In the past week the mainstream media and U.S. government interests have collectively been in a state of apoplexy as Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter and began announcing changes.
As a result of the management change, there have been some new discoveries about the internal operations of the social media platform that are worth highlighting. [Background Context Here] Additionally, it seems likely that Musk’s focus on the technology side of the operation might soon lead to [¹]interesting discoveries. However, let’s start by reviewing information discovered in the management change.
First, it is important to recognize that Twitter is simply a massive global commenting and information sharing system. Twitter, the platform itself, does not provide any content, all content (comments, pictures, videos, links to articles etc) is provided by the users of the platform. In essence it is a big chat room or commenting system. The main point to remember is that Twitter does not provide any content, the platform simply provides the hosting system for the conversation itself.
♦ “Verification” – Individual accounts on Twitter could request to be ‘verified’ by Twitter to validate their identity as a specific user of the platform. This is the “blue check” process that assigns a blue check badge to the user upon verification.
Apparently, the verification badge morphed into some form of enhanced credibility for the user almost like a tiered social system or class system. The ‘Blue Checks’ considered themselves more important than the average user and that verification system then became something of a status symbol.
Inside the administration system of Twitter, the assignment of the verification badge became a tool for the Twitter admins to elevate some user accounts as more important than others.
However, apparently with the new management in place, it has been discovered that verification badge status was also for sale. For a secret fee, if you knew the right people, you could purchase a verified status. Of course, no one ever knew this before, and it seems very sketchy. [See comment above left]
Knowing that some users purchased their verification status, the apoplexy over Elon Musk deciding to allow any user to verify their status for an $8/month fee, now takes on a new perspective.
Obviously, the verified users who purchased their elevated status would feel ripped off if anyone could now get verified, that’s issue #1.
Issue #2 is the diminished level of importance of a ‘blue check’ badge or credential if it is available to anyone. The internal class system is removed.
This is the second point of contention amid those who are not happy with the verification proposed by Elon Musk. It sounds absurd, but the level of anger over this leveling of the caste system has led to claims of widespread verification status being called a national security threat.
Apparently, many of the ‘Blue Checks’ on Twitter are really full of themselves, and do not like the idea that under new management any of the unwashed masses could gain a verification badge. Combined with the knowledge that U.S. government and intelligence officials were part of the background Twitter discussion prior to Elon Musk, it would appear the ‘blue check’ system was akin to a verified user license, ID or passport.
It all sounds really weird, but that’s the type of internal dynamic that was ongoing within the platform.
♦ Next up, speech control. We discover from the people who were notified of their job loss, that Twitter had individual specialized groups or units within the admin functions who monitored the conversation.
There was a “climate change unit”, a “human rights” unit, a “public health” unit and various other moderation divisions within the platform.
These “units” are groups of people who monitored the public discussion with special interest. Again, for emphasis, Twitter never provided any content, so the workers in these units were simply conversation monitors or moderators who were tasked with reviewing, approving or removing comments (user content) specific to their unit specialty. This is where the censorship stuff originated.
If you posted a comment about the subject of climate change, your comment was subject to review by internal Twitter monitors who were authorized to control the comment itself. The same outlook applied to a host of subjects as defined by the Twitter organization. There are thousands of these conversation monitors, each with a specific subject they are assigned to monitor. Again, it sounds absurd, but that is what was taking place.
It is not yet fully understood how many different subjects were monitored by specialized thought police, but it seems to be a rather extensive network of very costly employees as moderators depending on the subject matter of the conversation being controlled. This reality explains why opinions or comments that ran counter to the ideological orthodoxy of the monitors were removed.
Again, a bizarre moderation system akin to conversation monitors being placed in the workplace lunchroom, each assigned to look out for discussion of topics they were assigned to control, and then correcting anyone who spoke about an issue in violation of the acceptable company opinion. It’s all just bizarre, but thousands of those jobs were what Elon Musk removed in last week’s wave of layoffs.
The removal of these conversation monitors, public comment moderators, is another big point of contention by the leftists who now fear that anyone will be able to speak on the platform without being censored or controlled.
