Twitter and the Department of Homeland Security

Guest Post by Alex Berenson

Newly released documents show the government and little bird getting cozy; don’t worry, Twitter, my lawyers and I aren’t paying attention to them!

A senior Department of Homeland Security official planned to meet Twitter executives in April to discuss potential censorship “partnerships” between the federal government and Twitter, a leaked government memo reveals.

The meeting was intended to be “in person,” “off-the-record,” and “closed [to the] press,” according to the memo, part of a cache of documents two Republican senators released last night.

Another document in the cache – this one from September 2021, just weeks after Twitter banned me – explains that dissent around Covid and vaccines was a focus of the department’s “efforts to combat misinformation.”

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