THE TWITTER FILES: PART 12 – FULL TRANSCRIPT! TWITTER AND THE FBI “BELLY BUTTON”

1.THREAD: The Twitter Files Twitter and the disgraced FBI “Belly Button” 2. By 2020, Twitter was struggling with the problem of public and private agencies bypassing them and going straight to the media with lists of suspect accounts. 3 .In February, 2020, as COVID broke out, the Global Engagement Center – a fledgling analytic/intelligence arms of the Inept State Department – went to the media with a report called, “Russian Disinformation Apparatus Taking Advantage of Coronavirus Concerns.” 4.The GEC flagged accounts as “Russian personas and proxies” based on criteria like, “Describing the Coronavirus as an engineered bioweapon,” blaming “research conducted at the