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In a congressional hearing this week, OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman, appeared to be on the same page as lawmakers: It's time to regulate A.I. But like so many other proposals to regulate tech, will it actually happen? The Times's technology reporter Cecilia Kang helps us understand whether Congress will actually act, and what that could look like.Then, Casey talks with Twitter's former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, before and after Elon Musk took over the company.On today's episode:Cecilia Kang is a reporter at The New York Times covering technology and regulation.Yoel Roth is the former head of trust and safety at Twitter.Additional reading:Sam Altman urged Congress to pass legislation to regulate A.I., including the proposal that A.I. developers should be required to get licenses from the U.S. government to release their models.Casey Newton reported for This American Life on Roth's time at Twitter, before and after Musk took over. 

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (03/29/2023): 3:05pm- On Monday, a 28-year-old assailant killed six people, including three children at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee—a private Christian elementary school. The alleged shooter was a former student of the school and identified as a transgender man. While speaking with members of the press, Nashville Police Chief John Drake said that investigators have not yet confirmed a motive for the attack. In her latest article, Katherine Fung of Newsweek documents objections to the public release of the shooter's manifesto—citing “concerns from LGBTQ+ groups.” In the past, these types of manifestos have always been made available to reporters and the public. Is it ever a good idea to allow government officials to withhold pertinent information? You can read the aforementioned article here: https://www.newsweek.com/audrey-hale-manifesto-release-raises-major-concerns-among-lgbtq-groups-1790938 3:15pm- Many media outlets and far-left commentators, outlandishly, have suggested that Republican policies placing restrictions on drag shows for minors and gender-affirming surgeries for children led to the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, TN. 3:30pm- On Wednesday, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed legislation—HB 2171—that will ban unequal restrictions on places of worship during state emergencies. 3:40pm- On MSNBC, host Nicolle Wallace and guests former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi, Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, and analyst John Heilemann espoused conspiratorial lunacy suggesting that 2nd Amendment proponents value their own priorities over the safety of school children. 3:50pm- While speaking with reporters outside of the White House, President Joe Biden was asked if he believed Christians were targeted by the Covenant School shooter in Nashville, TN. After learning that conservative Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) expressed a belief that Christians had been targeted, Biden then stated: “I probably don't then.” 4:05pm- The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board documented a “strange house call” the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made to independent journalist Matt Taibbi's home—unannounced “the same day Mr. Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.” The WSJ Editorial Board writes, “[t]he taxman left a note instructing Mr. Taibbi to call the IRS four days later. Mr. Taibbi was told in a call with the agent that both his 2018 and 2021 tax returns had been rejected…the curious timing of this visit, on the heels of the FTC demand that Twitter turn over names of journalists, raises questions about potential intimidation.” Read the full editorial here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-matt-taibbi-twitter-files-jim-jordan-daniel-werfel-lina-khan-84ee518?mod=hp_opin_pos_2#cxrecs_s 4:10pm- While appearing on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said it was “scary stuff” to learn that the IRS showed up to the home of journalist Matt Taibbi. 4:35pm- In his most recent report for Tablet, journalist Jacob Siegel documents government-driven censorship on social media platforms. Siegel writes: “A new outfit called Hamilton 68 claimed to have discovered hundreds of Russian-affiliated accounts that had infiltrated Twitter to sow chaos and help Donald Trump win the election. Russia stood accused of hacking social media platforms, the new centers of power, and using them to covertly direct events inside the United States. None of it was true. After reviewing Hamilton 68's secret list, Twitter's safety officer, Yoel Roth, privately admitted that his company was allowing ‘real people' to be ‘unilaterally labeled Russian stooges without evidence or recourse.'” You can read his full investigative report here: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation 5:00pm- The Drive at 5: Dr. Wilfred Reilly—Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University & Author of “Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest National Review editorial, “Robin DiAngelo and Scott Adams: Double Standard on Race.” PLUS is basic math racist? According to a presentation by Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association's (OMCA) President Jason To, “2+2 = 4” is a dog whistle for white supremacy. You can read Dr. Reilly's full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/03/the-scott-adams-scandal-in-reverse-proves-our-racial-double-standard/ 5:35pm- While appearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin denied that military bases are funding programs like “drag queen story hour”—despite evidence presented by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that suggested otherwise. 5:50pm- While appearing on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Senator Rand Paul stated: “I'm 100% confident that Fauci lied to us.” He went on to explain that because former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci is still technically working on behalf of the federal government, he may be eligible to receive legal protection from the government. 5:55pm- During a House hearing on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she could not explain why IRS agents showed up to the home of independent journalist Matt Taibbi the same day he was scheduled to testify before Congress. 6:05pm- In a series of Tweets, political commentator Greg Price highlighted the “terrifying” details hidden within the bipartisan Bill S.686—the proposed legislation to ban TikTok known as The RESTRICT Act. According to some reports, it gives federal government officials the authority to access and monitor the personal accounts (including emails and texts) of anyone they deem a risk. Equally astounding, a minimum fine of $250,000 and 20 years in prison could be brought against any who illegally access banned applications, like TikTok, through a virtual private network (VPN). 6:35pm- Is Rich going to dress up as Cher and sing “If I Could Turn Back Time”? Maybe. 6:40pm- During her Wednesday press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked whether the Biden Administration would endorse some form of “gun confiscation”—she failed to confirm or deny that it could be an ambition of the administration.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board documented a “strange house call” the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made to independent journalist Matt Taibbi's home—unannounced “the same day Mr. Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.” The WSJ Editorial Board writes, “[t]he taxman left a note instructing Mr. Taibbi to call the IRS four days later. Mr. Taibbi was told in a call with the agent that both his 2018 and 2021 tax returns had been rejected…the curious timing of this visit, on the heels of the FTC demand that Twitter turn over names of journalists, raises questions about potential intimidation.” Read the full editorial here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-matt-taibbi-twitter-files-jim-jordan-daniel-werfel-lina-khan-84ee518?mod=hp_opin_pos_2#cxrecs_s While appearing on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said it was “scary stuff” to learn that the IRS showed up to the home of journalist Matt Taibbi. In his most recent report for Tablet, journalist Jacob Siegel documents government-driven censorship on social media platforms. Siegel writes: “A new outfit called Hamilton 68 claimed to have discovered hundreds of Russian-affiliated accounts that had infiltrated Twitter to sow chaos and help Donald Trump win the election. Russia stood accused of hacking social media platforms, the new centers of power, and using them to covertly direct events inside the United States. None of it was true. After reviewing Hamilton 68's secret list, Twitter's safety officer, Yoel Roth, privately admitted that his company was allowing ‘real people' to be ‘unilaterally labeled Russian stooges without evidence or recourse.'” You can read his full investigative report here: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation

The First Amendment prohibits the U.S. government from censoring speech. In this episode, drawing from internal Twitter documents known as “the Twitter files” and Congressional testimony from tech executives, former Twitter employees, and journalists, we examine the shocking formal system of censorship in which government employees are using their influence over private companies to indirectly censor speech in a way that they are clearly prohibited from doing directly. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536. Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! View the shownotes on our website at https://congressionaldish.com/cd270-the-twitter-files Background Sources Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD224: Social Media Censorship CD141: Terrorist Gifts & The Ministry of Propaganda (2017 NDAA) CD113: CISA is Law The Twitter Files "Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary.” Matt Taibbi. Jan 4, 2023. Racket News. Matt Taibbi “The Democrats' Disastrous Miscalculation on Civil Liberties.” Matt Taibbi. Mar 12, 2023. Racket News. “#1940 - Matt Taibbi.” Feb 13, 2023. The Joe Rogan Experience. Hunter Biden Laptop Story “Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad.” “13. They did the same to Facebook, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. ‘The FBI basically came to us [and] was like, “Hey... you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in 2016 election. There's about to be some kind of dump similar to that”'” [tweet]. Michael Shellenberger [@ShellenbergerMD]. Dec 19, 2022. Twitter. Influence, Propaganda, and Censorship “From the Twitter Files: Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb secretly pressed Twitter to hide posts challenging his company's massively profitable Covid jabs.” Alex Berenson. Jan 9, 2023. Unreported Truths. “Twitter Aided the Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign.” Lee Fang. December 20, 2022. The Intercept. “Facebook, Twitter dismantle a U.S. influence campaign about Ukraine.” Aug 24, 2022. The Washington Post. Angus King Takedown Request Spreadsheet Audio Sources Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, the Twitter Files March 9, 2023 House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Witnesses: Matt Taibbi, Journalist Michael Shellenberger, Author, Co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition Clips 17:20 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): In the run up to the 2020 Presidential election, FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan, in his deposition in Missouri versus Biden, said that he repeatedly, repeatedly, informed Twitter and other social media platforms of the likelihood of a hack and leak operation in the run up to that Presidential election. He did it even though there was no evidence. In fact, he said in his deposition that we hadn't seen anything, no intrusions, no hack, yet he repeatedly told them something was common. Yoel Ross, Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter, testified that he had had regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and other folks regarding election security. During these weekly meetings, federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected a hack and leak operation. The expectations of a hack and leak operation were discussed throughout 2020. And he was told they would occur in a period shortly before the 2020 Presidential election, likely in October. And finally, he said "I also learned in these meetings, that there were rumors that a hack and leak operation would involve Hunter Biden." So what did the government tell him? A hack and leak operation was coming. How often did the government tell him this? Repeatedly for a year. When did the government say it was going to happen? October of 2020. And who did the government say it would involve? Hunter Biden. 19:35 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): How did they know? Maybe it's because they had the laptop and they had had it for a year. 21:50 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Finally, as if on cue, five days later on October 19, 51 former intel[ligence] officials signed a letter with a now famous sentence "the Biden laptop story has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." Something that was absolutely false. 25:25 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): And the Republicans have brought in two of Elon Musk's public scribes to release cherry-picked, out-of-context emails and screenshots designed to promote his chosen narrative, Elon Musk's chosen narrative, that is now being paroted by the Republicans, because the Republicans think that these witnesses will tell a story that's going to help them out politically. 25:50 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): On Tuesday, the majority released an 18 page report claiming to show that the FTC is quote, "harassing" Twitter -- oh my poor Twitter -- including by seeking information about its interactions with individuals before us today. How did the report reach this conclusion? By showing two single paragraphs from a single demand letter, even though the report itself makes clear that there were numerous demand letters with numerous requests, none of which we've been able to see, that are more demand letters and more requests of Twitter. 28:05 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): Mr. Chairman, Americans can see through this. Musk is helping you out politically and you're going out of your way to promote and protect him and to praise him for his work. 28:15 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): This isn't just a matter of what data was given to these so-called journalists before us now. 31:35 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): Mr. Chairman, I'm not exaggerating when I say that you have called before you two witnesses who pose a direct threat to people who oppose them. 32:30 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): We know this is because at the first hearing, the Chairman claimed that big government and big tech colluded to shape and mold the narrative and suppress information and censor Americans. This is a false narrative. We're engaging in false narratives here and we are going to tell the truth. 37:35 Michael Shellenberger: I recognize that the law allows Facebook, Twitter, and other private companies to moderate content on their platforms and I support the right of governments to communicate with the public, including to dispute inaccurate information, but government officials have been caught repeatedly pushing social media platforms to censor disfavored users and content. Often these acts of censorship threaten the legal protection social media companies need to exist, Section 230. If government officials are directing or facilitating such censorship, and as one law professor, it raises serious First Amendment questions. It is axiomatic that the government cannot do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly. 41:50 Matt Taibbi: My name is Matt Taibbi, I've been a reporter for 30 years and a staunch advocate of the First Amendment. Much of that time was spent at Rolling Stone magazine. Ranking Member Plaskett, I'm not a "so-called" journalist. I've won the National Magazine Award, the I.F Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and I've written 10 books, including four New York Times bestsellers. 45:35 Matt Taibbi: Ordinary Americans are not just being reported to Twitter for deamplification or deplatforming, but to firm's like Pay Pal, digital advertisers like Xandr, and crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe. These companies can and do refuse service to law abiding people and businesses whose only crime is falling afoul of a distant, faceless, unaccountable, algorithmic judge. 44:00 Matt Taibbi: Again, Ranking Member Plaskett, I would note that the evidence of Twitter-government relationship includes lists of tens of thousands of names on both the left and right. The people affected include Trump supporters, but also left leaning sites like Consortium and Truthout, the leftist South American channel TeleSUR, the Yellow Vest movement. That, in fact, is a key point of the Twitter files, that it's neither a left nor right issue. 44:40 Matt Taibbi: We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government from the FBI, the DHS, the HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at [the Department of] State, even the CIA. For every government agency scanning Twitter, there were perhaps 20 quasi private entities doing the same thing, including Stanford's Election Integrity Partnership, Newsguard, the Global Disinformation Index, and many others, many taxpayer funded. A focus of this fast growing network, as Mike noted, is making lists of people whose opinions beliefs, associations, or sympathies are deemed misinformation, disinformation or malinformation. That last term is just a euphemism for true but inconvenient. Undeniably, the making of such lists is a form of digital McCarthyism. 1:01:00 Matt Taibbi: So, a great example of this is a report that the Global Engagement Center sent to Twitter and to members of the media and other platforms about what they called "the Pillars of Russian Disinformation." Now, part of this report is what you would call, I think you would call, traditional hardcore intelligence gathering where they made a reasoned, evidence baseed case that certain sites were linked to Russian influence or linked to the Russian government. In addition to that, however, they also said that sites that quote, "generate their own momentum," and have opinions that are in line with those accounts are part of a propaganda ecosystem. Now, this is just another word for guilt by association. And this is the problem with the whole idea of trying to identify which accounts are actually the Internet Research Agency and which ones are just people who follow those accounts or retweeted them. Twitter initially did not find more than a handful of IRA accounts. It wasn't until they got into an argument with the Senate Select Intelligence Committee that they came back with a different answer. 1:06:00 Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL): Before you became Elon Musk's handpicked journalists, and pardon the oxymoron, you stated this on Joe Rogan's podcast about being spoon fed information. And I quote, "I think that's true of any kind of journalism," and you'll see it behind me here. "I think that's true of any kind of journalism. Once you start getting handed things, then you've lost. They have you at that point and you got to get out of that habit. You just can't cross that line." Do you still believe what you told Mr. Rogan? Yes or no? Yes or no? Matt Taibbi: Yes. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL): Good. Now, you crossed that line with the Twitter files. Matt Taibbi: No. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL): Elon Musk -- It's my time, please do not interrupt me. Crowd: [laughter] Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL): Elon Musk spoon fed you his cherry-picked information, which you must have suspected promotes a slanted viewpoint, or at the very least generates another right wing conspiracy theory. 1:11:20 Matt Taibbi: That moment on the Joe Rogan show, I was actually recounting a section from Seymour Hersh's book, Reporter, where he described a scene where the CIA gave him a story and he was very uncomfortable. He said that "I, who had always gotten the secrets, was being handed the secrets." Again, I've done lots of whistleblower stories. There's always a balancing test that you make when you're given material, and you're always balancing newsworthiness versus the motives of your sources. In this case, the newsworthiness clearly outweighed any other considerations. I think everybody else who worked on the project agrees. 1:14:45 Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC): Richard Stengel, you know who that is? Matt Taibbi: Yes, he's the former, the first head of the Global Engagement Center. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC): I want the American people to hear from him for 30 seconds. Richard Stengel: Basically, every country creates their own narrative story. And, you know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the "chief propagandist" job. We haven't talked about propaganda. Propaganda. I'm not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population. 1:24:20 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): December 13, the very first letter that the FTC sends to Twitter after the Twitter files, 11 days after the first Twitter file, there have been five of them come out, the FTC's first demand in that first letter after the Twitter files come out is identify all journalists. I'm quoting "identify all journalists and other members of the media" to whom Twitter worked with. You find that scary, Mr. Taibbi, that you got a federal government agency asking a private company who in the press are you talking with? Matt Taibbi: I do find it scary. I think it's none of the government's business which journalists a private company talks to and why. I think every journalist should be concerned about that. And the absence of interest in that issue by my fellow colleagues in the mainstream media is an indication of how low the business has sunk. There was once a real esprit de corps and camaraderie within Media. Whenever one of us was gone after, we all kind of rose to the challenge and supported -- Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): It used to be, used to be the case. Matt Taibbi: Yeah, that is gone now. 1:28:50 Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): How many emails did Mr. Musk give you access to? Michael Shellenberger: I mean, we went through thousands of emails. Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): Did he give you access to all of the emails for the time period in which? Michael Shellenberger: We never had a single, I never had a single request denied. And not only that, but the amount of files that we were given were so voluminous that there was no way that anybody could have gone through them beforehand. And we never found an instance where there was any evidence that anything had been taken out. Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): Okay. So you would believe that you have probably millions of emails and documents, right? That's correct, would you say? Michael Shellenberger: I don't know if -- I think the number is less than that. Matt Taibbi: Millions sounds too high. Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): Okay. 100,000? Matt Taibbi: That's probably closer. Michael Shellenberger: Probably, yeah. Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI): So 100,000 that both of you were seeing. 1:37:10 Matt Taibbi: There were a couple of very telling emails that wepublished. One was by a lawyer named [Sasha Cardiel???], where the company was being so overwhelmed by requests from the FBI and in fact they, they gave each other a sort of digital High Five after one batch, saying "that was a monumental undertaking to clear all of these," but she noted that she believed that the FBI was essentially doing word searches keyed to Twitter's Terms of Service, looking for violations of the Terms of Service, specifically so that they could make recommendations along those lines, which we found interesting. 1:48:15 Michael Shellenberger: And we haven't talked about Facebook, but we now know that we have the White House demanding that Facebook take down factual information and Facebook doing that. 1:48:25 Michael Shellenberger: And with Matt [Taibbi]'s thread this morning we saw the government contractors demanding the same thing of Twitter: accurate information, they said, that needed to be taken down in order to advance a narrative. 1:49:55 Matt Taibbi: You know, in conjunction with our own research, there's a foundation, the Foundation for Freedom Online, which, you know, there's a very telling video that they uncovered where the Director of Stanford's Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) talks about how CISA, the DHS agency, didn't have the capability to do election monitoring, and so that they kind of stepped in to "fill the gaps" legally before that capability could be amped up. And what we see in the Twitter files is that Twitter executives did not distinguish between DHS or CISA and this group EIP, for instance, we would see a communication that said, from CISA, escalated by EIP. So they were essentially identical in the eyes of the company. EIP is, by its own data, and this is in reference to what you brought up, Mr. Congressman, according to their own data, they significantly targeted more what they call disinformation on the right than on the left, by a factor I think of about ten to one. And I say that as not a Republican at all, it's just the fact of what we're looking at. So yes, we have come to the realization that this bright line that we imagine that exists between, say the FBI or the DHS, or the GEC and these private companies is illusory and that what's more important is this constellation of kind of quasi private organizations that do this work. 1:52:10 Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): What was the first time that Mr. Musk approached you about writing the Twitter files? Matt Taibbi: Again, Congresswoman that would — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): I just need a date, sir. Matt Taibbi: But I can't give it to you, unfortunately, because this this is a question of sourcing, and I don't give up... I'm a journalist, I don't reveal my sources. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): It's a question of chronology. Matt Taibbi: No, that's a question of sourcing — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Earlier you said that someone had sent you, through the internet, some message about whether or not you would be interested in some information. Matt Taibbi: Yes. And I refer to that person as a source. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): So you're not going to tell us when Musk first approached you? Matt Taibbi: Again, Congresswoman, you're asking me, you're asking a journalist to reveal a source. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): You consider Mr. Musk to be the direct source of all this? Matt Taibbi: No, now you're trying to get me to say that he is the source. I just can't answer — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Either he is or he isn't. If you're telling me you can't answer because it's your source, well, then the only logical conclusion is that he is in fact, your source. Matt Taibbi: Well, you're free to conclude that. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Well, sir, I just don't understand. You can't have it both ways. But let's move on because -- Unknown Representative 1: No, he can. He's a journalist. Unknown Representative 2: He can't, because either Musk is the source and he can't talk about it, or Musk is not the source. And if Musk is not the source, then he can discuss [unintelligible] Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): No one has yielded, the gentlelady is out of order, you don't get to speak — Multiple speakers: [Crosstalk] Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): The gentlelady is not recognized...[crosstalk]...he has not said that, what he has said is he's not going to reveal his source. And the fact that Democrats are pressuring him to do so is such a violation of the First Amendment. Multiple speakers: [Crosstalk] Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): I have not yielded time to anybody. I want to reclaim my time. And I would ask the chairman to give me back some of the time because of the interruption. Mr. Chairman, I am asking you, if you will give me the seconds that I lost. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): We will give you that 10 seconds. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Thank you. Now let's talk about another item. When you responded to the ranking member, you said that you had free license to look at everything but yet you yourself posted on your...I guess it's kind of like a web page...I don't quite understand what Substack is, but what I can say is that "in exchange for the opportunity to cover a unique and explosive story, I had to agree to certain conditions." What were those conditions? She asked you that question and you said you had none. But you yourself posted that you had conditions? Matt Taibbi: The conditions, as I've explained multiple times -- Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): No sir, you have not explained, you told her in response to her question that you had no conditions. In fact, you used the word licensed, that you were free to look at all of them. All 100,000 emails. Matt Taibbi: The question was posed, was I free to to write about — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Sir, did you have any conditions? Matt Taibbi: The condition was that we publish — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Sir, did you have any conditions? Yes or no? A simple question. Matt Taibbi: Yes. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): All right. Could you tell us what conditions those were? Matt Taibbi: The conditions were an attribution of sources at Twitter and that we break any news on Twitter. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): But you didn't break it on Twitter. Did you send the file that you released today to Twitter first? Matt Taibbi: Did I send the...actually I did, yes. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Did you send it to Twitter first? Matt Taibbi: The Twitter files thread? Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): That was one of the conditions? Yes or no, sir. Matt Taibbi: The Twitter files thread actually did come out first. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): But sir, you said earlier that you had to attribute all the sources to Twitter first. What you released today, did you send that to Twitter first? Matt Taibbi: No, no, no, I post I posted it on Twitter Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): First. First, sir, or did you give it to the Chairman of the Committee or the staff of the Committee first? Matt Taibbi: Well, that's not breaking the story, that's giving...I did give — Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): So you gave all the information that you did not give to the Democrats, you gave it to the Republicans first, then you put it on Twitter? Matt Taibbi: Actually, no, the chronology is a little bit confused. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Well then tell us what the chronology was. Matt Taibbi: I believe the thread came out first. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Where? Matt Taibbi: On Twitter Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): On Twitter. So then you afterwards gave it to the Republicans, and not the Democrats? Matt Taibbi: Yes, because I'm submitting it for the record as my statement. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Did you give it to him in advance? Matt Taibbi: I gave it to them today. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): You gave it to them today, but you still have not given anything to the Democrats. Well, I'll move on. 1:57:20 Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Now in your discussion, in your answer, you also said that you were invited by a friend, Bari Weiss? Michael Shellenberger: My friend, Bari Weiss. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): So this friend works for Twitter, or what is her....? Matt Taibbi: She's a journalist. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Sir, I didn't ask you a question. I'm now asking Mr. Shellenberger a question. Michael Shellenberger: Yes, ma'am, Bari Weiss is a journalist. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): I'm sorry, sir? Michael Shellenberger: She's a journalist. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): She's a journalist. So you work in concert with her? Michael Shellenberger: Yeah. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): Do you know when she first was contacted by Mr. Musk? Michael Shellenberger: I don't know. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): You don't know. So you're in this as a threesome? 2:00:10 Michael Shellenberger: Reading through the whole sweep of events, I do not know the extent to which the influence operation aimed at "pre-bunking" the Hunter Biden laptop was coordinated. I don't know who all was involved. But what we saw was, you saw Aspen and Stanford, many months before then, saying don't cover the material in the hack and leak without emphasizing the fact that it could be disinformation. Okay, so they're priming journalists to not cover a future hack and leak in a way that journalists have long been trained to in the tradition of the Pentagon Papers, made famous by the Steven Spielberg movie. They were saying [to] cover the fact that it probably came from the Russians. Then you have the former General Counsel to the FBI, Jim Baker, and the former Deputy Chief of Staff to the FBI, both arriving at Twitter in the summer of 2020, which I find, what an interesting coincidence. Then, when the New York Post publishes its first article on October 14, it's Jim Baker who makes the most strenuous argument within Twitter, multiple emails, multiple messages saying this doesn't look real. There's people, there's intelligence experts, saying that this could be Russian disinformation. He is the most strenuous person inside Twitter arguing that it's probably Russian disinformation. The internal evaluation by Yoel Roth, who testified in front of this committee, was that it was what it looked to be, which was that it was not a result of a hack and leak operation. And why did he think that? Because the New York Post had published the FBI subpoena taking the laptop in December of 2019. And they published the agreement that the computer store owner had with Hunter Biden that gave him permission, after he abandoned the laptop, to use it however he wanted. So there really wasn't much doubt about the provenance of that laptop. But you had Jim Baker making a strenuous argument. And then, of course, you get to a few days after the October 14 release, you have the president of the United States echoing what these former intelligence community officials were saying, which is that it looked like a Russian influence operation. So they were claiming that the laptop was made public by the conspiracy theory that somehow the Russians got it. And basically, they convinced Yoel Roth of this wild hack and leak story that somehow the Russians stole it, got the information, gave us the computer, it was bizarre. So you read that chain of events, and it appears as though there is an organized influence operation to pre-bunk.... Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Why do you think they could predict the time, the method, and the person? Why could the FBI predict it? Not only did they predict this, they predicted it, so did the Aspen Institute, seemed like everyone was in the know saying, here's what's gonna happen, we can read the future. Why do you think, how do you think they were able to do that? Michael Shellenberger: I think the most important fact to know is that the FBI had that laptop in December 2019. They were also spying on Rudy Giuliani when he got the laptop and when he gave it to the New York Post. Now, maybe the FBI agents who are going to Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Twitter executives and warning of a hack and leak, potentially involving Hunter Biden, maybe those guys didn't have anything to do with the guys that had the top. We don't know that. I have to say, as a newcomer to this, as somebody that thought it was Russian disinformation in 2020, everybody I knew thought it was Russian disinformation, I was shocked to see that series of events going on. It looks to me like a deliberate influence operation. I don't have the proof of it, but the circumstantial evidence is pretty disturbing. 