{"id":1786214,"date":"2022-12-25T08:48:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T13:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786214"},"modified":"2022-12-25T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T13:48:18","slug":"twitter-files-show-intel-reports-flagging-ukraine-and-covid-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-files-show-intel-reports-flagging-ukraine-and-covid-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Twitter Files\u2019 Show Intel Reports Flagging Ukraine And COVID \u2018Narratives\u2019"},"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\">20<\/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%2Ftwitter-files-show-intel-reports-flagging-ukraine-and-covid-narratives%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=1786214&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>Twitter received intelligence reports from U.S. agencies raising concerns about foreign influence by flagging\u00a0users and posts focused on Ukraine \u201cpropaganda,\u201d COVID vaccines, and much more, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701397109796866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest disclosure in \u201cThe Twitter Files.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journalist Matt Taibbi shared on Saturday excerpts in a thread responding to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fbi-responds-to-twitter-files\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI defending<\/a> as \u201ctraditional\u201d and \u201clongstanding\u201d its correspondence with Twitter in the face of concerns that the bureau was going out of its way to pressure social media companies to censor content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people wonder if Internet platforms receive direction from intelligence agencies about moderation of foreign policy news stories. It appears Twitter did, in some cases by way of the\u201d FBI and its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/investigate\/counterintelligence\/foreign-influence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foreign Influence Task Force<\/a> (FITF), Taibbi said. \u201cThese reports are far more factually controversial than domestic counterparts,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist shared screenshots of what he said were some of these intelligence reports, including one listing accounts \u201ctied to \u2018Ukraine \u2018neo-Nazi\u2019 Propaganda.\u201d This document discussed the monitoring of a suspected Russian troll farm \u201cpropagating disinformation on Twitter about the U.S. and Ukrainian governments to support Russian actions in Ukraine\u201d right around of the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February.<\/p>\n<p>One of the \u201ckey findings\u201d talked about \u201cprevailing narratives\u201d that \u201cblame the U.S. for \u2018Nazification\u2019 of the Ukraine.\u201d A bullet point underneath asserts that President Joe Biden helped orchestrate a coup in 2014 and put his son, Hunter Biden, on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother report asserts a list of accounts accusing the \u2018Biden administration\u2019 of \u2018corruption\u2019 in vaccine distribution are part of a Russian influence campaign,\u201d Taibbi said. The screen shot of this other report he shared included breakdowns on suspected \u201cnarratives,\u201d including that the \u201cBiden administration was selling better places in the COVID-19 vaccine queue to countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and therefor, U.S. corruption was influencing the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">48. Another report asserts a list of accounts accusing the \u201cBiden administration\u201d of \u201ccorruption\u201d in vaccine distribution are part of a Russian influence campaign: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RPDDFNWaji\">pic.twitter.com\/RPDDFNWaji<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701501677961217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his 56-point thread, which also noted reports bearing lists of links and accounts suspected to bots and linked to foreign regimes, Taibbi said government agencies shared intelligence through the FBI and FITF with Twitter and other technology companies. Taibbi said Twitter did not always block flagged accounts, but he posited, \u201cThe line between \u2018misinformation\u2019 and \u2018distorting propaganda\u2019 is thin. Are we comfortable with so many companies receiving so many reports from a \u2018more aggressive\u2019 government?\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">50. One report says a site \u201cdocumenting purported rights abuses committed by Ukrainians\u201d is directed by Russian agents: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2uzXLGP6CG\">pic.twitter.com\/2uzXLGP6CG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701506191065088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though the provenance of each intelligence report was not so clear, Taibbi cited former CIA agent and whistleblower John Kiriakou expressing the belief that he recognized some of the formatting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Looks right on to me,\u2019 Kiriakou says, noting that \u2018what was cut off above [the \u2018tearline\u2019] was the originating CIA office and all the copied offices,\u201d Taibbi tweeted. The journalist added that the CIA \u201chas yet to comment on the nature of its relationship to tech companies like Twitter. Twitter had no input into anything I did or wrote.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter received intelligence reports from U.S. agencies raising concerns about foreign influence by flagging\u00a0users and posts focused on Ukraine \u201cpropaganda,\u201d COVID vaccines, and much more, according to the latest disclosure in \u201cThe Twitter Files.\u201d Journalist Matt Taibbi shared on Saturday excerpts in a thread responding to the FBI defending as \u201ctraditional\u201d and \u201clongstanding\u201d its correspondence &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1786217,"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":[541],"tags":[6962,10847,4127,6202,5665,11723,7526,11665,4564,5830,4253,6991,6195],"class_list":["post-1786214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-and","tag-covid","tag-daily","tag-files","tag-flagging","tag-intel","tag-narratives","tag-reports","tag-show","tag-twitter","tag-ukraine","tag-wire"],"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\/1786214","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}