5 Reasons the Corrupt Media is Ignoring the “Twitter Files”

Soon after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he gave a few reporters access to the tech giant’s internal communications, resulting in scandalous revelations about Twitter’s routine collusion with and censorship direction from the FBI — revelations you likely haven’t heard much about from the corporate media.

“The Twitter Files” The symbiotic relationship of the feds with a so-called privately held company led to the suppression and silencing of Covid activists, as well as the suppression and suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop story, right before the 2020 elections. It also included the silencing and suppression of journalists who were challenging the regime, among other bombshells. According to the communications, Twitter received $3,000,000 in federal government assistance. 

These shocking revelations were backed up with the internal communications from high-ranking Twitter executives. However, corporate media ignored the scandals. Why is this? 

Here are five reasons why the corrupt press refuses to adequately cover these issues “The Twitter Files.”

1. Giving Credence To Trump’s 2020 Election Claims Would Be Unforgivable

Exact coverage “The Twitter Files” would require the media to report on the FBI’s role in burying the Hunter Biden laptop story shortly before the 2020 election. This is among other things. “The Twitter Files” revealed the FBI met monthly and then weekly with Twitter’s team, warning them of various foreign efforts to interfere in the election. Those internal communications, when coupled with an earlier statement Yoel Roth, the then-head of Twitter’s site integrity, provided to the Federal Election Commission, establish the FBI was behind Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden story.

“Since 2018 he had regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and industry peers regarding election security,” Roth stated. “During these weekly meetings, the federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October,” Roth added that he learned so much from those meetings “that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.” Roth explained then that the following “prior warnings of a hack-and-leak operation and doubts about the provenance of the materials republished in the N.Y. Post articles,” Twitter – Twitter has concluded “the materials could have been obtained through hacking.” 

When Roth’s statement is read together with the internal emails establishing that Twitter banned the New York Post’s blockbuster reporting under the guise that the materials had been hacked, the FBI’s responsibility for causing the censorship of this politically explosive story is clear. And because the FBI knew Hunter’s laptop had not been hacked and that the materials on it were authentic, by prompting the censorship of the story, the FBI knowingly interfered in the 2020 election.

Or as Donald Trump stated it on Truth Social. “The Twitter Files” broke: “The biggest thing to come out of the Twitter Targeting Hoax is that the Presidential Election was RIGGED — And that’s as big as it can get!!!”

To be truthful in reporting by the media “The Twitter Files,” then, would require it to give credence to Trump’s “RIGGED” claims — something it just cannot stomach. Instead, corrupt media responded. “The Twitter Files” With silence or spin.

2. Being the Press Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

The second reason why the media refuses to cover is “The Twitter Files” stems from the corrupt media’s inability to acknowledge its own bias, wrongdoing, and hackery. To cover the scandals exposed in the files, media elites would have to admit their role in censoring news and their shortcomings as journalists.

While historically, journalists stood in unity with their fellow reporters, when Twitter and other tech companies censored and then deplatformed the New York Post, the press — in the main — remained silent. In contrast, when Musk temporarily suspended reporters’ accounts who had posted location tracking information in violation of Twitter’s new rules, a thud sounded as the same journalists collectively collapsed on their fainting couches. 

These supposed journalists-standard-bearers did not condemn the censorship. Most ignored the story. NPR, for example, did not discuss the details of this scandal but only the justifications they had for doing so. “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” NPR is emphasized.

Coverage “The Twitter Files” Now would be an implicit acknowledgment that they were wrong in not reporting on the laptop story and equally bad for failing to condemn the Post’s censure. 

“The Twitter Files” There are also some questions that news outlets should be asking: Did the FBI warn legacy journalists about Russian disinformation? This could have been in the form of possibly hacked materials that Hunter Biden was a part of? Do you think that’s why they didn’t report the story? Or did they allow the Post to continue its censorship unchallenged. 

Reporting “The Twitter Files” Legacy outlets would have to face the possibility that the FBI had played their hands and that they were ready to trust the government, rather than being a check on its abuse. 

“The Twitter Files” Also, it vindicates Musk and refutes the media narrative that the Twitter takeover was the end of the tech giant. Not only did the avalanche of predicted hate speech not materialize, but under Musk’s leadership, Twitter’s newfound transparency has served both the public interest and a (functioning) free press. Reporting on these facts, then, would require the press not only to acknowledge its own failings but to apologize to Musk and admit their own complicity — things they are apparently unable to do.

