Those of you who are not on Twitter do not understand, and probably could never understand, how absolutely central to "journalists'" identities and senses of self-worth was being part of "The Twitter Elite."

You know how people really like private clubs and will pay a lot of money to join a good one? They thought of Twitter as their Public Private Club, and loved being waited on so attentively by the Twitter Service Staff.

You don't understand this, because you're not insane.

But just to explain: People who are not celebrities but who would like to think of themselves as celebrities are obsessed with collecting the little trivial status-markers of celebrity.

That's why going to the White House Correspondent's Dinner is so important to them -- it brings them into the vicinity of (B-list and C-list and D-list) celebrities. They are constantly networking, and going to industry events, not just for the minor career advantages of doing so, but because these events feature actual celebrities (or at least famous people) and therefore make them feel like celebrities too.

Being part of the "Twitter Elite" and having that oh-so-precious Blue Checkmark is an absurdly trivial "marker of celebrity," but people on the very lowest rungs of wannabe-celebrity need all the affirmation and validation they can get.

You will never understand how much of a blow it is to the thing that matters most to these people, these "journalists," that losing their Private Club and Fake Celebrity-Conferrer was and continues to be.

Again, because you're not insane.

Now I'm not on Twitter anymore. Well, I have an account because you need one to see many posts. But I don't post there.

So I don't care about Twitter per se.

But I know how important Twitter is to these lunatics and authoritarians and Nazis.

And that's why I do care about it: I want to take it from them. I want to hurt them.

And believe me, this hurts them.

Again, you can't understand that, because you're not insane.

Anyway, that's a big part of the reason for hating Elon Musk.

The other part is... Musk took away the special power the previous Twitter regime had granted them to choose which accounts that Twitter should censor and bans.

The left, as you may have noticed, now asserts its absolute control over what is permitted to be said. And what is
required to be said. I don't think there is a leftwing agenda item of higher priority than this.

Not even pedophilia!

Paul D. Thacker
@thackerpd

1. New internal internal #TwitterFiles help explain why privileged reporter hate @elonmusk and Twitter 2.0.

Musk denied access to Twitter's formerly "trusted reporters" and allowed inside entree to more independent journalists.

2. During my trip to Twitter's HQ in San Francisco, I uncovered several documents that explain why reporters now hate Twitter 2.0

Musk fired their friends and cut off their privileged access.

3. For years, Twitter provided favoured access to "disinformation" reporters, giving them access to new products and silencing accounts.

4. Musk ended this access and brought in new reporters to go through the company's documents--something no CEO has ever done before.

5. When Twitter rolled out Birdwatch to label "misinformation" they gave NBC News Ben Collins @oneunderscore__ a demo and exclusive access.

Collins was actually part of the feature's "product development."

Ben Collins is NBC's Chief Censorship Officer. That's not his official title, but all he does all day long is make charges of Wrongthink, and then pressure social media companies to deplatform people. He does not believe that any conservatives should be allowed to speak publicly without the express prior permission of a leftwing authoritarian like himself. And by the way, that authorization will not be forthcoming, Bigot.

He's a slimy little shit who has a lot of karma coming his way.

6. Collins was really loved inside Twitter, even suggesting him to moderate one of their panels. When they met w/ reporters in NYC, he admitted that Twitter helped propel his professional profile and helped him get on NPR and TV.

Here's Twitter's own notes about Ben Collins, Thanking Him For His Service (In Censoring Conservatives and Other Wrongthinkers):

7. Musk has now unveiled "community notes" which allows more users to comment than Birdwatch. This hasn't worked out for "fact checkers" like Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post.

8. Reporters apparently also help Twitter by flipping them bills under consideration.

   "Our DC-based tech reporters have gotten advance copies of at least five bills .... that would give more power to regulators."
   

Screencap of an email from a "journalist" alerting Twitter to possible legislative action at the link.
9. Twitter dealt with bills to moderate them from suspending conservatives by ducking behind trade associations "to do the heavy lifting ... as engaging or commenting ... would give them more attention."

10. Twitter met w/ NYC reporters to "solidify key relationships, encourage intel sharing ... reinforce comm's network of trusted reporters."

(I was not invited)

11. One "trusted reporter" was Makena Kelly of Vox

"She'll be reporting out of a deep red state--will mis disinformation resonate?"

This implied Twitter & Makena knew the "disinformation" paradigm doesn't translate outside liberal talking circle.

12. Kelly showed no interest in Democratic Party "misinformation"

"Looking into 'Republican Party Hype House' on TikTok--tied to Turning Point USA?"

13. CNN glad hander Brian Stelter: "Willing to come to San Francisco, wherever to meet 1:1 with spokespeople even for introductory conversations."

CNN's Oliver Darcy: "Would love to hear pitches from us."

14. CNN also asked if Twitter could create a "read only mode" to protect their reporters from "harassment."

(How often to reporters ask a company they cover to modify company policies?)

15. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan: "Always interested in account enforcement such as Rep Marjorie Taylor Green."

Other Twitter Files show "disinformation" reporters obsessed with this Congresswoman.

16. Fox News producer for Dana Perino: "Is really eager to get us on the show .... Dana would be fair and not any more tough than the nicest person to question us in Congress." (I laughed when I first read this)

LOL. I'm laughing too. No, I don't think Dana Perino would be especially "tough" when questioning her liberal pals.

17. Fox News tech reporter Brook Singman: "I think we have a good opportunity to influence this coverage and potentially the reputations of congressional newcomers."
    

Thayer did a follow-up thread... this time about Tay-Tay Lorenz.

This self-admitted mentally-ill Twitter Addict conducted a one-(elderly)-woman war on free speech.

