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TWITTER FILES - BRAZIL
Brazil is engaged in a sweeping crackdown on free speech led by a Supreme Court justice named Alexandre de Moraes.
De Moraes has thrown people in jail without trial for things they posted on social media. He has demanded the removal of users from social
1. TWITTER FILES: PART 7
The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop
How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020
BRAZIL IS ON THE BRINK
I’m reporting to you from Brazil, where a dramatic series of events are underway.
At 5:52 pm Eastern Time, today, April 6, 2024, X corporation, formerly known as Twitter, announced that a Brazilian court had forced it to “block certain popular accounts in
Obrigado a todos que expressaram preocupação com minha segurança. Por favor, saiba que não temo nem o diabo nem de Moraes, apenas Deus no céu. E Ele quer que vivamos em liberdade, não em escravidão.
BRASIL À BEIRA
Este é Michael Shellenberger, e estou reportando a vocês ao vivo do Brasil, onde uma série dramática de eventos está em andamento.
Às 18h52, horário do Sao Paulo a corporação X, anteriormente conhecida como Twitter, anunciou que um tribunal brasileiro a forçou a
In 2020, "60 minutes" cut off Trump when he tried to say something true. CBS claimed, "we can't verify" the Hunter Biden laptop, a bald-faced lie.
On Sunday, "60 Minutes" let Paul Ehrlich make multiple false claims that not only can't be verified but can be debunked in minutes.
August 24: California bans sale of new gasoline-powered cars
August 30: California asks Californians to avoid charging electric vehicles due to electricity shortages
Father of Ahmaud Arbery just now: “ALL lives matter. I don’t want no daddy to watch his kid get shot down like that. It’s ALL our problem. So let’s keep fighting to make this a better place for all human beings. Love everybody! All human beings need to be treated equally.” ❤️👏🏼👑
The idea that governments worldwide are working together to censor their citizens sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it's not. It's increasingly clear that there is just such an organized effort involving, at a minimum, the US, Canada, UK, & New Zealand.
O governo brasileiro quer censurar as teorias da conspiração e ainda assim aqui está, espalhando teorias da conspiração: " O governo brasileiro suspeita que os ataques de Elon Musk ao ministro Alexandre de Moraes e agora também diretamente ao presidente Lula estão sendo feitos em
Many think social media companies only censored "vaccine misinformation." But a recently-released email shows Facebook reassuring the White House that they were censoring "often-true content” that "does not contain actionable misinformation" but was "discouraging vaccines."
Queridos amigos brasileiros,
Obrigado a todos por seus votos de felicidades. Tenho o prazer de informar que cheguei nos EUA com segurança. Agora estou em Dallas esperando para voar para São Francisco.
Como todos vocês sabem, estou frustrado com as atitudes pró-censura de muitos
Governments worldwide claim that "hate incidents" are rising, but they're not. Tolerance of racial, sexual, and religious minorities has never been higher. Elites are manufacturing a fake "hate" crisis as a pretext for mass spying, blacklists, and censorship.
The media say X is placing Apple, IBM, and other ads near pro-Nazi content, but it's not. We tried various ways to replicate Media Matters' research and couldn't. The real goal of Media Matters isn't to fight antisemitism. It's to destroy X as a free speech platform.
O QUE ESTÁ ACONTECENDO NO BRASIL DEVE TERRIFICAR O MUNDO
Há apenas um dia e meio, parecia que as coisas estavam se acalmando no Brasil. A Folha de São Paulo publicou editorial contra a censura. O presidente da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil fez forte declaração em apoio à
THE CTIL FILES
#1
Many people insist that governments aren't involved in censorship, but they are. And now, a whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance.
Esse homem é uma vergonha para o Brasil. Ele exige que X e todas as outras plataformas de redes sociais proíbam, para sempre, os jornalistas e políticos independentes que o criticam acertadamente por se comportar como um ditador. Ele mente e afirma que as pessoas que o criticam
Durante evento no Centro do RJ para a criação do Museu da Democracia, que será inaugurado em 2026, o ministro Alexandre de Moraes fez fortes críticas ao que chamou de “empresários mercantilistas de redes sociais” que só visam lucro e unem poder econômico com o autoritarismo
Elon Musk Is All That Stands In The Way Of Totalitarianism
Last night, around 8 p.m. local time in São Paulo, Brazil, Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes announced a criminal investigation into Elon Musk, the owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, for allegedly
It sounds like a "Black Mirror" episode: a small country announces a crackdown on hate speech to seize control over the entire Internet.
