Twitter corp. ADMITS CONSPIRING w. FBI to CENSOR TRUMP, conservatives--this is TREASON, fraud, election-interference--huge CRIMES, suckers

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HUGE! TWITTER IN A PICKLE: Policy Director for Twitter Nick Pickles Admits Twitter Was Working with FBI to Censor Trump, Conservatives​

By Jim Hoft
Published December 9, 2022 at 6:25pm

Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...itter-working-fbi-censor-trump-conservatives/

[see the tweets at site link, above]

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The third installment of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” was released Friday evening.
This time, the internal communications surrounding Twitter’s decision to ban Trump from the platform was released.
Trump was banned from Twitter on January 8, 2021.
Journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday dropped part three of the “Twitter Files” which turned out to be Part One of the “Trump files”: October 2020-January 6.

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Part two of the “Trump files” will be released on Saturday and will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th (one day before Trump was banned).
In Part 3 that was released on Friday night Elon Musk released proof that Twitter executives were meeting regularly with the FBI in an ongoing effort to censor conservatives, including President Donald J. Trump.
Now-fired Twitter executive Yoel Roth was meeting with the FBI and other government officials weekly!
This is a huge release.
It also happens to coincide with the Missouri and Louisiana lawsuit with plaintiff Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit on government and social media collusion to silence conservative voices in America today.

This is really BIG NEWS!

Taibbi posted incriminatting text messages from Twitter Policy Director Nick Pickles.

In Taibi’s 20th tweet tonight Twitter admits Yoel Roth was meeting weekly with the FBI!
 

New Twitter files dump reveal frenzied conversations before Trump was banned after the Capitol riot, how head of safety Yoel Roth met WEEKLY with FBI - and agency flagged election-related content for moderation​

Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...shing-ban-Trump-based-historical-context.html

[see vid at site link, above]
  • Matt Taibbi on Friday posted new internal communications from Twitter staffers
  • They primarily focus on the months leading up to Trump's 2021 ban from Twitter
  • Show former head of safety Yoel Roth mentioning 'weekly sync' with FBI
  • One mentions 'a report from the FBI concerning 2 tweets' about elections
  • Taibbi promised more internal document releases over the weekend
By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and MORGAN PHILLIPS, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 18:55 EST, 9 December 2022 | UPDATED: 23:42 EST, 9 December 2022

Newly released internal documents suggest that Twitter's former head of safety Yoel Roth was meeting weekly with the FBI and show instances of the FBI flagging tweets related to the 2020 election for deletion.
Journalist Matt Taibbi shared the claims in a new Twitter thread on Friday night, one week after sharing the first tranche of so-called 'Twitter Files' turned over by the company's new owner Elon Musk.
The new thread covered the months and weeks leading up to then-President Donald Trump's ban from Twitter following the Capitol riot, shedding light on the increasingly frenzied internal efforts within the social media site to moderate his baseless claims of election fraud.
Some of the most intriguing documents relate to the apparent cozy relationship between top Twitter executives and the FBI, though Taibbi did not reveal any direct evidence of the agency's intervention in the decision to ban Trump.
In an undated chat on the messaging app Slack that Taibbi says took place after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, Roth is seen joking about a mysterious meeting on his calendar, saying it is 'DEFINITELY not a meeting with the FBI I SWEAR’.
Newly released internal documents suggest that Twitter's former head of safety Yoel Roth was meeting weekly with the FBI, and show instances of the FBI flagging tweets for deletion


Newly released internal documents suggest that Twitter's former head of safety Yoel Roth was meeting weekly with the FBI, and show instances of the FBI flagging tweets for deletion
One exchange shows Roth explaining he will miss 'the FBI and DHS meetings.'


Roth is seen joking about a mysterious meeting on his calendar, saying it is 'DEFINITELY not a meeting with the FBI I SWEAR’



One exchange (left) shows Roth explaining he will miss 'the FBI and DHS meetings.' Roth is also seen joking (right) about a mysterious meeting on his calendar, saying it is 'DEFINITELY not a meeting with the FBI I SWEAR’
One message, apparently from October 2020 following Twitter's two-day ban on a story about Hunter Biden's business dealings, mentions a 'weekly sync with FBI/DHS/DNI'


One message, apparently from October 2020 following Twitter's two-day ban on a story about Hunter Biden's business dealings, mentions a 'weekly sync with FBI/DHS/DNI'
Other messages show Roth mentioning a 'weekly sync with FBI/DHS/DNI' regarding election security in October 2020.
Roth, who quit his role at Twitter last month following Musk's takeover, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com on Friday evening.
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A separate message mentions 'a report from the FBI concerning 2 tweets,' which appeared to relate to claims about ballot fraud in the November 2020 election.
The message notes that one of the tweets, claiming mail-in ballots were being 'shredded', was adjudicated false, but that the second one claiming up to 25 percent of mail-in ballots were being 'rejected for errors' was found to be within Twitter policy.
Taibbi said the new release of files was part of a three-part series about the events surrounding Trump's January 2021 ban from Twitter, which Musk lifted last month after buying the company.
One message mentions 'a report from the FBI concerning 2 tweets,' which appeared to relate to false claims about ballot fraud in the November 2020 election


One message mentions 'a report from the FBI concerning 2 tweets,' which appeared to relate to false claims about ballot fraud in the November 2020 election
The FBI allegedly reported this tweet by a former local elected official in Indiana, but Twitter apparently determined it was 'deemed no vio[lation] on numerous occaisions'


The FBI allegedly reported this tweet by a former local elected official in Indiana, but Twitter apparently determined it was 'deemed no vio[lation] on numerous occaisions'
Prior to the ban, days after the Capitol riot, the internal document also show staffers at the company argued that 'historical context' and 'current climate' should factor into the decision.
One message from an unidentified Twitter staffer appears to acknowledge the historic nature of the ban, asking: 'Is this the first head of state ever to be suspended?'
'The world knows much of the story of what happened between riots at the Capitol on January 6th, and the removal of President Donald Trump from Twitter on January 8th,' Taibbi wrote.
'We’ll show you what hasn’t been revealed: the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies,' he promised.
The documents released Friday primarily related to the months prior to the January 8, 2021 decision to ban Donald Trump from Twitter. Trump is seen on January 6 prior to the Capitol riot


