WEBVTT - TWITTER-PALOOZA: A Deep Dive Into Elon's Bombshell Release 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.400 There was a big story that broke this week and 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:06.960 it dealt with an important issue, actual silencing and censoring 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:11.039 of conservative voices on Twitter right before major elections. We're 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.320 gonna do a deep dive on it. I'm Ben Ferguson, 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.960 and this is verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator. The Internet 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.919 got broken the other night because of Elon Musk and 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.240 all that he exposed, and it was a big story, obviously. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.320 But before we get to that, there's a guy in Washington, 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.200 DC that looks like you and it's freaking me out. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.479 I think it's freaking a lot of people out. And 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.479 it's someone you would never expect to be wanting to 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.839 look like you. His name is Mitt Romney, who has 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.879 grown a beard for people watching there. It is I 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.280 don't know if he lost his razor. I don't know 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.560 if he's trying to resurrect his career to make people 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.960 like him. And he saw how much people loved your beard. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.880 You got advice on this one. Well, listen, I think 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.480 Mitt's beard looks great. He came back from Thanksgiving and 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.320 he had white stubble covering his face. U it's interesting 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.360 that his beard is all white. His hair is not 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.319 all white, but the beard beard is and uh, and 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.360 I thought it looked good at so met and I 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.040 were laughing on the on the Senate floor. I welcomed 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.760 him the cooks in the Bearded club and and said 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.480 was glad to have him. As you know. I asked him, 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.360 what's the deal, what's going on? And he said, oh, 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.000 he just you know, didn't shave over Thanksgiving. And said 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.679 he was, you know, figured what the heck keep it? Uh, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.000 he said, he said, Anne thought it looked kind of cute. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.800 He liked that. That made him happy. Yeah, he said 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.360 he's never grown a beard in his life. It's entire life, 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.000 like college, grad school, never in his life had a beard. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.679 And I did share with him a story. I said, well, 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.640 you're gonna find they're different views depending on the generation, 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.120 and in particular, young people twenty something thirty something will 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.960 love the beard. But there's another generation, which is typically 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.440 women in their seventies and eighties who can't stand it. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.560 My grandmother said she didn't like my dad. When my 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.280 mom they were daying, she said, I don't like his mustache. 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.360 He was a police officer. He's hiding something. That's literally 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.480 what She wasn't joking she goes, I don't like him, 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.560 I don't trust him. So my father had a beard 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.640 in the seventies and he's shaved it because a woman 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.120 at church said she didn't trust men with beards, that 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.840 they were dishonest. And look, I think that really comes 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.000 out of the sixties and seventies and hippies, and there's 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.639 a generation where they see someone bearded and they think 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:31.600 you're a hippie. And a story I told Mitt. I said, look, 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.400 I was standing actually right where Mitt and I were standing, 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.160 which is down at the well of the Senate, and 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.359 I was talking with Mitch McConnell and Diane Feinstein came 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.239 up and Diane looked at Mitch and said said, Mitch, 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.400 when are we going to get ted to shave that 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.960 hideous thing on his face? And I turned to her. 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.720 I said, Diane, next thing, you know, I'm growing a ponytail, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.360 I'm getting birkenstocks, and I'm coming after your bass. Would 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:06.000 she say? Mitch McConnell cracked up, laughing, and Diane looked 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.600 at me, completely confused and befuddled. It just she did 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.040 not understand what I was saying. So I told Mit that, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.880 and apparently that might have scared him too, because the 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:22.239 next he shaved it. The very next day he shaved it. Well, 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.320 he didn't want to take that kind of heat from Democrats. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.720 Let's be honest. He wants to be friends with him. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.440 He loves the Democratic bass. He I loves the liberals 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.400 liking him. Of course he's going to shave them well ed, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.440 he said to him, He said, this thing itches? Does 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.640 it really itch? I said, yeah, for a day or two, 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.720 and then it passes. And so I actually went to 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.160 MIT that next day and said, Mit, I want to 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:47.160 officially lodge a protest on behalf of all of your 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:52.080 grandchildren growing back that you're denying them a Santa Claus 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.200 beard right before Christmas, and I think it's wrong. The 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:59.080 grandkids are dismayed. I gotta ask your two daughters. When 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.280 my dad apparently he shaved his mustache the only time, 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.920 we apparently freaked out and cried, I don't remember we 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.640 were little kids. Did your daughters like the beard instantly 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.200 or do they say no, dad? Yeah, my girls are 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.119 actually not crazy about the beard even now, even now 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.400 it's I've had it now a couple of years. I 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.839 like it, but my girls, my girls could do without. