The Twitter Files

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  1. Steal Your Face

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    Every news story is edited. This is just a way for you to dismiss and ignore.
    That's okay. I will comb through it.
    Chris Hayes says that from certain corners of the right, people are saying covid escaped from the lab.
    Many media outlets called this disinformation and banned people from saying as much.
    The FBI director then says it most likely was a lab leak.
    Then the Department of Energy says the same thing.
    Chris Hayes then says there's a corneal of truth to the idea that the media was too quick to shut down the idea.
    Rand Paul says that cloth masks are not effective.
    Youtube suspended him.
    Facebook downthrottled a journalist who pushed back against masking kids. Something they initially said they didn't do.
    Now the media reports that masks make little difference.
    The media said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian interference.
    Facebook suppressed the story.
    The media admits the NY Post story was true.
    Government pressured social media to ban posts.
    Then the Biden administration brushed it off like it was nothing.
  2. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Not in dispute.

    There was no evidence.
    It was a theory pulled out of Trump's ass.

    "Most likely".
    Meaning it's not proven.

    Last I checked, the department of energy doesn't cover viruses.
    We had a thread about this.

    And then we don't find out what the kernel was.

    "The media" being one clip from an outlet I don't recognize.

    "The media".
    Here we get a bunch of paper logos with no citation.

    We have a thread about this.
    ;)
  3. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    I appreciate your sacrifice brother Diacanu.

    So in this video how did Stossel explain how the Center for Internet Security (a non profit) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (a government agency) are actually one and the same organization?

    Or that how 22m and 1k are actually one and the same number?

    Or how March 2, 2021 occurred BEFORE the November 2020 elections?

    Otherwise I’m not sure the relevance to the topic at hand.

    Unless it was posted in bad faith and was just chaff…
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  4. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    The media "lied" about this thing, and this thing, therefore it lies about everything, therefore any conspiracy goes!
    So, yes, chaff.
  5. Raoul the Red Shirt

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    Put aside the straw men and the victimhood.

    Please point to actual evidence that the Biden administration told social media that it should ban people for saying that Covid might have come from a lab.

    Either linking to things from the Twitter Files or anything with concrete evidence that the Biden administration called for such people to be banned.

    And to be clear, not just a video of someone saying that it's the case. Someone pointing to hard proof that specific people from the Biden Administration told Twitter, Facebook or anyone else to ban or even take down a claim for merely saying that Covid may have originated in a Chinese lab without some other issue (such as explicit racial slurs, doxxing, or breaking another term of service).
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  6. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    Please link to a single post on WF where you or someone else was called a Nazi for making that suggestion.

    Searching for Nazi in the Covid thread didn't seem to have that in the results, but I may have missed it elsewhere.
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  7. Jenee

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    Believe it or not, most “left” leaning people read every news story with a fine toothed comb. Especially the ones in left leaning news sources. At least, the left leaning people I know.
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  9. Steal Your Face

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    Congressional Democrats are now threatening Taibi with jail time. Fucking fascists.
    https://reason.com/2023/04/20/matti-taibbi-stacey-plaskett-jail-time-twitter-files-perjury/
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    Yeah, as has been explained to you by Anc, they weren't fucking typos, they were either incompetence on the level of a three year old, or flat out lies.
    Either Taibbi is a liar, or legally retarded, and needs a permanent nurse.
    He can dress himself, so it has to be the former.
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  11. Steal Your Face

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    But if Fauci lies or the Biden administration, that’s fine.
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  12. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    About?
  13. Steal Your Face

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    Masks.
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  14. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Nope.
    We've gone over this before.
    Fuck off.
  15. Steal Your Face

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    Yes we did go over this before and @Order2Chaos agreed that he did lie. Didn't you say that you use @Order2Chaos as a sort of barometer?
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    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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  17. Steal Your Face

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    Do your own homework.
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    You mean where Fauci said that masks weren't really all that important because he was trying to ensure that healthcare people had a steady supply of them because shortages were a thing? While that's far from an ideal thing, I'll agree. What would you propose that he have done differently? Keeping in mind that he was serving under a President who was at least as senile as you claim Biden to be and had just sent a bunch of our strategic PPE reserve to China.
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    It doesn’t even occur to you that taibbi may have done something wrong? But, Hillary totally was running a child sex traffic ring out of a pizzeria basement in DC. :facepalm:
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  20. Steal Your Face

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    That’s the thing though. This congresswoman is pointing to the interview that he did on MSNBC, not his testimony in front of Congress. In his tweet that he put out, he mixed up CISA and CIS, but in his testimony to Congress he didn’t make that mistake. So he didn’t do it intentionally and he didn’t lie to congress, she’s just a partisan hack who’s literally weaponizing government.
    As for Clinton, I don’t believe I’ve said one thing about her running a sex trafficking ring out of a pizzeria in DC. I’m not sure where you got that from.
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  21. Steal Your Face

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    Everything you said is irrelevant. I said that Faucci lied. Dicky didn’t believe me and congratulations, you just confirmed that he did indeed lie.
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    None of which addresses my question.
  23. Raoul the Red Shirt

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    If the author of the Reason article were intent on being accurate, the headline would read "Democrat threatens Matt Taibibi with Jail TIme over Twitter Files testimony" since there is only one journalist who has come close to doing that.

    To the credit of the Reason writer, he linked to the letter she sent.
    But
    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23784693-2023-04-13_sep_to_taibbi_redacted

    The Reason writer jumps to the conclusion that none of Taibibi's testimony could possibly be perjury. and maybe that's the correct conclusion. But I don't find anything in the congresswoman's letter problematic in the least.
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  24. Steal Your Face

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    So about that "journalist" who tried to run a smear campaign against Matt Taibi, he's a plagiarist.
    https://freebeacon.com/media/lee-fang-mehdi-hasan/
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    If so, and he's been plagiarizing his recent work then hopefully he gets canned.

    Now which criticism of Taibi's work does this revelation undermine?
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    It doesn’t. That doesn’t show up until Tuesday.
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    Before Elon took over Twitter told many governments with requests/orders like this to fuck off and basically invited them to ban the whole site (which encourages people to use VPNs to get around government blocks entirely)

    Thankfully there is now the "free speech absolutist" in charge who does whatever they ask.
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    Screenshot 2023-05-13 at 20-58-58 Nicholas Grossman on Twitter.png


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    https://twitter.com/maxberger/status/1657422977485381637?s=20
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