2:14:30 Matt Taibbi: We found, just yesterday, a Tweet from the Virality Project at Stanford, which was partnered with a number of government agencies, and Twitter, where they talked explicitly about censoring stories of true vaccine side effects and other true stories that they felt encouraged hesitancy. Now the imp— Unknown Representative: So these were true. Matt Taibbi: Yes. So they use the word truth three times in this email, and what's notable about this is that it reflects the fundamental misunderstanding of this whole disinformation complex, anti-disinformation complex. They believe that ordinary people can't handle difficult truths. And so they think that they need minders to separate out things that are controversial or difficult for them, and that's again, that's totally contrary to what America is all about, I think. 2:17:30 Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY): Of course we all believe in the First Amendment, but the First Amendment applies to government prohibition of speech, not to private companies. 2:33:00 Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY): And even with, Twitter you cannot find actual evidence of any direct government censorship of any lawful speech. 2:33:20 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): I'd ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the following email from Clarke Humphrey, Executive Office of the Presidency, White House Office, January 23, 2021. That's the Biden Administration. 4:39am: "Hey folks," this goes to Twitter, "Hey folks, wanted..." they used the term Mr. Goldman just used, "wanted to flag the below Tweet, and I'm wondering if we can get moving on the process for having it removed ASAP." 2:35:40 Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA): He said the First Amendment applies to government censorship of speech and not private companies, but what we're talking about and what the Chairman just illustrated is that what we have here and what your Twitter files show is the Federal government has partnered with private companies to censor and silence the speech of American citizens. 2:29:20 Matt Taibbi: In the first Twitter files, we saw an exchange between Representative Ro Khanna and Vijaya Gadde, where he's trying to explain the basics of speech law in America and she's completely, she seems completely unaware of what, for instance, New York Times v. Sullivan is. There are other cases like Bartnicki v. Vopper, which legalized the publication of stolen material, that's very important for any journalists to know. I think most of these people are tech executives, and they don't know what the law is around speech and around reporting. And in this case, and in 2016, you are dealing with true material. There is no basis to restrict the publication of true material no matter who the sources and how you get it. And journalists have always understood that and this has never been an issue or a controversial issue until very recently. 2:44:40 Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL): Would you agree that there was a black list created in 2021? Michael Shellenberger: Sorry, yes, Jay Bhattacharya, the Stanford Professor, who I don't think anybody considers a fringe epidemiologist, was indeed -- I'm sorry, I couldn't, I didn't piece it together -- he was indeed visibility filtered. Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL): Correct. And so this blacklist that was created, that really was used to de-platform, reduce visibility, create lists internally, where people couldn't even see their profiles, that was used against doctors and scientists who produced information that was contrary to what the CDC was putting out, despite the fact that we now know that what they were publishing had scientific basis and in fact was valid. Michael Shellenberger: Absolutely. And not only that, but these are secret blacklists, so Professor Bhattacharya had no idea he was on it. 43:05 Matt Taibbi: The original promise of the internet was that it might democratize the exchange of information globally. A free internet would overwhelm all attempts to control information flow, its very existence a threat to anti-democratic forms of government everywhere. What we found in the Files was a sweeping effort to reverse that promise and use machine learning and other tools to turn the Internet into an instrument of censorship and social control. Unfortunately, our own government appears to be playing a lead role. We saw the first hints and communications between Twitter executives before the 2020 election, when we read things like "flagged by DHS," or "please see attached report from FBI for potential misinformation." This would be attached to an Excel spreadsheet with a long list of names, whose accounts were often suspended shortly after. #1940 - Matt Taibbi February 13, 2023 The Joe Rogan Experience Clips Matt Taibbi: So this is another topic that is fascinating because it hasn't gotten a ton of press. But if you go back all the way to the early 70s, the CIA and the FBI got in a lot of trouble for various things, the CIA for assassination schemes involving people like Castro, the FBI for, you know, COINTELPRO and other programs, domestic surveillance, and they made changes after Congressional hearings, the Church Committee, that basically said the FBI, from now on, you have to have some kind of reason to be following somebody or investigating somebody, you have to have some kind of criminal predicate and we want you mainly to be investigating cases. But after 9/11 they peeled all this back. There was a series of Attorney General memos that essentially re-fashioned what the FBI does, and now they don't have to be doing crimefighting all the time. Now they can be doing basically 100% intelligence gathering all the time. They can be infiltrating groups for no reason at all, not to build cases, but just to get information. And so that's why they're there. They're in these groups, they're posted up outside of the homes of people they find suspicious, but they're not building cases and they're not investigating crimes. It's sort of like Minority Report there, right? It's pre-crime. Matt Taibbi: We see reports in these files of government agencies sending lists of accounts that are accusing the United States of vaccine corruption. Now, what they're really talking about is pressuring foreign countries to not use generic vaccines. Right. And, you know, that's a liberal issue, that's a progressive issue. The progressives want generic vaccines to be available to poor countries, okay? But, you know, you can use this tool to eliminate speech about that if you want too, right? I think that's what they don't get is that the significance is not who [it's used against], the significance is the tool. What is it capable of doing, right? How easily is it employed, and you know, how often is it used? And they don't focus on that. Joe Rogan: Has anything been surprising to you? Matt Taibbi: A little bit. I think going into it, I thought that the relationship between the security agencies like the FBI and the DHS and companies like Twitter and Facebook, I thought it was a little bit less formal. I thought maybe they had kind of an advisory role. And what we find is that it's not that, it's very formalized. They have a really intense structure that they've worked out over a period of years where they have regular meetings. They have a system where the DHS handles censorship requests that come up from the States and the FBI handles international ones, and they all float all these companies and it's a big bureaucracy. I don't think we expected to see that. Matt Taibbi: I was especially shocked by an email from a staffer for Adam Schiff, the Congressperson, the California Congressman. And they're just outright saying we would like you to suspend the accounts of this journalist and anybody who retweets information about this Committee. You know, I mean, this is a member of Congress. Joe Rogan: Yeah. Matt Taibbi: Right? Most of these people have legal backgrounds. They've got lawyers in the office for sure. And this is the House Intelligence Committee. Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter's Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story February 8, 2023 House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Witnesses: Vijaya Gadde, Former Chief Legal Officer, Twitter James Baker, Former Deputy General Counsel, Twitter Yoel Roth, Former Global Head of Trust & Safety, Twitter Annika Collier Navaroli, Former Policy Expert for Content Moderation, Twitter Clips 14:50 Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD): What's more, Twitter's editorial decision has been analyzed and debated ad nauseam. Some people think it was the right decision. Some people think it was the wrong decision. But the key point here is that it was Twitter's decision. Twitter is a private media company. In America, private media companies can decide what to publish or how to curate content however they want. If Twitter wants to have nothing but Tweets commenting on New York Post articles run all day, it can do that. If it makes such tweets mentioning New York Post never see the light of day they can do that too. That's what the First Amendment means. 16:05 Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD): Officially Twitter happens to think they got it wrong about that day or two period. In hindsight, Twitter's former CEO Jack Dorsey called it a mistake. This apology might be a statement of regret about the company being overly cautious about the risks of publishing contents and potentially hacked or stolen materials, or it may reflect craven surrender to a right wing pressure campaign. But however you interpreted the apology just makes the premise of this hearing all the more absurd. The professional conspiracy theorists who are heckling and haranguing this private company have already gotten exactly what they want: an apology. What more do they want? And why does the US Congress have to be involved in this nonsense when we have serious work to do for the American people? 26:20 James Baker: The law permits the government to have complex, multifaceted, and long term relationships with the private sector. Law enforcement agencies and companies can engage with each other regarding, for example, compulsory legal process served on companies, criminal activity that companies, the government, or the public identify, such as crimes against children, cybersecurity threats, and terrorism, and instances where companies themselves are victims of crime. When done properly, these interactions can be beneficial to both sides and in the interest of the public. As you Mr. Chairman, Mr. Jordan, and others have proposed, a potential workable way to legislate in this area may be to focus on the actions of federal government agencies and officials with respect to their engagement with the private sector. Congress may be able to limit the nature and scope of those interactions in certain ways, require enhanced transparency and reporting by the executive branch about its engagements, and require higher level approvals within the executive branch prior to such engagements on certain topics, so that you can hold Senate confirmed officials, for example, accountable for those decisions. In any event, if you want to legislate, my recommendation is to focus first on reasonable and effective limitations on government actors. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 31:05 Vijaya Gadde: On October 14, 2020, The New York Post tweeted articles about Hunter Biden's laptop with embedded images that looked like they may have been obtained through hacking. In 2018, we had developed a policy intended to prevent Twitter from becoming a dumping ground for hacked materials. We applied this policy to the New York Post tweets and blocked links to the articles embedding those sorts of materials. At no point to Twitter otherwise prevent tweeting, reporting, discussing or describing the contents of Mr. Biden's laptop. People could and did talk about the contents of the laptop on Twitter or anywhere else, including other much larger platforms, but they were prevented from sharing the primary documents on Twitter. Still, over the course of that day, it became clear that Twitter had not fully appreciated the impact of that policy on free press and others. As Mr. Dorsey testified before Congress on multiple occasions, Twitter changed its policy within 24 hours and admitted its initial action was wrong. This policy revision immediately allowed people to tweet the original articles with the embedded source materials, relying on its long standing practice not to retroactively apply new policies. Twitter informed the New York Post that it could immediately begin tweeting when it deleted the original tweets, which would have freed them to retweet the same content again. The New York Post chose not to delete its original tweets, so Twitter made an exception after two weeks to retroactively apply the new policy to the Post's tweets. In hindsight, Twitter should have reinstated the Post account immediately. 35:35 Yoel Roth: In 2020, Twitter noticed activity related to the laptop that at first glance bore a lot of similarities to the 2016 Russian hack and leak operation targeting the DNC, and we had to decide what to do. And in that moment with limited information, Twitter made a mistake. 36:20 Yoel Roth: It isn't obvious what the right response is to a suspected, but not confirmed, cyber attack by another government on a Presidential Election. I believe Twitter erred in this case because we wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2016. 38:41 Annika Collier Navaroli: I joined Twitter in 2019 and by 2020 I was the most senior expert on Twitter's U.S. Safety Policy Team. My team's mission was to protect free speech and public safety by writing and enforcing content moderation policies around the world. These policies include things like abuse, harassment, hate speech, violence and privacy. 41:20 Annika Collier Navaroli: With January 6 and many other decisions, content moderators like me did the very best that we could. But far too often there are far too few of us and we are being asked to do the impossible. For example, in January 2020 after the US assassinated an Iranian General and the US president decided to justify it on Twitter, management literally instructed me and my team to make sure that World War III did not start on the platform. 1:08:20 Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC): Did the US government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to censor or moderate certain Tweets, yes or no? Vijaya Gadde: We receive legal demands to remove content from the platform from the US government and governments all around the world. Those are published on a third party website. 1:12:00 Yoel Roth: The number one most influential part of the Russian active measures campaign in 2016 was the hack and leak targeting John Podesta. It would have been foolish not to consider the possibility that they would run that play again. 1:44:45 Yoel Roth: I think one of the key failures that we identified after 2016 was that there was very little information coming from the government and from intelligence services to the private sector. The private sector had the power to remove bots and to take down foreign disinformation campaigns, but we didn't always know where to look without leads supplied by the intelligence community. That was one of the failures highlighted in the Senate Intelligence Committee's report and in the Mueller investigation, and that was one of the things we set out to fix in 2017. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA): On September 8 2019, at 11:11pm, Donald Trump heckled two celebrities on Twitter -- John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen -- and referred to them as "the musician John Legend and his filthy mouth wife." Ms. Teigen responded to that email [Tweet] at 12:17am. And according to notes from a conversation with you, Ms. Navaroli's, counsel, your counsel, the White House almost immediately thereafter contacted Twitter to demand the tweet be taken down. Is that accurate? Annika Collier Navaroli: Thank you for the question. In my role, I was not responsible for receiving any sort of request from the government. However, what I was privy to was my supervisors letting us know that we had received something along those lines or something of a request. And in that particular instance, I do remember hearing that we had received a request from the White House to make sure that we evaluated this tweet, and that they wanted it to come down because it was a derogatory statement towards the President. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA): They wanted it to come down. They made that request. Annika Collier Navaroli: To my recollection, yes. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA): I thought that was an inappropriate action by a government official, let alone the White House. But it wasn't Joe Biden, about his son's laptop. It was Donald Trump because he didn't like what Chrissy Teigen had to say about him, is that correct? Annika Collier Navaroli: Yes, that is correct. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA): My, my, my. 1:45:15 Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH): Mr. Roth, were those communication channels useful to Twitter as they work to combat foreign influence operations? Yoel Roth: Absolutely, I would say they were one of the most essential pieces of how Twitter prepared for future elections. 2:42:35 Rep. Becca Balint (D-VA): Ms. Gadde, did anyone from the Biden campaign or the Democratic National Committee direct Twitter to remove or take action against the New York Post story? Vijaya Gadde: No. 4:15:45 Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): And now we forward to 2020. And earlier you had testified that you were having regular interactions with National Intelligence, Homeland Security and the FBI. Yoel Roth: Yes, I did. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): And primarily to deal with foreign interference? Yoel Roth: Primarily, but I would say -- Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): But you had said earlier your contact with Agent Chang was primarily with foreign interference? Yoel Roth: Yes, that's right. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): And these were emails....were there meetings? Yoel Roth: Yes, Twitter met quarterly with the FBI Foreign Interference Task Force and we had those meetings running for a number of years to share information about malign foreign interference. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): Agents from Homeland Security or Intelligence, or just primarily the FBI? Yoel Roth: Our primary contacts were with the FBI and in those quarterly meetings, they were, I believe, exclusively with FBI personnel. 4:18:05 Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): Earlier today you testified that you were following national security experts on Twitter as a reason to take down the New York Post story on Hunter Biden's laptop. Yoel Roth: Yes, sir, I did. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): So after 2016, you set up all these teams to deal with Russian interference, foreign interference, you're having regular meetings with the FBI, you have connections with all of these different government agencies, and you didn't reach out to them once? Yoel Roth: Is that question in reference to the day of the New York Post article? Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): Yeah. Yoel Roth: That's right. We generally did not reach out to the FBI to consult on content moderation decisions, especially where they related to domestic activity. It's not that we wouldn't have liked that information, we certainly would have. It's that I don't believe it would have been appropriate for us to consult with the FBI. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): In December of 2020, you did a declaration to the Federal Election Commission that the intelligence community expected a leak and a hack operation involving Hunter Biden. Recently, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the FBI warned Meta that there was a high effort of Russian propaganda including language specific enough to fit the Hunter Biden laptop security story. You're talking to these people for weeks and months, years prior to this leaking. They have specifically told you in October, that there's going to be a leak potentially involving Hunter Biden's laptop. They legitimately and literally prophesized what happened. And you didn't contact any of them? Yoel Roth: No, sir, I did not. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): Did they reach out to you? Yoel Roth: On and around that day, to the best of my recollection, no, they did not. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): After the story was taken down and you guys did it, and you personally disagreed with it Ms. Gadde, did you contact them and say is "Hey, is this what you were talking about?" Yoel Roth: If that question was directed to me. No, I did not. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): Ms. Gadde, did you talk to anybody from the FBI? Vijaya Gadde: Not to the best of my recollection. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND): So I guess my question is, what is the point of this program? You have constant communication, they're set up for foreign interference. They've legitimately warned you about this very specific thing. And then all of a sudden, everybody just walks away? 5:18:55 Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM): We are devoting an entire day to this conspiracy theory involving Twitter. Now, the mission of this committee is to root out waste, fraud and abuse and to conduct oversight on behalf of the American people. And if you need any evidence of waste, fraud and abuse, how about the use of this committee's precious time, space and resources to commit to this hearing? 5:58:25 Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO): Back to Mr. Roth, is it true that Twitter whitelisted accounts for the Department of Defense to spread propaganda about its efforts in the Middle East? Did they give you a list of accounts that were fake accounts and asked you to whitelist those accounts? Yoel Roth: That request was made of Twitter. To be clear, when I found out about that activity, I was appalled by it. I undid the action and my team exposed activity originating from the Department of Defense's campaign publicly. We've shared that data with the world and research about it has been published. 6:07:20 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Mr. Roth, I want to go back to your statement in your declaration to the FEC "I learned that a hack and leak operation would involve Hunter Biden," who did you learn that from? Yoel Roth: My recollection is it was mentioned by another technology company in one of our joint meetings, but I don't recall specifically whom. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): You don't know the person's name? Yoel Roth: I don't even recall what company they worked at. No, this was a long time ago. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): And you're confident that it was from a tech company, not from someone from the government? Yoel Roth: To the best of my recollection, yes. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Did anyone from the government, in these periodic meetings you had, did they ever tell you that a hack and leak operation involving Hunter Biden was coming? Yoel Roth: No. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Did Hunter Biden's name come up at all these meetings? Yoel Roth: Yes, his name was raised in those meetings, but not by the government to the best of my recollection. 6:09:30 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Mr. Roth, why were you reluctant, based on what I read in the Twitter files, why were you reluctant to work with the GEC? Yoel Roth: It was my understanding that the GEC, or the Global Engagement Center of the State Department, had previously engaged in at least what some would consider offensive influence operations. Not that they were offensive as in bad, but offensive as in they targeted entities outside of the United States. And on that basis, I felt that it would be inappropriate for Twitter to engage with a part of the State Department that was engaged in active statecraft. We were dedicated to rooting out malign foreign interference no matter who it came from. And if we found that the American government was engaged in malign foreign interference, we'd be addressing that as well. 6:13:50 Rep. James Comer (R-KY): Twitter is a private company, but they enjoy special liability protections, Section 230. They also, according to the Twitter files, receive millions of dollars from the FBI, which is tax dollars, I would assume. And that makes it a concern of the Oversight Committee. Does Section 230's Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior? October 28, 2020 Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Witnesses: Jack Dorsey, [Former] CEO, Twitter Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet and Google Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook [Meta] Clips 2:20:40 Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA): The issue is not that the companies before us today are taking too many posts down. The issue is that they're leaving too many dangerous posts up. In fact, they're amplifying harmful content so that it spreads like wildfire and torches our democracy. 3:15:40 Mark Zuckerberg: Senator, as I testified before, we relied heavily on the FBI, his intelligence and alert status both through their public testimony and private briefings. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Did the FBI contact you, sir, than your co star? It was false. Mark Zuckerberg: Senator not about that story specifically. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Why did you throttle it back? Mark Zuckerberg: They alerted us to be on heightened alert around a risk of hack and leak operations around a release and probe of information. Emerging Trends in Online Foreign Influence Operations: Social Media, COVID-19, and Election Security June 18, 2020 Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Watch on YouTube Witnesses: Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Security Policy at Facebook Nick Pickles, Director of Global Public Policy Strategy and Development at Twitter Richard Salgado, Director for Law Enforcement and Information Security at Google 1:40:10 Nathaniel Gleicher: Congressman, the collaboration within industry and with government is much, much better than it was in 2016. I think we have found the FBI, for example, to be forward leaning and ready to share information with us when they see it. We share information with them whenever we see indications of foreign interference targeting our election. The best case study for this was the 2018 midterms, where you saw industry, government and civil society all come together, sharing information to tackle these threats. We had a case on literally the eve of the vote, where the FBI gave us a tip about a network of accounts where they identified subtle links to Russian actors. Were able to investigate those and take action on them within a matter of hours. Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)

