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Kathy Griffiin posted a bloody severed head of President Trump Bette Midler threatened President Trump by suggesting “someone give him a shiv” Snoop Dogg made a video of assassinating Trump Rosie O’Donnell threatened to “push Trump off a cliff again” Larry Wilmore demanded someone “get me the pillow they used to kill [Supreme Court Justice Antonin] Scalia” to kill Trump Trump’s DMs are flooded with direct threats against his life DOJ & FBI are so compromised they never prosecuted nor will raid TF outta left wing fascist extremists and domestic terrorists, who deserve harsh prison sentences

@ElonMuskAOC I like the one you’re using

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Medical science experts from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford testifying before Congress: “The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the United States government.”

I hate being right all the time.

Should Adam Schiff be disbarred for lying to the American public? YES or NO?

100 Democrats just refused to denounce socialism. That’s scary—and it explains a lot about why Congress has been spending so much these last four years.

AOC just threw an utter temper tantrum on House floor after Ilhan Omar REMOVED from Foreign Affairs Committee 🤡 This, alone, makes it worth it. WATCH.

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy says he would consider expunging Trump's impeachments thepostmillennial.com/breaking-kevin…

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15. This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. “Think high follower account, controversial,” another Twitter employee told us. For these “there would be no ticket or anything.”

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.

11. “We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter engineer told us. Two additional Twitter employees confirmed.

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.

7. What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning.

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.”

26. By this point “everyone knew this was fucked,” said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of… continuing to err.

21. Strom’s note returned the answer that the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company’s “hacked materials” policy: web.archive.org/web/2019071714…

19. White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who seethed: “At least pretend to care for the next 20 days.”