Last Updated on December 10, 2022
In an online interaction on Friday between investigative journalist, Matt Taibbi, the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, and independent journalist, Glenn Greenwald, the Tesla CEO described the pre-Musk Twitter as a Democratic National Convention (DNC) operation and stated he thinks the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) tends to do “the right thing.”
“With rare exception, the FBI seems to want to do the right thing, but there is no question that Twitter operated as a Democratic Party activist machine,” Musk said in a post published on Friday.
Musk posted his assertion in response to a statement made by independent journalist, Glenn Greenwald.
Nope. The FBI is deeply embedded in the deep state. It has been weaponized for decades to go after enemies of the deep state. In recent years the FBI has become more blatant because deep state control of the media, big tech and many politicians means there are no consequences.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) December 10, 2022
“Yoel Roth, meeting with FBI weekly, and his little censorship minions absolutely degraded Twitter into little more than a full-on Democratic Party activist machine, all while lying to the public about its function. This was a massive public fraud and 2020 election interference,” Greenwald said.
New Zealand entrepreneur, Kim Dotcom, disagreed with Musk’s take on the FBI.
“Nope. The FBI is deeply embedded in the deep state. It has been weaponized for decades to go after enemies of the deep state,” Dotcom said. “In recent years the FBI has become more blatant because deep state control of the media, big tech, and many politicians means there are no consequences.”
Yoel Roth, meeting with FBI weekly, and his little censorship minions absolutely degraded Twitter into little more than a full-on Democratic Party activist machine, all while lying to the public about its function. This was a massive public fraud and 2020 election interference: https://t.co/Nj69RsGQDh
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 10, 2022
Greenwald had responded to the most recent iteration of The Twitter Files made public Taibbi, the post in question discussed a tweet made by former U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder.
“In this exchange, again unintentionally humorous, former Attorney General Eric Holder claimed the U.S. Postal Service was ‘deliberately crippled,’ ostensibly by the Trump administration,” Taibbi reported. “He was initially hit with a generic warning label, but it was quickly taken off by Roth.”
“It’s too late to use the mails. Given Supreme Court rulings I urge everyone to now vote in person; early vote or use drop boxes. Protect your health but don’t let the Court and the deliberately crippled Postal Service deprive you of your most precious civil right. Plan your vote,” Holder said in a tweet published on October 27th, 2020.
“Hey folks – can we reverse the label on [Holder’s] tweet,” Roth asked his staff in a Slack message. “Everything in it is factually accurate.”
“The firm’s executives on day 1 of the January 6th crisis at least tried to pay lip service to its dizzying array of rules,” Taibbi stated. “By day 2, they began wavering. By day 3, a million rules were reduced to one: what we say, goes.”
57. The firm’s executives on day 1 of the January 6th crisis at least tried to pay lip service to its dizzying array of rules. By day 2, they began wavering. By day 3, a million rules were reduced to one: what we say, goes
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 10, 2022