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Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was part of a legion of GOP lawmakers who took Yoel Roth and other fired Twitter execs to task for their rampant censorship and election interference. She joins Charlie to dig into the exciting hearing and its ramifications. But, is new Twitter adequately different? Andy Ngo joins to discuss his day in Twitter purgatory over his work highlighting the antics of ANTIFA. Plus, Charlie talks about surprising developments at James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, and Nancy Mace's stunning reveal of her own personal side effects after receiving an mRNA vaccine.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South Africa once functioned. Anti-Christian FBI! George Santos embarrasses phonies! Diversity in Ireland! Black gal bumps into whites! * 0:00:00 Fri, Feb 10, 2023 AD* 0:01:59 "Karma Police" (cover) - Citizen Cope (Hassan input)* 0:10:15 Hey, guys! Get a Job tee* 0:12:37 South Africa a mess, worse than Apartheid* 0:17:21 CLIP: South Africa functioned under Afrikaners* 0:20:47 Debate: "Hate" on AtheistEdge vs Stardust (Sat 5p PT)* 0:24:52 FBI memo warns of RTC's: Radical Traditionalist Catholics* 0:34:15 MTG confronted Twitter's Yoel Roth on "CP"* 0:36:02 Geoge Santos accused of HaRrAsSmEnT by DC staffer* 0:43:21 Hakeem Jeffries on "Extreme MAGA Republicans"* 0:51:20 Confrontation in Ireland: Landlord vs black "migrants"?* 0:59:27 "Today Is the Day" - David Meece* 1:02:30 Reading chat re: music* 1:03:47 Supers: Global mindset, mouth-breathing; security for me, not thee* 1:07:09 FREDERICK: white extremist bombings vs. white guilt and love* 1:17:54 Stories of tripping, imagining thoughts of others: State the obvious!* 1:21:15 WILLIAM: bashing libs in Congress incl. Sheila Jackson-Lee* 1:30:31 Supers: To this day! "Remedial." Epic Beard Guy / "Amber Lamps" story* 1:35:44 ART, OH: Poor tactics of Irishmen in that clip! Mindset of N-word users* 1:49:37 Time and place for "N-word"? Dude went for cop's gun!* 1:51:39 Sweet black gal bumps into whites b/c they don't see us as human!* 1:55:16 Supers: TFS, Nickstream, Church… America First!* 1:55:56 "We Are the Reason" (Live) - David MeeceBLOG https://www.thehakereport.com/blog/2023/2/10/attack-on-whiteschristians-south-africa-ireland-usa-fri-2-10-23 ALSO ON SUBSTACK / PODCASTThe Hake Report LIVE M-F 9-11 AM PT (12-2 ET) Call-in 1-888-775-3773 thehakereport.com VIDEO  YouTube  |  Rumble*  |  BitChute  |  Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Odysee*  |  DLive   PODCAST  Apple  |  Spotify  |  Castbox  |  Podcast Addict  |  Pocket Casts  ||  Substack  *SUPERS  Streamlabs  ||  SUPPORT  Substack  |  SubscribeStar  |  Locals  ||  Teespring  SEE ALSO  Hake News on The JLP Show  |  Appearances elsewhere (other shows, etc.) Get full access to The Hake Report at thehakereport.substack.com/subscribe

