The second installment of Elon Musk’s so-called “Twitter Files” was released on Thursday night.

Reporter Bari Weiss is live-tweeting the release of the documents online.

2. Twitter once had a mission “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

4. Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino (@dbongino), who at one point was slapped with a “Search Blacklist.” pic.twitter.com/AdOK8xLu9v

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

6. Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: “We do not shadow ban.” They added: “And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.”

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

8. “Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool,” one senior Twitter employee told us.

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

10. All without users’ knowledge.

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

12. The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team – Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 "cases" a day.

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

14. This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others.

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

16. One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was @libsoftiktok—an account that was on the “Trends Blacklist” and was designated as “Do Not Take Action on User Without Consulting With SIP-PES.” pic.twitter.com/Vjo6YxYbxT

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022

Tayler Hansen pointed out that former Twitter owner Jack Dorsey said this was not happening.

But @jack said Twitter didn’t shawdowban? I can’t believe he’d lie to us..https://t.co/ab7ZP7AuRD

— Tayler Hansen (@TaylerUSA) December 9, 2022

Tucker Carlson opened his show with this news on Thursday night.

FOX News reported:

The second installment of Elon Musk’s so-called “Twitter Files” shed light on the company’s practices of secretly “blacklisting” certain tweets and users.

“A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users,” journalist Bari Weiss began her thread on Thursday.

“Twitter once had a mission ‘to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.’ Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected,” Weiss wrote.

The first installment, shared Friday by Substack writer Matt Taibbi, offered insight as to what led to Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election.

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The payoff of Central States Pension Fund comes after the government told them not to cut benefits only a short time ago.  This was in spite of the fact that the pension fund was spending billions more than it was saving. 

TGP reported this morning that Biden is planning on paying off $36 billion dollars in a union pension that has been mismanaged for years.

PAYOFF? Biden Set to Announce $36 Billion “Bailout” for Union Pension Funds

Bloomberg reported:

President Joe Biden will announce a $36 billion bailout for the Central States Pension Fund, helping to shore up one of the nation’s biggest multiemployer plans and delivering help to union allies after a contentious rail deal that frayed ties with organized labor.

The Washington Times reported:

The Central States Pension Fund has $7.4 billion in assets, according to its most recent quarterly financial report. It is spending more than $2 billion per year more than it is taking in from contributions.

Like other ailing pension funds, Central States has been plagued with a variety of problems. Rising costs, a weaker stock market and a drop in the number of active workers participating in the fund have crippled its revenue.

Back in 2016 under the corrupt Obama regime, the government told Central States Pension that it would not allow it to cut costs.

In a major victory for multiemployer pension plan participants, the U.S. Treasury on Friday denied an application by the Teamsters’ Central States Pension Fund to slash benefits for hundreds of thousands of plan members.

The move could spare 272,600 participants of the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund from proposed benefit reductions.

“Today I notified the Central States Pension plan that its application to reduce pension benefits to hundreds of thousands of retirees was denied because the application that was submitted did not meet the requirements of federal law, the Kline-Miller statute, that governs Treasury’s evaluation and analysis of all such private multiemployer pension plans,” Kenneth Feinberg, special master for the Treasury Department’s implementation of the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act, said during a conference call with media on Friday.

“We at Treasury have worked closely with the PGBC and the Department of Labor over the past many months to review the application in its entirety. It is unanimous that the application fails to meet the statutory prerequisites,” he said.

Now, less than a decade later, the government is using taxpayer dollars to pay off the massive debt from the corrupt mismanagement of the fund.  Again, the US taxpayer is punished. 

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