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Twitter is a social media service.

 https://twitter.com   
Started: March 21, 2006
Founders: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, Evan Williams
Subgroup: Vine

Owner: Elon Musk
Staff: 3900
Constitutes: Social medium

X, formerly called Twitter, is a website which allows users to publish short messages. Users can post (tweet), like, repost (or retweet), comment and quote posts, and direct message other registered users.

Users interact with X through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its application programming interfaces (APIs).

Bots

How Twitter Bots Use Psychology to Fool You - SciShow Pysch

Although bots on social media are a known thing, the cognitive effect of it isn't reported often. In 2018 "Twitter" admitted that more than 50,000 Russia-linked accounts used the platform to post automated material about the 2016 US election, manipulating discourse to either confuse and derail discussions or promote Donald Trump as a preferable president."

In Australia, during the COVID-19/Pandemic, a Carnegie Mellon study found that almost half of the Twitter accounts calling for an end to lockdown orders were likely bots. Looking at more than 200 million tweets that referenced COVID-19, it found that 82 per cent of the top 50 retweeters were bots.

Staff

77th Brigade

Twitter’s ‘head of editorial’ for Middle East is officer in a UK Army propaganda unit the 77th Brigade. Gordon MacMillan has been working at Twitter for since 2012 and has been its Head of Editorial, Europe, the Middle East and Africa since July 2016.

A spokesman from Twitter told The Independent that it was an “open, neutral, and independent service” and that a review of Mr MacMillan’s service as an army reserve psychological warfare volunteer had found no violation of its policies.

Nick Pacilio

Nick Pacilio, per 2021 the senior communications manager for Twitter, was Vice President Kamala Harris' previous press secretary from 2011-14, while Harris was the attorney general of California, , and announced the removal of Trump Tweets.

A fascinating fact check by Microsoft-owned MSN created the impression in its headline and article that this connection is untrue. Out of the many social media accounts talking of this, they picked a Facebook post to debunk that somewhat imprecisely claimed "Kamela Harris' press secretary is the chief of communications at Twitter. Let that sink in", The MSN 'fact-check' focuses on the word "current", and states "the claim that Harris' press secretary is the senior communications manager of Twitter is FALSE, based on our research. There is no evidence that her current press secretary, Sabrina Singh, was ever employed by Twitter., while the same article in an example of doublespeak correctly confirms the core of the claim, "Harris' former press secretary now works at Twitter; he became an employee there after working for Harris."

Censorship

Full article: Twitter/Censorship

Ray Blanchard, a psychologist and leading researcher on transgender people is blocked after tweets in which he expressed his core beliefs about Transgenderism.

In 2016 Craig Murray was "ghost banned" by Twitter, resulting in a 90% decrease in traffic to his site from that site. Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, reported in 2017 that he had been "shadowbanned" because of his writings about Donald Trump. Twitter was an active participant in the COVID-19 censorship, and in August 2020 it began censoring all links to BitChute videos.

Twitter Files

Full article: Twitter Files

In 2022, journalists and Elon Musk released some files indicating a conspiracy of intelligence agencies and certain politicians to censor info on Twitter.

Disinformation and misinformation

Documents leaked in 2018 suggested that the Integrity Initiative was using "clusters" of journalists to try to promote Russophobia and also to smear Jeremy Corbyn.

In August 2021, they will test out a "report function" to prevent "misinformation".

Opinions about X/Twitter

“The medium is the message, and the message of Twitter is: I hate you.”
James Corbett (31 March 2018) 

