The hits just keep on coming from the Twitter files, as Episode 7 was dropped on Monday and Episode 8 on Tuesday. As I browsed through Episode 7, dropped in a Twitter thread by Michael Shellenberger, it became obvious to me that the biggest piece of the story, which focuses on the FBI’s efforts to influence Twitter to engage in massive censorship of ordinary Americans, was this:
46. The FBI’s influence campaign may have been helped by the fact that it was paying Twitter millions of dollars for its staff time.
“I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!” reports an associate of Jim Baker in early 2021.
That’s right: The freaking FBI was literally paying Twitter millions of dollars in return for its censoring of the “right” American citizens, i.e., citizens who generally opposed the effort to install Joe Biden into the presidency.