The latest Twitter Files release shows that the FBI and other federal agencies routinely met with the leftists running Twitter before Musk became involved with the goals of banning conservatives and Donald Trump from the platform.
This is, of course, all unconstitutional and illegal, and a violation of the First Amendment.
Leftists keep claiming that all the Twitter Files so far mean nothing because Twitter is a “private company” and they can ban whoever they want without violating the First Amendment because only government can violate the Constitution that way.
But now we are seeing that the feds were, indeed, using Twitter as a surrogate to violate the First Amendment, and that is illegal.
Per Breitbart News:
Internal conversations via the messaging program Slack showcased Twitter executives “getting a kick out of intensified relationships with federal agencies,” Taibbi noted.
“I’m a big believer in calendar transparency. But I reached a certain point where my meetings became… very interesting… to people and there weren’t meeting names generic enough,” former Twitter “Trust and Safety” head Yoel Roth said in an internal chat.
In a follow-up message, a seemingly-amused Roth went on to suggest that his meetings should be titled, “Very Boring Business Meeting That Is Definitely Not About Trump :)” and “DEFINITELY NOT meeting with the FBI I SWEAR.”
Other documents suggest that the FBI, DHS, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) met with Roth about the New York Post‘s bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story, which Twitter — and Facebook — infamously censored during the 2020 presidential election.
Other files show that lefty Twitter execs had already decided to ban Trump and only used the so-called “insurrection” (that wasn’t) on Jan. 6 to trigger their action.
With these revelations now in public, current GOP majority leader and likely Speaker of the House next year Kevin McCarthy has vowed to files subpoenas to the 51 U.S. intel agents who signed a letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation.”
The Twitter files prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Hunter laptop story was fully known to be 100 percent real even before it became publicly known. So these so-called intelligence officers knew full well that it was real even as they were laying cover for the Biden family with the outright lie that it was Russian disinfo.
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