The documents released Friday primarily related to the months prior to the January 8, 2021 decision to ban Donald Trump from Twitter. Trump is seen on January 6 prior to the Capitol riot
Staffers at Twitter argued that 'historical context' and 'current climate' should factor into the decision to suspend Trump's account ahead of his January 8, 2021 ban


Staffers at Twitter argued that 'historical context' and 'current climate' should factor into the decision to suspend Trump's account ahead of his January 8, 2021 ban
One screenshot showed a Twitter staffer acknowledging the historic nature of Trump's ban

One screenshot showed a Twitter staffer acknowledging the historic nature of Trump's ban
Taibbi said that on October 8th, 2020, Twitter executives created a Slack chatroom devoted to high-profile moderation actions related to the election, which was then a month away.
He describes this group as a 'a smaller, more powerful cadre of senior policy execs' that included Roth and Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's former head of legal, policy, and trust.
Taibbi claimed the group operated as 'a high-speed Supreme Court of moderation, issuing content rulings on the fly, often in minutes and based on guesses, gut calls, even Google searches, even in cases involving the President.'
Screenshots show the group debating what to do about Trump's frequent attacks on absentee voting procedures in the lead-up to the election.
One in the group exchange also hints at a broader role of the FBI and Department of Homeland Security in Twitter's approach to moderating misinformation.
An unidentified staffer is seen asking whether Twitter should publicly describe its approach to misinformation as relying on machine learning, human review, and 'partnerships with outside experts'.
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Nick Pickles, Twitter's senior director of global public policy strategy, development and partnerships, refers to partnerships with the FBI/DHS in one exchange


Nick Pickles, Twitter's senior director of global public policy strategy, development and partnerships, refers to partnerships with the FBI/DHS in one exchange
Nick Pickles, Twitter's senior director of global public policy strategy, development and partnerships, is seen responding: 'can we just say "partnerships"'.
He then adds: 'not sure we'd describe the FBI/DHS as experts, or some NGOs that aren't academic.'
Taibbi said that his posts on Friday would primarily cover the period between the 2020 election and January 6, to be followed by additional publications of internal Twitter documents by Michael Shellenberger on Saturday and Bari Weiss on Sunday.
Shellenberger is an author who focuses on contrarian views on climate change, and Weiss is an independent journalist who runs the Substack newsletter Common Sense, which she recently rebranded as The Free Press.
Earlier on Friday, responding to prior releases of internal Twitter files, the White House again insisted President Joe Biden had no involvement in Twitter's decisions to censor conservative voices or suppress stories on his son's laptop prior to his election.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also denied that the administration had any direct contact with former FBI agent and Twitter general counsel Jim Baker over the moderation of stories.
White House again denies being involved in Twitter censorship


Earlier this week Musk fired Baker, who was serving as a top Twitter lawyer, over his 'possible' role in suppressing the Hunter Biden story in October 2020.
During her daily briefing Friday press secretary Jean-Pierre was asked whether the Biden team had made any contact with Baker regarding content moderation decisions.
'It's up to private companies to make these types of decisions. We were not involved, I can say that we were not involved,' she said.
Earlier this week Jean-Pierre said it is 'not healthy' for Twitter to be releasing internal communications that showed Twitter suppressed the bombshell laptop reporting that showed Hunter Biden trading on his last name for cash.
It follows the release of two Twitter files over the last two weeks, including revelations published by Weiss on Wednesday night that executives suppressed conservative accounts even if they didn't violate policy and certain trending topics.
The first set of Twitter Files, dropped in a thread on the social media platform by Taibbi, showed that the Biden campaign did ask Twitter to remove some nude photos and videos Hunter had left on his laptop that were being circulated.
Internal communications indicate the Biden campaign had requested Twitter remove the post that violated its non-consensual nudity policy which prohibits 'images or videos that are taken in an intimate setting and not intended for public distribution.'
The Trump White House had also contacted Twitter asking to have the company review or remove some tweets, Taibbi claimed without offering additional details.

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Just one person at Twitter stood up to say Trump should NOT be banned and warned that Jack Dorsey – who was in French Polynesia - was ‘gatekeeping speech for the entire world’, latest Twitter files dump reveals​

Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...erson-Twitter-stood-say-Trump-NOT-banned.html
  • The latest Twitter files released on Saturday night revealed that a sole junior employee spoke out against banning Donald Trump from the platform
  • The worker warned then-CEO Jack Dorsey that it makes it seem like he and other tech CEOs are gatekeeping free speech, which would only fuel conspiracies
  • The Twitter files revealed the company's process for banning Trump, in which Dorsey delegated much of the work to his team while he was on vacation
  • Members of the company appeared eager to finally ban Trump, with heads eventually removing his privilege as a public person of interest
  • The files show Twitter was engulfed in chaos and facing mounting pressure to boot the former president following the deadly January 6 Capitol riot
By RONNY REYES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 01:08 EST, 11 December 2022 | UPDATED: 04:09 EST, 11 December 2022