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.919 Well if you get if you if you get confused 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.480 with Mitt Romney, it's really gonna screw with people. He 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.200 shaved it now, so I think you're safe. You're not 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.400 gonna have to worry about people walking on Hey, Senator, 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.120 can I get a picture with Mitt? Can I get 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:30.800 a picture with you? From Utah? I don't think that's 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.760 going to happen now. It's fair to say mits bass 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.560 and my bass are very different. Yes, very different. I 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.039 want to get into this serious topic obviously, and we're 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.080 gonna do a deep dive. So everybody today make sure 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.680 you hit that share button. Share the podcasts, and we're 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.320 doing this one is a video as well, so you 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.839 can share that wherever you're watching this video on Facebook, YouTube, 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.359 et cetera. Because we're doing an entire show dedicated to 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.000 what just came out of how much government And there's 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.760 two parts of the story. There's government influence in the 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.240 private sector, and there's a private sector also silencing people 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.840 that they're told to silence by government officials. And I 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.760 think it's shocking to see how much their collusion there was. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.840 And Democrats love the word collusion. They've been obsessed to 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:18.960 that word for a long time. You want to talk 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.680 about real collusion, Elon Musk is showing us there was 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:26.600 real direct collusion between the Democratic Party and big tech 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.359 silencing conservatives. You look at this story and this is 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.760 going to be multiple parts, they're now saying, so they 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.880 release some of this information, and I want your overall 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.440 reaction to it, just how dirty it was behind the 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.039 scenes at Twitter to make sure people that we're having 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.760 an influence were silence with big stories. 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All this information was coming out. Well, it's stunning, 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.240 and a lot more is coming. So you and I 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.799 are sitting here at a Sunday afternoon. The first trunch 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.760 of emails and tweets has come out. Elon Musk has 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.640 has promised a second trunch coming out later today, so 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.480 we will see what the second trunch holds. But the 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:15.400 first one is stunning, and it's a whole Twitter thread. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.960 I'd encourage people to read the entire thing. But what 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.480 we're going to do on this pot is we're going 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.520 to go through the highlights of what's most important. So 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.440 let's start. Let's start with the first one. And this one, 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.600 this is actually I think the eighth tweet, but it 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.480 goes right to the heart of it, and it is 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:36.679 an internal email within Twitter that reads more to review 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.920 from the Biden team colon and there are a series 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.600 of five links to different tweets other people have said, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.120 and then it says thanks all, and the response two 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.000 words handled these. And to be clear, this was basically 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.480 they went through Twitter the day before or in the 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.240 last couple of days. They said, Hey, these are the 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.680 tweets are most damning to us the Democratic Party. We 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.600 send them to Twitter, and we want you to get 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.200 rid of all these silence all these people, shut all 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.960 these people down. And it was just direct links to 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.720 tweets and then that said handled. There was no pushback, 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.840 there was no questioning, there was no we'll take a review. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.680 It was how high you want us to jump at Twitter, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.040 We'll take care of your problems. Yeah, this is Twitter 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:21.480 acting as an arm for the Biden campaign, acting as Look, 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.160 that's almost how you task an employee. Hey, here five 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.480 more to take care of. Handled these done. Just that's 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.319 who we work for. We're carrying it out and it 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.480 goes worth. Let's look at the next one. Okay, So 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.480 this is Elon Muss kind of commenting, giving a meta 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.080 comment on the entire thread, and he points out he says, 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:47.160 Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.880 a First Amendment violation, but acting under orders from the 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:55.319 government to suppress free speech with no judicial review is. Now, 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.960 let me explain something that's important. Why is Twitter acting 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.040 on its own not a violation of the First Amendment. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.480 The reason is the First Amendment only applies to government. Actually, 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.960 as it was written, it only applied to the federal government. 