Twitter Algorithm Reveals Tool for Government Intervention

Twitter Algorithm Reveals Tool for Government InterventionEric Lendrum – A researcher claims to have found a tool allowing for government intervention in Twitter’s algorithm, upon Elon Musk’s decision to allow the algorithm to become open sourced to the public.

Breitbart reports that Musk honored his promise on Friday by releasing a portion of Twitter’s recommendation algorithm on the website GitHub, where computer programmers often go to share and collaborate on work dealing with open-source code. Continue reading

Twitter Releases More Evidence of Government Censorship Operations

Twitter Releases More Evidence of Government Censorship OperationsJonathan Turley – An old saying, attributed to Henry David Thoreau, maintains that you do not have to find a trout in your glass to know someone is watering down the milk. This week Americans found a veritable school of trout in their milk — and a demonstration by the Biden administration of why such a gathering of trout is often called a “lie.”

In the 17th release of the “Twitter Files,” journalist Matt Taibbi disclosed that the U.S. government is funding a group that has supported the censorship of dissenting viewpoints on social media, including those of U.S. citizens. Continue reading

Washington Post Slammed Over Twitter Hit Piece

Washington Post Slammed Over Twitter Hit PieceJonathan Turley – Last week, there was another bombshell story by the Washington Post on the purported evil that is Elon Musk. Quickly amplified by MSNBC and other media, it was another hit job on Musk and could be viewed as what many in the media love to call “disinformation.”

Musk himself noted that the premise of the piece (that his tweets were artificially boosted during a recent period) was demonstrably false. Yet, the countervailing facts found little space in the long Post piece. None of that is particularly surprising.

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‘Shaddup,’ the Government Said

‘Shaddup,’ the Government SaidClarice Feldman – If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t find common factual ground with liberal friends, the reason may be that not only have private outfits worked successfully to censor news, but that government agencies as well, from the CDC to the CIA, have successfully censored it by proxy.

It’s not just the major media that have been corrupted by the government (acting as megaphones for government agencies and so fearful of offending their sources that they help them cover up wrongdoing), but the new media, which we had supposed would allow alternative sources of information to become more widely available, is severely compromised.

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Twitter colluded with feds to suppress Biden stories

Twitter colluded with feds to suppress embarrassing Biden storiesJohn Solomon – House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer alleged Wednesday that Big Tech giants are “under the control of people who are hostile to the fundamental American principles of free speech” and who have colluded with federal agencies to censor stories embarrassing to President Joe Biden and his family.

“We owe it to the American people to provide answers about this collusion to censor information about Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s business schemes,” Comer said in a statement prepared to be delivered at a committee hearing on censorship in America where executives from Twitter were set to be questioned. Just the News obtained excerpts of Comer’s opening statement. Continue reading