Only one Twitter employee said Donald Trump should not be banned and warned then-CEO Jack Dorsey, who was on vacation in French Polynesia, that he was 'gatekeeping speech for the entire world.'
The latest Twitter leaks from journalist Michael Shellenberger revealed what went on at the social media company in the aftermath of the deadly January 6 Capitol riot that resulted in booting former President Trump from the platform.
As Twitter made its decision, the files showed that a single, junior worker voiced their opposition, warning Dorsey and their coworkers about the free speech implications.
'This might be an unpopular opinion but one off ad hoc decisions like this that don't appear rooted in policy are imho a slippery slope and reflect an alternatively equally dictatorial problem,' the employee said about banning Trump.
'This now appears to be a fiat by an online platform CEO with a global presence that can gatekeep speech for the entire world - which seems unsustainable.'
The employee specified that their concerns were fueled by Trump's suspension from Facebook, saying that booting the president from the most popular social media sites was dangerous.
'That's the space that fills with the idea (conspiracy theory?) that all social media heads and internet moguls at every layer sit around like kings casually deciding what people can and cannot see, and it's unhelpful to the internet ecosystem as a whole.'
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The latest Twitter files released on Saturday night revealed that a sole junior employee spoke out against banning Donald Trump from the platform, warning then-CEO Jack Dorsey that it makes it seem like he and other tech CEOs are gatekeeping free speech

The latest Twitter files released on Saturday night revealed that a sole junior employee spoke out against banning Donald Trump from the platform, warning then-CEO Jack Dorsey that it makes it seem like he and other tech CEOs are gatekeeping free speech
Shellenberger also tweeted screengrabs of messages between Twitter executives, with one appearing eager to ban Trump as they discussed stricter policy changes with former safety chief Yoel Roth.
The person, whose name was redacted, specifically asked Roth if a new change regarding penalties over 'incitement of violence' would 'affect our approach to Trump.'
Although Roth said it didn't, the former president was canned the following day, on January 8, specifically over 'risk of further incitement of violence.'
The newest batch of Twitter documents - now known as the 'Twitter files' - comes after yesterday's leaks where it was revealed that FBI agents pressured the social media company to censor conservative commentators who pushed unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Jack Dorsey


Yoel Roth



In the direct aftermath of the deadly January 6 Capitol Riot, Jack Dorsey (left) was on vacation in French Polynesia and delegated much of the decision making to Yoel Roth, then-head of safety and trust, who navigated the process to ban Trump
After two days of chaos at Twitter, with several employees appearing eager to boot the former president, Trump finally saw his account suspended on January 8


After two days of chaos at Twitter, with several employees appearing eager to boot the former president, Trump finally saw his account suspended on January 8
In the latest Twitter files, Shellenberger noted that Twitter had long-resisted calls to ban Trump, explaining in 2018 that banning a world leader would be problematic.
However, everything changed following the January 6 Capitol riot, which resulted in the death of five people as rioters stormed the Congressional building.
The former president was accused of inciting the riot, and many called on Twitter to permanently ban him.
Shellenberger said files showed that Doresy was on vacation at the time and delegated much of the work to Roth, Twitter's head of trust and safety, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal, policy and trust.
While Dorsey appeared to be hands-off on the issue, he did email employees telling them to 'remain consistent in its policies.'
Roth and other employees, however, don't appear satisfied, according to their messages on January 7, with the former safety head saying employees are not happy about the company's lack of action against Trump.
'A few engineers have reached out to me directly about it, and I'm chatting with them, but it's so clear they just want to know that someone is doing something about this, and it's not that we're ignoring the issues here,' Roth wrote.
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The employee on the other end, whose name is redacted, replied: 'I think there's also an opportunity to help people understand that, while it seems obvious and simple that we 'should' permaban his personal account, we can't afford to take that immediate action without first 'playing the movie out' and anticipating all the other things that can happen, and then figure out the plans for those possible scenarios.'
While executives appeared to be mulling their options, Roth messaged a coworker the following day, revealing that Dorsey 'just approved repeat offender for civic integrity.'
The rule would create a system where five violations would result in permanent suspension.
'Progress,' the employee replied in excitement. 'Does this affect our approach to Trump, who I think that we publicly said had one remaining strike? Or does the incitement to violence aspect change that calculus?'
Roth, however, said that Trump 'continues to have his one strike,' which would have kept his account safe.
But the account was still banned due to that very 'risk of further incitement of violence.'
Messages between Roth and employees showed that they were dissatisfied with Dorsey's initial approach on Trump. Employees wanted to take initiative to ban his account, but Roth and an unnamed staffer noted that it was important to wait and see how things play out first


Messages between Roth and employees showed that they were dissatisfied with Dorsey's initial approach on Trump. Employees wanted to take initiative to ban his account, but Roth and an unnamed staffer noted that it was important to wait and see how things play out first
The following day, Roth appears excited when telling a staffer that a change has now been enacted to ban an account after five strikes


The following day, Roth appears excited when telling a staffer that a change has now been enacted to ban an account after five strikes
The employee immediately asks if it means Trump would get the boot, but Roth notes that the former president only has a single strike against him at the time


The employee immediately asks if it means Trump would get the boot, but Roth notes that the former president only has a single strike against him at the time
As the decision to ban Trump approached, chaos was engulfing the social media company after the former president was banned from Facebook and Instagram.
According to messages between a sales executive and Roth, Dorsey had sent around an email saying that Twitter 'will permanently suspend [Trump] if our policies are violated after a 12 hour account lock.'
When the executive asks Roth if violations other than election fraud claims count for Trump, specifically tweets 'inciting violence,' the former saftey chief safety that the ban would be placed for 'any policy violation.'
Then when the sales person asks if Twitter would sidestep its long-standing rule to provide 'public-interest exceptions' for world leaders in order to ban Trump.
'In this specific case, we're changing our public interest approach for his account to say any violation would result in suspension,' Roth replied.
A Twitter engineer also messaged Roth about the debate to ban Trump, suggesting it wasn't right for the company to give the former president special treatment just because of his position.
Roth responded: 'I think you're spot on. 'To put a different spin on it: policy is one part of the system of how Twitter works.
'...We ran into the world changing faster than we were able to either adapt the product or the policy.'
A sales executive goes on to message Roth about mounting pressure Twitter is receiving to ban Trump following the suspensions from Facebook and Instagram. It mentions that Dorsey called for a permanent suspension on Trump if he violates policies


