Official state propaganda
Adam Schiff's threat to social media: Continue to moderate content or congress will take punitive action.
Rep. Adam Schiff: "We've got a big problem right now with social media companies and their failure to moderate content and the explosion of hate on Twitter, the banning of journalists on Twitter. If you'll be responsible moderators of content, we will give you immunity."
Schiff's not-so-subtle real message to social media executives: If you don't continue to restrict or moderate conservative voices, we - the Democratic Party and Congress - will take punitive action against you and your companies. The threat alone will likely result in a continuation of the censorship against voices that dare contradict the approved 'official' narratives.
The sixth installment showed that "Twitter's contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary," wrote Matt Taibbi, one of the journalists enlisted by Twitter CEO Elon Musk to detail the findings, in the Friday thread. "Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth."
“The #TwitterFiles are revealing more every day about how the government collects, analyzes, and flags your social media content. Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,” Taibbi wrote on Friday.
The latest emails suggest that Twitter executive Yoel Roth and other executives were the ‘subservient’ party in the FBI/DHS/ODNI relationship. Roth wrote that Twitter had made clear that "official state propaganda is definitely a thing on Twitter."
Recall Elon Musk wrote that Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is.
The purpose of Schiff's public threat to social media executives is to keep the official state propaganda and censorship 'thing' going. It’s the only way anti-free speech and dishonest politicians like Adam Schiff can remain in power.
Yep, still the POS he was during previous Administrations....