The media and government officials are worried about seeing comments from government skeptics, election deniers, climate change deniers, or people in other countries with different social outlooks toward sex, gender, traditional marriage, religion or geopolitical worldviews that run counter to the interests of the United States government. This seems to be the foundation of the Intel Community claim about a national security threat created by the removal of moderators.
This level of conversational control explains why the U.S. government held a vested interest in Twitter as a global communication platform. Example: a Russian national might start to compare the FBI to the FSB, plant seeds of intellectual inquiry amid the U.S. reader/user and stir up discontent on a larger scale. Thousands of Twitter moderators were assigned to filter through the commenting system while various flags and algorithmic warnings were created to facilitate tight control.
The entire moderation system sounds like an Orwellian construct because it is.
Removing this level of control over the platform is what has made Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk a threat to the global order of things.
We’ll keep watching….
[¹My prior suspicions about the data-processing operating costs, govt subsidies and the specifics of the user container system Twitter operates to categorize accounts under the false financial justification of managing simultaneous user data processing demand, looks like it is going to be publicly confirmed very soon. The groupings of the user accounts into specifically tagged containers are the root of the Twitter engagement disparity that people have wondered about for years.]
Simply put, all information from the enemy MSM or Social Media platforms are hooey.
Once again Sundance “reading the seams on a fastball”.
“Trust but Verify!”
I’d say; “Verify, then Trust”.
Reagan was being too kind.
CONCUR. This is why we have so many people dying of the C19 injections. They trusted first despite the obvious problems with the experts and government officials being open and truthful.
The covid conversation and the stolen election conversation are two of the most controlled across all media, social and MSM.
It was easier for them to control the covid conversation because there was complete institutional effort to suppress any non-approved information all the way down to local governments, schools, and individual doctors.
People saw the election being stolen in real time, yet we are told to believe the “official” approved narrative and not our lying eyes.
Through willful blindness!!
…or they never trusted, but were forced to get the jab to put food on the table.
A lot of People have a strong tendency to trust ‘authorities’,,,,a few generally question authority.
Always been that way,,,,whcich enable society to work.
Or, as I pointed out to all of my family and friends (to no avail)
“you’re trusting the word of people that you KNOW have been lying to you your entire life?”
He was be ‘political’ in order to accomplish his goals. He was tough and strong, and knew what he was doing as much as you do not know.
I’d LOVE to be able to peek under the covers of Google’s search algorithms. Google has become our dictionary, encyclopedia, newspapers, magazines, brochures all in one, and EVERYONE thinks they are getting “information” when they do a search, but in reality, they are getting nothing but propaganda.
Wikipedia as well.
Robert Epstein has done extensive research into this, he’s warned that Google throws elections to the democrats (he is a Democrat himself but thoroughly disgusted by this arrangement), he’s been threatened and his wife was killed under mysterious circumstances. Great interview on Rogan, worth a listen.
Only those who use gugle.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/11/04/election-process-threat/
This appears to be a continuation of the “RussiaRussiaRussia” crap,,,,,to lead you to buy their services.
Theree is no reason to believe that there are not thousands or tens of thousands of the same type of workers in the federal government doing the exact same thing.
No question about it.
Everyone in the State Department.
“It’s all just bizarre, but thousands of those jobs were what Elon Musk removed in last week’s wave of layoffs.”
Agreed that one must assume, and Sundance must know, that this is what has/is happening. Why would anyone think it “bizarre” that there are/were thousands employed to do this?
Not unlike at FB, what do you think the vast majority of FB’s 87,000 employees do all day??????
In addition to coffee, lunch and pm wine, their job is to steer the conversation, by design.
The government cadre is in place to provide the daily guidance to the Social Media employee on the current direction required for each area of control.
Question everything! Pretty tough to verify when the choir is all singing in harmony!
They will probably be on the Gov payroll by January.
unexplained suicide is a hint.