A sales executive goes on to message Roth about mounting pressure Twitter is receiving to ban Trump following the suspensions from Facebook and Instagram. It mentions that Dorsey called for a permanent suspension on Trump if he violates policies
The sales executive questions if Twitter would be foregoing its long-time exception for important public figures, and Roth confirms that they are in this case


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The sales executive questions if Twitter would be foregoing its long-time exception for important public figures, and Roth confirms that they are in this case
Along with justifying its decision to ban Trump, Roth also appeared to push for the permanent suspension of US Rep. Matt Gaetz in order to build an argument for booting the former president.
Gaetz had seen his Twitter account restricted last year violating policies against glorifying violence when he called on Antifa members to be hunted down, and during the uproar to ban Trump, an employee messaged Roth about calls to ban Gaetz.
Roth said that people were working on that, but that 'it doesn't quite fit anywhere.'
The Twitter files also revealed that the company inadvertently affected unrelated tweets when trying to suppress posts from the far-right conspiracy theory group, QAnon.
Twitter at the time was working to suppress tweets making the unfounded claims that the 2020 election was rigged, targeting phrases like 'Stop the Steal' and 'Kraken.'
The latter of which referred to Trump-aligned attorney Sidney Powell's vow to 'release the Kraken' when reiterating voter fraud claims, a term popularized by QAnon.
Roth and an employee acknowledge that an error was made blacklisting 'kraken,' as both the mythical sea monster and a cryptocurrency exchange share the name.
Along with the ban for Trump, Twitter appeared to be ready to ban US US Rep. Matt Gaetz, who had his account restricted for glorifying violence on the platform


Along with the ban for Trump, Twitter appeared to be ready to ban US US Rep. Matt Gaetz, who had his account restricted for glorifying violence on the platform
The Twitter files also revealed that the company inadvertently affected unrelated tweets when trying to suppress posts from the far-right conspiracy theory group, QAnon


The Twitter files also revealed that the company inadvertently affected unrelated tweets when trying to suppress posts from the far-right conspiracy theory group, QAnon
The newest Twitter files build on the previous batch, where it was revealed that federal authorities nudged Roth to suppress the First Amendment rights of conservative commentators who pushed the idea of fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
The leaks from journalist Matt Taibbi also show the tech giant's staffers openly discussed banning former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee over a joke.
Taibbi tweeted a screengrab of a message between Twitter executives following a report from the FBI highlighting tweets from former Tippecanoe County, Indiana, official and Republican, John Basham.
Basham alleged between two and 25 percent of ballots by mail were being rejected due to 'errors.'
He later tweeted: 'An unexpected number of registered Republicans are returning ballots,' while alleging the vote by mail had been a Democratic Party plan to gain an advantage in the election.
Former Tippecanoe County, Indiana, official and Republican, John Basham's tweets alleging election fraud were flagged by Twitter staff


Former Tippecanoe County, Indiana, official and Republican, John Basham's tweets alleging election fraud were flagged by Twitter staff
Rather than remove the tweet, Roth opts to place a 'Learn how voting is safe and secure' label on the message.
Roth, who quit his role at Twitter last month following Musk's takeover, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com on Saturday.
Basham responded to the leak on Twitter saying: 'The Twitter files show that the FBI violated my First Amendment right by getting Twitter to take action against my tweets!
'The federal government has no right to determine what I may print or what I may say.'
Musk defended the FBI in a tweet that read: 'With rare exception, the FBI seems to want to do the right thing.'
He did concede that under Twitter's former leaders the company 'operated as s Democratic Party activist machine.'
One exchange shows Roth explaining he will miss 'the FBI and DHS meetings.'


Roth is seen joking about a mysterious meeting on his calendar, saying it is 'DEFINITELY not a meeting with the FBI I SWEAR¿



One exchange (left) shows Roth explaining he will miss 'the FBI and DHS meetings.' Roth is also seen joking (right) about a mysterious meeting on his calendar, saying it is 'DEFINITELY not a meeting with the FBI I SWEAR'
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's joke about his dead grandparents voting in 2020 was also flagged by Twitter staff


Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's joke about his dead grandparents voting in 2020 was also flagged by Twitter staff
In another case, when former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee joked: 'Stood in the rain for hour to early vote today. When I got home I filled my stack of mail-in-ballots and then voted the ballots of my deceased parents and grandparents. They vote just like me! #Trump2020.'
On Slack, one Twitter staffer said: 'Putting this tweet on everyone's radar. This appears to be a joke but other people might believe it. Can I get your weigh in this?'
Roth says in the conversation: 'It's a joke' but also says that Huckabee is 'literally admitting in a tweet to a crime.'
He went on: 'Yeah. I could see us taking action under 'misleading claims that cause confusion about the established laws, regulations, procedures, and methods of a civic process' but it's not one that we could really label in a useful way, so it's removal (of a stupid and ill-advised joke) or nothing.'
Roth added: 'I'm maybe inclined not to remove without a report from voting authorities given it's been a while since he tweeted it and virtually all of the replies I'm seeing are critical/counterspeech.'
The documents released Friday primarily related to the months prior to the January 8, 2021 decision to ban Donald Trump from Twitter. Trump is seen on January 6 prior to the Capitol riot


The documents released Friday primarily related to the months prior to the January 8, 2021 decision to ban Donald Trump from Twitter. Trump is seen on January 6 prior to the Capitol riot
Staffers at Twitter argued that 'historical context' and 'current climate' should factor into the decision to suspend Trump's account ahead of his January 8, 2021 ban


Staffers at Twitter argued that 'historical context' and 'current climate' should factor into the decision to suspend Trump's account ahead of his January 8, 2021 ban
The previous Twitter thread also covered the months and weeks leading up to then-President Donald Trump's ban from Twitter following the Capitol riot, shedding light on the increasingly frenzied internal efforts within the social media site to moderate his baseless claims of election fraud.
Some of the most intriguing documents relate to the apparent cozy relationship between top Twitter executives and the FBI, though Taibbi did not reveal any direct evidence of the agency's intervention in the decision to ban Trump.
In an undated chat on the messaging app Slack that Taibbi says took place after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, Roth is seen joking about a mysterious meeting on his calendar, saying it is 'DEFINITELY not a meeting with the FBI I SWEAR'.
A separate message mentions 'a report from the FBI concerning 2 tweets,' which appeared to relate to claims about ballot fraud in the November 2020 election.
The message notes that one of the tweets, claiming mail-in ballots were being 'shredded', was adjudicated false, but that the second one claiming up to 25 percent of mail-in ballots were being 'rejected for errors' was found to be within Twitter policy.
 

