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The ‘Most Massive Attack On Free Speech’ Is Happening Right Now, And The Twitter Files Crew Is Mighty Quiet

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/18/the-most-massive-attack-on-free-speech-is-happening-right-now-and-the-twitter-files-crew-is-mighty-quiet/

Twitter Files : la France accusée d’avoir bâti un « complexe industriel de la censure » en Europe
https://www.clicanoo.re/article/societe/2025/09/05/twitter-files-la-france-accusee-davoir-bati-un-complexe-industriel-de-la-censure-en-europe

Selon les documents des #TwitterFiles – France, dévoilés par Elon Musk, Emmanuel #Macron aurait cherché à établir un contact direct avec Jack #Dorsey, fondateur de Twitter, afin d’infléchir les politiques de modération de la plateforme. Dans le même temps, des ONG françaises – #SOSRacisme, #LICRA, #UEJF, #SOSHomophobie – soutenues par des fonds publics, réclamaient un accès privilégié aux données internes et appelaient à des mécanismes de pré-censure, pourtant contraires à l’esprit de la Constitution.

#ElonMusk

Twitter Files : la France accusée d’avoir bâti un « complexe industriel de la censure » en Europe
https://www.clicanoo.re/article/societe/2025/09/05/twitter-files-la-france-accusee-davoir-bati-un-complexe-industriel-de-la-censure-en-europe

Selon les documents des #TwitterFiles – France, dévoilés par Elon Musk, Emmanuel #Macron aurait cherché à établir un contact direct avec Jack #Dorsey, fondateur de Twitter, afin d’infléchir les politiques de modération de la plateforme. Dans le même temps, des ONG françaises – #SOSRacisme, #LICRA, #UEJF, #SOSHomophobie – soutenues par des fonds publics, réclamaient un accès privilégié aux données internes et appelaient à des mécanismes de pré-censure, pourtant contraires à l’esprit de la Constitution.

#ElonMusk

Twitter Files : la France accusée d’avoir bâti un « complexe industriel de la censure » en Europe
https://www.clicanoo.re/article/societe/2025/09/05/twitter-files-la-france-accusee-davoir-bati-un-complexe-industriel-de-la-censure-en-europe

Selon les documents des #TwitterFiles – France, dévoilés par Elon Musk, Emmanuel #Macron aurait cherché à établir un contact direct avec Jack #Dorsey, fondateur de Twitter, afin d’infléchir les politiques de modération de la plateforme. Dans le même temps, des ONG françaises – #SOSRacisme, #LICRA, #UEJF, #SOSHomophobie – soutenues par des fonds publics, réclamaient un accès privilégié aux données internes et appelaient à des mécanismes de pré-censure, pourtant contraires à l’esprit de la Constitution.

#ElonMusk

Twitter Files : la France accusée d’avoir bâti un « complexe industriel de la censure » en Europe
https://www.clicanoo.re/article/societe/2025/09/05/twitter-files-la-france-accusee-davoir-bati-un-complexe-industriel-de-la-censure-en-europe

Selon les documents des #TwitterFiles – France, dévoilés par Elon Musk, Emmanuel #Macron aurait cherché à établir un contact direct avec Jack #Dorsey, fondateur de Twitter, afin d’infléchir les politiques de modération de la plateforme. Dans le même temps, des ONG françaises – #SOSRacisme, #LICRA, #UEJF, #SOSHomophobie – soutenues par des fonds publics, réclamaient un accès privilégié aux données internes et appelaient à des mécanismes de pré-censure, pourtant contraires à l’esprit de la Constitution.

#ElonMusk

Twitter Files : la France accusée d’avoir bâti un « complexe industriel de la censure » en Europe
https://www.clicanoo.re/article/societe/2025/09/05/twitter-files-la-france-accusee-davoir-bati-un-complexe-industriel-de-la-censure-en-europe

Selon les documents des #TwitterFiles – France, dévoilés par Elon Musk, Emmanuel #Macron aurait cherché à établir un contact direct avec Jack #Dorsey, fondateur de Twitter, afin d’infléchir les politiques de modération de la plateforme. Dans le même temps, des ONG françaises – #SOSRacisme, #LICRA, #UEJF, #SOSHomophobie – soutenues par des fonds publics, réclamaient un accès privilégié aux données internes et appelaient à des mécanismes de pré-censure, pourtant contraires à l’esprit de la Constitution.

