7/1/22 Alan MacLeod on the Alarming Number of Ex-FBI Agents Working at Twitter

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Scott talks with Alan MacLeod about the reporting he’s done on the surprising number of former FBI agents who have joined the content moderation department at Twitter. He runs through some specific examples of people who have spent their careers working for the Bureau before pivoting to join the tech company. He also talks about the research he’s done into Facebook, Google, TikTok and Reddit. Discussed on the show: “The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents” (Mintpress News) Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News. After completing his PhD in 2017 he published two books: Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, as well as a number of academic articles. Follow him on Twitter @AlanRMacLeod. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
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0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
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0:56.9	and it's not shadow banned to the depths of hell, the Federal Bureau of
1:02.2	tweets. Twitter is hiring an Well, the Federal Bureau of Tweets.
1:03.6	Twitter is hiring an alarming number of FBI agents.
1:08.3	Say it ain't so, Alan.
1:10.9	Unfortunately, Scott, it is the case. The FBI has been taking a lot of posts in Twitter of late, many of them in fields such as content moderation or security.
1:24.2	It's not things like sales or marketing,
1:26.8	things that are politically neutral or not very sensitive.
1:30.7	It is unfortunately more about this sort of actual makeup of Twitter itself and the direction it goes in.
1:37.0	I can give you some examples of those agents if you like.
1:40.0	Sure, well I was going to crack a joke about how that makes me feel better since the government is us.
1:47.0	And so then that just means we're protecting ourselves, right?
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