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FBI responds to Twitter censorship allegations, blames “conspiracy theorists” and “misinformation”​

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Responding to allegations in the Twitter Files that it regularly communicated with Twitter employees, flagging content and accounts that potentially violated the platform’s terms of service, the FBI has suggested that what it did wasn’t censorship as it did not ask Twitter to “take action.”

FBI officials said that they provided information to Twitter so that the platform could make a decision on whether or not to take action.

“We are providing it so that they can take whatever action they deem appropriate under their terms of service to protect their platform and protect their customers, but we never direct or ask them to take action,” the FBI officials said.

The allegations that the FBI and Twitter were in close contact were made in the sixth installment of the Twitter Files, released by independent journalist Matt Taibbi.

According to Taibbi, in an email sent November 10, 2022, an FBI employee wrote: “Hello Twitter contacts, FBI San Francisco is notifying you of the below accounts which may potentially constitute violations of Twitter’s Terms of Service for any action or inaction deemed appropriate within Twitter policy.”

The email listed four accounts. In response to the email, a Twitter employee said three of the four accounts had been suspended and the fourth was still under review.

The FBI told Fox News that they did not give Twitter “specific instructions or details regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story.”

Asked if the bureau directly or indirectly provided Twitter with information regarding Hunter Biden or Russian influence, the officials said, “We focus on activities attributed to foreign actors, not on the content or narrative.”

In another batch of the Twitter files, released by Michael Shellenberger, Twitter’s former deputy legal counsel Jim Baker, who was at the FBI before joining Twitter, received an email from another Twitter employee indicating that the platform had received over $3 million from the FBI for processing requests.

Speaking to Fox News, the FBI did not deny the payment. An official told the news outlet that the payment was “reimbursement” for the “reasonable costs and expenses associated with their response to a legal process 
 for complying with legal requests, and a standard procedure.” The official added, “We don’t just reimburse Twitter,” suggesting that the bureau pays other social media companies.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the bureau said: “The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding, and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers.”

“The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”
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Apparently tweet views are so mentally damaging that some sped is offering CSS to hide it:

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I first noted the view counter appearing back in September. It's been around, but not for everyone. Additionally that information was mostly accessible even before Musk took over but you had to really dig for it. It's really nothing for anyone to get butthurt about now, as if it's truly new. The more detailed analytics will be extremely useful for anyone who uses Twitter for business purposes primarily.
 
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Maximum Girl said:
I first noted the view counter appearing back in September. It's been around, but not for everyone. Additionally that information was mostly accessible even before Musk took over but you had to really dig for it. It's really nothing for anyone to get butthurt about now, as if it's truly new. The more detailed analytics will be extremely useful for anyone who uses Twitter for business purposes primarily.
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Could you see other people's analytics before?

I know you could dig out your own, but I never saw anywhere you could see other people's engagements and stats.
 
I disagree with the opinion but would like to thank you for the information. @F13 Key

"Elon seems to have forgotten the whole "inflation" thing. He blames everything happening to Tesla's stock price on interest rate increases."

He hasn't forgotten, he disagrees with the current actions of the federal reserve increasing interest rates. He believes they should be decreasing interest rates to theoretically allow companies to borrow cheaper and easily grow during the recession. Same with consumers, lowering the cost of car loans, mortgages, and other forms of loans. Basically, stimulating the economy without the blanket "here's a bandaid for a month" check sending. As it applies to Tesla, people aren't spending money, and most certainly not on luxury consumer.

Look at other luxury items and software that will be going down. Apple, probably going to miss earnings Q4 Earnings due to A) Supply issues and B) they are a luxury good. I can't imagine impulse buying an Iphone for Xmas is something of a pool that is swiftly dwindling as common household necessities continue to become prohibitively expensive.

"His suggesting that Tesla is way harder to run than Twitter is not very reassuring to me, since the last month at Twitter has been pretty chaotic and even the most bullish Musk stans can agree has had its stumbles."

Apples and Oranges. One is a software company the other is a near fully vertical auto manufacturing business. Putting any sort of weight on Twitter impacting Tesla is arrogance on the part of the Twitter cult. The intrinsic value of Tesla just as far as assets owned, lands, factories, etc. is probably 5x the intrinsic value that Twitter holds. Twitter is essentially just an RSS feed after all. Really, what Tesla investors such as the "musk Stans" should be seeing in the declining price of Tesla stock is a FAT FUCKING DISCOUNT.

"It's probably a good thing the people on the call prevented the discussion from staying on the troon topic very long."

It is more likely that it was, as trans activists usually do, derails the conversation from Tesla to socio-political issues that are about as mailable and reliable as a pump and dump shit coin or NFT. Let me just clue folks in, I short woke companies (specifically those that pairs woke and a big corporate action like moving into a Chinese Market) and am up 20% this year overall. Investors know, woke don't work or at least is not sustainable for a company. Most importantly, culture is temporary. Currency and economics are forever.
 
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Apparently tweet views are so mentally damaging that some sped is offering CSS to hide it:

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They're not wrong about the numbers on the thing being bad for mental health, but I wouldn't limit it to a new counter. Seeking likes and retweets has easily fucked up the last couple generations' minds.
 
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They're not wrong about the numbers on the thing being bad for mental health, but I wouldn't limit it to a new counter. Seeking likes and retweets has easily fucked up the last couple generations' minds.
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But they want people to use it, and to gamify it you need to give people scores so they get hooked trying to improve them.