Paul D. Thacker
@thackerpd

1. Twitter Provided Privileged Access to Banning Queen, Taylor Lorenz #TwitterFiles

   Twitter engineer walking me through their reporting system, "Wow! She's a heavy user."

   
   

2. Shortly after @elonmusk bought Twitter, @TaylorLorenz got apoplectic, writing that Twitter was "opening the gates of hell" by letting banned accounts back.

   (Take a wild guess what Taylor did the month prior....)

3. The month prior, Taylor Lorenz got this tiny account banned. Surprise!

   The account detailed Lorenz as a Manhattan rich girl, who attended Swiss boarding school, and whose uncle owns Internet Archive, thus erasing her past.

4. But did @fearthefloof violate Twitter's rules?

   Nope. No ban evasion, abuse, harassment toward Taylor Lorenz, platform manipulation, or the sharing of personal information.

   "The account was generally healthy and mostly conversational or commentary in nature."

That's from Twitter's own report about the Neville the Cat account. I'm not posting all of the documentation, only some of it. If you want the full details, you'll have to go to the account itself.

Nonetheless, Twitter suspended the account because it "violates the Twitter Media Policy."

The account then deactivated.

Taylor Lorenz was also a prime driver of the censorship of Dr. Jay Battachayra, one of the few prominent doctors to be 100% right on covid and lockdowns.

But Tay-Tay fancies herself a Lover of Science, and knows that real "Science" is done by Twitter "Journalists" and hypochondriacs with an admitted history of mental illness.

6. A month prior to that, Lorenz went after @DrJBhattacharya for tweeting an email by her friend and itinerant blogger @WalkerBragman. Bhattacharya tweeted a harassing email Bragman sent him and it had Bragman's contact info.

   
   

7. Bragman played this all up on Twitter of course to call attention to himself, retweeting Bhattcharya's tweet, before people made fun of him for "doxing himself."

   Manhattan rich kids playing at journalist are easily bruised, it seems.
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8. Bragman's game is to constantly accuse people of being "Koch funded."

   FYI: Soros funded me to give the plenary talk at a 2019 BMJ conference on investigative journalism, but that does not make me a "Soros funded" journalist.

9. Several of Lorenz's past reporting targets tell me she seems to work in concert with her sources. After Lorenz doxed @libsoftiktok in the Post, Alejandra Caraballo sent Twitter a "private letter" to remove Libs of TikTok.

   Lorenz quoted Caraballo in the Post that next month.

That's the nasty tranny "academic" in the very rigorous field of "queer studies" (seems like he really aced that course, eh?) and spends all day trying to get people banned from Twitter and TV and print and their jobs.

10. The letter was sent by Caraballo and several groups including the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a favored source in Lorenz essays on banning.

    
    

11. I asked Caraballo what came of the meeting w/ Twitter and to see the letter they sent. But got no response. I also don't know if Libs of TikTok was successful in getting Caraballo suspended for harassment.

12. It's hard to understand Lorenz's concerns about doxxing when she has done this so many times herself. Here's one allegation in a defamation lawsuit by @littlemissjacob against Lorenz that is still working it's way through the courts.

Twitter circulated an internal email putting the company on high alert when Tucker Carlson ran a segment ridiculing her:

13. Lorenz had more than special reporting access to get accounts banned. When Tucker Carlson did a piece ridiculing her, Twitter put out an alert-"We need to be careful with her."

    I couldn't [find] evidence that Twitter provided this support to other reporters. I never got it. [That is, the same kind of support from Twitter. -- ace]

14. Taylor also provided special support to a source in stories she wrote for the Atlantic, NY Times, and recently for the Post. When Jackson Weimer's account was suspended, Lorenz put this in front of Twitter.

I'm not posting the screenshot, but it's Tay-Tay asking her Very Good Frenz at Twitter to please unsuspend her fren, please....? Just a clique of Frenz all doing little favors for their frenz.

15. Lorenz has incredibly unorthodox (is that the right word?) reporting tactics. Here's an affidavit signed by someone she quoted in the article about @littlemissjacob
    

    FYI: this person was a minor.

See the thread for the affidavit. It's about Taylor Lorenz pressuring a minor to say negative things about one of her hit-piece targets, Arianna Jacobs. The minor alleges that Taylor kept feeding her negative information from other people and pressuring her to say similar things or to agree to the claims her other "sources" were feeding her.

Jacobs ultimately sued Lorenz for defamation. I think a liberal judge threw the case out, which is what they a liberal "journalist" is sued for defamation.

16. Here's an affidavit signed by a Lorenz source for a NY Times story about Arya Toufanian

Again, see the thread; it's another case of someone suing Lorenz for defamation and alleging that Lorenz makes up defamations against her targets. (We've seen her lie and lie in other hit pieces on people.)

But here's the real point:

17. Toufanian told me he sued Lorenz over the article, and she then began sending messages to gin up a DOJ investigation against him.

    This email Lorenz is sending around is for an Assistant US Attorney in NY.

    

This miserable, mentally-ill, whiny c*nt spends half her days trying to get her Twitter Enemies deplatformed, and the other half trying to get her Twitter Enemiesprosecuted.

Her c*nty whining got results:

18. Toufanian later received a subpoena from the Southern District that reads like a rip and read of Lorenz's article.

    The investigation dragged on for 3 years. He recently received this email to pick up his laptop that was confiscated. "I was never charged."

    
    

19. Neither Lorenz nor Cameron Barr with the Post responded to questions.

Thanks so much to @TexasLindsay_ for helping to collect/organize these #TwitterFiles.