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Viva Frei, PragerU CEO Marissa Streit, and founding COO of PayPal David Sacks about Jim Jordan getting shocking new revelations about the connections between the FBI and Twitter while questioning Yoel Roth, Vijaya Gadde, and James Baker at the Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government; Tulsi Gabbard defending herself from Mitt Romney's baseless accusation of treason; how third-party fact-checkers like Newsguard are weaponizing the accusations of misinformation to attack conservative businesses like PragerU; how Joe Biden used his State of the Union address to manipulate facts and lie about inflation and rising gas prices; Donald Trump's attempt to smear Ron DeSantis and DeSantis' response revealing the beginnings of a GOP civil war as Republicans prepare for the 2024 presidential election; and much more. WATCH the MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE segment of the show here: https://rubinreport.locals.com/

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez's temper tantrum during the Twitter hearings over the Twitter censorship of the NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop expose and if AOC knows her facts; how Joe Rogan and Tim Pool's interview with Vijaya Gadde and Jack Dorsey about Twitter censorship has become more relevant than ever; Rep. Lauren Boebert proving that former Twitter Executive Yoel Roth was lying on the stand about his knowledge of her being shadowbanned; Rep. Jim Jordan trying to find out if the FBI is the real reason why Yoel Roth and Twitter decided to remove the NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story; Tim Pool asking Jim Jordan if there is any potential legal trouble Twitter could be in for lying about shadow banning; and Jen Psaki telling Joe Scarborough of MSBNC's “Morning Joe” why Americans don't care about the Twitter files. Dave also does a special “ask me anything” question-and-answer session on a wide-ranging host of topics, answering questions from the Rubin Report Locals community. Watch Dave Rubin's political evolution through his PragerU videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZn81ETZJBM&list=PLEbhOtC9klbCr0iN2ANJbaV477B0eSpc6&index=1&t=58s