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.880 First Amendment begins with Congress shall make no law. It 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.439 applied to Congress. Now, since then, the courts have expanded 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.040 the First Amendment, so it applies to the entirety the 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.480 federal government, it applies to state governments, it applies to 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:23.079 local governments. But a private company, Twitter or anybody else 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:27.680 implementing some policy, the First Amendment doesn't govern it. But 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.200 as Elon points out, there's a major exception to that, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.640 which is, if a private company acts at the behest 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:40.000 of the government, if it is censoring because the government 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:46.400 is turning it into an instrumentality of censorship, then the 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.800 First Amendment does apply. And what these tweets show is 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.080 that's what was happening. And I got to say this podcast, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.480 we have been explaining this theory of First Amendment liability 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.960 for three years Yeah. We got into it on a 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.800 deep dive when the emails became public between doctor Fauci 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.079 and Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, and I explained on the 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:15.480 Verdict podcast how those emails make Facebook and they're similar 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:20.760 communications with Twitter face very real liability because they're not 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:25.719 just acting as private corporate actors, they're acting as an 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.199 instrumentality of the government, an agent basically of the government. 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:31.600 If you are one of these individuals, and we've seen 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:32.640 a lot of this come out, and I want to 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.160 do a deep dive into this is their legal recourse 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.160 now for the people that clearly were put on these lists, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.400 and there's a lot of conservatives that are now on 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.800 this list that we don't that we know of. There's 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.440 obviously going to be more that we're going to find 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.240 out about where their tweets were silence or counts or 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.400 silence and even shut down. If you are one of 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.880 those individuals, is there a real chance that you could 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:59.560 actually sue because of this and possibly win. Absolutely. Yes. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.840 Let's go to the next tweet because it actually goes 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:07.120 directly to the question you just asked. So celebrities and 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.520 unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the best 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.760 of a political party. And if you go to the 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:19.280 attachment here, I grabbed the first one under SI defer 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.280 to safety on the high profile second one. So the 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.760 first one, someone who I don't think is well known, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.360 but apparently that poor fellow tweeted something that Biden and 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.840 the DNC didn't like, and Twitter promptly squashed him. The 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.080 second one there is his famous guy is a tweet 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:40.520 from James Wood, the actor, And so the tweet says, 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.560 or the email says, an additional report from the DNC, 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.440 and they forward a tweet James Woods sent and Twitter 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.280 responded by immediately banning James Woods. And he has said, 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.080 I am going to sue on this. I'm not backing down. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.240 Does he have crowns because we hear a lot of 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.599 people say a lot times, are going to sue these emails? 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.199 Give him what he actually needs for a case. Is 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.280 what I've been told from several others who said, hey, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.160 this is bad news for the DNC. Yeah, and it's 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.160 bad news for Twitter in general. So going Twitter will 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.360 get sued, Biden will get sued, the DNC will get sued. 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.400 James Woods has said on Fox that his career was 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.480 destroyed by what the DNC was doing. That Twitter acting 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.120 to ban him ended up hurting his acting career. And 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.640 so one of the things you have to prove in 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:34.280 a defamation suit is you have to prove damages. I 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.080 think there's a very real chance someone like James Woods 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:38.400 will be able to All right, let's go to the 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.480 next tweet. So this is shifting into Hunter Biden. So 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.120 the Hunter Biden laptop story comes out. It's October of 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.680 twenty twenty. It's right before the election. The New York 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:53.120 Post publishes it, and then this is reading from this tweet. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.600 Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, the Hunter 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:02.200 Biden laptop story, removing links and posting warnings that it 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:07.520 may be unsafe. Reading this story may be unsafe. They 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:14.920 even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:21.040 reserved for extreme cases, eg. Child pornography. So they decided, 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.839 we're going to use every tool we can to nuke 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.440 the Hunter Biden laptop story, and essence and essence taking 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.520 the Hunter Biden story and making sure that you couldn't 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.320 share it as if it was child pornography. They used 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:40.280 the same exact technology yep and importance within Twitter to 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.400 say this story is so damning to Joe Biden, to 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:49.280 the Democratic Party, to this presential election, and obviously Twitter 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.480 was acting as an agent of the Democratic National Committee 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.280 in the Joe Biden campaign, that we will treat it 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.040 like it as child pornography to make sure this story 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.360 can never get out to the masses. What I think 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.000 is funny is the use of the word unsafe, because 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.600 you know, you think of unsafe, liked reading this may 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:08.840 damage you. You know, you think in the online world, 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.360 this has a virus in it, like there's something unsafe 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.640 about this website's unsafe. You don't want to go there. No, No, 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.760 What they meant about unsafe is it's not safe for 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.240 the political fortunes of Joe Biden and the Democrats, that 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.520 if you read this article, it's gonna hurt the candidate 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.560 we support. All right, let's go to the next one. