive data or AI search says one
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Former Intelligence officer
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hello Twitter contacts the master canine
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quality of FBI's relationship to Twitter
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comes through this in this 2022 November
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email in which FBI San Francisco is
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notifying you it wants action on four
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accounts
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Twitter Personnel in the K in that case
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went on to look for reasons to suspend
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all four accounts including at from ma
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whose tweets are almost all jokes see
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sample below including his Civic
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misinformation of November 8th just to
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show the FBI can be hyper intrusive in
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both directions they also ask Twitter to
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review a blue leaning account for a
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different joke except here it was even
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more obvious that at Claire Foster PhD
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who kids a lot was kidding anyone who
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cannot discern obvious satire from
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reality has no place in making decisions
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for others or working for the feds said
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Claire Foster PhD when told about the
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flagging of the six accounts mentioned
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in the previous two emails all but two
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at Claire Foster PhD and from M.A were
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suspended in an internal email from
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November 5th 2022 the FBI's national
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election command post which compiles and
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sends on complaints sent the San
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Francisco field office a long list of
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accounts that may warrant additional
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action agent Chan passed the list onto
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his Twitter folks Twitter then replied
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with its list of actions taken note
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Mercy shown to actor Billy Baldwin many
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of the above accounts were satirical in
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nature nearly all with the exceptions of
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Baldwin and rsbn network were relatively
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low engagement and some were suspended
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most with a generic thanks Twitter
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letter
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when told of the FBI flagging at lexit
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Tola replied my thoughts initially
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include one seems like Prima fassie won
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a violation to Holy Cow me in account
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with reach of an amoeba three what else
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are they looking at I can't believe the
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FBI is policing jokes on Twitter that's
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crazy said tiburis 444 in a letter to
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former deputy general counsel and former
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top FBI lawyer Jim Baker on September 16
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2022 legal exec Stacia Cardell outlines
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results from her soon-to-be weekly
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meeting with DHS doj FBI and the office
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of the Director of National Intelligence
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the Twitter exec writes she's explicitly
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asked if there were impediments to the
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sharing of classified information with
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industry the answer FBI was adamant no
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impediments to sharing exists this
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passage underscores the unique one big
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happy family Vibe between Twitter and
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the FBI with what other firm would the
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FBI blithe agree to not know impediments
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to classified information at the bottom
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of that letter she lists a series of
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escalations apparently raised at the
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meeting which were already handled about
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one she writes flagged a specific tweet
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on Illinois use of modems to transmit
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election results in possible violation
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of the Civic Integrity policy except
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they do use that Tech in limited
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circumstances
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another internal letter from January
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2021 shows Twitter execs processing an
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FBI list of possible Violet violative
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content tweets here too most tweets
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contain the same get out there and vote
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Wednesday tropin had low engagement this
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is what the FBI spends its time on in
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this March 2021 email an FBI liaison
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thanks to senior Twitter exec for the
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chance to speak to you and the team then
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delivers a packet of products the
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executive circulates the products which
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are really DHS bulletins stressing the
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need for greater collaboration between
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law enforcement and private sector
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Partners the ubiquity of the 2016
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Russian interference story as stated
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pre-tax for building out the censorship
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machine can't be overstated it's
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analogous to how 911 inspired the
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expansion of the security State while
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the DHS in its products pans permissive
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social media for offering operational
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advantages to Russians it also explained
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means that the domestic violence
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extremist threat requires addressing
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information gaps FBI in 1K sent over so
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many possible violative content reports
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Twitter Personnel congratulated each
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other in slack for the Monumental
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undertaking of reviewing them there were
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multiple points of entry into Twitter
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for government Flags reports this letter
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from agent Chan to Roth references
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teleporter a platform through which
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Twitter could receive reports from the
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FBI reports also came from different
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agencies here an employee recommends
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bouncing content based on evidence from
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DHS Etc state governments also flag
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content Twitter for instance received
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reports via the partner support portal
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and Outlet created by the center for
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Internet Security a partner organization
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to the DHS why was no action taken below
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Twitter execs receiving an alert from
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California officials by way of our
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partner support portal debate whether to
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act on a trump tweet here a video was
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reported by the election Integrity
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project EIP at Stanford apparently on
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the strength of information from the
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center for Internet Security CIS if
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that's confusing it's because the CIS is
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a DHS contractor describes itself as
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partners with the Cyber and Internet
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Security Agency cisa at the DHS the EIP
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is one of a series of
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government-affiliated think tanks that
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mass review content a list that also
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includes the Atlantic council's digital
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forensics research laboratory and the
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University of Washington Center for
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informed policy the takeaway what most
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people think of as the Deep state is
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really a tangled collaboration of state
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agencies private contractors and
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sometimes state-funded ngos the lines
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become so blurred as to be meaningless
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Twitter files researchers are moving
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into a variety of new areas now watch
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Barry Weiss Michael schellenberger and
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this space for more soon here are some
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questions to consider you can now see
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that the government has made it their
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business to be the judge and jury of
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speech is this communism what if Elon
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never purchased Twitter just how bad
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could it have gotten how much more do
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you think we will see whether you're a
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republican Democrat or somewhere in
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between would it be safe to say that
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this needs to stop how can we trust the
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FBI or any of these other three-letter
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agencies moving forward thanks for
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listening