it’s the ceding of language and lack of fight to keep it thag paves the highway for fascism.
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be a roadbloack. (2/2)
March 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
it’s the ceding of language and lack of fight to keep it thag paves the highway for fascism.
be a roadbloack. (2/2)
be a roadbloack. (2/2)
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Anyway here’s my summary of what happened during the hearing bsky.app/profile/noup...
The circus is starting: Jim Jordan, Taibbi & Shellenberger are congratulating themselves on Twitter Files.
Jordan opens by gloating ab getting Stanford Internet Observatory shut down. Yes: the congressman got 1A protected research shut down. That's censorship.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7G5...
Jordan opens by gloating ab getting Stanford Internet Observatory shut down. Yes: the congressman got 1A protected research shut down. That's censorship.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7G5...
The Censorship-Industrial Complex
YouTube video by House Committee on the Judiciary
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Anyway here’s my summary of what happened during the hearing bsky.app/profile/noup...
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The letter arrived after @mehdirhasan.bsky.social destroyed him in an interview by rattling off the mistakes and he admitted getting things wrong on TV.
THIS was the “call to throw Matt in jail.” And this was how right wing media covered the bad faith crybaby accusation.
THIS was the “call to throw Matt in jail.” And this was how right wing media covered the bad faith crybaby accusation.
![material information from this committee/subcommittee, is a crime (18 U.S.C. § 1001).*24 In addition, at the beginning of the March 9 hearing, you swore "under penalty of perjury that the testimony you [were] about to give [was] true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and belief.*25 Under the federal perjury statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1621, providing false information is punishable by up to five years imprisonment.
For all of these reasons, I am sure you understand the importance of ensuring that your
testimony is true and accurate. I look forward to your prompt response.
Sincerely,
Stay EPant
Stacey E. Plaskett
Ranking Member
House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
cc:
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February 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The letter arrived after @mehdirhasan.bsky.social destroyed him in an interview by rattling off the mistakes and he admitted getting things wrong on TV.
THIS was the “call to throw Matt in jail.” And this was how right wing media covered the bad faith crybaby accusation.
THIS was the “call to throw Matt in jail.” And this was how right wing media covered the bad faith crybaby accusation.
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Taibbi’s reference is intended to reinforce to his subs that he’s a risk-taking truth-teller.
In reality the minority chair on Weaponization Committee sent him a letter offering a chance to correct his 2023 testimony *because he got so much wrong under oath*.
(I remember bc some was ab my work)
In reality the minority chair on Weaponization Committee sent him a letter offering a chance to correct his 2023 testimony *because he got so much wrong under oath*.
(I remember bc some was ab my work)
![Dear Mr. Taibbi,
I write regarding your appearance before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Weaponization on March 9, 2023. It has come to my attention that information foundational to your testimony that day has since been revealed to be false and misleading. I would like to provide you with an opportunity to correct the hearing record to ensure accuracy in a congressional hearing and so that the public and their representatives are not misled
Specifically, on March 9, immediately before your appearance before the Subcommittee,
you released an additional installment of the so-called Twitter Files on your personal Twitter account. ' As part of that installment, you alleged that the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) worked with the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a component of the Department of Homeland Security, to ask social media companies to remove disinformation on their platforms.? You wrote: "It's crucial to reiterate: EIP was partnered with state entities like CISA and GEC while seeking elimination of millions of tweets. In the #TwitterFiles, Twitter execs did not distinguish between organizations, using phrases like 'According to CIS[A], escalated via EIP.'3
Matt](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n/bafkreief5kubznyfbnjpa3iyqe7qdggxi2j7kap3e4fha3osjfpkbb43zu@jpeg)
![When you appeared before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on
Weaponization, you told Congressman Stewart (R-UT):
[W]hat we see in The Twitter Files is that Twitter executives did not distinguish between DHS or CISA and this group EIP. For instance, we would see a communication that said, From CISA escalated by EIP. So they were essentially identical in the eyes of the company...
So, yes, we have come to the realization that this bright line that we imagine that exists between, say, the FBI or the DHS or the GEC and these private companies is illusory and that what's more important is this constellation of kind of quasi private organizations that do this work.4
The above statements now seem to be contradicted by your own admission. On April 6,
2023, you appeared for an interview on the Mehdi Hasan Show on MSNBC. During that interview, Mr. Hasan pointed out that your March 9 tweet added a parenthetical [A] to the acronym CIS, changing the meaning of the term from "Center for Internet Security" — a private organization —to "Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency."' This mistake is important because, by adding an "A," you weren't making a harmless spelling error. Rather, you were alleging that CISA - a government entity-was working with the EIP to have posts removed from social media. When presented with this misinformation, you acknowledged that you had made "an error" by intentionally altering the acronym CIS and you subsequently deleted your erroneous tweet. 6
In addition to your error regarding CISA, it has become clear that your reporting is rife
with numerous other false or misleading claims. For example:
• During the March 9 hearing, you repeatedly referenced the Twitter Files posts you had released earlier that day. Among other claims, your March 9 posts stated: "According to the EIP's own data, it succeeded in getting nearly 22 million tweets labeled in the runup to the 2020 vote," and claimed that the EIP was "among the most voluminous
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February 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Taibbi’s reference is intended to reinforce to his subs that he’s a risk-taking truth-teller.
In reality the minority chair on Weaponization Committee sent him a letter offering a chance to correct his 2023 testimony *because he got so much wrong under oath*.
(I remember bc some was ab my work)
In reality the minority chair on Weaponization Committee sent him a letter offering a chance to correct his 2023 testimony *because he got so much wrong under oath*.
(I remember bc some was ab my work)
No, this is 100% home-grown American hubris by someone who has shown these colors publicly since at least the 80s.
February 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
No, this is 100% home-grown American hubris by someone who has shown these colors publicly since at least the 80s.