Except it's not a "Black Mirror" episode. It's real life. And it's happening right now in Ireland.
The so-called "Hate Speech" bill isn't
Whistleblower tells me that the Censorship Industrial Complex is preparing “a full court press against the Twitter Files reporters….The press will be targeting each of you, your histories, and your personal and business connections.”
To which I say: Bring it on, fascists.
Canada's Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
froze the bank accounts of 2022 "Freedom Convoy" protesters, claiming it was an emergency. But it wasn't. And now, Public has proof that his government used faked intelligence to illegally frame protesting truckers as violent extremists.
While
@mtaibbi
& I were testifying before Congress on the weaponization of the federal government, an IRS agent showed up at his house. What an amazing coincidence
Não sou brasileiro, mas sei ler. A Constituição do Brasil diz, “É vedada toda e qualquer censura de natureza política, ideológica e artística.”
Capitulo 5, artigo 220, parágrafo 2º.
@LulaOficial
@alexandre
@elonmusk
#CensuraNao
BRAZIL SHOULD TERRIFY YOU
Just a day and a half ago, it seemed like things were calming in Brazil. The Folha de São Paulo, the New York Times of Brazil, editorialized against censorship. The head of the Brazilian Bar Association gave a strong statement in support of freedom of
Spokespersons for
@wef
say “The Great Reset,” eating insects instead of meat, and “You’ll own nothing and be happy” are conspiracy theories, but they’re not. In fact, all of them originated
@Davos
and from WEF’s own website. But now, WEF is deleting them.
The media said climate change, not arson, was behind the fires in Greece. They lied. They have egg on their face now that 160 people have been arrested for arson.
Sitting members of Congress are threatening journalist
@mtaibbi
with prison, but we are fighting back. We are going to dismantle the Censorship Industrial Complex and bury its parts deep underground. We can't do it alone. Please, join our movement and help us fight back. LFG!
People think solar panels protect the environment but they require 300+ times as much land as conventional energy sources and now the Los Angeles Times has discovered that they could "contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium."
The Biden administration is demanding that
@elonmusk
explain why he allowed journalists access to the Twitter Files. This is an outrageous attack on the First Amendment.
On Jan 7, senior Twitter execs:
- create justifications to ban Trump
- seek a change of policy for Trump alone, distinct from other political leaders
- express no concern for the free speech or democracy implications of a ban
This
#TwitterFiles
is reported with
@lwoodhouse
11. First, it's important to understand that Hunter Biden earned *tens of millions* of dollars in contracts with foreign businesses, including ones linked to China's government, for which Hunter offered no real work.
Here's an overview by investigative journalist
@peterschweizer
The FBI, George Soros, and Brazil's government say they defend free speech and democracy. But a new, months-long investigation finds that they have been secretly working together to oversee a mass censorship effort that is in direct violation of the US & Brazilian Constitutions.
Queridos amigos brasileiros,
Pessoas poderosas nos nossos governos e nas nossas sociedades acreditam que têm o direito de decidir o que podemos ou não dizer, ouvir e não ouvir. Eles não estão apenas tentando nos censurar, estão tentando banir totalmente das redes sociais os
People think solar panels are good for the environment but they’re not. They’re made with toxic heavy metals and aren’t recycled. Most are made with coal in China and produce produce 3x more CO2 than IPCC thought. And they require 300-600x more land than other energy sources.
People say solar panels don't produce carbon emissions, but they do. And now, a major new investigation by Environmental Progress, drawing on the research of
@enricomariutti
, finds that solar panels made in China produce at least 3x more carbon emissions than IPCC claims.
Elon Musk é a única coisa que impede o totalitarismo global
Aqui é Michael Shellenberger, falando de São Paulo, Brasil.