From the Twitter Files: Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb secretly pressed Twitter to hide posts challenging his company's massively profitable Covid jabs​

Link: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/from-the-twitter-files-pfizer-board?r=2seug

[see vid at site link, above]

To funnel his demands, Gottlieb used the same Twitter lobbyist the White House did - fresh evidence of overlap between the company selling mRNA shots and the government forcing them on the public.​


Alex Berenson
14 hr ago

On August 27, 2021, Dr. Scott Gottlieb - a Pfizer director with over 550,000 Twitter followers - saw a tweet he didn’t like, a tweet that might hurt sales of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines.
The tweet explained correctly that natural immunity after Covid infection was superior to vaccine protection. It called on the White House to “follow the science” and exempt people with natural immunity from upcoming vaccine mandates.
It came not from an “anti-vaxxer” like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but from Dr. Brett Giroir, a physician who had briefly followed Gottlieb as the head of the Food & Drug Administration. Further, the tweet actually encouraged people who did not have natural immunity to “Get vaccinated!”
No matter.
By suggesting some people might not need Covid vaccinations, the tweet could raise questions about the shots. Besides being former FDA commissioner, a CNBC contributor, and a prominent voice on Covid public policy, Gottlieb was a senior board member at Pfizer, which depended on mRNA jabs for almost half its $81 billion in sales in 2021. Pfizer paid Gottlieb $365,000 for his work that year.
Gottlieb stepped in, emailing Todd O’Boyle, a top lobbyist in Twitter’s Washington office who was also Twitter’s point of contact with the White House.
The post was “corrosive,” Gottlieb wrote. He worried it would “end up going viral and driving news coverage.”


(SOURCE: Twitter)
I found the email in a search of records I ran at Twitter last week - part of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” effort to raise the veil on censorship decisions Twitter made before Musk bought the company in October.
I went into detail about my involvement at the Twitter Files in a Substack article yesterday. I plan more reporting on the files in the weeks to come.

Through Jira, an internal system Twitter used for managing complaints, O’Boyle forwarded Gottlieb’s email to the Twitter “Strategic Response” team. That group was responsible for handling concerns from the company’s most important employees and users.
“Please see this report from the former FDA commissioner,” O’Boyle wrote - failing to mention that Gottlieb was a Pfizer board member with a financial interest in pushing mRNA shots.
A Strategic Response analyst quickly found the tweet did not violate any of the company’s misinformation rules.
Yet Twitter wound up flagging Giroir’s tweet anyway, putting a misleading tag on it and preventing almost anyone from seeing it. It remains tagged even though several large studies have confirmed the truth of Giroir’s words.


(SOURCE)

A week later, on Sept. 3, 2021, Gottlieb tried to strike again, complaining to O’Boyle about a tweet from Justin Hart. Hart is a lockdown and Covid vaccine skeptic with more than 100,000 Twitter followers.
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but a viral pathogen with a child mortality rate of <>0% has cost our children nearly three years of schooling,” Hart had written.
Why Gottlieb objected to Hart’s words is not clear, but the Pfizer shot would soon be approved for children 5 to 11, representing another massive market for Pfizer, if parents could be convinced Covid was a real threat to their kids.
O’Boyle referred to “former FDA Commissioner Gottlieb” when he forwarded the report, again ignoring Gottlieb’s current work for Pfizer.
This time, though, Gottlieb’s complaint was so far afield that Twitter refused to act.

At the same time, Gottlieb was also pressing Twitter to act against me, as I disclosed on Substack on Oct. 13, 2022, drawing on documents that Twitter’s pre-Musk regime provided to me as part of my lawsuit against it. (Gottlieb’s action was part of a larger conspiracy that included the Biden White House and Andrew Slavitt, working publicly and privately to pressure Twitter until it had no choice but to ban me. I will have more to say about my own case and will be suing the White House, Slavitt, Gottlieb, and Pfizer shortly.)
The morning after I wrote that article, Gottlieb appeared on CNBC, the financial news channel where he is a contributor, and offered what at best was a seriously misleading explanation of his actions and his motives.
Gottlieb did not deny pressing Twitter on me - he could not, given the documents I had released the night before.
But in an interview with Joe Kernan of CNBC, Gottlieb said he had asked Twitter to act only because he was concerned if tweets raised the threat of violence against vaccine advocates.
“The inability of these platforms to police direct threats, physical threats about people, that’s my concern about what’s going on in that ecosystem,” Gottlieb said.


SOURCE
"I'm unconcerned about debate being made,” Gottlieb told Kernan. “I'm concerned about physical threats being made for people's safety."
In a tweet that morning, Gottlieb doubled down, writing:
Respectful debate and dialogue is one thing, and should be encouraged and protected. But there's no place for targeted harassment, and misleading dialogue which can instigate a small but persuadable group of people to make targeted and dangerous threats.
But Brett Giroir’s tweet about natural immunity was the definition of “respectful debate and dialogue.” And in his own email to Todd O’Boyle, Gottlieb did not raise any security concerns about it. He simply complained that it might wind up “driving news coverage.

Gottlieb is not just a Pfizer board member.
He is one of seven members of the board’s executive committee and the head of its regulatory and compliance committee, which oversees “compliance with laws, regulations, and internal procedures applicable to pharmaceutical sales and marketing activities.”
Pfizer has a long history of violating drug industry laws and ethics rules. In 2009, it agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in American history, for fraudulently marketing several drugs. In 1996, it conducted a clinical trial of an antibiotic in Nigeria in which 11 children died and which became the inspiration for John le Carre’s novel The Constant Gardner.


