I'm Jillian Richards.

I'm Samantha Sharath.

And this is the Daily Signal Top News for Friday, December 9th.

Here are today's headlines.

My colleague Mary Margaret Olahan reports that journalist Barry Wise unveiled another round

of Twitter files yesterday.

These latest findings are part of an investigative series revealing Twitter's suppression of conservatives

prior to Elon Musk's takeover.

Twitter denied that it was suppressing accounts back in 2018.

But according to Wise's recent findings, conservatives including Dan Bongino, Charlie

Kirk, and Libs of TikTok were subject to various shadow bands, including trends or search

blacklists.

According to Wise, Twitter operatives admitted to using a visibility filter.

Twitter reportedly used this tool to block searches for certain users, or to limit the scope

of a tweet's visibility and to block posts from appearing on the trending page.

A Twitter engineer told Wise, we control visibility quite a bit, and we control amplification

of your content quite a bit.

And normal people do not know how much we do.

Twitter Kristin Sinema of Arizona announced she is leaving the Democratic Party and has

registered as an independent.

Sinema told CNN's Jake Tapper in a Thursday interview that she never fit neatly into any

party box.

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