Ontem à noite, por volta das 20h, o ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal, Alexandre de Moraes, anunciou uma investigação criminal contra Elon Musk, dono do X,
Why the FBI And Democrats Are Attacking Whistleblowers
FBI says it won’t release Jan 6 surveillance video because it would show too many undercover government agents and informants
by
@galexybrane
&
@shellenberger
The FBI whistleblowers who testified before Congress today are
FBI started spying on the Trump campaign after foreign governments "by chance" discovered evidence that his advisors were colluding with the Russians, the government says. But now, multiple credible sources tell us that the CIA asked foreign allies to spy on 26 Trump associates.
Germany’s renewables experiment is over.
By 2025 it will have spent $580B to make electricity nearly 2x more expensive & 10x more carbon-intensive than France’s.
The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to.
Yesterday marked the 60th known whale death on the East Coast since Dec 1, 2022. This is not normal.
The government says it’s not because of the wind industry’s high decibel pile driving & boat traffic in previously pristine waters. They’re lying. And now we have the proof.
The FBI & Democrats say the whistleblowers who testified today are "a threat to our national security,” but they're not. Rather they are honorable public servants who are being attacked for exposing abuses of power related to January 6.
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook has independent fact checkers, is open to all perspectives, and doesn’t interfere in elections.
But a new investigation found Facebook is funding activists demanding censorship of their enemies during a national referendum.
The idea that George Soros controls politicians around the world is an antisemitic conspiracy theory, insists the media. But it's not a theory. Here's his son, Alex, with Ireland's Prime Minister, who is at this moment seeking to seize control over the entire Internet through
Twitter yesterday censored "What Is A Woman?" After, Twitter's head of trust and safety resigned. Then, this morning,
@elonmusk
personally boosted the documentary.
Musk did the right thing. People should be able to see “What Is a Woman?” even if it upsets advertisers.
Both CNN and MSNBC carried the entirety of the speech by DeSantis, after openly refusing to carry the speech by Trump, even though Trump won a landslide with 51% against DeSantis’ 21%.
It’s madness. CNN and MSNBC are flagrantly embracing their role as propagandists.
MSNBC host
@maddow
says NBC and other mainstream news networks have decided not to show Trump’s victory speech. CNN had him on briefly but then cut away and replaced him with
@jaketapper
who says “caucus goers believe the lie.”
Years Of US-UK Military And Intelligence Planning Behind Sweeping Brazil Censorship, Evidence Suggests
_Secret evidence, specialized spy units, and permanent bans on populists were key tactics developed by government operatives_
Late last night, the Judiciary Committee of the
Key facts
1. FBI took Hunter Biden's laptop in Dec 2019 & knew it didn't come from hacking
2. FBI spent 2020 telling Twitter that a "hack-and-leak" involving Hunter would occur in Oct 2020
3. FBI was spying on Giuliani when he gave laptop to NY Post
Expusemos a censura criminal pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal e agora o presidente Lula está me perseguindo
MAIS: O Procurador-Geral do Brasil está tentando encerrar totalmente o X
Oi amigos, aqui fala michael shellenberger. Trinta anos atrás, perguntei ao presidente Lula se ele
In Feb. 2020, after a
@nypost
oped said COVID-19 came from a lab leak, Facebook censored the story. Why? Because "independent fact-checkers" said it was "False information." Not only was it true information, one of the fact-checkers had worked at the lab
9. And yet, within hours, Twitter and other social media companies censor the NY Post article, preventing it from spreading and, more importantly, undermining its credibility in the minds of many Americans.
Why is that? What, exactly, happened?
President Lula says he supports free speech, but he doesn't. He is, at this moment, demanding a censorship regime as severe as the one that has been in place in Cuba since the early 1960s.
A bomb nearly killed Vice President
@KamalaHarris
on January 6, 2021, said the FBI. But now the former FBI official who oversaw the investigation said it couldn't have. In fact, the "bomb" appears to have been a hoax created by and covered up by the FBI and the Secret Service.
Biden was counting on Arab nations to produce more oil but a few hours ago French President Macron was overheard telling Biden that the United Arab Emirates is at max capacity & the Saudis can’t produce much more. It appears to be a direct appeal to Biden to produce more oil.
Justin Trudeau says he's deeply compassionate, but he's not. He smeared ordinary Canadians as Nazis. He froze the bank accounts of critics of his Covid policies. And he spread disinfo while demanding censorship. It's time to talk about the malignant narcissism of Justin Trudeau.
