Journalist Matt Taibbi discusses US State Department division Global Engagement Center's alleged flagging of COVID-19 tweets as Russian disinformation.
Trevor Bickford, a 19-year-old man who had been interviewed by the FBI and placed on the agency's terrorist watch list, attacks three police officers with a machete in New York City; incident being investigated as possible terrorist attack.
Now that, with “Twitter Files,” the cat is officially out of the bag regarding the US government and its agencies’ involvement in flagging user content on the social site – the question becomes, should this form of censorship be officially investigated by Congress?
Several funds managed by Arabella Advisors, a Democrat-linked consultant firm, are quietly bankrolling research by universities and non-profits into how online “misinformation” and “disinformation” spreads, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the networks’ grants.
A majority of Americans want Congress to investigate whether the FBI was involved in censoring posts on Twitter and other social media sites following new revelations from billionaire CEO Elon Musk’s release of the “Twitter Files,” a poll released on Dec. 26 found.
The Trump and Biden administrations pressured Twitter to moderate COVID-19 content, and Twitter suppressed views that conflicted with official White House positions.