So how will Pfizer react to the black-and-white proof from Twitter’s records that one of its most powerful board members secretly tried to suppress debate on the mRNA jabs that have has been by far its best-selling product since 2020?
And will CNBC continue to let Gottlieb use it to mislead the public?
 

Robert F. Kennedy Joins Tucker Carlson to Discuss Lawsuit Against Trusted News Network (VIDEO)​

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Link: http://www.hideoutnow.com/2023/01/robert-f-kennedy-joins-tucker-carlson.html

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Robert Kennedy, Jr. joined Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night to discuss a lawsuit he filed against the Trusted News Initiative (TNI).
TNI is a partnership of several big news outlets the AP, Reuters, the Washington Post aligned with big tech companies like Facebook and Google and founded by the BBC. TNI has admitted its mission is to stop “the title wave of unchecked reporting that’s being piped through mainly digital platforms.” As Tucker Carlson reported, “The initiative has censored an awful lot of people, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Whom history will vindicate completely.”
On Tuesday night Robert Kennedy Jr., the founder of Children’s Health Defense Organization, discussed the lawsuit with Tucker Carlson.
Robert Kennedy Jr.: Thank you Tucker. You and I know that from the “Twitter Files” that… The White House and other government agencies were colluding with social media sites and with other news organizations to censor criticism of government policies.
This is something different. The Trusted News Initiative was a secretive cartel that involved the big legacy media companies that you mentioned, The Associated Press, Reuters, the Washington Post, the BBC, and also the social media platforms Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter…
…I think probably the more motivating purpose of the cartel was revealed in one of the memos that we have obtained from the BBC, which is to destroy their rivals in the independent media. The BBC memo says to the other groups, and it was BBC which is a – British government owned news network, and it was the one that orchestrated this secret collaboration, an anticompetitive collaboration. And what they said is, although we are ostensibly all rivals and competitors with each other, the existential threat to all of our business models comes from thousands of independent news sites who are now not only providing all this content that people are reading, but they’re also diminishing trust in our organizations. And, the way that we can destroy them, they called “stamp them out and choke them.”
The Children’s Health Defense Organization disclosed more on the lawsuit tonight.
Filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas-Amarillo Division, the lawsuit alleges these outlets partnered with several Big Tech firms to “collectively censor online news,” including stories about COVID-19 and the 2020 U.S. presidential election that were not aligned with official narratives regarding those issues.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include CHD, Kennedy, Creative Destruction Media, Trial Site News, Ty and Charlene Bollinger (founders of The Truth About Cancer and The Truth About Vaccines), Erin Elizabeth Finn (publisher of Health Nut News), Jim Hoft (founder of The Gateway Pundit), Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ben Tapper, a chiropractor.

Via Tucker Carlson Tonight. [see site link, above, top]
 

“Flaming Dumpster”: Musk May Need To ‘Tear Down’ Twitter Code And ‘Start From Scratch’​

by Zero Hedge
January 28th 2023, 7:44 am

Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/flam...ear-down-twitter-code-and-start-from-scratch/

Journalist Dave Rubin was allowed into Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters recently, where owner Elon Musk opened the kimono and allowed him vast access to the company’s operations.

When asked what he could share, Musk replied “anything that’s true.”



Below is Rubin’s Twitter thread detailing his findings:

I met with several engineers who were doing a deep dive on why my account and so many others seem to be absolutely crushed after that two or three week return to normalcy when Elon first took over. They still have more questions than answers, but they did learn a bunch of stuff.
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) January 26, 2023

Continued…Accounts aren’t just hit with labels that are obvious to insiders. They now found more “secret” labels which are causing shadowbans. My account was hit with all three; “Recent abuse strike,” “Recent misinformation strike”, “Recent suspension strike.” It’s unclear so far what these strikes actually do, but for sure they suppress views and recommendations, they are trying to figure out to what extent. I also had many innocuous tweets labeled NSFW or NSFA (not safe for ads) which affect visibility in the timeline. Also, there’s an entire KeyWord database so that machine learning makes sure not to promote violence, porn etc., but it’s a mess of overreaching words. Literally the word “gay” was on the KeyWord list which would make you not advertiser friendly and harm the tweet in the algo. Backing up for a sec, they found the “recent suspension strike” on my account most interesting because it was fro July 2022, when I was suspended for calling out @jordanbpeterson’s unjust suspension. So though suspension was reversed the action on the account remained.

Elon was bringing people in and out constantly and seems to be aware of pretty much every issue. He thinks maybe the entire code has to be torn down and start from scratch. At the end last night he said that the whole situation is “a flaming dumpster rolling down the street.” pic.twitter.com/bTdNmbX5Ks
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) January 26, 2023

So I assure you they are aware of the problems and Elon and engineers are there all night trying to untie this crazy knot. Some changes they’ve made, like the “For You” tab, have confused people and hurt engagement for accounts who have gotten the NSFA label without knowing.






They also don’t know for sure why things got so much better once Elon made the acquisition and why it seems far worse now. Some is probably related to excitement around Elon himself, which also coincided with World Cup, but that doesn’t explain why it feels so off right now.

Will share more in bit but have to catch a flight.

Closing remarks

On a personal note Elon is funny as hell, laughs a ton and it’s just really obvious he cares about Twitter because he cares about free speech and the bigger problems facing the world. He doesn’t need this headache, he chose it.

Also huge shout out to @DavidSacks who is helping Elon clean up this mess because he believes in the fight for free speech as much as Elon does. And massive thanks to the engineers who opened up their computers, showed me literally everything I asked for, and were total pros.

Oh, one either thing for now…

Elon really lit up when we talked about the shifting political landscape and how anyone non-woke is now “far right.”

