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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

Twitter File Recap 1: Twitter and the Deep State Parts 1 and 2

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.94.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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0:00.0

Forget shadow banning. That is what many conservatives thought were happening to them on Twitter and I'm sure now at Facebook, Google and YouTube.

0:10.0

Well now we have been vindicated for years and years. Conservatives like myself have said that we have been shadow banned.

0:19.0

What does shadow banning mean? It means yes, you're on a platform like Twitter, but you don't really exist. Your tweets aren't shown to other people.

0:27.0

And it is impossible for what you tweet out to actually go viral. In other words, they're saying we don't like what you're saying.

0:35.0

So we're going to suppress what you're saying. Big tree falls in the forest. No one's around. Did it actually make a sound?

0:43.0

Well forget shadow banning. It was worse than what we even thought. Now Twitter, we know had an entire blacklist.

0:52.0

And I am assuming based on what we have seen over the last 24 hours that I and many other conservatives are on the blacklist list.

1:02.0

The second installment of the Twitter files revealing Twitter's secret blacklist was dropped on Thursday night.

1:10.0

Not too long after taking over Twitter, billionaire Elon Musk pledged to release the document showing how under the company's previous ownership.

1:20.0

Twitter engaged in the suppression of free speech. These redocuments are now referred to as the quote Twitter files.

1:29.0

We have known now for quite some time that conservatives went from having the normal ability to reach people to being completely silenced on the platform.

1:41.0

We saw big stories that were silence. We saw big things like the Hunter Biden laptop story be banned from being able to be used and even shared in private messaging.

1:51.0

We saw Twitter and we know this for a fact now they treated people that shared the Hunter Biden story the same way they treated people who shared child pornography.

2:00.0

That's how much they were tipping the scales. Now Elon Musk has just tweeted out that quote Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true identity.

2:10.0

So you know clearly if you've been shadow banned. This is going to rock the world because you're going to see just how much the information was being suppressed by big tech.

2:28.0

Now not only did Elon Musk pledge to release the documents, but we're now getting names.

2:34.0

These files have been shared with two independent journalists. We saw the first installment that came out on December the second and it covered details surrounding Twitter suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

2:48.0

In his first tweet of the Twitter files part two, this journalist wise revealed that the entire teams of Twitter employees actually put together their own black lists and in order to suppress and shadow ban the reach of certain accounts.

3:04.0

Virtually all of them conservative. Something of shadow banning it again is the practice of suppressing a user on a platform or a user that and the information that they're putting out there. It's that simple Twitter what they were doing was actually much worse than that.

3:20.0

This was no by the way small operation or some rogue employee. There are lists and lists and lists black lists of whole groups of people who Twitter simply decided to crush.

3:33.0

And liberal former New York Times reporter why says that politics was driving at least part of the operation if not all of it. Let me give you an example.

3:43.0

One such blackless user was a Stanford professor. This professor had argued that COVID lockdowns were incredibly detrimental to young children.

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