trump was able to go around the media and speak directly to people through social media. social media executives said that they would never let that happen again. and they began doing algorithm mic game playing, putting censorship on particular tweets from trump and other republicans and really meddling in u.s. elections. what these twitter files have shown us is that this also involved our own fbi and other intelligence agencies that were colluding with these social media companies to help political allies in the democrat party and harm political opponents in the republican party. trace: moving forward now, josh, tweet 8 matt taibbi the bulk of the internal debate leading to trump s ban took place on those three january days. he is talking about january 6th, january 7th and january 8th. however the intellectual framework was laid in the months preceding the capitol riots. again, they are giving us more information saying, hey, listen, we didn t make this snap decision on january 7th
company about something, that would suggest to me that they thought there was criminal activity somewhere. now, that is just how i infer the fbi and for that matter any law enforcement agency does not collaborate or corroborate or for that matter try to work with the private company unless, perhaps, there is an investigation underway. so there are a lot more questions here i have. but the one thing i want to know is when did they start these conversations with twitter? and, more importantly, why? because i think that has not come out, mr. taibbi s stuff he is released at least what i have heard griff report on what i have been able to find on my own laptop. trace: you heard harold s one thing there, josh. what s your one thing? what s your big take away from what we have heard so far? i think the biggest overall take away of the twitter files what mollie was saying there was a double standard for partisan reasons not substantive reasons on what content that they were regulating and
had one of the posts from a picture from an employee saying is this the first time a sitting head has ever been suspended? and, indeed, it was. and twitter began to feel their actual power. if we look at the 6th tweet here we can show you as soon as they finish, banning trump, twitter execs started processing more power they prepared to ban future presidents and white houses perhaps even joe biden. now, let me take you to the seventh one. trace: stop you at six, when you stop at six, it seems to be a little bit of a contradiction there. matt taibbi is laying out what six is in essence. has given us the synopsis of the whole thing. if you look at the actual tweet, they go in and say we wouldn t do this. we would not suspend a future administration unless they were causing real world harm. so, it goes on and he is saying perhaps joe biden and they are saying as a last effort would we ever do this to another president. i m sorry, griff. go on.
dan bongino was put on the search blacklist so nobody could find his post. here is his reaction? please, audience, look me in the face and tell me now all you media clowns and goons and nuts who told me i was the crazy conspiracy theorist, tell me we live in a free country. i wonder how we have a committee to carry this whole thing out? yes, and at the highest levels of the most sensitive cases is a super secret committee which included former ceo jack dorsey. the former safety director writing that if there s misinformation that causes harm we should reduce exposure. here is the problem twitter s liberal staff decided what qualified as misinformation according to its agenda. in the case of that stanford professor, who would argue now that extended lockdowns didn t hurt our kids? trace: we talk about jack dorsey, go ahead, howie. i wanted to say that the phrases they use are so orwellian in these memos, disability filtering.
nations that continue detaining americans unjustly. a u.s. official tells fox news they hope brittney griner s case serves as a lessen to lesso americans especially high profile ones, government will use them as a political pawn. trace? trace: rich edson live at the white house. thanks. bret talks with the vice chair and president of microsoft about the threat from foreign hackers. first, here is what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 9 in the twin cities as former minneapolis police officer jay alexander is sentenced to three and a half years in prison for his role in the killing of george floyd. he pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting manslaughter. the sentence will run concurrently with his three year federal term for violating floyd s civil rights. fox 2 in detroit as a judge dismisses democratically charges against former michigan governor rick snyder in the water crisis. this comes months after the u.s.