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.400 So how far did they go? White House spokeswoman Kaylee 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:34.360 Mcaninny was locked out of her account for tweeting about 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.720 the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staff 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:43.720 or Mike Cohn, who seethed quote at least pretend to 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.000 care for the next twenty days. The next twenty days 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.800 was until the election. And if you look at this 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.600 email that the campaign staff are sent to Twitter, Kayley 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.800 mccaneey has been knocked out of her account for simply 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.200 talking about the New York Post story. All she did 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.640 is cite the story and first hand reporting that has 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.520 been reported by other outlets when the story came out. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.720 Joe Biden didn't say this is not my son's laptop. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.760 Joe Biden didn't say this is false. He didn't say 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.960 it was fraudulent. He just said, oh crap, this is bad. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.720 Please no one read it because I don't like the outcome. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.960 It makes me look really bad. The email continues, I 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.200 need an answer immediately on when how she will be unlocked. 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.560 I also don't appreciate how nobody on this team called 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.560 me regarding the news that you'll be censoring news articles 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:31.600 like I said, at least to pretend to care for 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.960 the next twenty days. Look, this is the White House 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:42.360 Press secretary that Twitter bands less than three weeks before 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:49.160 a presidential election. Why because Joe Biden the Democrats wanted 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:54.239 this story suppressed and the arrogance of we will silence anyone. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.800 So now, according to Big Tech, the White House Press 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:03.480 secretary cannot talk about articles in major newspapers. The New 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.600 York Post has the fourth largest circulation of any newspaper 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.360 in the country that, as we now know, are true 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.680 and accurate news stories, but are politically damaging to the 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.280 side Twitter wants to prevail. If you're Kaylee MCKININNY and 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.920 you see now what was happening behind the scenes, what 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.160 are her options legally? Can she do anything because she 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.000 was at the White House? Because that's what I think 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.760 many Democrats are betting on as well. This was the 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.080 fog of war that so they kept going back to, right, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.720 we didn't. We were so concerned about Russianson's information. That's 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.320 our get out of jail free card, and we were 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.320 just trying to protect the integrity of an election. They're 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.880 going to go back to that. That's their game plan here, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.640 And Bennet, It's why what Elon Musk is doing is 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.800 so important, because they could maintain that a couple of 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.560 days ago, they could say, oh, it was fog of war. 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.240 We were doing it because we thought it might be hacked. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.400 We were doing it. What Elon is doing is releasing 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.040 the goods and so let's get through a few more 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:01.040 of these, because it will show that the lefty Twitter 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.840 defense is just complete bs. So let's get to the 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.720 next one. You can see the confusion in the following 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:13.760 lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gaddy and former Trust 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:19.280 and Safety chief Yoel Roth. Comm's official trent and Kennedy writes, quote, 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.959 I'm struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:27.400 is unsafe. And let's read the exchange in close. So 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.560 this is October fourteenth, twenty twenty, so just a couple 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.000 of weeks before the election. New York Post Hunter Biden 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.720 laptop article privileged and confidential. Oh, I don't want to 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.439 get sued. Let me you put privilege and confidential on 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.240 something when you're afraid of getting sued, and you're saying 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.240 this email will really hurt us and cause us to 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.160 lose if we get sued. Our teams continue to investigate 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.639 the origins of the material included in the reporting. Trenton 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.800 Kennedy is the COMMS official. I'm struggling to understand the 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:02.679 policy basis for marking this is unsafe, No kidding, and 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.480 I think the best explainability argument. Okay, we got to 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.560 figure out a way to explain it. Yeah, we banned 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.679 it because it hurts Biden. That's not a good answer. 