"Twitter Files Were the Tip of the Iceberg" - Michael Shellenberger
TRIGGERnometry
Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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This is the first part of a 2 part episode. To check out part 2 go to:
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Michael Shellenberger is an American author and former public relations professional whose writing has focused on the intersection of politics, the environment, climate change and nuclear power, as well as more recently on how he believes progressivism is linked to homelessness, drug addiction and mental illness.
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About TRIGGERnometry:
Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.
00:00 Intro
04:25 The Real Meaning Behind the Twitter Files
18:03 How Shocked was Michael when Researching the Twitter Files?
22:53 Sponsor Message: Manscaped
24:17 Collusion Between Government & Big Tech
28:43 Are the Twitter Files Applicable to Other Social Media Platforms?
32:17 Will the Twitter Files Be Covered Up & Forgotten About?
36:51 Why the Twitter Files Didn’t Get Mass Media Coverage
39:57 To Be Continued…
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I was shocked by how many people at FBI were at Twitter. |
| 0:04.6 | I mean, we're not talking just low-level people, although they were there, too, |
| 0:08.6 | but we're talking the former General Counsel to FBI. |
| 0:11.8 | This is like one of the most senior executives. |
| 0:14.2 | We're talking the Deputy Chief of Staff. |
| 0:16.6 | I discovered a set of other extremely troubling behaviors, |
| 0:21.6 | including by former FBI executives, |
| 0:24.2 | including the former General Counsel to FBI, |
| 0:26.4 | who was then the second Deputy General Counsel within Twitter, |
| 0:30.4 | basically, you know, him arguing for censoring the laptop within Twitter. |
| 0:35.8 | And this is the same person who was involved in initiating |
| 0:40.6 | the whole Russia-Gate FBI investigation of Trump in the first place when he was at Twitter. |
| 0:45.8 | We know that there was that FBI and the intelligence agencies organized a little group |
| 0:52.3 | of all the social media companies, |
| 0:54.1 | and they would have regular meetings, particularly in their run-up to elections. |
| 0:57.5 | The journalists themselves are behaving in really weird behavior. |
| 1:01.0 | I mean, when you imagine journalists get together to talk about how not to cover an issue |
| 1:05.8 | or how to kind of squelch an issue, |
| 1:08.4 | you know, so that by the time the 100-mile laptop came out, |
| 1:10.3 | they had all been mentally programmed to view it as this information. |
| 1:24.9 | Hello, and welcome to Trigonometry. |
| 1:27.9 | I'm Francis Foster. |
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