In this episode, Dinesh revels in watching Twitter goons like Yoel Roth and Vijaya Gadde in the hot seat and assesses their responses to GOP questioning. Dinesh reviews Julie Kelly's latest reporting on the missing January 6 files. Dinesh reveals how Biden plans to let pension funds invest your money, not to make money for you, but to put money in the pockets of the climate change industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Good morning from the Marc Cox Morning Show on this Thursday.  This morning Marc discusses the big game this weekend as well as talks about the woman suing Francis Howell school district over seclusion rooms being used for Special Needs students. Marc also takes your calls on topic. Lauren Boebert takes on Twitter Former Head of Trust & Safety, Yoel Roth.   Coming up Next Hour:  Ryan Schmelz, Tom Ackerman with Sports, and Kathleen England with In Other News.

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Yoel Roth Goes On Trial, Vijaya Gadde Gets Demolished, Massive Cyber Attack? and more...

In the second hour of the Marc Cox Morning Show, Marc welcomes Ryan Schmelz from Fox News Radio, who talks with Marc about the Hunter Biden laptop hearing and how Twitter may have suppressed tweets. Tom Ackerman stops by to update us on all things sports. And we have In Other News with Kathleen England.  Kathleen gives us stories about  National Pizza Day and  Tom Brady in Boxers. Coming Up:  Jim Talent and Jared Halpern.

President Biden delivers a mumbling State of the Union, explaining progress on immigration and other priorities. Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivers a response and we hear from AOC, Ted Cruz and MTG in response.#Biden #SOTU #WTFThe House Oversight Committee conducts a hearing questioning former Twitter and FBI executive Jim Baker, Vijaya Gadde and Yoel Roth. James Comer, Jim Jordan, AOC and others ask questions.#OversightCommittee #TwitterFiles #FBI

President Biden gave his second State of The Union speech last night, filled with many instances of slurring & gaffes. President Biden used the bully pit to spread misinformation about everything from the economy to the GOP's desire to sunset Medicare. All the toon-town characters – including Bono and Paul Pelosi – showed up to support the mannequin President. Plus, the child porn simp, Yoel Roth, showed face in Congress today and got flamed for his corrupt bias on Twitter. Follow Frontlines: Twitter: @FrontlinesShow Instagram: @FrontlinesShow GETTR: @FrontlinesShow Rumble Watch Frontlines on Real America's Voice every week day at 7:30pmPST-10:30pmEST!

Today's we open with a reminder of what I talked about on my show back on September 28, 2022 regarding the destruction of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. While there was an attempt around the world to put the blame on Russia, I found that one hard to swallow. I went through the possible scenarios and, like Sherlock Holmes always said, once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the truth. My only conclusion at the time was the destruction of those liquid natural gas pipelines would most benefit the United States of America. Now, today, Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says that the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines was a black op ordered by President Biden and executed by the CIA in collaboration with Norway. This story has been pickup up by several news outlets across the pond, but hasn't made as much traction here in the U.S. While Biden is already reeling from the Classified Documents scandal, a terrible economy and a poor performance during the SOTU, this would be yet another massive blow to him and his Administration. Then we move into the opening day of the House Oversight Committee beginning their work investigating the Twitter Files and how our government colluded with Big Tech to censor Americans. Up to testify was Anika Collier Navaroli, Former Twitter U.S. Safety Policy Team; Yoel Roth, former Executive over Trust and Safety; Vijaya Gadde, former Twitter Chief Legal Officer; and, Jim Baker, former Twitter Deputy General Counsel. There is a lot to unpack, but sufficeth to say, the Committee did not just focus on the censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story. They hit a range of subjects and even intimated that serious crimes were committed and people should be getting handcuffed. We will have to see if anything substantive comes from this investigation. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are included in today's show as they try to understand the depth and breadth of government sanctioned censorship of the press, of reporters, of members of Congress and of the American people. While the investigation is the first step, we will know just how deep the "Deep State" is if nothing comes of it. We have to all reach out to our elected representatives and demand action. People's heads need to roll! It needs to be so punitive and decisive so as to prevent this from ever happening again. Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. You can also support the show by visiting my Patreon page!

Chad gives a quick recap of Joe Biden's State of the Union speech yesterday. Unsurprisingly, the whole thing was nothing but nonsensical mumbling and lies. Luckily, a few courageous Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene called out Biden during his speech. It's time to abandon the false deity of decorum that has kept conservatives from calling out the ridiculous and corrupt acts of a government hell-bent on destroying the country. The Hunter Biden laptop hearing is under way, and it has been beautiful watching ex-Twitter employees like Yoel Roth squirm while being questioned. It's become quite clear we aren't only fighting Big Tech censorship, but also the FBI. America's enemy isn't coming from overseas; it's coming from within our own government. A New Jersey high school student was disqualified from a race due to the American flag on his swim cap, which was intended to honor his late grandfather. We're joined by Gavin McInnes, host of "Get Off My Lawn" on Censored.tv, to discuss being labeled controversial. Today's Sponsors: Birch Gold Now would be a great time to diversify into GOLD with Birch Gold. In times of high uncertainty and instability, gold is king... its dependable. Birch Gold makes it easy to convert an IRA or 401k into an IRA in precious metals. Here's what you need to do. Protect yourself with gold today by texting CHAD to 989898. With an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, THOUSANDS of happy customers, and countless 5-star reviews, you can trust Birch Gold to protect your future. Patriot Mobile Patriot Mobile now offers service with ALL THREE MAJOR NETWORKS. This means if you're with the big three and like the service but hate their values, you can access them with Patriot Mobile. They also offer a PERFORMANCE GUARANTEE! If you're not happy with your coverage, you can switch between the THREE major carriers FOR FREE! Their 100% US-based customer service team makes switching easy! Just go to PATRIOT MOBILE DOT COM / CHAD or call them at 878-PATRIOT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MTG calls out Twitter for censorship and hypocrisy.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

They can talk about electric school busses on their time. They can talk about killing babies on their time. But when it's time to talk about conservative censorship, they don't get to decide that it's not. AOC is hysterical over the congressional hearings regarding Twitter today, and Grace opens the conversation on the lies exchanged between the girl from the Bronx and Yoel Roth.

Biden kicks off 2024 campaign with State of the Union speech. Old man screaming at the clouds barely mentions China. GOP boos when Biden says they want to sunset Medicare and Social Security. Rep. Jim Jordan talks with Clay and Buck about Biden's State of the Union, House Twitter hearings and the GOP agenda. Jordan tells ex-Twitter exec Yoel Roth he got played by corrupt FBI on Hunter Biden laptop.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Highlights: “Hamilton 68 was very influential in helping to drive the Russian collusion conspiracy hoax throughout the time of Trump's presidency.” “Internal documents from Twitter show that, based on their own investigation, Twitter employees concluded that only about 36 of the 644 accounts targeted by Hamilton 68 were physically registered in Russia. Even some of the most hardened anti-Trumpers at Twitter, like Yoel Roth, came out and said that Hamilton 68 was basically a bunch of BS and that Twitter needed to call them out for it.” “Even to this day, ANYTHING that disparages Trump will be pushed as news by the legacy media, no matter how absurd! The irony in all of this is that it was all too little too late. Trump did it! He helped crush the liberal international order. It is widely now recognized that that world order is effectively dead!”   Timestamps:              [01:14] On the operation called ‘Hamilton 68' built by the Alliance for Securing Democracy [04:22] The latest Twitter files involving Hamilton 68 [07:07] Why was the legacy media prone to misinformation and why they and the deep state are the biggest losers in the end Resources:   Don't miss out on Dr. Steve's BIG NEWS coming to his email list at the end of the month by subscribing today at https://turleytalks.com/subscribe/ Ep. 1402 Jordan Peterson Leaves Joe Rogan SPEECHLESS on the World Economic Forum!!! Build a fortress to withstand any or all storms that might arise in 2023 with Food Supply at Http://GetReadyWithSteve.comand discover why PREPARATION is my New Years Resolution at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSrwEKP2nWI Go to https://www.hometitlelock.com/turleytalks -- and use promo code: TURLEYTALKS. Then enter your address for your no-obligation home title scan to see if you're already a victim. That's a $100 value -- FREE. Be sure to use my promo code TURLEYTALKS for your FREE TITLE scan at http://hometitlelock.com/TURLEYTALKSpromo code TURLEYTALKS. Want a BETTER way to study philosophy, gain wisdom, and defend yourself against the regime? Join Jay Dyer's Philosophy 101 Online Class at https://marketplace.autonomyagora.com/philosophy101 Get Over 66% OFF All of Mike Lindell's Products using code TURLEY: https://www.mypillow.com/turley Learn how to protect your life savings from inflation and an irresponsible government, with Gold and Silver. Go to http://www.turleytalkslikesgold.com/ Join my Insiders Club Community with a 14-Day Free Trial + A Welcome Gift at https://insidersclub.turleytalks.com/ Make sure to FOLLOW me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrTurleyTalks Get 25% off Patriotic Coffee and ALL ITEMS with Code TURLEY at https://mystore.com/turley Get Your Brand-New PATRIOT T-Shirts and Merch Here: https://store.turleytalks.com/   Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode.  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and/or leave a review. Do you want to be a part of the podcast and be our sponsor? Click here to partner with us and defy liberal culture! If you would like to get lots of articles on conservative trends make sure to sign-up for the 'New Conservative Age Rising' Email Alerts.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3:  Biden aides are continuing to search for any additional documents that have been misplaced since Biden's term as Vice President concluded. Zeoli notes that as Vice President, Biden did not have authority to declassify any of this information at the time. Joe Biden's 21 craziest lies! While appearing on CNN, former FBI agent Peter Strzok did his best to draw distinctions between Joe Biden's mishandling of classified information and Donald Trump's mishandling which resulted in his home being raided. On Wednesday, Republicans began voting on two pieces of legislation intended to curb abortion. The House also held a vote to condemn attacks on pro-life facilities. Democrat Congressman Jerry Nadler objected to the bills, oddly claiming that they “endanger some infants.”   While appearing on Fox News, New York Post columnist Miranda Devine accused President Biden of having a “symbiotic relationship” with University of Pennsylvania which subsequently attracted large sums of Chinese money. On Tuesday, Governor Phil Murphy delivered his annual State of the State address—taking a shot at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and insisting “woke” won't die in New Jersey. Murphy also bragged about New Jersey's economic growth, but outside sources suggest the state's economy isn't something to boast about. According to National Review, the House Oversight Committee has requested Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde, Yoel Roth, and James Baker testify regarding their roles coordinating with the federal government to censor speech on the social media platform. Zeoli is preempted for sports!

