‘RIDDLED’: Just how severely was Twitter in bed with the Feds? WAAAAY worse than you think.

by Fred T

It’s hard to believe, but the extensive and lengthy Twitter Files threads, including the most recent on the FBI, have barely scratched the surface of what it is now clear was a company operating in a pseudo-governmental capacity, limited the speech of American citizens, selectively by bias, and manipulating the public square well beyond just the app itself.

Twitter was not just the FBI’s co-conspirator or unofficial tech wing, it was absolutely “riddled”, as the New York Post’s Jon Levine put it, with “former” FBI.

Now this may seem like a generous blockquote from the New York Post’s article, but there is A TON more to read there. A lot of it is in the Twitter thread too.

Matthew Williams spent more than 15 years with the FBI, working mostly out of Seattle, where he served most recently as an intelligence program manager and senior supervisory intelligence analyst.

Williams joined Twitter in June 2020 — the same month as Baker — as a “senior director of product trust,” according to his LinkedIn. In June 2022 he moved into a more expansive position as “senior director of product trust, revenue policy, counsel systems & analytics at Twitter.” He noted this made him “co-lead of Trust & Safety.”

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Twitter staff before the Musk takeover were famously liberal, with 99% of employee campaign donations heading to Democratic candidates. Williams gave small but consistent amounts to Democrats running for federal office during his years at the company, Federal Election Commission records show.

Dawn Burton, a former federal prosecutor who served as deputy chief of staff to FBI boss James Comey, joined Twitter in September 2019 as director of strategy and operations and counsel organization, according to her LinkedIn and Bloomberg.

As a Comey insider, Burton would have been close to the agency’s Hillary Clinton email investigation as well as it’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections She continued to serve in her role after Comey’s ouster in May 2017 and the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

She also donated to Democrats. Burton left Twitter in July, before Musk’s takeover, and now works at Google.

Jeff Carlton worked for the FBI, CIA and as an intelligence officer for the US Marines before joining Twitter in May 2021. His now deleted LinkedIn account says he led “Twitter’s Strategic Response Team of 50+ employees/agents in resolving the highest-profile Trust & Safety escalation,” which served to promote “healthy public conversations.” In November 2021, he donated $100 to California Democratic House candidate Will Rollins.

Twitter’s Trust and Safety team was lead by Yoel Roth, the now disgraced former company censor and an architect of the platform’s expansive shadow-banning efforts. During the run-up the the 2020 presidential, Roth had regular meetings with the FBI, which he joked about, according to troves of internal communications recently released by Musk.

During the run-up the the 2020 presidential, Roth had regular meetings with the FBI.
“I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,” said Roth in a Dec. 21, 2020, declaration to the Federal Election Commission. “I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.”

Interesting observation:
https://twitter.com/EmilioBordeaux/status/1604130185472643073

They were doing censorship and violating the First Amendment. Not just in spirit, but in actuality. This is prosecutable and criminal and hey do you think anyone will do anything about it?

I don’t.

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