As each subsequent edition of the Twitter Files comes out, the situation becomes more and more serious. We have to pray over what may very well be the biggest political scandal of this generation.

From The Daily Wire. Twitter cost Elon Musk $44 billion, but the FBI bought it for just $3.4 million.

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Before Monday’s bombshell edition of the Twitter Files, internal communications suggested that the FBI manipulated Twitter’s content cops through former G-men embedded inside the company, appeals to a warped sense of patriotism, and letting woke staffers feel like characters on “Quantico.” The latest drop, released by author Michael Shellenberger, revealed that the FBI sweetened the deal with cold cash. …

“I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!” wrote an unidentified functionary of Twitter’s Safety, Content, & Law Enforcement (SCALE) team in a February 2021 email to FBI general counsel-turned-top Twitter lawyer James Baker. “In 2019 SCALE instituted a reimbursement program for our legal process response from the FBI. Prior to the start of the program, Twitter chose not to collect under this statutory right of reimbursement for the time spent processing requests from the FBI.” …

Baker must’ve smiled when he read that email, secure in the knowledge he was earning his keep from two employers at once. His loyalty to the FBI was such that right up until Musk gave him a pink slip, he was still beavering away inside Twitter to hide the bureau’s fingerprints. …

The big question posed by the Twitter revelations is whether the federal government, through the FBI, infringed on the Constitutional rights of Americans by working with the platform to suppress their freedom of speech.

Anyone can tell you that the First Amendment applies only to the government, but if the feds were directing private companies to censor people, it gets tricky. And if the FBI was paying $3.4 million for Twitter to do what it could not, well, then you have one for the Con Law casebooks.

From The Epoch Times. Journalist Lee Fang released the latest installment of the “Twitter Files” on Tuesday, showing how the social media platform “quietly aided” U.S. intelligence officials’ online campaigns.

In a lengthy thread that was reposted by Twitter owner Elon Musk, Fang wrote that “despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations.”

“Twitter has claimed for years that they make concerted efforts to detect & thwart gov-backed platform manipulation. Here is Twitter testifying to Congress about its pledge to rapidly identify and shut down all state-backed covert information operations & deceptive propaganda,” the thread continued.

However, according to screenshots of messages from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) to Twitter, the social media platform gave approval and protection to U.S. military psychological influence operations targeting several Middle Eastern countries. That went on for about two years or more, and some accounts remain active, he reported.

“The same day CENTCOM sent the list, Twitter officials used a tool to grant a special ‘whitelist’ tag that essentially provides verification status to the accounts [without] the blue check, meaning they are exempt from spam/abuse flags, more visible/likely to trend on hashtags,” the thread continued.

Those accounts, Fang wrote, primarily posted about U.S. operations in the Middle East, including promoting messages targeting Iran and the Saudi war in Yemen.

“One Twitter official who spoke to me said he feels deceived by the covert shift,” he said. “Still, many emails from throughout 2020 show that high-level Twitter executives were well aware of DoD’s vast network of fake accounts & covert propaganda and did not suspend the accounts.”

In one Twitter message released by Fang, it shows that Twitter’s public relations team was working to “minimize Twitter’s role” and that at one point, “Twitter officials congratulated each other” after a Washington Post “story didn’t mention any Twitter employees [and] focused largely on the Pentagon.”

Twitter spokesman Nick Pickles in 2020 delivered testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, telling lawmakers that the firm was taking aggressive actions to shut down “coordinated platform manipulation efforts” by government agencies. He did not say whether that involved the U.S. government. …

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(Excerpts from The Daily Wire and The Epoch Times. Photo Credit: Canva)