#ElonMusk

#GiftArticle

Everything Is the ‘#TwitterFiles’ Now

The #State Dept is using #ElonMusk’s playbook.

by Charlie Warzel

“Let’s be clear about what’s really happening here. A high-ranking member of the #Trump administration is turning federal-government #data—in this case, State Department communications—into a political weapon against perceived ideological enemies.”

#DarrenBeattie #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/state-department-beattie-twitter-files/682667/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXH42uhDx8m-O99wIxCNkhQ

"The #Taibbi/ #Shellenberger interpretation of the #TwitterFiles is an attempt to shut down the rights of private companies to enforce their own rules and cultivate their own communities, by laundering it with actual censorial #government acts."
@mmasnick
https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-files-hucksters-are-cosplaying-as-free-speech-martyrs

"The #Taibbi/ #Shellenberger interpretation of the #TwitterFiles is an attempt to shut down the rights of private companies to enforce their own rules and cultivate their own communities, by laundering it with actual censorial #government acts."
@mmasnick
https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-files-hucksters-are-cosplaying-as-free-speech-martyrs

"The #Taibbi/ #Shellenberger interpretation of the #TwitterFiles is an attempt to shut down the rights of private companies to enforce their own rules and cultivate their own communities, by laundering it with actual censorial #government acts."
@mmasnick
https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-files-hucksters-are-cosplaying-as-free-speech-martyrs

"The #Taibbi/ #Shellenberger interpretation of the #TwitterFiles is an attempt to shut down the rights of private companies to enforce their own rules and cultivate their own communities, by laundering it with actual censorial #government acts."
@mmasnick
https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-files-hucksters-are-cosplaying-as-free-speech-martyrs

"The #Taibbi/ #Shellenberger interpretation of the #TwitterFiles is an attempt to shut down the rights of private companies to enforce their own rules and cultivate their own communities, by laundering it with actual censorial #government acts."
@mmasnick
https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-files-hucksters-are-cosplaying-as-free-speech-martyrs

…after Musk’s …takeover, #Beattie appeared on the podcast of #SteveBannon & called for #Musk to make internal emails from #Twitter management public.

One month later, Musk released the “#TwitterFiles” — a partial release of internal emails by #TwitterEmployees curated by Musk-friendly writers.

@LaNaehForaday
Kushners, Musk and all the Saudi royalty in the stands
I'm so glad that my friend @dangillmor always refers to #X as the Saudi-funded social media company.
I wonder what the writer of the #TwitterFiles, #MattTaibbi, have to say about this?
(Of course now it would be the X-Files & would be on #Substack for his 30,000 paid subscribers only )
#ElonMusk #Twitter

Matt Taibbi: Free speech, Elon & the Twitter files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imD-dAv26qU&ab_channel=FoundationforIndividualRightsandExpression

FIRE Executive Vice President Nico Perrino sits down with journalist Matt Taibbi for a live conversation at Freedom Fest 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee on free speech, social media, the Twitter files, Elon Musk, and the state of modern journalism.

#twitterfiles #matttaibbi #freespeech #socialmedia #twitter #elonmusk #journalism

They also show that #Twitter’s ldrs were reluctant to take action against #Trump’s a/c 2 days after the #insurrection, even as lawyers inside the co argued that his cont’d praise of the #Capitol #rioters amounted to “glorification of violence,” an offense punishable then by #suspension under Twitter’s #rules.

#Birdsite #TwitterFiles #Jan6 #PoliticalViolence #DomesticViolentExtremism #HateForProfit #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerror #MAGA #GOP

But the recs reveal a co that fought until the end to give some of #Trump’s most belligerent supporters the benefit of the doubt, even as its internal teams faced an overwhelming volume of tweets #threatening #retribution in line w/Trump’s #lies that the #election had been #stolen.