Twitter on Wikispooks

	Has twitter	Description
'Destiny'	https://twitter.com/TheOmniLiberal	Started as video streamer, now is known for debating people.
'Lionel'	https://twitter.com/LionelMedia
'Somebitchtoldme'	https://twitter.com/SomeBitch4Real	US based researcher
'reallygraceful'	https://twitter.com/reallygraceful	American Youtuber with an interest in secret societies and mystery religions.
21st Century Wire	https://twitter.com/21wire	A sound alternative news site.
38 Degrees	https://twitter.com/38degrees	British Avaaz.
5Rights Foundation	https://twitter.com/5rightsfound
9/11 Consensus Panel	https://twitter.com/Consensus911
911 Blogger	https://twitter.com/911Blogger	A solid 9/11 truth website, running since 2005
ACT for NIH	https://twitter.com/ACTforNIH	Big Pharma lobbying firm
AFD	https://twitter.com/afd	Right wing populist party in Germany.
AGT International	https://twitter.com/agtintl	A data analysis company founded by Mati Kochavi, including work on RFID and IOT
AIPAC	https://twitter.com/aipac	A lobby which has somewhere between a lot of influence and "total control" over the US Government.
AMD	https://twitter.com/amd	Officially the competitor to Intel, but as deeply embedded in the NATSEC apparatus.
APEC	https://twitter.com/apec	Economic forum made up of the 21 countries in the Pacific Rim,
ASEAN	https://twitter.com/ASEAN	Economic union in Southeast Asia.
Mika Aaltola	https://twitter.com/MikaAaltola	Finnish political scientist
Diane Abbott	https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbot	UK politician, close ally of Jeremy Corbyn
Ziad Abdelnour	https://twitter.com/blackhawkini	A neoconservative financier who was disciplined by the SEC.
Abertay University	https://twitter.com/abertayuni	Abertay was the first to offer a degree in Ethical Hacking, starting in 2006.
Eduard Abrahamyan	https://twitter.com/abrahamyan13	Institute for Statecraft, whose PhD supervisor was also a Institute for Statecraft member.
Marina Abramović	https://archive.ph/https://twitter.com/AbramovicM666*	Serbian performance artist who invited John and Tony Podesta to her "spirit cooking"
Abt Associates	https://twitter.com/abtassociates?lang=en	For-profit research firm founded that contracts for governments and private entities. The company researches and administers deep state agendas, and has an extensive history of working with the CIA.
Academics For Peace	https://twitter.com/peaceacademics?lang=en-gb
Accuracy in Media	https://twitter.com/AccuracyInMedia
Alexander Acosta	https://twitter.com/SecretaryAcosta	The US lawyer whose approval of a plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein avoided a public trial after being told that “Epstein was above his pay grade.”
Activist Post	https://twitter.com/ActivistPost	Dissident website started in 2010. "We encourage people to share our articles. You may repost our content"
Adam Smith International	https://twitter.com/AdamSmithInt	London-based consultancy charged with overseeing the overseas work of the Adam Smith Institute. Used by British intelligence services to train puppet police forces in the Middle East.
Gerry Adams	https://twitter.com/GerryAdamsSF	Former IRA leader who is also president of the Sinn Féin
Jerome Adams	https://twitter.com/JeromeAdamsMD	Donald Trump's Surgeon General
Mike Adams	https://twitter.com/HealthRanger	The "HealthRanger", owns and runs Natural News
Gautam Adani	https://twitter.com/gautam adani	billionaire WEF businessman, "Ecological Crossdresser", "one of India’s most ruthlessly adept billionaires"
Adbusters	https://twitter.com/Adbusters	Anti-consumerist NGO which somewhat inadvertently kicked off the Occupy movement in 2011
Wally Adeyemo	https://twitter.com/wallyadeyemo	Attended the 2022 Bilderberg as United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Blackrock Senior advisor 2017-19
Mnar Adley	https://twitter.com/mnarmuh	Founder, CEO and editor in chief of MintPress News
Dirk Adriaensens	https://twitter.com/dirkadriaensens
Agence France-Presse	https://twitter.com/afpfr?lang=en	The French-News-Agency is the world's oldest news organisation.
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad	https://twitter.com/im PULSE	Lecturer interested in the white helmets whom the UK Border Agency unsuccessfully tried to deport.
Tariq Ahmad	https://twitter.com/tariqahmadbt
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956	An Iranian President who publicly called for an investigation into the events of 9/11 in the UN.
Abiy Ahmed	https://twitter.com/AbiyAhmedAli	Ethiopian Prime Minister, censored by Facebook
Imran Ahmed	https://twitter.com/Imi Ahmed	Spooky activist "Buffalo might never have happened if online hate had been tackled after Christchurch"
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed	https://twitter.com/NafeezAhmed	UK academic with extensive knowledge of deep politics and the use of false flag terror, featured frequently on Unwelcome Guests.
Saleyha Ahsan	https://twitter.com/SaleyhaAhsan	A freelance reporter, film maker and A&E doctor with a Sandhurst background. She has traveled to conflict zones in North Africa and Asia and made films and news reports including Libya, Syria, Bosnia, Palestine, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. She appeared with "Dr Rola" in the controversial 2013 video shown on the BBC's Panorama news programme calling for humanitarian bombings of Syria.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research	https://twitter.com/AFOSR	Invests in basic research efforts for the Air Force, in cooperation with private industry, academia, and other organizations.
Kate Airey	https://twitter.com/kate airey
Hilary Aked	https://twitter.com/hilary aked
Aktis Strategy	https://twitter.com/AktisStrategy	Now defunct following allegations of "gross financial mismanagement"
Al Masdar News	https://twitter.com/TheArabSource
Alba Party	https://twitter.com/AlbaParty	Scottish independence party, trying to take over from the Scottish National Party, which has moved closer to the British establishment.
... further results

 

