Twitter Files: Even Twitter Referenced Schiff And DiFi As ‘Trolls’
Twitter said 'no evidence of Russian collusion', but Schiff and DiFi kept narrative going
The political right has had a powerful disdain for Adam Schiff for years. This latest Twitter files reveal will only entrench that opinion of him.
Matt Taibbi has been given access to a large tranche of files, internal comms, and emails from Twitter during its pre-Elon era.
Adam Schiff was probably the least surprising of three different Democrats named for trying to create drama where none actually existed. The drama they were doggedly trying to find was centered around — you guessed it — Russia.
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One of the key takeaways from this week’s data dump was that Twitter saw there was no Russian component to activity that ran contrary to Democrat narratives, but Democrats went looking for ways to say it was real. All of them came back with the same single source in Germany to prove their case that Twitter was wrong and that there really WERE Russians running the show.
Back in Jan 2018, key officials at Twitter were just not buying what he was selling. For context, at that moment in History, the Mueller Investigation was still in full swing and Nancy Pelosi had just retaken the gavel for control of the House. News outlets and TV talking heads were routinely making matter-of-fact assertions that Trump was somehow in the pocket of Vladimir Putin.
By now, Time Magazine was already publishing covers implying Moscow had taken over the White House. And wouldn’t be long after this that the NYTimes had to pull a homoerotic cartoon depicting Trump and Putin passionately embraced in a bedroom scene. (Not because it was beneath them to publish something so defamatory, but because it offended the sensibilities of the activist crowd.)
While Schiff tried to use his role has keeper of national secrets as a platform to set fires and rumors, his Republican counterpart, Nunes, was trying to put them out.
The memo he released, debunking many of the talking points curated-by-Schiff & Co., was a point of no small concern among the Democrats, featuring prominently in Taibbi’s reporting of this scene in the drama.
While there is much to review and digest in that reporting, we are narrowing focus still further.
Adam Schiff, Diane Feinstein, and Dick Blumenthal were going public with allegations that Russians were behind certain trending topics on Twitter that were detrimental to the Trump/Russia narrative.
In particular, there was concern about the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag. This was a reference to the Nunes Memo which, years later, was confirmed as true by the Inspector General.
Recall, as we read further, that the key plank in Democrat attempts to silence social media accounts hinged on claims of foreign influence and disinformation as being existential threats to democracy. Here is the part of the report we are going to take a closer look at.
The evidence shot down any Democrat claims that Russians were propping up Republican talking points on Twitter.
Democrats were TOLD this fact.
Democrats ignored this fact and continued making the public allegation that it was true.
Here is the internal letter cited in the tweet above:
Schiff is ‘putting the cart before the horse’, they say, on Russian bot involvement:
Getting right to the point and calling the situation like they see it:
This is the same Adam Schiff, who, as far back as March 2017, infamously claimed that he had ‘more than circumstantial evidence’ that Trump had been colluding with Russians.
That evidence never materialized. But it was used in a disinformation campaign to discredit the Trump presidency. And many followers of Hillary Clinton still swear by those Russian Collusion claims today.