#Birdsite #TwitterFiles #Jan6 #Insurrection #PoliticalViolence #DomesticViolentExtremism #HateForProfit #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerror #MAGA #GOP #Trump

But the video & other newly obtained internal #Twitter recs show that, far from working to #censor pro-Trump sentiment in the days b4 the #Capitol #riot, the co’s ldrs were intent on leaving it up —despite internal #warnings that trouble was brewing.
#Congressional #Republicans, #Trump supporters & #Musk allies have condemned the co for #suspending Trump’s a/c in the riot’s aftermath,saying its employees were too quick to punish TFG bc of their #liberal #prejudice.
#Birdsite #TwitterFiles #Jan6

#Twitter’s current owner, #ElonMusk, commissioned a series of reports intended to reveal how the company had previously sought to squelch #conservative speech, & a #Republican-led cmte in the #House of Reps is working to build the case that the tech giants have been digitally #weaponized against #conservative ideas.

#Birdsite #TwitterFiles #Jan6 #Insurrection #PoliticalViolence #DomesticViolentExtremism #HateForProfit #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerror #MAGA #GOP #Trump

One thing for sure is a fact:

Pre-Musk twitter never "censored" Trump for "political viewpoints" — which he doesn't have at all.
Neither did twitter ever even "censor" Trump for his antisocial, criminal statements — until it could no longer avoid it, on Jan 6, 2021 — when Trump had still a few days left to loaf around in White House.

So when anyone would idiotically try to suggest (like the bogus "twitter files", Trump, Musk & others do), that government interfered to have Trump's insurrectionary twitter account suspended, it would've been the then-Trump admin itself.
Which is of course bullshit, because the First Amendment says "NO, government, you can't forbid harmless free speech with your laws — but private corps can well do that!"
(While everyone knows, that Trump's utterances are NOT harmless at all, as proven by the consequences of all his tweets preceding his infamous Jan 6 insurrection rally near to the Capitol.)

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-filing-elon-musk-is-simply-wrong-about-government-interference-at-twitter/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #Trump #Musk #TwitterFiles #Manipulation #Misinformation #Disinformation #FrivolousLawsuits #AbuseOfCourts #ContemptOfCourt

One thing for sure is a fact:

Pre-Musk twitter never "censored" Trump for "political viewpoints" — which he doesn't have at all.
Neither did twitter ever even "censor" Trump for his antisocial, criminal statements — until it could no longer avoid it, on Jan 6, 2021 — when Trump had still a few days left to loaf around in White House.

So when anyone would idiotically try to suggest (like the bogus "twitter files", Trump, Musk & others do), that government interfered to have Trump's insurrectionary twitter account suspended, it would've been the then-Trump admin itself.
Which is of course bullshit, because the First Amendment says "NO, government, you can't forbid harmless free speech with your laws — but private corps can well do that!"
(While everyone knows, that Trump's utterances are NOT harmless at all, as proven by the consequences of all his tweets preceding his infamous Jan 6 insurrection rally near to the Capitol.)

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-filing-elon-musk-is-simply-wrong-about-government-interference-at-twitter/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #Trump #Musk #TwitterFiles #Manipulation #Misinformation #Disinformation #FrivolousLawsuits #AbuseOfCourts #ContemptOfCourt

One thing for sure is a fact:

Pre-Musk twitter never "censored" Trump for "political viewpoints" — which he doesn't have at all.
Neither did twitter ever even "censor" Trump for his antisocial, criminal statements — until it could no longer avoid it, on Jan 6, 2021 — when Trump had still a few days left to loaf around in White House.

So when anyone would idiotically try to suggest (like the bogus "twitter files", Trump, Musk & others do), that government interfered to have Trump's insurrectionary twitter account suspended, it would've been the then-Trump admin itself.
Which is of course bullshit, because the First Amendment says "NO, government, you can't forbid harmless free speech with your laws — but private corps can well do that!"
(While everyone knows, that Trump's utterances are NOT harmless at all, as proven by the consequences of all his tweets preceding his infamous Jan 6 insurrection rally near to the Capitol.)

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-filing-elon-musk-is-simply-wrong-about-government-interference-at-twitter/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #Trump #Musk #TwitterFiles #Manipulation #Misinformation #Disinformation #FrivolousLawsuits #AbuseOfCourts #ContemptOfCourt

One thing for sure is a fact:

Pre-Musk twitter never "censored" Trump for "political viewpoints" — which he doesn't have at all.
Neither did twitter ever even "censor" Trump for his antisocial, criminal statements — until it could no longer avoid it, on Jan 6, 2021 — when Trump had still a few days left to loaf around in White House.

