Matt Taibbi has been sitting down with Russel Brand for short interviews that everyone should see. In them, Matt gives you the general overview the files, what he is seeing and the response he is getting from mainstream media.
Here are my takeaways:
- At the onset of the story, Taibbi was told that both sides of the government asked for censorship, but he didn’t see that.
- The Trump White House never asked Twitter to do anything in regards to users.
- The censorship of users and manipulation of the story always comes from the left.
- The government is harvesting our information for their purposes.
- Every single platform probably has the same arrangement as Twitter.
- Taibbi has been threatened for releasing this info.
- When the media talks about the Twitter Files, they use the same language. He said, “It’s like they are reading from the same memo”
- The mainstream media is saying that “the Twitter files aren’t a story.”
- Opponents are trying to disparage the story by talking about how Taibbi got the files (from Musk, the owner).
- Taibbi thinks that all mainstream news is propaganda. He said, that “There is a presumption that you only print things that will help the cause.”
- He calls news “an artificial landscape.”
- “[On Twitter] The level of censorship is so micro that it has to be dystopian.” In other words, there has to be bad actors involved who want to do harm.
- Twitter wants to control every communication that happens on their platform.
It is clear the the mainstream media and the left do not want people to know about what is going on at social media companies.
Let’s stand up to this by speaking up and flooding social media with what is going on. People must know that we do not live in a free country anymore.
If the government is tracking us on social media, censoring us when we speak out against them and we don’t have a free press, where did our democracy go? A democracy is for the people, by the people and of the people…. We have an autocracy. The press was supposed to be the check for our democracy, but that has been lost.
Check out my post on my takeaways from the Twitter Files to learn more about this story.