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (01/11/2023):  3:00pm- On Monday, the House of Representatives passed a rules package mostly along partisan lines (220 to 213—with only one Republican voting against the measure). The package included funding for a "Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic" designed to determine the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and whether U.S. tax dollars were spent on dangerous gain of function research experimentation in China. The subcommittee, according to The Washington Post, will also examine the federal government's response to the COVID-19 outbreak.  3:20pm- In a memo, Secretary of State Lloyd Austin announced that the U.S. Department of Defense will no longer mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for U.S. military members. According to The Daily Wire, "House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) forced an end to the program last month when the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense policy bill, was passed.” 3:30pm- According to a study from the New York University Center for Social Media and Politics, Russian bots had little to no influence over voters in the 2016 Presidential election.  3:35pm- Last week, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a bill requiring public schools to teach media literacy to all students in kindergarten through 12th grade—making New Jersey the first state to pass legislation combating misinformation academically. But what exactly will the state consider “misinformation”? 3:45pm- In a new National Review article, journalist Nate Hochman warns ChatGPT—a sophisticated chatbot utilizing artificial intelligence—may have been designed with algorithms that push left-leaning political stances.  4:05pm- Breaking News: President Joe Biden mishandled more classified documents than was originally believed. According to Ken Dilanian of MSNBC, a “second batch of classified documents at a different location than the [University of Pennsylvania] Washington office" have been discovered.  4:10pm- Earlier today, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked if Joe Biden may have mishandled additional classified information after concluding his second term as Vice President. Jean-Pierre stated, “this is an ongoing process.” Was she attempting to mislead the White House press? 4:25pm- In a 365 to 65 bipartisan vote in the House of Representatives, Congress approved the establishment of a committee to investigate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the threat the CCP possesses to the United States, as well as Chinese citizens. However, progressive Congressman Jamaal Bowman bizarrely claimed the committee is xenophobic.  4:40pm- Jimmy Failla—stand-up comedian & Fox News Radio host—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss medicating fat kids, Victoria's Secret going broke after adopting “body positivity” as their business model, and woke M&M's. PLUS is Stacey Abrams starring in a Baywatch remake? You can listen to Jimmy on 1210 WPHT on Saturdays starting THIS weekend! 5:00pm- Biden aides are continuing to search for any additional documents that have been misplaced since Biden's term as Vice President concluded. Zeoli notes that as Vice President, Biden did not have authority to declassify any of this information at the time.  5:15pm- Joe Biden's 21 craziest lies! 5:25pm- While appearing on CNN, former FBI agent Peter Strzok did his best to draw distinctions between Joe Biden's mishandling of classified information and Donald Trump's mishandling which resulted in his home being raided. 5:35pm- On Wednesday, Republicans began voting on two pieces of legislation intended to curb abortion. The House also held a vote to condemn attacks on pro-life facilities. Democrat Congressman Jerry Nadler objected to the bills, oddly claiming that they “endanger some infants.”    5:45pm- While appearing on Fox News, New York Post columnist Miranda Devine accused President Biden of having a “symbiotic relationship” with University of Pennsylvania which subsequently attracted large sums of Chinese money.  6:00pm- On Tuesday, Governor Phil Murphy delivered his annual State of the State address—taking a shot at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and insisting “woke” won't die in New Jersey. Murphy also bragged about New Jersey's economic growth, but outside sources suggest the state's economy isn't something to boast about.  6:15pm- According to National Review, the House Oversight Committee has requested Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde, Yoel Roth, and James Baker testify regarding their roles coordinating with the federal government to censor speech on the social media platform.  6:25pm- Zeoli is preempted for sports!

Jack Posobiec takes the stage at Turning Point USA's historic AmericaFest 2022, to speak directly to the young patriots fighting on the front lines of the Culture War. He pulls no punches and calls out the lies and chicanery of Yoel Roth as only Poso can, and makes a clear, definitive statement about all the other adversaries trying to steal our Republic! You don't want to miss this riveting speech! Here's your Daily dose of Human Events with @JackPosobiec Go to www.goodranchers.com/poso to get two free 12oz Black Angus new york strip steaks and two free pasture-raised chicken breasts with ANY order!To get up to $2,500 of free silver on a qualifying purchase go to https://allegiancegold.com/POSO/ with code POSO  

Information continues to come out of Twitter regarding their relationship with the FBI in the lead-up to the 2020 elections. Between January and November 2020, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth. Jordan and the Sekulow team break down the latest big tech censorship revelations. This and more today on Sekulow.

Alex Barredo: @joinmastodon official account has been banned on Twitter. Impulsive and Unjustified: CNN Slams Twitter for Suspending Journalists – Including Its Own Donie O'Sullivan. Elon Musk Launches a Manhunt After Alarming Incident. Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council, Yoel Roth flees home. Elon Musk, Management Guru? Senate votes to ban TikTok use on government devices. What is TikTok & is TikTok Safe? TikTok may push potentially harmful content to teens within minutes, study finds. FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Is Arrested in the Bahamas. FTX Investor Impact: Timeline of Realized Cryptocurrency Gains and Losses Shows FTX Hit Investor Wallets Less Than Previous Crises. Trump Sells a New Image as the Hero of $99 Trading Cards. Tesla Full Self-Driving data looks awful: We challenge Elon Musk to prove otherwise. Apple backs out of Sunday Ticket negotiations with NFL. Virtual Reality Pioneer John Carmack Is Leaving Meta. Instagram launches new tool to help hacked users regain account access. Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets. ConnectSafely giving out $1K grants to schools & nonprofits. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Jason Hiner, Mike Elgan, and Larry Magid Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Stamps.com promo code TWiT noom.com/twit audible.com/twit or text twit to 500-500 wwt.com/twit

C&B take a deep dive into the latest Twitter Files revelations. Elon Musk's tweets. House GOP should be selective with what they investigate. We need prime time hearings into Twitter crimes. Elon has to make clear, fair rules for who gets banned on Twitter. Leftists say criticism of Yoel Roth, former head of Trust and Safety at Twitter, has put his life in danger. Elon's tweets on pronouns/Fauci. Flashback to another Jack Dorsey lie.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As America is trying to recover from COVID, it looks like we have a new flu out of Qatar. Reports are that the “camel flu,” which is the common name for Middle East MERS, has infected the France squad at the World Cup. Could this be the new pandemic for 2023? This is the last episode of 2023, and Chad reflects on what happened in 2022 that changed him for the better. Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host and future expert, joins the podcast to discuss how 2023 will be if we continue this “woke” route in America. Former Twitter executive Yoel Roth is in hiding after receiving “death threats,” but Chad and Sara provide all the death threats they get on the daily when they tweet about protecting kids from drag shows. When will the Left learn that actions have consequences? As we close the year, here's all the example you need to want to remove your kid from public schools. Parents, 2023 is going to be crazier in your kids' school, so it's time to take charge of your kids' education and be involved. It's time! Today's Sponsors: KEEPS has clinically-proven, FDA-approved hair loss treatments available online. If you're ready to take action, join thousands of guys who have saved their hair with Keeps. Visit http://KEEPS.com/LOSS for 50 percent off your first order. The iTarget Cube is fully compatible with your existing laser bullets. You can buy one, or upgrade to the three pack for a truly unique training experience. Compete with friends, practice clearing drills, or use random mode to test your ability to react, all while the system times every shot you take. RIGHT NOW, SAVE 10% PLUS FREE SHIPPING with the offer code CHAD, when you go to go to http://ITargetPro.com. This month, you'll get a FREE Goldback for every $5,000 purchased, when you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a precious metals IRA with Birch Gold by December 22nd. Birch Gold will help you own gold and silver in a TAX-SHELTERED account! Text CHAD to 989898 to claim your free infokit on gold, then talk to one of their precious metals specialists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ladies discuss dishy arms dealer Viktor Bout's WNBA prisoner exchange, nonbinary nuclear official Sam Brinton's luggage theft scandal, and disgraced Twitter censor Yoel Roth's Foucauldian gay sex dissertation.

You've heard the name of Yoel Roth, who was responsible for all the censorship on Twitter. But do you know why he's such a piece of sh*t? You will after today's show! Also, black nationalists stan Hitler for some reason. And did you know Rep. AOC has a movie out? Neither did most of America.