So when anyone would idiotically try to suggest (like the bogus "twitter files", Trump, Musk & others do), that government interfered to have Trump's insurrectionary twitter account suspended, it would've been the then-Trump admin itself.
Which is of course bullshit, because the First Amendment says "NO, government, you can't forbid harmless free speech with your laws — but private corps can well do that!"
(While everyone knows, that Trump's utterances are NOT harmless at all, as proven by the consequences of all his tweets preceding his infamous Jan 6 insurrection rally near to the Capitol.)

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-filing-elon-musk-is-simply-wrong-about-government-interference-at-twitter/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityNow #JusticeMatters #Trump #Musk #TwitterFiles #Manipulation #Misinformation #Disinformation #FrivolousLawsuits #AbuseOfCourts #ContemptOfCourt

Right, because both are bullshit. Since the right can't come up with any actual evidence of malfeasance, they manufacture phony investigations filled with innuendo and implications, but ultimately no proof for the lofty allegations made. Then, they pretend these investigations are the smoking gun their base have been clamoring for. And their credulous, uncritical base just eats it up.

#GOPfascists #RepublicansAreTheProblem #TwitterFiles #DurhamReport #GOPLies

https://www.based-politics.com/2023/05/17/the-left-will-ignore-the-durham-report-for-the-same-reason-they-ignored-the-twitter-files/

We’d be a bit silly to pretend that #ElonMusk is a worse CEO of #Twitter than #ParagAgrawal was. Still, his improvements over his predecessor are a bit limited; he appears to be staunchly opposed to corruption, as evidenced by his cooperation in the #TwitterFiles and releasing the website’s algorithm on #GitHub. Still, between boosting his own content in #Twitter feeds exponentially, apparent silence on the #FoxNews / #Dominion lawsuit, and presumably biased reasons for including American publicans as “government-funded media” outlets, it’s pretty fair to say that he’s by no means less agenda-driven by his predecessor, his agenda is just different is all.

This is sort of like if #Trump sold #TruthSocial to #KaraSwisher.

I love @mtaibbi but his work with the #TwitterFiles has always been a bit confusing. Paywalls, tweet threads and just muddled reporting perhaps. This article by @mmasnick breaks down why the idea of a #CensorshipIndustrialComplex is extremely overblown. I'd still love to have the two of them discuss this at length sometime.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/

Matt Taibbi: ‘Twitter Files’ journalist quits ‘unusable’ platform after Elon Musk’s Substack restrictions | The Independent
Hash tag list:
#Taibbi
#Twitter
#TwitterFiles
#Substack
#Musk
#MuskRuinedTwitter
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/matt-taibbi-leaves-unusable-twitter-musk-b2316372.html

Matt Taibbi: ‘Twitter Files’ journalist quits ‘unusable’ platform after Elon Musk’s Substack restrictions | The Independent
Hash tag list:
#Taibbi
#Twitter
#TwitterFiles
#Substack
#Musk
#MuskRuinedTwitter
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/matt-taibbi-leaves-unusable-twitter-musk-b2316372.html

Matt Taibbi: ‘Twitter Files’ journalist quits ‘unusable’ platform after Elon Musk’s Substack restrictions | The Independent
Hash tag list:
#Taibbi
#Twitter
#TwitterFiles
#Substack
#Musk
#MuskRuinedTwitter
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/matt-taibbi-leaves-unusable-twitter-musk-b2316372.html

Taibbi will no longer be doing any future Twitter Files reporting, it seems … a mass exodus of top birdsite content creators has begun; Musk’s decision to block Substack despite his claims of Free-Speech stands a good chance of ending twitter in the next 2 months #Taibbi #twitterfiles #twitter #musk

@juddlegum

Mat Taibbi, the one who worked with Musk to promote deliberate disinformation about pre-Musk-Twitter (aka the #TwitterFiles), is getting bit in the face by Musk-Twitter's new policy.

Did Taibbi not know that Musk was part of the "Leopards Eating Faces" party? Or did he think that the Musk leopards would never eat his face?

