For those who haven't been following, a compilation of one-paragraph summaries of all the Twitter Files threads by every reporter. With links and notes on key revelations
Agree. But they don’t care unless they are the ones being censored and banned. Sad they can’t see the big picture and even worse that our politicians are not more vocal about the government deliberately stifling our freedom of speech and using a $3.5M bribe of OUR tax dollars to facilitate it.
Remember Judith Miller writing all the front page articles in the NYT about Iraq's WMDs? And NBC has always been as pro war as it gets, any war. "Right wing chamber" then includes the NYT, WAPO, NBC, CNN... pretty much all the same actors William listed above. Fun fact: years later there was a recount done that showed W winning Florida with more votes than initially thought. Gore's team were legal amateurs in the sense that they should have asked for a full statewide recount, not only in a few hand picked counties they thought would help them. ;-)
Don't feed the feds. This guy is here to make sure things stay in the realm of partisan bickering so that no one gets any ideas about challenging the actual entrenched power interests.
The recount story is exactly backward. Some of the biggest media financed a complete recount in Florids - but unofficial, obviously. It found that Gore had won by even fewer votes than W's score. (Digression: such small differences mean it's really a crapshoot - you'd get different numbers every time you did it.) However, as Winter implies, the limited recount Gore asked for wouldn't have changed anything.
Unfortunately, by the time the media recount was reported, 9/11 had happened and "national unity" was the theme, so the results got little publicity.
Recounts are important; there should be more of them.
The “conventional” wisdom was completely wrong (as All conventional wisdom always is)
The fact is that, right or wrong, Clinton left office extremely popular. Walking away from that was stupid. So was that big sloppy over acted kiss he planted on Tipper when he came out on stage
Calm down! I don't give a fiddler's fuck about W, Jeb or Gore. Let's remember that Gore Sr., the elder of that astute family, had orchestrated the longest filibuster in Senate history, trying to block civil rights legislation. We could have a long debate about who was and is getting "assraped" by which party for how long. Lol
Definitely. Have you heard of Dr Robert Epstein? He has written about how Google is able to manipulate people and documented how they could effect election results.
I don't understand why anyone still uses Google (like my wife). Censorship means it's just a shitty search engine.
On the other hand, Google Maps are about the best (but deteriorating), and Youtube is good for light entertainment - NOT politics. Their real power is controlling most of the online advertising.
It would help a great deal to break them up - and any other business with that sort of market control. Including Twitter.
Thanks for the link. However, it does seem out of date as I see a street - near me - that is shown, but no houses are shown. The street is filling out, but there have been at least one house there for at least 8 years.
I am so grateful for this reference. I have read every single tweet from every single reporter and every email, picture, letter, etc that was published. When I think of journalism, I think of the independent voices that are just looking for the truth, as you all have done and are doing. You are all heroes to me.
The most glaring contradiction in everything revealed so far is how Twitter got into the content moderation game ostensibly to prevent interference with elections via Russian misinformation (Thread 11) ... and then ended up using those tools to interfere with elections by suppressing true information (Hunter Biden story, Threads 1, 7). It’s basically Exhibit A for why we have the First Amendment.
Not such a contradiction: the "Russian interference" was itself bollocks, an actual conspiracy theory. So anything derived from it was bound to go bad.
Is anyone else thinking there is no end to this? How could there be? How do you hold every stinking foul corrupt branch of govt accountable? I mean who exactly goes after CIS and FBI and NS anything?
I guess I should not be surprised that some enterprising journalist working for one of the MSM outlets hasn't jumped on this. No Woodwards and Bernsteins out there I guess. All we hear is.....crickets!
I am really afraid this entire story is going to be muzzled/smothered by people who ought to be screaming at the top of their lungs about government run amok. Keep the ball rolling, Matt. Hardly anyone else is.
Has any significant figure in the MSM (not the alternative media like Matt and Greenwald) come out and said, hey, this looks like a problem? We can't have the FBI deciding who gets to speak? Not rhetorical, serious question. Surely somebody somewhere must have wrinkled a brow.
I'm gonna guess NO. Its only a guess because I stopped reading and watching MSM for the most part in 2015. I only gaze headlines and skim off the usual suspects.
2. Does Substack have a block feature? I wasn't able to find one. If not, please consider this an enhancement request. (Anyone reading this comment thread should know why.)
