Posted on 02/09/2023 6:12:58 PM PST by george76
There were a lot of dramatic moments at the House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday.
Among the most informative was when Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) nailed former head of Twitter Trust and Safety Yoel Roth for Twitter’s contact with the Biden team to suppress tweets. He showed the email contact even as Roth was professing not to remember, yet showing that Roth knew enough to know what random URLs were referencing.
One of the other big concerns among many conservatives over the past few years was being “shadow banned” — where you are still being allowed to tweet but your account isn’t getting the visibility it should be getting and you haven’t been told that your account was being flagged or prevented from being seen by people.
Yet, even though everyone could tell it was happening, Jack Dorsey claimed it wasn’t, multiple times, even testifying that prominent conservatives were not being shadow banned to Congress.
Then Elon Musk came in and showed there was a blacklist with conservatives like Charlie Kirk and Dan Bongino on it. But don’t worry it was called “visibility filtering” not shadow banning, so Jack wasn’t just gaslighting us all.
So, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was questioning Roth on Wednesday about this “visibility filtering” and asked him if it had been applied to elected officials as well. Roth claimed that he didn’t know, looking like a deer caught in the headlights.
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“It would not surprise me to know that visibility filtering labels had been applied to the accounts of elected officials,” Roth said. Jordan added that this would have been done without the official’s knowledge and Roth said yes, that was Twitter’s practice not to tell people when visibility filters were being applied. Roth said that he couldn’t say “for sure” if filtering had been applied to elected officials.
That’s when Twitter owner Elon Musk finished off his former employee, Roth. George Washington Law professor Jonathan Turley posted about Roth’s comment that it would not surprise him that visibility filters had been applied to elected officials.
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“Since he placed many of them there himself, he would indeed not be ‘surprised’ lmao,” Musk tweeted.
Man, it was a dirty run organization manipulated by the Brandon WH!
Is that bad? Having never twittered or instagrammed or facebooked I could care less.
How much less?
LOL!
Ouch. Way to twist the knife in there Elon.
In the end, these people will get what is coming to them.
Like an ex wife filtering my visibility?
Thank you.
Biden is a sick dude.
Pitiful!
Touché
He’s a bad liar:
“It would not surprise me to know”
You say, “It would not surprise me to discover, or find out, or learn” if it is about something you really don’t know.
Of course he knows and he gave himself away by his choice of words.
Love,
O2 (It’s always tagline season)
It’s amazing to learn that Twitter was nothing more than an intelligence operation and disinformation campaign.
What’s more amazing is that the left (and it’s media outlets) thinks that this was a good thing…
When have communists ever NOT suppressed and falsified information? It's the first thing they do.
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The first thing Castro’s rebels did when they seized Havana was to take over control of all the TV and possibly radio stations.
My version of an old saying is “He who controls the news, controls the country”.
New York Times, Washington Post, Yahoo, USA Today, etc, the TV networks, Twitter, Facebook, etc. They are our domestic enemies. Period.
Which is staffed by obama trash. This is for sure obama's 3rd term with Brandon being the feckless idiot as the front doosh taking all the heat. Biden is so sleazy that any minute I expect to see him crumble into a ball of fetid dark dirty grease.
Biden is a sick dude.Yes but no matter who owns it, Twitter is still a scourge to be used as a tool where people will always find a way to destroy lives and a country.
Only in the afterlife.
I wonder if Elon will testify. Maybe has has already?
We don’t get C-Span on our streaming media, AFAIK, and I’d love to watch the hearings.
Lots of stuff here:
https://www.youtube.com/@ntdtv/videos
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