#Karma #Twitter #Musk #ElonMusk #Taibbi #MattTaibbi

@alaric

#Twitter #TwitterFiles #USPolitics #USPol

And here is @mmasnick with another devastating takedown of the lying, grifting Substack bro Taibbi aka #MattyDickPics

*"There remains no there there. It’s less than a Potemkin village. There isn’t even a façade. This is the Emperor’s New Clothes for a modern era. Taibbi is pointing to a naked emperor and insisting that he’s clothed in all sorts of royal finery, whereas anyone who actually looks at the emperor sees he’s naked."*

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/

@alaric

#Twitter #TwitterFiles #USPolitics #USPol

Detailed takedown of Taibbi aka #MattyDickPics by @emptywheel

"As to the factual dispute, there is none. #MattyDickPics and his Elmo-whisperer Mike Benz are wrong. The error stems from either an inability to read an academic methodology statement or the ethic among these screencap boys that says you can make any claim you want so long as you have a screencap with a key word in it."

This is what Elon and his paid "journalists" including Taibbi, Weiss and Shellenberger are doing, trying to discredit how central the orange 🤡is to election disinformation in the US all while racking up those Substack subs and 💵s

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/07/matt-taibbi-is-furious-that-election-integrity-project-documented-how-big-trumps-big-lie-was/

today we at @fattoquotidiano run an article based on #MattTaibbi #TwitterFiles.Created by #USStateDept #GEC,the file accuses ex Italian PM #Conte+ ex Itakian #DemParty leader, #Zingaretti,of having spread #Russian disinfo on #Covid providing no solid evidence (Italian):

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2023/03/29/covidpropaganda-russa-conte-e-zinga-nel-mirino-degli-usa/7112520/

Jim Jordan Weaponizes The Subcommittee On The Weaponization Of The Gov’t To Intimidate Researchers & Chill Speech

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/24/jim-jordan-weaponizes-the-subcommittee-on-the-weaponization-of-the-govt-to-intimidate-researchers-chill-speech/

#weaponizationsubcommittee #universityofwashington #germanmarshallfund #clemsonuniversity #academicresearch #nonsensepeddlers #chillingeffects #intimidation #twitterfiles #matttaibbi #jimjordan #stanford #congress #research

".. no new information came out of the hearing. What did come out were a bunch of right-wing set-pieces and talking points, aimed at portraying themselves as guardians of free speech and free inquiry — thus distracting from the overwhelming evidence to the contrary."

-#JonathanMKatz

The noise is the point

#TwitterFiles #Taibbi #Musk #ElonMusk #Shellenberger #HouseHearings

https://theracket.news/p/the-noise-is-the-point

".. no new information came out of the hearing. What did come out were a bunch of right-wing set-pieces and talking points, aimed at portraying themselves as guardians of free speech and free inquiry — thus distracting from the overwhelming evidence to the contrary."

-#JonathanMKatz

The noise is the point

#TwitterFiles #Taibbi #Musk #ElonMusk #Shellenberger #HouseHearings

https://theracket.news/p/the-noise-is-the-point

#censorship #cdc #houseHearings #twitterFiles #twitter #covid19

I can't stand the pro #CovidVaccine cultists people who think Dr. Fauci is some kind of messiah and that the CDC can do no wrong - who say that criticizing the vaccine means I'm against all vaccines.

#TwitterFiles #PfizerFiles #COVID19 #pfizerdocuments #PfizerGate #bigtech #censorship #corruption

https://rumble.com/v265q60-they-got-caught.html

Twitter-Leak belegt: Pharma-Firmen manipulieren mit dubiosen PR-Taktiken die öffentliche Meinung und unterdrücken gezielt unliebsamen Protest.

Solche Tricksereien - aber auch durch z.B. Impfstoff-Geheimverträge und "shady deals" wie mit EU/Pfizer/van der Leyen und die vielen Gerichtsprozesse wegen Korruption z.B. in den USA führen dazu, dass Pharmafirmen nicht als vertrauenswürdige Kooperationspartner sondern immer mehr in der Nähe der organisierten Kriminalität verortet werden.

https://www.telepolis.de/features/Deutsche-Regierung-Twitter-Schutzengel-fuer-Impfhersteller-7461744.html?wt_mc=rss.red.tp.tp.atom.beitrag.beitrag

#mezis #pharma #telepolis #biontec #corona #covid #twitterfiles