That notion is deeply connected to how screwy thing got at Twitter and he’s working to fix it despite the huge challenges ahead.
And frankly they gotta get that company out of SF…

And frankly they gotta get that company out of SF… https://t.co/5FbcSibQRe
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) January 26, 2023

What’s also really crazy now having seen under the hood is that Jack Dorsey repeatedly said they don’t shadowban.The entire machine behind Twitter is designed to shadowban. It’s almost as if that was the primary goal rather than the product itself.

Perfect illustration of how crazy things are. A friend just sent the to me, watch the RT’s go up and then suddenly go down. @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/3Q0T7AcEMs
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) January 26, 2023

Perfect illustration of how crazy things are. A friend just sent the to me, watch the RT’s go up and then suddenly go down. And as Musk himself says, this is an:

Accurate thread
— Mr. Tweet (@elonmusk) January 26, 2023
 

Congress Is Set To Expose What May Be The Largest Censorship System In US History​

BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, FEB 06, 2023 - 12:20 PM
Authored by Jonathan Turley,

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/political...t-may-be-largest-censorship-system-us-history

Below is my column in the Hill on the first hearings this week to be held by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. It could be one of the most consequential investigations for free speech in decades if it pulls back the curtain on government censorship programs. After the historic release of the Twitter Files by Elon Musk, questions remain on any similar coordination with other social media companies with federal agencies like the FBI to target views considered “disinformation” or “misinformation.”

Here is the column:
This coming week a new House select subcommittee will hold its first hearing on the FBI and the possible “weaponization” of government agencies. A variety of such controversies have contributed to plunging public trust in government and the FBI in particular.
The role of the FBI in prior scandals will remain a point of heated debate in Congress. However, members of both parties should be able to agree on the need to investigate one of the most serious allegations: Censorship by surrogate.
Many of the allegations of FBI bias are worthy of investigation. Some of those allegations are problems of personnel who can be removed. But a far more menacing problem has emerged in recent months with the release of information from Twitter.
The “Twitter files” revealed an FBI operation to monitor and censor social media content — an effort so overwhelming and intrusive that Twitter staff at one point complained internally that “they are probing & pushing everywhere.” The reports have indicated that dozens of FBI employees worked on the identification and removal of material on a wide range of subjects and that Twitter largely carried out their requests.
Nor was it just the FBI, apparently. Emails reveal FBI figures like a San Francisco assistant special agent in charge asking Twitter executives to “invite an OGA” (or “Other Government Organization”) to an upcoming meeting. A week later, Stacia Cardille, a senior Twitter legal executive, indicated the OGA was the CIA, an agency under strict limits regarding domestic activities.
Twitter’s own ranks included dozens of ex-FBI agents and executives, including James Baker, who featured greatly in prior FBI instances of alleged bias.
The Twitter files also show various FBI offices monitoring social media and flagging “misleading” information on various subjects.
The dozens of disclosed emails are only a fraction of Twitter’s files and do not include still-undisclosed but apparent government coordination with Facebook and other social media companies. Much of that work apparently was done through the multi-agency Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), which operated secretly it seems to censor citizens.
Ironically, during the outcry over establishing a Disinformation Governance Board at the Department of Homeland Security, Biden administration officials had to have known they already were employing an extensive censorship system. When the administration finally relented and disbanded the disinformation board, that censorship work appears to have continued unimpeded through the FITF and agency censors.
According to reports, one email in August 2022 sent “long lists of newspapers, tweets or YouTube videos” deemed to be voicing “anti-Ukraine narratives.” Even satirical and comedy sites reportedly were pegged by the social media police.
What is most striking is that the FBI was not responding to false claims about its operations. Instead, these censorship demands were the result of policing “misinformation” and “disinformation” on subjects ranging from political corruption to elections.
Some apologists continue to defend this process, saying the FBI was only objecting to disinformation the way that citizens did on Twitter. That is not true; the government reportedly used back channels and regular meetings to flag unacceptable statements. Indeed, even if it were true, many things are more dangerous when done by government. When your neighbor attacks your opinion, it is just the crank next door. But when it is your government on the attack, it is far more threatening and stigmatizing.
Even if this operation did not cross the constitutional line, there are ample reasons why a democracy does not want the government in the business of targeting those whom it views as misleading or misinforming the public. While the FBI has every reason to pursue criminal fraud, this operation appears to have targeted speech it deemed harmful to political or social discourse.
For years, many politicians and pundits have dismissed free-speech concerns by noting that the First Amendment only applies to the government.
So long as corporations do the censoring, they contend, it is not a free-speech problem.
This obviously is wrong on several fronts.
The First Amendment is not the exclusive measure of free speech. Corporate censorship of political commentaries or news stories are denials of free speech that harm our democratic system.
Second, this is a First Amendment violation. The Twitter files have substantiated long-standing concerns over “censorship by surrogate” or proxy. As with other amendments like the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches or seizures, the government cannot use private agents to do indirectly what it cannot do directly. Just as a police officer cannot direct a security guard to break into an apartment and conduct a search, the FBI cannot use Twitter to censor Americans.
To be fair, there were occasions when Twitter reportedly balked at government demands for raw political censorship — in one case, a demand by Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Cal.) led a frustrated Twitter censor to object that “We don’t do this.”
Nevertheless, Twitter’s management certainly now seems to admit that the company worked as an agent of the FBI and carried out most demands for social media suspensions, removals or blocks of individuals. At the same time, the FBI pushed for closer collaboration on content removal.
We do not know the full extent of this operation or its impact, but Congress should want to know if the FBI and other agencies created a system of censorship-by-surrogate. The only reason we now have Twitter’s previously secret communications is because an eccentric billionaire bought the company.
The broader effort with other companies could well constitute the largest censorship program ever run by the government — a system designed to escape both public and judicial scrutiny. It also shows how it is no longer necessary to have a “Ministry of Information” to maintain a state media: You can have an effective state media by consent rather than by coercion or control.
The FBI’s response to disclosure of these long-secret communications is particularly chilling. When some critics denounced it as raw censorship, the FBI accused them of being “conspiracy theorists … feeding the American public misinformation.” So, criticism of the FBI’s work to censor citizens resulted in an official statement denouncing those citizens.
None of these denials or attacks succeed, however. The public understands the threat and strongly supports an investigation into the FBI’s role in censoring social media. Despite the push for censorship by some politicians and pundits, most Americans still want free-speech protections. It is in our DNA.
This country was founded on deep commitments to free speech and limited government — and that constitutional tradition is no conspiracy theory.
 

