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Everything Is the ‘#TwitterFiles’ Now

The #State Dept is using #ElonMusk’s playbook.

by Charlie Warzel

“Let’s be clear about what’s really happening here. A high-ranking member of the #Trump administration is turning federal-government #data—in this case, State Department communications—into a political weapon against perceived ideological enemies.”

#DarrenBeattie #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment
theatlantic.com/technology/arc

The Atlantic · Everything Is the 'Twitter Files' NowBy Charlie Warzel
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For several people who received or saw the document, the broad requests for unredacted information felt like a “witch hunt,”…one that could put the #privacy & #security of numerous individuals & organizations at risk.

Beattie, whom #Trump appointed in Feb to be the acting undersecretary for #public #diplomacy, told #State Dept ofcls that his goal…was a “#TwitterFiles” like release of internal State Dept documents “to rebuild trust with the American public”….

the #MAGAts have discovered that public government databases are public and are having a field day pawing through data they don't understand to accuse people they don't know of committing crimes they also don't understand (specifically "money laundering" is the new bogeyman).

here's #BillAckman declaring it obviously corrupt that political offices subscribe to a political news service via money from #USAID (except, of course, the data he's looking at makes it extremely clear the money is not from USAID).

it's very clear where this is going: #ElonMusk and co. are going to get ahold of #CIA and #FBI internal records and use them to gin up outrage akin to the #TwitterFiles nonsense and then use that as an excuse to kill the agencies.

"Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."

p.s. wait til they find out how much money the government spends on subscriptions to newspapers...

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@rameshgupta @MoiraEve @asymco Tesla cannot compete with the supply chain of Chinese battery manufacturers.

Probably looking for another handout. That dude is well practiced at extracting money from the government for reinventing the wheel.

I will say that the #twitterfiles are a good dev. Even though there's nothing groundbreaking about the technology behind spaceX, if it gets us into space in a big way, great.

Otherwise, fuck you Elon.

(I didn't write this, the neuralink chip made me.)

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#Trump’s 88-million-follower a/c was ultimately #suspended on the night of Jan. 8, hrs after he’d tweeted that “great American Patriots … will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” The #suspension, the records show, was taken only after employees had assembled for execs a list of examples in which #Twitter users responded to Trump’s tweets w/calls for further #violence across the #UnitedStates.
#Birdsite #TwitterFiles #Jan6 #Insurrection #HateForProfit #MAGA #GOP

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But the video & other newly obtained internal #Twitter recs show that, far from working to #censor pro-Trump sentiment in the days b4 the #Capitol #riot, the co’s ldrs were intent on leaving it up —despite internal #warnings that trouble was brewing.
#Congressional #Republicans, #Trump supporters & #Musk allies have condemned the co for #suspending Trump’s a/c in the riot’s aftermath,saying its employees were too quick to punish TFG bc of their #liberal #prejudice.
#Birdsite #TwitterFiles #Jan6