People like the idea of solar farms in the abstract, but hundreds of communities around the world are currently fighting them because they require 300-600x more land than other energy sources, produce 300x more toxic waste, and devastate critical wildlife habitats.
The US government said it was safe for pregnant women to get the COVID-19 vaccine because the injected mRNA stayed in the arm and did not travel through the body. But now a new Lancet study, which found mRNA in breast milk, shows the government lied.
@galexybrane
Biden says domestic terrorism is rising, but it's not. Rather, the FBI is manipulating data to demonize millions of Americans, and the media is going along with it. They should all be ashamed of themselves for their persecution of FBI whistleblowers and law-abiding Americans.
Now that the U.S. Department of Energy has joined FBI in concluding that the coronavirus likely leaked from a lab, it’s worth remembering that the media, en masse, condemned the lab leak theory as a “debunked conspiracy theory,” and Facebook censored people who dared suggest it
8. The next day, October 14, 2020, The New York Post runs its explosive story revealing the business dealings of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Every single fact in it was accurate.
In Twitter Files
#7
, we present evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community (IC), aimed at senior executives at news and social media companies, to discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published.
The *only* serious concern we found expressed within Twitter over the implications for free speech and democracy of banning Trump came from a junior person in the organization. It was tucked away in a lower-level Slack channel known as “site-integrity-auto."
Many say it doesn't matter where COVID-19 came from, but it does. The cover-up of its origin typifies institutional rot. Our leaders have been lying and persecuting whistleblowers. Such rampant abuses of power threaten our democracy and civilization.
For years, the government has insisted that the increase in whale deaths off the East Coast has no relationship to the wind industry's high-decibel pile driving and boat activity. But now, a new documentary, "Thrown To The Wind," based on new research, will challenge that.
There is a big debate over who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. Instead of allowing the debate, Facebook has decided to take a side. It is censoring Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh. And instead of explaining, Facebook sends readers to an article in Norwegian. Watch
EXPOSED: America's Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex
U.S. government officials, agencies, and contractors are violating the First Amendment
My testimony to Congress
On CBS "60 Minutes" w/
@ScottPelley
last night,
@PaulREhrlich
claimed a) humans are causing a "sixth mass extinction" & b) that it would require "five Earths" for all humans to enjoy a Western standard of living.
Both claims are totally & utterly false.
THE WPATH FILES
Advocates of gender-affirming care say it’s evidence-based.
But now, newly released internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical.
American
You are a sitting member of Congress. Do the words "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech" mean nothing to you? Free speech once meant something in the Democratic Party. You are a traitor to your country, to your party, and to liberalism. Shame on you.
Elon Musk has been amplifying antisemitic content, profiting from misinformation, and allowing pro-Hamas propaganda to spread on X.
This needs to stop.
I've joined
@RepDanGoldman
and
@RepRaskin
in demanding accountability from X.
Democrats said Trump would usher in the end of liberal democracy. But it's been Democrats, not Republicans, who have sought to criminalize speech, undermine equal justice under the law, and incarcerate their political opponents.
People think Europe depends on Russia for energy because it lacks its own, but 15 years ago Europe exported more natural gas than Russia does today. Now, Russia exports 3x more gas than Europe produces. Why? Because climate activists, partly funded by Russia, blocked fracking.
In 2020, the FBI repeatedly warned Twitter & Facebook of a forthcoming Russian disinformation operation about Hunter Biden. When
@nypost
published emails from his laptop, Twitter & FB censored the content. Now, an FBI official admits FBI knew the laptop was real. Massive.
🚨 BIG BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Testimony reveals the FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop was authentic, but when asked by a social media company about the laptop’s authenticity the FBI said “no further comment.”
The rest is history.
We Exposed Censorship By Brazil’s Supreme Court, And Now President Lula Is Persecuting Me
PLUS: Brazil’s Attorney General Is Seeking To Entirely Shut Down X, Formerly Known As Twitter
Thirty years ago this year, I asked Brazil’s current president, who goes by the single name
For those catching up, please see:
Part 1, where
@mtaibbi
documents how senior Twitter executives violated their own policies to prevent the spread of accurate information about Hunter Biden’s laptop;
The idea that governments around the world have for years been secretly censoring ordinary citizens sounds crazy, but it's true. Worse, they are now on the cusp of imposing what can only be described as a totalitarian system to end freedom of speech as we know it.