AFAIK subscribers has no way to block other subscribers. But the owner of the newsletter, in this case Matt, can block a subscriber, or remove the person from his mailing list. Matt cannot add the feature, only Substack can.
Yeah, I get that Matt is not a Substack developer. But I figured if he agrees it would be useful, he might have more leverage to request the feature from Substack than I would as a random subscriber. Or might at least know of a mechanism by which one can submit enhancement requests to Substack.
Just to clarify: I'm not asking for the ability to "ban" a commenter, only to be able to hide his comments from me, like the Block feature on Disqus.
If this honest, courageous, and indefatigable journalism, exposing massive rot in government and media, doesn’t deserve a Pulitzer Prize, then nothing does. Matt needs to watch his back lest he goes the way of Snowden and Assange. Or Epstein.
Thanks Matt and others for your work to date. The summary paragraphs and takeaways are really helpful. The glossary is excellent.Remember to step back and recharge from time to time.
I wish we could expose how all this is achieved on the government’s behalf at: CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, AP, WAPO, NPR
Agree. But they don’t care unless they are the ones being censored and banned. Sad they can’t see the big picture and even worse that our politicians are not more vocal about the government deliberately stifling our freedom of speech and using a $3.5M bribe of OUR tax dollars to facilitate it.
That'll be the day. "We can't reveal our sources. We're journalists! It says so on our passports."
That’s why there should be professional standards before one can call themselves a journalist … like plumbers and contractors.
Remember Judith Miller writing all the front page articles in the NYT about Iraq's WMDs? And NBC has always been as pro war as it gets, any war. "Right wing chamber" then includes the NYT, WAPO, NBC, CNN... pretty much all the same actors William listed above. Fun fact: years later there was a recount done that showed W winning Florida with more votes than initially thought. Gore's team were legal amateurs in the sense that they should have asked for a full statewide recount, not only in a few hand picked counties they thought would help them. ;-)
Don't feed the feds. This guy is here to make sure things stay in the realm of partisan bickering so that no one gets any ideas about challenging the actual entrenched power interests.
How do we know it’s a person?
A machine could never be as juvenile and disgusting.
The recount story is exactly backward. Some of the biggest media financed a complete recount in Florids - but unofficial, obviously. It found that Gore had won by even fewer votes than W's score. (Digression: such small differences mean it's really a crapshoot - you'd get different numbers every time you did it.) However, as Winter implies, the limited recount Gore asked for wouldn't have changed anything.
Unfortunately, by the time the media recount was reported, 9/11 had happened and "national unity" was the theme, so the results got little publicity.
Recounts are important; there should be more of them.
Right on!!!
Gore was a weak sister. He didn’t fight hard enough or smart enough
Gore threw the election, as did Kerry 4 years later.
Gore was stupid to run “away” from Clinton
The “conventional” wisdom was completely wrong (as All conventional wisdom always is)
The fact is that, right or wrong, Clinton left office extremely popular. Walking away from that was stupid. So was that big sloppy over acted kiss he planted on Tipper when he came out on stage
All these posters are paid fed trolls.
I’m not a troll
I’m not paid
I have no relationship whatsoever with any US or other government agencies
What is t difference on Substack comments thread between "Comment removed" and "Comment deleted"? I've seen both.
"removed" is a new one to me. I've seen "banned" and "deleted" previously.
the "definite" recount... every state has changed their election laws... what are you talking about? Pure nonsense. Moving on...
Calm down! I don't give a fiddler's fuck about W, Jeb or Gore. Let's remember that Gore Sr., the elder of that astute family, had orchestrated the longest filibuster in Senate history, trying to block civil rights legislation. We could have a long debate about who was and is getting "assraped" by which party for how long. Lol
Thank you so much for all that you have done on this!!!
I wish we could peak into Google. As bad as this is, I'm sure Google is worse. Google has the power to inflict something close to mass mind control.
Yes!! “San Francisco” values have infected the minds of the nation, especially the younger / weaker minded. Not a coincidence.
Yeah and isn’t San Francisco such a model for our future? It is actually what they want for us.
Definitely. Have you heard of Dr Robert Epstein? He has written about how Google is able to manipulate people and documented how they could effect election results.
Um that’s literally their openly announced goal, to use behavioral science for mind control.
And we’ll likely find far more collusion of a competent and professional nature .
See https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/googlegov-part-1/
He does good work.