If we take a look at what we know now about censorship, propaganda, and the big lie which is voter fraud, what would our country look like without these influences? (Trump got kicked out but his influences have brought light on corruption) All the lives lost who fought against our unjust tax system. Or FBI and others who destroy people for thinking and revealing corruption. How banking, insurance, pharmaceutical companies have taken over our lives and country, banks who submerse our population in debt, enslaved and taunted with debt freedom.
Think about this, without that heavy burden of debt people would not worship money as they do now. Life would be more of a free relaxed existence where ideas flowed freely. When you work your whole life and pay for a decent ending only to have government and banks steal everything in a moment, they have not been voted in, nobody agreed to that.
I am surprised musk is still alive, he is handing out the magic glasses like Roddy piper on the movie “They live”.
I am sure that there are government “employees” in every nook and cranny of their slimy, evil agencies that are paid to monitor speech. I am sure that they get bonuses for their performances in stifling the speech of those they hate. I see that the US Postal Service has gotten into the Cheat, Steal, and Suppress game by getting actively involved in mail-in ballots. What else could they do between elections? Monitor and suppress speech.
Why not. They know which house gets the NRA magazine and who gets NPR. Who gets the Trump mailers and if they return the fundraiser envelope.
Every institution has been captured.
I would add: “In EVERY Western Hemisphere Government and their Main Stream Media”
Just the GS ranked and above.
It’s called the Signature Reduction Force.
IMHO, the root of the issue: Twitter would have never been successful if there weren’t willing participants. Twitter employees are what public education has produced the last several decades.
We draw back in horror at the idea of various groups being tasked with monitoring various topics of conversation, then censoring, banning, doxxing, taking money under the table, etc. But, these young people, mostly, have been brainwashed into believing their work was of high “integrity”, as I’ve read some fired employees have posted. They are “proud” of the “work” they have done.
They seem to not understand any of our documented Rights under the U.S. Constitution (God given), which means they don’t support our Rights, and would willingly throw them in the garbage for a paycheck. This is what it has come to.
Generations of people who feel morally superior (like the good Germans did), and who would willingly sacrifice their countrymen for “the cause” – whatever the cause was – climate change, covid jabs, transgenderism, etc. They delighted in, with self-righteousness, the ruination of people and their businesses. They don’t even understand the basic true concept of Fascism. It’s stunning – the mind warp that has occured.
This is what should shock Americans to the core. It’s not just a “liberal point of view”. It is actual Communism. They’ve been ingrained with Communist beliefs and they don’t even get it. They parrot phrases they’ve learned, flip the meaning of words, and feel free to spew their actual hatred on their countrymen.
Every last one of them should be sacked, in my opinion.
They were largely raised and kept in the leftist cradle then transitioned over to a position in social media. They were perfect for the job because the lack of real life experiences prevents them from developing conscience, empathy or sympathy for others.
Unfortunately, these are not lost souls who will find the real world so repugnant that I expect to hear about suicides of these people before too long.
The anonymity of the internet makes it even easier to ruin other people’s lives.
It’s been interesting to watch Facebook and maybe Google and other tech companies scramble to get ahead of what is coming out of not only the Elon Musk Twitter buyout, but also the Missouri lawsuit that is pulling back the curtain on gvt censorship armies and legions tight coordination w tech cos.
Much will be revealed. All of it illegal.
Missouri and Louisiana. Schmitt and Landry.
Not sure why everyone drops Landry out of the equation. He is about to run for governor in LA and needs/deserves our support.
All of America’s present problems can be traced to the absurd educational system in the US. We have let far left unions run our schools and the proof is now obvious.
The biggest problem is the School of Education required attendance to get a teaching, guidance counselling or administrative credential. You can neuter the union by getting right to work laws passed in your state.
Georgia is right to work, we don’t have teachers unions, and you can get a teaching license by passing the test or getting hired directly with applicable subject matter expertise. I’m pleased with the results.
Start with destruction of intact, two-parent families and family life and that is how we have gotten to the degenerate and crazy reality in today’s schools, where educators “raise” our kids’ minds — or should I say “lower.”
The ends justify the means was so widespread during covid especially and the attempts to take out President Trump.