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.960 So I think the best explainability argument for this externally, 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.120 not internally. Externally, internally, we know exactly what we're doing, 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.000 but externally we got to figure out something to say. 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:26.000 Would be that we're waiting to understand if this story 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.879 is the result of hacked materials. We'll face hard questions 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.960 if we don't have some kind of solid reasoning for 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:39.240 marking the link unsafe. And Katie Roseboro comes and says, 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.280 will we mark similar stories as unsafe? And she points 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:46.960 out that the Senate Homeland Security Committee was investigating the 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.200 hard drive in the laptop. No answer to that, Let's 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:54.280 go to the next one. By this point, everyone knew 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:58.760 this was FT YEA, and they didn't abbreviate FT, said 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:04.359 one four employee. But the response was essentially to air 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:08.360 on the side of continuing to air. Now, let's look 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.680 at the exchange back and forth, and it'd be quick. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.040 This means let's just run out the clock. Yeah, close 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.440 to election day. If we can just run out the 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.600 clock here until the election, by default, if we win, 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.720 we're good. We succeeded in our goal, which was to 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.119 make sure that Joe Biden won the election and Donald 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.560 Trump lost the election and other Republicans losing the process 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.959 that are down ticket. We just gotta be smart. For 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:37.240 twenty days, nineteen days, eighteen days, we're on account down clock, guys. 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.400 We can pull this off for our team. That's exactly right. 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:45.920 And they know what they're doing is political. It's utterly transparent. Look, 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.000 they're going back and forth. Yoel Roth, who was one 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:52.080 of the senior officials at Twitter. The policy basis is 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:57.679 hacked materials, though as discussed, this is an emerging situation 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.520 where the facts remain unclear. In other words, we don't 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.760 know that this is hacked. We're just making this up. 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.040 By the way, it wasn't, but they didn't know it was. 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:10.200 Now here's the most revealing sentence of all of this. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:16.120 Given the severe severe as in all caps risks here 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:22.840 and lessons of twenty sixteen, we're airing on the side 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:29.760 of including a warning and preventing this content from being amplified. Now, 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.879 what were the lessons of twenty sixteen. I'm trying to 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:36.119 remember and go back to twenty sixteen. Well, there was 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.400 this guy named Donald J. Trump, who won. Yeah, and 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:43.880 the severe risks here is Donald Trump winning again. Holy crap. 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:47.040 If people read what Hunter Biden and Joe Biden we're doing, 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.160 if they read the corruption, they're not going to vote 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.440 for that guy, which means the guy we hate will 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:57.480 get reelected. They're admitting, here's what's the risk. The risk 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.920 is Trump wins. So we're just story nothing connected Hillary 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.560 Quenton back in the day. They're literally saying, the risk 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.840 is Donald Trump wins another four your term. That's exactly right. 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.280 All right, let's go to the next tweek. All right, 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.960 so the former vice president of Global Communications guy named 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:21.679 Brandon Borman asks, can we truthfully claim that this is 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:25.680 part of the policy and let's pull up the full context. 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:30.560 Brandon Borman new to Ian's point, Can we truthfully claim 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.640 that this is part of the policy, ie, as part 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:37.320 of our approach and addressing potentially hacked materials, we are 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:41.399 limiting visibility of related stories on Twitter while our investigation 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.720 is ongoing. Now, this is a brief moment of Okay, 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:48.520 we're lying. Everyone knows we're lying. But do we have 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:52.560 any fig leaf to pretend that we're following a policy 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.840 and we're not simply doing the behest of Joe Biden's 0:21:56.080 --> 0:22:01.240 this almost like a conspiracy to commit fraud. You where 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:03.880 if you the way that they're with every word you said, 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.560 except for the word almost, it is conspiracy to commit 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:11.680 fraud because there's a conspiracy to defraud the American people, 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:15.679 to defraud the American voters, to defraud democracy. This is, 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.119 to use the term that Donald Trump likes, this is 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:22.560 rigging an election. This is this is conspirac Say that again, 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:24.840 because it's a very important point that you just said. 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:30.159 This is evidence of rigging an election. Now it's not 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:34.880 rigging an election in the sense of Venezuela hacking into 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:38.719 voting machines, but it is rigging an election in the 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:44.400 sense of big tech billionaires at the behest of one 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:51.120 of the two parties, silencing and censoring and blocking truthful 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:57.520 reporting about facts that would change how people vote. So 0:22:57.760 --> 0:22:59.280 then there's an by the way, you know, you know 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:02.800 who does this, Putin does this. You know who else 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:07.080 does this? Shina does this. This is how dictators behave 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:10.639