I don't understand why anyone still uses Google (like my wife). Censorship means it's just a shitty search engine.
On the other hand, Google Maps are about the best (but deteriorating), and Youtube is good for light entertainment - NOT politics. Their real power is controlling most of the online advertising.
It would help a great deal to break them up - and any other business with that sort of market control. Including Twitter.
For anything non-political, it is a much better search engine than its competitors.
openstreetmap.org is a great alternative to googlemaps.
Just looked at it.
Thanks for the link. However, it does seem out of date as I see a street - near me - that is shown, but no houses are shown. The street is filling out, but there have been at least one house there for at least 8 years.
It's open! You can add data to the map:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contribute_map_data
Why do you write that Google maps are "deteriorating"?
I am so grateful for this reference. I have read every single tweet from every single reporter and every email, picture, letter, etc that was published. When I think of journalism, I think of the independent voices that are just looking for the truth, as you all have done and are doing. You are all heroes to me.
Well said and Ditto!
The most glaring contradiction in everything revealed so far is how Twitter got into the content moderation game ostensibly to prevent interference with elections via Russian misinformation (Thread 11) ... and then ended up using those tools to interfere with elections by suppressing true information (Hunter Biden story, Threads 1, 7). It’s basically Exhibit A for why we have the First Amendment.
Not such a contradiction: the "Russian interference" was itself bollocks, an actual conspiracy theory. So anything derived from it was bound to go bad.
once government gets in, thy are never leaving. Russia was jsut the lever and they manipulated the MSM, who is jealous of Twitter, to get them access.
Is anyone else thinking there is no end to this? How could there be? How do you hold every stinking foul corrupt branch of govt accountable? I mean who exactly goes after CIS and FBI and NS anything?
Speechless.
There is no end because this story can be replicated in most of the tech companies including pay pal and such.
chatGPT14 will decide this is bollocks and take matters in its own hands.
And to summarize the summary--the US government intel community has taken over social media to achieve the censoring it cannot do itself in the open.
I guess I should not be surprised that some enterprising journalist working for one of the MSM outlets hasn't jumped on this. No Woodwards and Bernsteins out there I guess. All we hear is.....crickets!
I am really afraid this entire story is going to be muzzled/smothered by people who ought to be screaming at the top of their lungs about government run amok. Keep the ball rolling, Matt. Hardly anyone else is.
Has any significant figure in the MSM (not the alternative media like Matt and Greenwald) come out and said, hey, this looks like a problem? We can't have the FBI deciding who gets to speak? Not rhetorical, serious question. Surely somebody somewhere must have wrinkled a brow.
I'm gonna guess NO. Its only a guess because I stopped reading and watching MSM for the most part in 2015. I only gaze headlines and skim off the usual suspects.
Huh?
1. Thanks Matt for the great summary.
2. Does Substack have a block feature? I wasn't able to find one. If not, please consider this an enhancement request. (Anyone reading this comment thread should know why.)
I have asked for a mute button, so I can simply not see certain people’s comments.
Doesn’t exist yet
AFAIK subscribers has no way to block other subscribers. But the owner of the newsletter, in this case Matt, can block a subscriber, or remove the person from his mailing list. Matt cannot add the feature, only Substack can.
Yeah, I get that Matt is not a Substack developer. But I figured if he agrees it would be useful, he might have more leverage to request the feature from Substack than I would as a random subscriber. Or might at least know of a mechanism by which one can submit enhancement requests to Substack.
Just to clarify: I'm not asking for the ability to "ban" a commenter, only to be able to hide his comments from me, like the Block feature on Disqus.
I’m with you. That “deleted” guy is extremely irritating. It adds nothing to the conversation.
Thanks for taking the time to catalog and share all the threads!
If this honest, courageous, and indefatigable journalism, exposing massive rot in government and media, doesn’t deserve a Pulitzer Prize, then nothing does. Matt needs to watch his back lest he goes the way of Snowden and Assange. Or Epstein.
STFU Gene, you idiot. Go back to MSNBC.
Well Done Matt. More than worth the subscription price. Sane Journalists @ work.
Historic stuff Matt. Bravo.
I thought conservatives were the ones who used the ultra cheesy puns... guess not
Great work so far! Next up, the Facebook files!
Thanks Matt and others for your work to date. The summary paragraphs and takeaways are really helpful. The glossary is excellent.Remember to step back and recharge from time to time.