A lot of regular Americans ore okay with trampling other peoples rights if they think it’s justified and get what they want.
Well said. Lara Logan has been speaking out on this as well. She takes it a step much deeper. As they go after our children; castrating boys and butchering girls with their transgender idiocy, they go after the most innocent guiltless among us. They go after the very foundation of Jude’s/Christian belief. They are going against God himself. We are either fearfully and wonderfully made or we’re not. I don’t think this battle for the children will end well for these “demons.” It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the seathan that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. Luke 17:2
Definitely a lot of demon controlled people running around.
#millstones
They remind me of the young man from the movie, “The Sound of Music”. He was indoctrinated by the Nazis and was more than willing to tell the Nazis the whereabouts of the Von Trapp family who he knew and admired. It’s the same sick mentality.
I remember those scenes clearly. As a young person, I could never understand how he could or would turn in the family of the woman he supposedly loved. But the father knew.
One of the biggest issues here is the fact that the ENEmedia ignores and/or distorts the US Constitution. I just saw an election ad for FOX News titled “DEMOCRACY 2022.”
What “democracy” is FAUX referring to, exactly? Don’t these people understand that the USA is in fact a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC?
No wonder these brats are hired to censor free speech and subvert fair elections. They’ve conveniently “forgotten” our God-given freedoms, codified as our rights under the US Constitution!
Communist traitors all!
Take the Bill of rights.
Update the language, without in any way changing the meaning.
Print it up, and do “man on the street” interviews, saying “These are PROPOSED amendments, to the U.S. Constitution. Would you be FOR or AGAINST these amendments?”
Most would be against, and if you interviewed College Students, it would be 80-90 percent against.
Sad …
Interesting that there is no mention of shadow banning used for “speech control“? I’m certain it happened to me when I was on Twitter. So when President Trump was banned I deleted my account, no one was seeing my tweets anyway!
Twitter has never been profitable and loses millions of dollars each day. The only entity that can afford those losses is the US Government.
Not to be contentious, but the company generates around $5billion a year in ad revenue, and it’s been steadily growing. By comparison, Facebook generates over $100billion annually. I think in a few years under Musk we’ll see Twitter grow 10 times. That’s why the WSJ and WaPo are scared
OK, so if I paid $15k for a blue checkmark, who got the money? Did it go into general Twitter coffers, or was it an under-the-table payment to the schmuck who granted the checkmark? If the latter, that’s outright corruption.
Really? Who do you think kept the money(bribe)?
I honestly don’t know..
But I would like to know the chain of custody.
All Sundance says and describes is truly amazing. Yet, the following is the key sentence in the article to understanding the value of Twitter and other Social media assets to the US Government, especially the Deep State and/or 4th Branch of the US Government.
From Sundance’s article – “Twitter does not provide any content, the platform simply provides the hosting system for the conversation itself.”
A hosting system and platform = a controlled pathway
Twitter and similar Social Media are controlled Information INFRASTRUCTURE and PATHWAYS. Some pathways are open and public and controlled (i.e. Censored). Then other pathways are NOT PUBLIC, classified, controlled access. et al (i.e. CIA, DoD Targeting in Ukraine, Covert OPS elese where, 5-Eyes, US to China Inc. Comms, ….). Then link these pathways with satellites owned by Social Media Companies and the off the books network becomes visible.
Elon Musk is still a wild card and not yet a willing member of the club.
Elon Musk’s pathway stuff is the current pathway being used by the US Government and NATO as their C4I pathway as NATO “Volunteers” conduct combat operations in the Ukraine.
Maybe Musk’s job is to unwind the illegal activity FOR those responsible for Twitter.
It would cost a fortune to pay all those salaries, tax dollars no doubt) and it is clearly illegal. Maybe his job is to salvage what they can, now that it has been exposed.
“Elon Musk is still a wild card and not yet a willing member of the club.”
Maybe, maybe not. We’ll see.
“Elon Musk is still a wild card and not yet a willing member of the club.”
Musk receives government subsidies, at the very least, for Space X. Don’t forget about his desire to install a neural lace into everyone’s brain. He has club written all over him.