3. Condemning The Feds Would Hurt Their Heroes and Shut Down Resources

Most likely, the media ignores as well “The Twitter Files” to protect their sources — both literally and figuratively. 

The legacy media is likely to have regular sources of information from many of the same FBI agents and government officials like Rep. Adam Schiff, D.Calif. This is particularly likely if the FBI tried to force the media to censor Hunter Biden’s story, just as it did with Facebook and Twitter. Reporting “The Twitter Files” This would force media outlets to punish those who leak valuable information. Condemning those individuals could shut down various source networks the corrupt media can’t risk.

The media likely also don’t want to “hurt” Because they are on the same anti-Trump team, their sources and FBI agents who spread the Russia disinformation lie about tech companies. 

Just as the media refuse to condemn the Department of Justice and FBI agents involved in pushing the Russia-collusion hoax because the press favored the unwarranted attacks on Trump that hamstrung his administration, the leftist media silently applauds the FBI’s interference in the 2020 election because it helped deny Trump a second term. 

In this regard, the legacy media and the deep state share the same worldview — that the ends justify the means. The media will thus keep mum about what the FBI did because they’re grateful that intelligence agencies destroyed Trump’s chance to defeat Biden by prompting the censorship of the October surprise. 

4. The Russian Bogeyman must be protected at all costs

Don’t ignore “The Twitter Files” The media also has the ability to preserve their Russia Russia Russia narrative.

The different “Twitter File” threads revealed several damning details concerning Russia’s supposed interference in American politics. First, they exposed how the FBI and federal intelligence agencies used Russia’s supposed interference in the 2016 election to push for more resources and collaboration with tech giants. Second, the files revealed that, notwithstanding federal agents’ claims, there were no systemic efforts by Russia to use Twitter to interfere in the U.S. elections. To the contrary, the internal communications showed the FBI pushing for evidence of Russian interference and Twitter executives countering that they weren’t seeing issues.

As described above, third “The Twitter Files” The FBI used the excuse of Russian disinformation to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Fourth and finally, the internal Twitter communications showed that the trending of the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag was not prompted by Russian bots or Russian-connected accounts and that Democrats such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Schiff’s claims to the contrary were false. Those communications also revealed that even though Twitter negated the Russian-interference theory — telling politicians point blank that the evidence showed #ReleseTheMemo was trending because of organic interest in the hashtag — Democrats and the media continued to push that false storyline.

Reporting “The Twitter Files” It would be necessary for the media to admit they were wrong about their #ReleaseTheMemo tweet coverage. But what’s more, covering Twitter’s internal communications would force the press to dispel the notion that Russia is the bogeyman behind every Republican candidate and every negative story about Democrats.

Corrupt media must keep Russia the bad guy for future election and to prevent future scandals from affecting Democrats. Accurate reporting is essential “The Twitter Files” would lessen the effects of any later resort to a Russia, Russia, Russia narrative — and the press can’t have that.

5. Reporters Would Rather Be Propagandists Than Journalists

There are many reasons why the press won’t report on these matters. “The Twitter Files,” It all boils down to one thing: The legacy media don’t have any.

Today’s journalists who work at outlets that used to be the benchmark for journalists are more concerned with politics than their professional obligations. The end goal of corrupt journalists is not to inform the public or provide a check on politicians, rich and powerful. Instead, they want to use their power for their own beliefs and agendas. 

The reporters refused to cover the story. “The Twitter Files” Their role as propagandists is preferable to that of journalists.

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Margot Cleveland, The Federalist’s senior law correspondent, is Margot. She has also contributed to National Review Online and Washington Examiner. Aleteia and Townhall.com. Her work has been published in USA Today and Wall Street Journal.

Cleveland is a lawyer and a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Prize—the law school’s highest honor. Later, she served as a permanent law clerk on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals for almost 25 years. Cleveland was a former full-time university professor and now teaches adjunctively.

Cleveland is a stay at home mom to a son with cystic Fibrosis. She writes frequently about cultural issues surrounding parenting and special-needs children. Follow Cleveland on Twitter @ProfMJCleveland Cleveland’s private views are expressed here.

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