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Herschel Walker says Raphael Warnock’s “pronouns are going to be former
Senator.”

Queerly none of the right wing guys have seemed to comment on Herschel's
worthiness to be a U.S. Senate candidate. One of Pillow Man's pillows
might fare better.

On 11/12/2022 6:40 AM, trotsky wrote:
> PatriotTakes 🇺🇸
> @patriottakes
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> Herschel Walker says Raphael Warnock’s “pronouns are going to be former
> Senator.”
>
>
> Queerly none of the right wing guys have seemed to comment on Herschel's
> worthiness to be a U.S. Senate candidate.  One of Pillow Man's pillows
> might fare better.

Politicians shouldn't use lines they couldn't possibly have written...

The second installment of the so-called "Twitter Files" was released Thursday
evening after the company turned over documents to a journalist who then
started to publish the findings on the platform.

Musk released internal company communications through journalist Matt Taibbi
on Friday about the company's censorship of the New York Post's Hunter Biden
laptop story during the 2020 presidential election and about how the platform
removed content at the behest of the Democrat Party.

However, Taibbi's release of the documents was somewhat muddled because one
of the people that he was reporting on, former Twitter Deputy General Counsel
Jim Baker -- the same Jim Baker at the center of Trump-era drama at the FBI
-- was the person who was vetting the content that was being sent to Taibbi.
Baker was subsequently fired by the company after this was revealed earlier
this week.

The second installment of the Twitter files was released by Bari Weiss in a
similar manner that Taibbi released his installment of the files, slowly
tweeting out content, making people wait several minutes before the next
tweet was published, which annoyed many users.

"A new Twitter Files investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees
build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit
the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics--all in secret,
without informing users," Weiss tweeted. "Take, for example, Stanford's Dr.
Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would
harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a 'Trends Blacklist,' which
prevented his tweets from trending."

"Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino (@dbongino),
who at one point was slapped with a 'Search Blacklist,'" Weiss continued.

4. Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino
(@dbongino), who at one point was slapped with a "Search Blacklist."
pic.twitter.com/AdOK8xLu9v

-- Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

Weiss further noted that another major conservative account was hit with a
"Do Not Amplify" restriction.

Weiss highlighted how executives at the company, including leftist Vijaya
Gadde, then-Head of Legal Policy and Trust, had previously denied that the
company took these actions.

7. What many people call "shadow banning," Twitter executives and
employees call "Visibility Filtering" or "VF." Multiple high-level
sources confirmed its meaning.

-- Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

"The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the
Strategic Response Team - Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often
handled up to 200 'cases' a day," Weiss said. "But there existed a level
beyond official ticketing, beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the
company's policy on paper. That is the 'Site Integrity Policy, Policy
Escalation Support,' known as 'SIP-PES.'"

14. This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust
(Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth),
subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others.

-- Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

Weiss then documented how the popular conservative account Libs of TikTok was
censored by the platform.

16. One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was
@libsoftiktok--an account that was on the "Trends Blacklist" and was
designated as "Do Not Take Action on User Without Consulting With
SIP-PES." pic.twitter.com/Vjo6YxYbxT

-- Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

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Let's go Brandon!