Another crack in the dam built by the NWO globalist scum. We’ll see what the IQ of our nation has become hopefully tomorrow or weeks after…………We’ve already caught some cheat in Tucson. We’ll see how it goes.
This doesn’t actually happen… but it should! 😁
I laughed.
Thanks for that!
Me too.
That’s hilarious.
It’ll be interesting to see how far the AIC allows Musk to expose the actual goings on inside their thought control unit knows as Twidder.
He’s still got most of his gravy coming from the deep state
He’s losing 4 mil a month so n he can’t be getting much help.
All this, for a new and improved Peyton Place. Sorry, I truly do NOT see the appeal of a gossip gathering place called twatter twit.
Most humans have a need to express thoughts, emotions and anger…even if done anonymously.
You commenting on this site proves you are one of those humans with that need…just as I am.
But this is comment on a specific article not the open narcissistic drivel on the “open” sites
Have you ever been to the Open Thread here at The Treehouse? I wouldn’t term it “Drivel”, “Narcissistic” or “Gossipy” but it is religious views, recipes, weather reports, philosophy, and DJ ing plus Cat stuff.
Humans are designed to be social creatures, to a greater or lesser degree. I don’t have a twitter account because I refuse to hand over my phone number, but I did/do have other social media accounts that are more or less active, that did not require such. I do not have the logisitical ability to socialize in person, but I do have a few very dear friends with whom I text and keep in communication via the internet.
Whenever you post a comment here, do you get a little jolt of “good feeling”, of ‘satisfaction’?
How about with you clic on “like” for another commenters post?
How often do you “come back” to a post you have made, to see how many “likes” you have, and do you get a “good feeling” if you have lots of ‘likes’?
Its called “Dopamine” its released by the brain, and its the main driver for all sorts of behavior, including addictions.
And, those who created the social media platforms, as well as computer games are well aware of this.
Its why their are no “dislike” buttons; no Dopamine.
And on computer games, every time you kill a zombie, or move up to the next level, you get a little shot.
What does this have to do with my comment?
I’m an older cat who survived most of my life without technology. I don’t miss what I never had to begin with.
For the younger generation, and especially for their children, highly-controlled social media is a very slippery slope to that AI world where every brain is hardwired into a super-computer somewhere.
First it was computers, beepers and remote phones, giving way to the smart phones, laptops and tablets.. and a gazillion apps.
Some pimply faced kid in Romania can now steal our computerized elections, run our electronic cars off the road, eavesdrop on our everyday lives via smart technology, etc.. not to mention dissect our habits, business and personal associations and shape our opinions via social media.
In my day, isolated young mothers found solace in neighborhood coffee klatches, bridge clubs and the occasional Jehovah’s witnesses. Now, 5G technology looms on the horizon of God-only-knows what giant leap for transhumanism.
Personally, I find it tragic that we as a society have so easily handed over our lives and our freedoms to this highly invasive, totalitarian way of life.
You know what I find tragic? That so many people are lacking in anything remotely approaching empathy or compassion that I have had to look to states and even countries away to find any kind of a support system. Of course, it’s a double-edged sword; I’m also exposed to people who criticize me for finding friendships in far-flung places…
It’s also rather sad that people use something good – something that connects people – to complain about that very thing. I have little patience for people who use the internet to communicate how much they dislike and don’t need the internet. Very well then. Log off, and leave those of us who do use it to use it in peace.
Stop being so unnecessarily grumpy and defensive and maybe you won’t have to look so far.
Btw… that’s a joke.
Yeah, I’ve heard that one before. I find myself rather tired of contorting my personality to meets the arbitrary requirements of what pleases other people.
Ditto Fakebook and Youtube
Next up.. start working on the media in general. The brainwashed, dead run amuck.
I run into people at the store who haven’t a clue why they can’t get a turkey and why a 14-16lb turkey is $139.00 on the Costco website.
