Elon Musk Accuses Biden Of “Weaponization Of A Government Agency” Over Twitter Files
Biden’s FTC is going after the journalists Musk provided with access to Twitter records
Steve Watson
Following a report that the Federal Trade Commission has demanded Twitter turn over all internal communications related to owner Elon Musk and identify all the journalists that he has provided with company records, Musk accused the Biden regime of “weaponization of a government agency.”
The Wall Street Journal reports that the FTC wants Musk to provide testimony and provide the information, in addition to details about staff layoffs and the launch of the revamped Twitter Blue subscription service.
After Michael Shellenberger, one of the journalists involved in the release of the Twitter files, labeled the move “an outrageous attack on the first amendment,” Musk responded, calling it a “shameful case of weaponization of a government agency for political purposes and suppression of the truth!”
A shameful case of weaponization of a government agency for political purposes and suppression of the truth!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023
“IDENTIFY ALL JOURNALISTS” https://t.co/NpO8rDN8HK pic.twitter.com/9b2wdiWTNr
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) March 7, 2023
“The strong inference from these facts is that Twitter’s rediscovered focus on free speech is being met with politically motivated attempts to thwart Elon Musk’s goals. The FTC’s demands did not occur in a vacuum. They appear to be the result of loud voices on the left— including… https://t.co/bTJt6Lc6Sp
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) March 7, 2023
Fellow Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi added his thoughts:
Which journalists a company or its executives talks to is not remotely the government’s business. This is an insane overreach https://t.co/87JdDQ2s0P
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 7, 2023
No other way to say it now: my former colleagues in mainstream media are spineless, corrupt, amoral fuckwits. https://t.co/tsMjrzLZkv
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 7, 2023
This is particularly infuriating because while #TwitterFiles reporters neither asked for nor received access to private user data, the Files themselves are full of instances of government agencies improperly asking for the same. pic.twitter.com/xMLaEt3Q5Z
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 8, 2023
The Twitter files have so far shown how the Biden administration engaged in attempts to censor COVID origin information, criticism of big pharma, and perpetuate Russiagate misinformation by effectively embedding intelligence operatives within Twitter and other social media platforms, and employing third party operatives to impose state sponsored blacklists.
Is it any wonder the regime is going after Musk and the journalists he has entrusted to expose the truth?
This overreach is happening simultaneously with Democrats calling for Tucker Carlson to be banned from broadcasting after he received hours of unseen footage from the Capitol breech on January 6th 2021 which paints a different narrative of the events to the one presented to the American people.
Naked tyranny. https://t.co/p3p9NDdCvi
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 7, 2023
You completely lied on the Senate floor this morning about how Brian Sicknick died and then called for journalists to be censored for telling the truth. pic.twitter.com/58MR8S8xwW
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 8, 2023
As a U.S. Senator, you called for a journalist to be censored because he exposed your lies about Jan 6. It wasn’t a deadly insurrection. Officer Sicknick wasn’t murdered. Ray Epps lied under oath. No wonder 61% of Americans think Jan 6 was staged by feds. You should be ashamed.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) March 8, 2023
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