Twitter received ‘state-sponsored blacklists’ from US – Matt Taibbi​

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/572357-twitter-files-state-department/

A State Department-funded entity pushed the social media platform to ban users for spreading “disinformation”
Twitter received ‘state-sponsored blacklists’ from US – Matt Taibbi

The US State Department in Washington, DC, November 29, 2010 © AFP / Nicholas Kamm
The US State Department, both directly and through third-party organizations, pressed Twitter to censor American users for their non-existent connections to Russia, China, and Hindu nationalism, according to internal documents.
Published by journalist Matt Taibbi on Thursday, the latest ‘Twitter Files’ reveal that the company’s former trust and safety chief, Yoel Roth, was approached in 2021 and given a list of 40,000 accounts suspected of engaging in “inauthentic behavior” in support of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
The list was provided by the ‘Digital Forensics Research Lab’ at the Atlantic Council, a think tank funded by the US State Department’s ‘Global Engagement Center’ (GEC), as well as a host of NATO governments and weapons manufacturers.
According to the files, Roth investigated the list and found that “virtually all appear to be real people” rather than Indian bots, while Taibbi contacted several and learned that they were “ordinary Americans” with no connection whatsoever to Indian politics.

Created in the final year of the Obama administration, the GEC is a State Department entity that works with multiple US intelligence agencies to “counter foreign disinformation.” It is forbidden from operating within the United States, and recently had to cut its ties with a George Soros-backed NGO that was using its funding to target American conservative news sites.
While the list of supposed Hindu nationalists was given to Twitter via the Atlantic Council, the GEC directly passed other lists to the social media platform, including 500 accounts that were allegedly spreading Iranian “disinformation,” and 5,500 “Chinese accounts” engaged in “state-backed coordinated manipulation,” despite the fact that this latter list included multiple Western government accounts and at least three CNN employees.
Roth described the Chinese list as “a total crock,” while fellow employee Aaron Rodericks said it provided “more entertainment value than anything.”
Key ‘Russian bots’ claim was false – Twitter documents
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Key ‘Russian bots’ claim was false – Twitter documents

The GEC and its organizations tangentially connected to the State Department – such as the infamous ‘Alliance for Securing Democracy’ that published the ‘Hamilton68’ dashboard of “Russian bots” – had long pressed Twitter to crack down on allegedly Kremlin-connected accounts, but Roth told staff that it was impossible to detect “Russian fingerprints” on any of the accounts.
Instead, accounts that retweeted “news sources linked to Russia” were considered Kremlin-sponsored. One list handed to Twitter by the GEC considered membership in France’s anti-government ‘Yellow Vests’ movement as “being Russia-aligned.”
While Twitter’s executives may have been skeptical of the GEC’s ‘blacklists’, the US media was not. Emails show that multiple news outlets and agencies – including the Associated Press – would receive reports from the organization, and then press Twitter to take action and ban the listed accounts.
“Reauthorization for GEC’s funding is up for a vote this year,” Taibbi wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “Can we at least stop paying to blacklist ourselves?”
 

WATCH: Kari Lake Describes What Happened When She Confronted MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski at Florida Airport​

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Link: http://www.stationgossip.com/2023/04/watch-kari-lake-describes-what-happened.html

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Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake recently ran into MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski at a F...​


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Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake recently ran into MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski at a Florida airport.​

While Scarborough was respectful, Brzezinski and an aide with them were not quite as dignified.
Ran into Joe & Mika from @MSNBC at the airport. @joenbc was fairly nice, but his wife @morningmika started recording me, called me a “Liar” & said I was “Delusional”
They constantly lie & disparage me on National TV. I wonder if they’d be brave enough to have me on their show? pic.twitter.com/2HZZSG9yDM
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) April 19, 2023

Lake discussed what happened during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast on Thursday.
“I happened to be at the airport in West Palm Beach, and I was leaving, and I happened to see Joe Scarborough. So I turned around and got on the escalator down, and he was heading into the restroom, and I said, ‘Hey, Joe!’ He was nice. He said, ‘Hey,’” Lake explained.

“I said, ‘You know, I just wanted to introduce myself because you guys spend an awful amount of time badmouthing me on your show, and I just wanted to put the human being behind the face that you guys kind of go after,’” she continued.
Brzezinski, instead of having a civil discussion, began recording Lake.
“Mika was not very pleasant. She started recording me, unbeknownst to me, which is fine. And when I called her out, are you recording this, she said yes. And Joe said, ‘Don’t do that.’ He was a little bit perturbed that she was recording. But I just said, ‘Look, I’m the human being behind the person you guys like to bash 24/7, and that’s ok. but I just wanted to introduce myself,’” Lake said.
Lake continued, “…and then her handler … said you’re a liar, you’re an election denier, and you’re delusional and all of this. And I said I’d love to come on your show and talk about it. And I’ve never lied once about elections. I’m speaking the truth about elections. I’m in this because I’m a mom who’s concerned about my children’s future. That’s why I got into politics.”
“So it was a rather interesting exchange. But I just thought I’d take the opportunity to introduce myself to these people because they seem to talk about me quite a bit. Joe Scarborough said actually we don’t badmouth you. We talk about what a talent you are. You are one of the great talents in all of politics. He was actually pretty nice. But Mika was not the most pleasant person,” she said.
 
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