Seriously?? More than 47 million birds have died due to cullings. This resulted in export bans, lowered egg and turkey production, and contributed to record prices of the staples ahead of the U.S. holiday season. The outbreak exacerbates the economic pain for consumers grappling with soaring “inflation”. But.. then again if you listen to Joy Reid we’re all to dumb to know what inflation means if it weren’t for the conservative propaganda. So glad the Republicans “taught” us what the word means.
Sheesh
I looked today. The cost is up to $150.00. I guess that’s the “Cost” in Costco.
I should have invested in turkey futures. Instead, I’m getting the bird. Thanks, Biden.
Seems like a lifetime ago but in reality only a couple years ago when I’d walk by the whole turkeys, not needing one for my tiny abode, that were offered for *free* if one bought 50 bucks in groceries.
Words escape me. Our founders weep.
Check Walmart
I had no clue about turkey prices as I hadn’t looked to buy one yet. Some folks are just busy with their day to day lives.
Hey Elon,
I appreciate all the work you are doing on the front end to return to trusted free speech by all but when are you going to tell the world how the BACKEND of Twitter is or was connected?
I don’t tweet but hope someone asks Elon this simple question.
more silos……..
The vast majority of people, including me, are not on Twitter. I’ve seen it and of course I’m aware of it but I find it disgusting for the most part. Imagine if Elon actually cleans it out and makes it fair to voice everyone’s opinion? That would be something myself, and I’ll bet alot of other people would be interested in. Hmmmm…. game changer? Possibly.
It’s too bad that Trump can’t give the government a good dose of the Musk Treatment.
Fire about 75% of the federal government employees on day one. Imagine the savings!
That’s what he should’ve done the first time around.
Yep he had his chance! Imagine the results if he had fired just 7% of the government workforce!
The POTUS is NOT anything like the CEO of a privately held company.
You are CEO, after a hostile takeover, but you can’t fire almost ANYONE, and any new people you bring in, must be approved by a committee that hates you, and is doing everything it can to insure you fail (McConnell and the Decepticons).
Virtually ALL of the employees view you, like the twits view Musk, and are dedicated to your destruction.
You can’t really trust ANYONE. And, you are bombarded 24/7 with negative mexia coverage, AND lawfare attacks dragging you into legal battles.
However, its difficult to get lawyers to represent you, because any that do are thrratened with having their law practices ruined, by losing clients.
Anyone who is associated with you, risks investigation by FBI, jail time and being bankrupted defending themselves.
But hey, “Trump should have fired them all, the first time.”
Yeah, right!
The ones in Senior Executive Service couldn’t be fired.
Bingo.
Will people go to prison? Mmmmm. Nope.
Just think all we worried about was if the phone was taped or nosey martha was listening at the switchboard
I’m a casual Twitter user. On my little account, I’ve noticed a tremendous uptick of “interaction” with other users, meaning people are seeing my tweets and responding to them.
Twitter is much like standing in an empty room talking to yourself. Due to shadow banning, you never knew who could actually see your posts, and you couldn’t see the others, either, unless they towed the Communist line.
This is akin to being blindfolded and gagged. Why would anybody choose to be subjected to it?
Can’t help wonder if the exposure is why Meta also rebranded and is having massive layoffs.
This is clearly an abuse of government that can’t be legal.
Sundance’s’ description of social media is fundamentally simple. “In essence it is a big chat room or commenting system.” .
He knows. He runs a smaller scale one here in his comment section. HIs analyses and breakdown of Twitter are letting more and more see depth and sinister nature of social media in an increasingly totalitarian world.
Building, scaling and deploying basic social media functionality should carry a price tag in the millions of dollars, not billions. In other words, at a high level these platforms are costing/spending many orders of magnitude more money than their basic functionality warrants.
That is because Twitter and Facebook are global propaganda machines, not text-based chat systems. To retain that level of control, they also have to be State aligned monopolies. In this case, global State monopolies.
One way to cut through the social media hyperbole, just replace the word “tweet” with the word “phone call”. Replace “Twitter” with “Verizon”. It is an oversimplification, but you may begin to see how deceptive and subversive social media really is.