Remember, one of the things Elon is trying to do is to get Twitter profitable.
 
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AnOminous said:
So they admit it’s true and not just that, they pay other social media companies to censor things, while simultaneously schizophrenically calling it a “conspiracy theory."

Fuck trannies, fuck jannies, and fuck federal pigs.
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I’ve said this before, but it‘s still odd that we live in a world where the most anti-authority people are living like jannies who think they are the real heroes of the “culture wars”. These people have to destroy the lives of innocents and other forms of entertainment just to be on the right side of history.
 
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He hasn't forgotten, he disagrees with the current actions of the federal reserve increasing interest rates. He believes they should be decreasing interest rates to theoretically allow companies to borrow cheaper and easily grow during the recession. Same with consumers, lowering the cost of car loans, mortgages, and other forms of loans. Basically, stimulating the economy without the blanket "here's a bandaid for a month" check sending. As it applies to Tesla, people aren't spending money, and most certainly not on luxury consumer.

Look at other luxury items and software that will be going down. Apple, probably going to miss earnings Q4 Earnings due to A) Supply issues and B) they are a luxury good. I can't imagine impulse buying an Iphone for Xmas is something of a pool that is swiftly dwindling as common household necessities continue to become prohibitively expensive.
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The way I look at this is that Elon made a critical misjudgement of how the Fed was going to tackle inflation early on in the year. Typically raising interest rates to cool the economy is the easiest way to do that, but because of covid-influenced retirements, illness, death or whatever, the unemployment rate has remained flat. The Fed's goal IS recession, with the intent of it being minor and bumping the unemployment rate up a couple points to stop inflationary growth. Problem is that it hasn't worked nearly as well as they hoped, but this Fed is obviously doubling down and going all-in on this strategy. I think Tesla as a company didn't pivot as much as they could have in anticipation of this, and I think the Twitter purchase was brain-damaged and he should have taken the few billion in penalties to back out.

It's not like a Model 3 is that luxurious of a car, in some markets like CA it's probably a solid choice as a lower to mid-range family sedan. There's probably some other ways he could have influenced Tesla sales numbers upwards, even crossthreading with Twitter by doing a couple giveaways or giving employees one in lieu of cash bonuses/severance.

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Apples and Oranges. One is a software company the other is a near fully vertical auto manufacturing business. Putting any sort of weight on Twitter impacting Tesla is arrogance on the part of the Twitter cult. The intrinsic value of Tesla just as far as assets owned, lands, factories, etc. is probably 5x the intrinsic value that Twitter holds. Twitter is essentially just an RSS feed after all. Really, what Tesla investors such as the "musk Stans" should be seeing in the declining price of Tesla stock is a FAT FUCKING DISCOUNT.
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Agree on the difference of scale, but these are still multi-billion dollar companies with operations spread across multiple continents, thousands of employees, regulatory concerns, and more. Tesla's stock price is heavily based on psychology and is very strongly tied to Elon's image as a brain-child and corporate superstar. It's not like the company financials are bad, but investors buying it at $300 a share weren't doing so because the financials supported that price any more than people buying Bitcoin at $60k were. As Elon himself said, he doesn't have a crystal ball to predict the future. Elon making what is perceived as a big mistake buying Twitter or running it damages that image of him and that directly correlates to damaging the stock price of Tesla as a result, whether media coverage is fair or not.

It's magnified by bad media coverage of FSD accidents, battery fires and quality control hiccups. Everyone knows media covers negatives way more than positives, CNN isn't going to give airtime to a "Tesla battery fires at record lows" or "Tesla satisfaction ranked highest amongst surveyed EV owners" story, because it doesn't drive engagement nearly as much as "Tesla burns down and kills two children and puppy trapped inside". He has to know the media are circling him and Tesla like sharks smelling blood in the waters, and thus has to be cautious. Him adding Twitter was like him adding a whole extra outward facing target for media critics to aim at.

If Elon's actions at Twitter damage its brand, whether that damage is real or perceived, Tesla investor concerns about him causing damage to that brand are naturally going to increase. Particularly given his track record with them, like with the "going private at $420" announcement he made a ways back.

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It is more likely that it was, as trans activists usually do, derails the conversation from Tesla to socio-political issues that are about as mailable and reliable as a pump and dump shit coin or NFT. Let me just clue folks in, I short woke companies (specifically those that pairs woke and a big corporate action like moving into a Chinese Market) and am up 20% this year overall. Investors know, woke don't work or at least is not sustainable for a company. Most importantly, culture is temporary. Currency and economics are forever.
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Agree here, but with the caveat that the tech sector is much more volatile in general and has a fair bit more psychology driving prices than others do. I don't think anyone who was looking at Tesla at $300 a share thinks the fundamentals justify that share price, that was valuing the company at something like a million dollars per car they've sold. That valuation was mostly based on people's perception of long term company potential. I'm not sure if the stock is even worth its current $124 a share price or not, though if it drops into the double digit range I would agree you'd be a fool not to add some to a portfolio.
 
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Norbert the Tiger said:
Well, it has been far from perfect but this tantrum by some troom conclusively demonstrates that Elon has improved twitter greatly.

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Reddit should just be shut down, it provides nothing of value.

Most of their traffic, by a huge margin, is (pirated) porn, and the smaller communities have been overtaken by trannies and ran into the ground (at least the ones I cared about).
 
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