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The Twitter Files Book
No, it doesn’t exist yet. But there are 22 chapters so far that have been published. “22! you say?!” Yes.
So, for you who like me that have not followed closely, here is the chapter listing:
- The Twitter Files (Matt Taibbi Dec 2, 2022)
- Twitter’s Secret Blacklist (Bari Weiss Dec 8, 2022)
- The Removal of Donald Trump: October 2020 – January 6 (Matt Taibbi December 9, 2022)
- The Removal of Donald Trump: January 7 (Michael Shellenberger December 10, 2022)
- The Removal of Donald Trump: January 8 (Bari Weiss December 12, 2022)
- Twitter, The FBI Subsidiary and Twitter Files Supplemental (Matt Taibbi December 16, 2022)
- The FBI & The Hunter Biden Laptop (Michael Shellenberger December 19, 2022)
- How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign (Lee Fang December 20, 2022)
- Twitter and “Other Government Agencies” (Matt Taibbi December 24, 2022)
- How Twitter Rigged the COVID Debate (David Zweig December 26, 2022)
- How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In (Matt Taibbi January 3, 2023)
- Twitter and the FBI “Belly Button” (Matt Taibbi January 3, 2023)
- Pfizer Director Uses Twitter to Suppress Natural Immunity Information (Alex Berenson January 10, 2023)
- The Russiagate Lies (Matt Taibbi January 12, 2023) and Supplemental (Matt Taibbi January 13, 2023)
- Move Over, Jayson Blair: Twitter Files Expose Next Great Media Fraud (Matt Taibbi January 27, 2023)
- Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment (Matt Taibbi February 18, 2023)
- New Knowledge, the Global Engagement Center, and State-Sponsored Blacklists (Matt Taibbi March 2, 2023)
- Statement of Matt Taibbi to Congress on the Twitter Files (Matt Taibbi March 9, 2023)
- The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine: Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories” (Matt Taibbi March 17, 2023)
- Fauci Pharma Files (Paul D. Thacker April 20, 2023)
- The Information Cartel (Network Affects April 25, 2023)
- How to Find Russians Anywhere (Matt Orfalea April 25, 2023)
All of these stories (except for Taibbi’s Congressional testimony) were first published on Twitter as Elon Musk specified as a condition of access to the files. In some instances, there was supplementary information posted on the author’s own websites.
The story isn’t over, but I can imagine that when one looks over the list, we may have already forgotten how deeply public information was compromised by a government-corporation conspiracy to control the narrative. Imagine what more would be revealed if a similar deep dive were to occur at Facebook, YouTube, and Google.
As Scott Johnson at Powerline (whose material helped me compile the listing) has said:
“Suggestive,” indeed. There are so many actors within the mainstream media who were complicit in censorship and narrative promotion. The only question is which of two groups they are in: (1) true political actors, or (2) hacks just wanting to please their paymasters, blind or indifferent to the corruption. As the saying goes, “fish don’t know they are in water.”
We must never forget what has been done to us. It is monstrous, given what was supposed to be vouchsafed to us in our constitutional republic. Be ungovernable by this regime.
Published in General
I think that most people don’t know, don’t care or take for granted and then don’t care – about what our government (I don’t even know what to accurately call it – regime doesn’t seem enough somehow) did/does to its citizens. I don’t think it’s ended. Those in power certainly don’t intend it to end.
Sadly, yes. What we’ve seen so far is a chunk of ice chiseled off of the tip of the iceberg.
You can tell how important this story is by how much those involved are doing their best to ignore it. They are succeeding, which is worse. This does put a bit of truth to the maxim that you don’t want to give the govt power that you wouldn’t want your opponents to use against you. It ably demonstrates the inherent corruption of the govt itself, and why their power should be limited. The fear of fascism, communist, and Islamism allowed the govt to grow into a massive entity that employs over 9 million people. Of course it wants to protect itself from any threat. Combine that with the very prevalent attitude in the govt that the bureaucracy knows better how to do things than the people and its a recipient for exactly what we have.
The bureaucracy must be abolished. Torn out root and branch and every employee barred from ever working for the govt again. That includes the military BTW. One look at our Ge era’s and Milley’s traitorous actions in 20 show that they cannot be trusted.
No matter what “they” say about the cost cutting budget: until buildings are sold and people are fired (wholesale across agencies) I won’t believe a word about limited government.
An interesting thought: is there anything that could happen that would cause the media to feel shame or embarrassment? Guess not.
All those files makes me even more surprised that I won several appeals when I was out in Twitter jail.
Obviously not enough followers. A lot of us have no idea how to build a following, if that is even something we might want. And if you don’t have a significant following or someone who is following you doesn’t have a significant following, then you are not a threat to TPTB.
Do you have a Plan B in case you can’t get that?
Well, what do you expect from journos? Journalism?
You can tell how important this story is by how much those involved are doing their best to ignore it. They are succeeding, which is worse. This does put a bit of truth to the maxim that you don’t want to give the govt power that you wouldn’t want your opponents to use against you. It ably demonstrates the inherent corruption of the govt itself, and why their power should be limited. The fear of fascism, communist, and Islamism allowed the govt to grow into a massive entity that employs over 9 million people. Of course it wants to protect itself from any threat. Combine that with the very prevalent attitude in the govt that the bureaucracy knows better how to do things than the people and its a recipient for exactly what we have.
The bureaucracy must be abolished. Torn out root and branch and every employee barred from ever working for the govt again. That includes the military BTW. One look at our Ge era’s and Milley’s traitorous actions in 20 show that they cannot be trusted.