Twitter's deplatformed the president, and teamed up with the FBI to censor Americans for "misinformation." It's the biggest scandal in tech history...but were any crimes committed? And if so, what? Tim Fitton of Judicial Watch joins to lay out what the legal path might be for holding Twitter accountable. Plus, Congressman Matt Gaetz joins to talk about how he was singled out by Yoel Roth as one Republican Twitter should bend the rules in order to censor.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tim, Ian, Luke, & Kellen join Phil Labonte (All That Remains) to discuss the latest twitter leaks proving that they lied in order to ban Trump, Elon Musk becoming the new main target for leftists, Yoel Roth's creepy PhD thesis, Twitter suspending their trust & safety council, Elon getting booed while on stage with Dave Chapelle, Sam Bankman-Fried being arrested, & Biden's nuclear waste worker getting fired after continuing to steal women's luggage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's cant miss episode of Human Events Daily, Jack is joined by Editor-in-Chief of The Post Millenial, Libby Emmons to discuss the unearthed blog posts of Yoel Roth who DEFENDED Anthony Weiner, PLUS, a jam-packed 2-segment special coverage of the DISGRACED school officials in Virginia who worked to cover up the rape of a female student, and have since been INDICTED! All this and more ahead on Human Events Daily! Here's your Daily dose of Human Events with @JackPosobiec Save up to 65% on MyPillow products by going to MyPillow.com/POSO and use code POSO Go to patriotmobile.com/poso/ or call 972-PATRIOT to get free activation with offer code POSO

Today we're joined by Auron MacIntyre, Blaze News columnist and BlazeTV host, to discuss the fall of democracy, the Twitter Files, and Brittney Griner. First, we ask where the line is between voting based on our Christian worldview and theocratic rule and explain why our values cannot be separated from what they inform. We talk about how the elites are always going to try to shape our politics. Then, we look at the Twitter Files, which were released periodically over the past week and revealed inside information on how pre-Elon Twitter colluded with the government to hide information during the election and also shadow-banned conservative accounts they deemed threatening. We also discuss Yoel Roth, Twitter's former global head of trust and safety, who seems to have a quite disturbing pattern of beliefs. We look at the Brittney Griner prisoner swap and explain why descriptors put you at the front of the line for special treatment and ultimately why this was such a big virtue signal direct from the White House. --- Timecodes: (02:16) Interview with Auron begins (19:30) The Twitter Files (30:38) Yoel Roth (45:50) Culture and immigration (1:02:10) Brittney Griner swap (1:06:43) Auron's groomer meme --- Today's Sponsors: ExpressVPN — have more anonymity online. Go to ExpressVPN.com/ALLIE and get three extra months FREE. Good Ranchers — change the way you shop for meat today by visiting GoodRanchers.com/ALLIE and use promo code 'ALLIE' for a discount! Carly Jean Los Angeles — use promo code 'ALLIEB' to save 20% off your first order at CarlyJeanLosAngeles.com! Covenant Eyes — protect you and your family from the things you shouldn't be looking at online. Go to coveyes.com/ALLIE to try it FREE for 30 days! --- Links: Daily Wire: "WNBA Star Brittney Griner Freed From Russian Prison In Swap For Arms Dealer" https://www.dailywire.com/news/wnba-star-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-prison-in-swap-for-arms-dealer Daily Wire: "NBC Issues Correction, Changing Story To Match White House Spin On Griner Swap" https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbc-issues-correction-changing-story-to-match-white-house-spin-on-griner-swap --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 675 | Want to Topple the Elites? Mock Them | Guest: Seth Dillon https://apple.co/3VTr1WL Ep 467 | Twitter Bans Biology and Why The Gender Stuff Matters https://apple.co/3FnWCIR Ep 652 | The Left's ‘Don't Say Groomer' Policy https://apple.co/3UTl5eO --- Christmas Merch: Use code ALLIE20 for 20% off the whole shop! Full collection: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey?sort_by=created-descending#MainContent --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maricopa County, AZ: Runbeck Whistleblower Reveals Ballots Added Did not Exist! Twitter Exec Yoel Roth Sounds Like a Pedo If you want to support the show, you can donate here: http://bit.ly/cd-donate This episode of Conservative Daily is brought to you by DCF Guns. We all see what is happening in America right now. It has never been more important for you to arm yourself, and most importantly, learn how to use your arms safely and effectively. Check out DCF Guns at: https://dcfguns.com/ Become a Conservative Daily member right now for massive savings on Faxblasts, discounts at Joe's Depot, and more perks like backstage time with the hosts of Conservative Daily! Use the link and sign up today! https://conservative-daily.com/forms/Step1b Make sure you Like, Comment, and Share! Text FREEDOM to 89517 to get added to our text list to receive notifications when we go Live! Privacy Policy: https://conservative-daily.com/Legal/Privacy Terms: https://conservative-daily.com/Legal/Terms Reply STOP to stop further text messages from Conservative Daily. Message and Data Rates may apply. Need help? (855) 954-6644 or reply HELP. Please make sure you join our newsletter to receive our action alerts: https://bit.ly/joinconservativedaily Today's show is sponsored by Augusta Precious Metals. They help retirement savers use gold IRAs to diversify and hedge against this crazy economy. Augusta is different. They don't push fear and doom like some gold IRA companies. Augusta has thousands of five-star ratings and hundreds of great reviews. Their most famous customer, quarterback Joe Montana, loved the company's mission so much he's now their paid ambassador! Even Money magazine says Augusta is the best gold IRA company! So, don't get into a gold IRA nightmare. Protect your retirement savings with a reliable, transparent company. Get Augusta's free guide from their website https://www.augustapreciousmetals.com/ Get you and your family prepared at the Brighteon Store right now and stock up on high quality storable food, survival gear, and the cleanest supplements on the planet! https://bit.ly/3PezXDd If you want to support Mike Lindell and our show, use promo code CD21 to get up to 66% off at https://www.mypillow.com/radiospecials or by placing your order over the phone at 800-872-0627. When you use promo code CD21, a Queen Sized MyPillow is just $29, the cheapest it has ever been! Conservative Daily is on Rumble! https://rumble.com/user/ConservativeDaily We are now also going to be streaming on dlive! Check us out here: https://dlive.tv/ConservativeDaily Click here to donate: http://bit.ly/cd-donate Subscribe to our daily podcast at Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/ConservativeDailyPodcast on Google Podcasts (for Android users): https://bit.ly/CDPodcastGoogle We are also available on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/2wD8YleiBM8bu0l3ahBLDN And on Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/podcast/conservative-daily-podcast/PC:37034 And on iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-conservative-daily-podcast-53710765/ on TuneIn: https://tunein.com/radio/Conservative-Daily-Podcast-p1350272/ And on Podbean: https://conservative.podbean.com/ And now also on Audible! https://www.audible.com/pd/Conservative-Daily-Podcast-Podcast/B08JJQQ4M Support Joe Oltmann in his legal battle against Eric Coomer: https://givesendgo.com/defendjoeoltmann

Charlie is joined by Kari Lake to unpack the bombshell lawsuit she just filed against the state of Arizona and Maricopa County, and it's a doozy. They go through all of the evidence Kari's team has found, as well as the sworn testimony of 4 whistleblowers alleging massive chain of custody and signature verification issues. And, as more of the Twitter Files are being released, the gravity of the censorship that took place is weighing on everyone. At the center of the censorship is Yoel Roth, former Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter, and Charlie dives into the impact Yoel had on the bans, his secret meetings with the FBI, and more.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode of Human Events Daily, Jack is joined by Vice-President of Sales at My Patriot Supply, Joe Rieck, to discuss the recent Twitter Files and Yoel Roth's assistance in the destabilization of the public conversation, plus, Odesa has been PLUNGED into darkness while the Serbians are asking NATO to deploy troops along the border, meanwhile, as the holidays approach, there is seemingly no end in sight to the financial woes – will YOU be ready when tragedy strikes? All this and more on today's episode of Human Events Daily!Here's your Daily dose of Human Events with @JackPosobiec Save up to 65% on MyPillow products by going to MyPillow.com/POSO and use code POSO Go to www.itargetpro.com to get 10% off and free shipping with offer code POSO

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about Elon Musk hinting that the next batch of Twitter files could destroy the reputation and lead to the prosecution of Dr. Fauci; Musk making a shocking claim about Fauci's role in gain of function research; LA County's Barbara Ferrer planning to bring back indoor mask mandates in Los Angeles; Kamala Harris' laughing all the way through Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass' induction ceremony; CNN's Chris Wallace asking Dr. Fauci if he regrets forced school closures knowing what we know now; former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey lying to CNN's Brian Stelter about shadowbans; the truth about Twitter's blacklists and visibility filtering overseen by Yoel Roth; hilarious scenes from the NY Times strike and what the journalists union wants to get out of their labor dispute; Vivek Ramaswamy making clear that Twitter execs like Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde; and Yoel Roth could be prosecuted for consumer fraud; White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre denying that the White House was involved with Jim Baker or Twitter censorship, despite Jen Psaki saying quite the opposite about the administration's role in fighting social media disinformation; Jordan Peterson sharing what he feels the real accomplishment of Elon Musk has been since he took over Twitter; and much more. ---------- Today's Sponsors: BullionMax - Don't let inflation destroy your wealth. BullionMax is a direct to consumer precious metals retailer who can help you diversify into gold and silver. Rubin Report viewers will get BullionMax's Silver Starter Kit at EMPLOYEE PRICING! This offer is limited to just ONE per household, so get yours NOW. Go to: https://www.bullionmax.com/DAVE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

C&B take a deep dive into the latest Twitter Files revelations. Elon Musk's tweets. House GOP should be selective with what they investigate. We need prime time hearings into Twitter crimes. Elon has to make clear, fair rules for who gets banned on Twitter. Leftists say criticism of Yoel Roth, former head of Trust and Safety at Twitter, has put his life in danger. Elon's tweets on pronouns/Fauci. Flashback to another Jack Dorsey lie.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Receipts! Big Tech colluded with Biden to turn the election. Former Twitter Global Head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, says the decision to ban Trump after January 6 was impelled by the "trauma" he and other "content moderators" experienced that day. Buck realizes the gravity and says things are looking up, "I think Elon has stuck to his word on everything so far. I think he does believe that Western civilization is at stake. And I think he's right." Miranda Devine joins C&B to discuss her new explosive NY Post column: The FBI warned Twitter during "weekly" meetings of Hunter Biden "hack-and-leak operation" before censoring The New York Post. Clay sums up everything: "This makes Watergate look like jaywalking."Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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