Would you choose cellphone service from Verizon if you had to agree to T&Cs that allowed them to monitor, censor, block and re-route your phone calls? How about if they deleted voice mails or required you to provide government issued ID before placing calls? Would you stay with Verizon if they deliberately prevented you from calling anyone on AT&T or T-Mobile?
If Verizon moved to such a model we’d switch to AT&T or T-Mobile.
We’d not accept it for telephone communication. But when the information is digitized text instead of digitized voice, we gladly click “I Agree”
But what if the State then colluded with Verizon to ensure it’s services, free of charge, became a global telephony monopoly? We’d soon be accepting the censorship or talking within increasingly smaller calling circles.
sDee,
Good analogy, but you left something out.
The T&C’s enable them to monitor all your calls, compile data on every aspect of your life, and sell that data to the highest bidder.
Remember, “Its all about the DATA!”
Thus in fact Twitter was providing content by removing or fact-checking what users said.
They had everyone convinced they were doing it with highly sophisticated “Artificial Intelligence” software. That was BS. It was hordes of overpaid minions in a dark room. Now the globalist financiers know that BigTech has been blowing AI smoke up their butts.
Yyyyyyy yep
Just a little note: Jack’s new venture “Bluesky” is actually an “agency” program with the same name. All the three letter agency did was set him up in a new biz to continue the old biz. How quaint..eh?
Blue sty.
Just shows that the downsizing needs to extend to Federal workers.
If all of this was going on at Twitter and Twitter couldn’t make any money from this activity, imagine the numbers of tech crapsters who are working for Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Apple, all of the MSM, and other notable censorship platforms. I doubt that this political manipulation is ever going to be fixable.
What a wonderful world Big Tech has imagined for all of us. No? Vote tomorrow like your life depends on it!
Thank you, Sundance!
(Suspicious Cat will have goodies in the Christmas stocking this year, I think)
Sounds like something that came out of the Soviet Union, Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Twitter’s Commissariat for State Security!
And yet, they couldn’t do anything about the child exploitation accounts. Priorities, I guess.
^^THIS^^
Go to Truth Social instead.
Has there been any affirmation from this company that any and all external entities have been disconnected from their platform? No backdoors, no secret portals, no phony credentialing, nothing. Not that I would necessarily believe it, even now.
Remember that the hero in George Orwell’s novel 1984 was employed in a vast government controlled information monitoring department that was in charge of bringing news items and older historical items in the memory banks of computers into line with the currently approved narrative of “history”.
People better start moving 1984 from the fiction shelf to the non-fiction shelf in their library–and re-read the damn thing.
Nice work as always, as we suspected the system was designed to be biased. The management & board deserved to be removed.
Can someone please clarify the footnote for me? I understand the free access (or very cheap access) to government servers part. I don’t understand “false financial justification” nor the last sentence about engagement disparity.
The value of twitter is in the data. The business model is selling that data or at least access to it for training AIs, advertising, govt intel collection, etc. To the extent the data is moderated, I would think its value decreases since that creates a distortion. A secondary business model revolves around users who attempt to establish their own hierarchies of “influencers” which they then monetize. The blue check being one manifestation of that. Actually from a purely financial view being on Tik-Tok is probably more beneficial than the blue check, which is more psychological ego-stroking than financial.
Shouldn’t everyone be verified?
I wonder how much they hit Elon up for on his blue check.
Exactly. Lying by omission, is still lying.
MSM is a master at lying by omission.
Trump hater Kathy Griffin was just banned for life from Twitter. What goes around comes around!
Makes sense. Censorship and unfettered access to users uttering unapproved tweets, for subsidized infrastructure. Outsourced surveillance and censorship.
Elon should be able to sue the entire previous board and owners for this and win easily.
According to Brett Weinstein, Blue Check users can also enter a filter mode that only shows other blue checkers. its a quiet mode, bot free.
I’m curious as to how those $15,000 Blue Check accounts were done. Did the money go to the company coffers or were they payoffs to individuals? I’m sure that business practice was disclosed prior to the sale of the company to Elon and in the records given to the SEC prior to the sale.? /s