BOMBGATE: This Video Proves FBI Is Covering Up The Truth About The January 6 “Bomb”
We must be blunt: the FBI is a dangerous, politicized, and rogue agency that must be brought to heel
by
@shellenberger
Video by
@lwoodhouse
The US Department of Justice has charged over
After years of official claims to the contrary, strong new evidence suggests the virus known as SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a Chinese lab. According to multiple sources, the researchers who led gain-of-function research, which increases infectiousness, were the first to be infected.
Hi — sorry — but who exactly do you think you are to demand censorship of speech? In America, we don’t even let our own politicians censor speech, much less foreign ones. Please consider reading the First Amendment to our Constitution AND BACK THE HELL OFF
The
#DSA
is here to protect free speech against arbitrary decisions, and at the same time protect our citizens & democracies.
My requests to
#Meta
’s Mark Zuckerberg following the terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel — and on tackling disinformation in elections in the EU ⤵️
Politicians & George Soros-funded NGOs say "hate incidents" are rising, but they're not. The data show the opposite: higher-than-ever and rising levels of tolerance of minorities. The reason they're spreading hate misinformation is to justify a draconian crackdown on free speech.
It's All Much Worse Than I Thought
The corporate media are all-in on government censorship
Over the last three years, we have come to learn of the role that our own government officials have played in demanding censorship by social media platforms. Some of this censorship was
Brazilian Judge Pushes Nationalist Conspiracy Theory To Weaponize Federal Police Against Defenders Of Free Speech
Brazil’s Federal Police discuss me in new report commissioned by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes
Yesterday, a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, who is also
13. They did the same to Facebook, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “The FBI basically came to us [and] was like, ‘Hey... you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in 2016 election. There's about to be some kind of dump similar to that.'"
A growing body of evidence shows U.S. govt officials, agencies, & contractors demanding Facebook & Twitter censor ordinary Americans. Now, an influential censorship advocate has admitted that she worked for the CIA. Who is she? Why is she so influential?
But after the events of Jan 6, the internal and external pressure on Twitter CEO
@jack
grows.
Former First Lady
@michelleobama
, tech journalist
@karaswisher
,
@ADL
, high-tech VC
@ChrisSacca
, and many others, publicly call on Twitter to permanently ban Trump.
The World Economic Forum's Davos summit starts tomorrow. Its founder, Klaus Schwab, is one of the most influential men alive. He even participated in the G-20 summit of world leaders last November.
Why is that? And who, exactly, is Klaus Schwab?
As context, it's important to understand that Twitter’s staff & senior execs were overwhelmingly progressive.
In 2018, 2020, and 2022, 96%, 98%, & 99% of Twitter staff's political donations went to Democrats.
11. This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right.
O Brasil se apresenta ao mundo como uma democracia liberal, mas não é. A Polícia Federal, o Supremo Tribunal Federal e o Advocado-Geral do União estão censurando o discurso jurídico, tentando banir jornalistas e políticos independentes das plataformas de mídia social, e podem
First they said it was a "debunked conspiracy theory." Then they said Covid lab leak was a minority view. Now, it appears that FBI, DOE, and CIA all believe it came from a lab, and that CIA analysts were paid to reverse their assessment. US intel is dangerously corrupted.
The media say climate change caused Hawaii's devastating fire, but it didn't. The main causes were the under-investment in fire prevention and the refusal by the state to release water to firefighters. And those decisions were driven by unhinged climatism and Wokeism.
For years, Twitter had resisted calls to ban Trump.
“Blocking a world leader from Twitter,” it wrote in 2018, “would hide important info... [and] hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.”
Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate. It would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.
Greta Thunberg used to say her goal was to protect the planet from climate change but she now admits it's to overthrow "the whole capitalist system," which she says is responsible for "imperialism, oppression, genocide.. racist, oppressive extractionism"
By Aug 2020, Mac Isaac still had not heard back from the FBI, even though he had discovered evidence of criminal activity. And so he emails Rudy Giuliani, who was under FBI surveillance at the time. In early Oct, Giuliani gives it to
@nypost
A reporter tried to debunk the horror stories about San Francisco, but couldn’t because they’re true. “Some of the street addicts were rotting, literally: their decomposing flesh attracting flies.”