{"id":1770764,"date":"2022-12-09T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770764"},"modified":"2022-12-09T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:33:10","slug":"head-of-twitters-censorship-operation-was-a-former-fbi-cia-operative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/head-of-twitters-censorship-operation-was-a-former-fbi-cia-operative\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Of Twitter\u2019s Censorship Operation Was A Former FBI, CIA Operative"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhead-of-twitters-censorship-operation-was-a-former-fbi-cia-operative%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770764&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The head of Twitter\u2019s censorship scheme to shadowban conservative accounts and posts across the platform previously worked as an operative for the FBI and CIA.<\/p>\n<p>According to a now-unavailable <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/2CCw9#selection-1251.680-1251.683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn profile<\/a> discovered by journalist Andy Ngo, Jeff Carlton, whose prior work included serving as a federal intelligence officer, became the leading member of Twitter\u2019s Strategic Response Team (SRT) last month. As revealed in a batch of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1601016446930124800?s=20&#038;t=rIJN6OEGym5b7YrbZwfClQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter Files\u201d<\/a> released by reporter Bari Weiss on Thursday, SRT is one of the main groups at Twitter tasked with shadowbanning conservative accounts and tweets on the platform. <\/p>\n<p>In his LinkedIn profile, Carlton states that his role as SRT head involves\u00a0\u201cresolving the highest-profile Trust &#038; Safety escalations,\u201d as well as managing \u201ccrises and non-standard incidents in content moderation and customer support to promote \u2018healthy public conversations.&#8217;\u201d Before leading the group in his new role, Carlton served as a senior program manager at Twitter, starting in May 2021. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive: Bari doesn&#8217;t name too many names but the head of Twitter&#8217;s Strategic Response Team when secret actions were taken to stifle conservative accounts happened under Jeff Carlton, who worked for both CIA &#038; FBI.<\/p>\n<p>He just deleted his LinkedIn. But I have an archive. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q37tg4Dkpv\">https:\/\/t.co\/Q37tg4Dkpv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cpT1qJqN3L\">pic.twitter.com\/cpT1qJqN3L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1601042110857506817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the Big Tech giant, however, Carlton was heavily involved in intelligence-related work within the federal government. In addition to serving as a senior intel officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, he also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Jeff-Carlton-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">worked<\/a> as an intelligence analyst for the FBI and CIA, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween 2014 and 2017 \u2026 [Carlton] worked for both the CIA and FBI, authored dozens of official reports, some of which were read by President Barack Obama,\u201d a Mint Press News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/twitter-hiring-alarming-number-spooks-secret-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> reads. \u201cCarlton describes his role as a \u2018problem-solver\u2019 and claims to have worked in many \u2018dynamic, high-pressure environments.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim Baker, another former FBI official who later transitioned to Twitter, was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/07\/elon-musk-fires-former-fbi-lawyer-behind-russiagate-hoax-following-unconvincing-explanation-for-hunter-biden-laptop-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently fired<\/a> by Twitter CEO Elon Musk after his \u201cunconvincing\u201d explanation for his role in suppressing the New York Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 presidential election. During his time with the FBI, Baker was instrumental in helping advance the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.<\/p>\n<p>The bombshell revelation about Carlton came the same night files confirmed that Twitter has been shadowbanning prominent conservative figures on the platform for years, without notifying them or explaining why. As The Federalist previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/09\/twitter-files-part-two-confirms-the-tech-giant-has-been-shadowbanning-conservatives-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, conservative commentators such as Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk were among those placed on company \u201cblacklists\u201d to prevent users from finding and seeing their profiles and posts. <\/p>\n<p>Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis is also among those shadowbanned; his Twitter account has been censored since January 2021. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat many people call \u2018shadow banning,\u2019 Twitter executives and employees call \u2018Visibility Filtering,&#8217;\u201d Weiss <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1601015659491532800?s=20&#038;t=rIJN6OEGym5b7YrbZwfClQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a>. Twitter \u201cused VF to block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet\u2019s discoverability; to block select users\u2019 posts from ever appearing on the \u2018trending\u2019 page; and from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlton worked as an intelligence analyst for the FBI and CIA, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1897988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[6371,7362,5591,6919,5639,5958,7361,6900],"class_list":["post-1770764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-censorship","tag-cia","tag-fbi","tag-federalist","tag-head","tag-operation","tag-operative","tag-twitters"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}