Quotes by X

Page	Quote	Date
Elon Musk	“Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in”	2022
Elon Musk	“Extremely big difference between died because of or died with. Also, did the person actually have C19 or did they just have C19 symptoms? It’s almost impossible to die without feeling weakness, shortness of breath or other C19 symptoms, unless you were crushed by a falling piano.”	2020
Elon Musk	“If Putin could so easily humiliate the West, then he would accept the challenge [to fight me]. But he will not.”	2022
Elon Musk	“There is considerable conflation of diagnosis & contraction of “corona”. Actual virality is much lower than it would seem. I think this will turn out to be comparable to other forms of influenza. World War Z it is not”	2020
Elon Musk	“Nuke Mars!”	2019
Elon Musk	“Seems like an opportune moment to bring up the Fermi Paradox, aka 'Where are the aliens?' Really odd that we see no sign of them. Btw, please don't mention the pyramids. Stacking stone blocks is not evidence of an advanced civilization. The rumor that I'm building a spaceship to get back to my home planet Mars is totally untrue. The ancient Egyptians were amazing, but if aliens built the pyramids, they would've left behind a computer or something”	2015

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Document:Women's March petitions Jack Dorsey to ban Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Twitter	“Twitter is not in charge of what information is correct and what information is not correct. Twitter is declaring itself the judge of whose voice is right and whose voice is wrong”	Marjorie Taylor Greene	August 2021
Saagar Enjeti	“@jack was the last of the tech CEOS who at least on a personal level was committed to free speech. His departure is probably going to make Twitter a lot worse for censorship (which is truly saying something)”	Saagar Enjeti	29 November 2021
Bill Gates	“He actually could make it worse. That’s not his track record. His track record with Tesla and Space X is pretty mind-blowing at putting together a great team of engineers and taking people who work in those fields in a less bold way and really showing them up. I kind of doubt that’ll happen this time but we should have an open mind and never underestimate Elon. What’s his goal? Where he talks about the openness, how does he feel about something that says ‘vaccines kill people’ or ‘Bill Gates is tracking people’ – is that one of the things he thinks should be spread?”	Bill Gates	2022
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador	“Yes, social media should not be used to incite violence and all that, but this cannot be used as a pretext to suspend freedom of expression. How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?”	Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador	14 January 2021
PewDiePie ADL controversy	“Reinstalled Twitter to talk about PewDiePie's betrayal by donating 50k to the ADL. The company working with places like Twitter to get rid of anything "Offensive" @pewdiepie You just supported a group that even ruined even YOUR deal to Disney. Wtf? PewDiePie literally paid $50,000 to not be called racist anymore. And in turn- he just got so many people in the future censored off of places like Twitter and YouTube. Anytime someone gets banned for now on, I'll be sure to say "Thanks Pewdiepie"”	Brittany Venti	11 September 2019
Platformization	“The much loved upstart that gains network effects by managing incentives across the ecosystem loses its benevolent streak as its power increases. This may take many different forms. Amazon, for example, often uses its platform’s data to determine which product lines to get into; eventually it outperforms the merchants who were doing well with those products. Twitter, likewise, has repeatedly changed policies to work against the ecosystem. A recent example saw Twitter pushing live streaming service Meerkat off the platform after acquiring its competitor, Periscope.”	Sangeet Paul Choudary	8 May 2017
Joy Reid	“Essentially, she made public her own vaccine deliberation, which according to trusted friends is a better way to describe vaccine hesitancy, which by the way is not the same thing as refusal. By doing, Nicki also used her social media platform and her 22 million Twitter followers to cast doubt on the vaccine to a heavily Black audience”	Joy Reid	14 September 2021

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Julie Inman Grant	Director of Public Policy Australia & SE Asia	May 2014	May 2016
Mark Little (Journalist)	Vice President - Media Europe and Africa	November 2015	January 2017

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Women's March petitions Jack Dorsey to ban Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Twitter	Article	14 August 2021	Libby Emmons	The leading American feminist organisation is pressuring Twitter to remove Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from their platform. She stands accused of promoting "conspiracy theories" about COVID over her scepticism of Fauci. She has been censored before. How much longer is there before she is permanently banned?

 

Documents sourced from X

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Lord McDonald's letter of 5 July 2022	Letter	Boris Johnson 10 Downing Street Chris Pincher Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone	5 July 2022	Simon McDonald	When Lord McDonald took to Twitter at 7:30 this morning, he knew the political firestorm he would create. But, quite simply, he had had enough of Number 10′s obfuscation and downright lies about the Chris Pincher scandal. And he was determined to set the record straight. (Huffington Post)
File:Epstein Jet Flights 1991-2019.pdf	Document	Lolita Express Lolita Express/Passengers Epstein flight logs	27 December 2021	@hash tigre	Epstein flight logs from 1991 to 2019 with annotations.
File:Labour internal antisemitism report.pdf	report	"Antisemitism" Iain McNicol Sam Matthews Emilie Oldknow	March 2020	Labour Party	An enormous (851 pages) report of an internal UK Labour Party investigation into alleged antisemitism in the Party between 2014 and 2019.

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