8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (22)
#18310081 at 2023-02-08 23:25:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22440: TheY Gonna Need a Bigger Balloon Edition
>>18309351 [LB]
>he was hired at Twitter by Sean Edgett,
this is not entirely accurate
he testified Edgett was his boss at twitter
Baker also testified that he did not know who made the final decision for being hired at twitter
#18310017 at 2023-02-08 23:12:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22440: TheY Gonna Need a Bigger Balloon Edition
>>18309975
>James Baker just testified he was hired at Twitter by Sean Edgett, whom records show formerly worked for Latham & Watkins-the same law firm that employs Hunter Biden's attorney Chris Clark
#18309975 at 2023-02-08 23:04:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22440: TheY Gonna Need a Bigger Balloon Edition
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Fired Twitter censor James Baker just testified he was hired at Twitter by Sean Edgett, whom records show formerly worked for Latham & Watkins–the same law firm that employs Hunter Biden's attorney Chris Clark, who is defending him against incriminating laptop evidence
4:01 PM ? Feb 8, 2023
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1623426943419916290
#18309457 at 2023-02-08 21:24:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22439: God Woke (You) up for a reason Edition
Hired Jim Baker at Twitter
Sean Edgett
@Edgett
Twitter is full of the most amazing people. I have so much gratitude for my former team and colleagues. Keep taking good care of this place, Tweagle. ?
12:26 PM ? Oct 28, 2022
https://twitter.com/Edgett
Facilitated Aspen Institute Hunter Biden election wargame
Garrett Graff
Director, Cyber Initiatives , Aspen Digital
@vermontgmg
Garrett M. Graff, a distinguished journalist and internationally bestselling historian, has spent nearly two decades covering politics, technology, and national security-helping to explain where we've been and where we're headed. He is the founding director of the Aspen Institute's cybersecurity and technology program and a contributor to WIRED and CNN. He's written for publications from Esquire and Rolling Stone to the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and edited two of Washington's most prestigious magazines, Washingtonian and POLITICO Magazine, which he helped lead to its first National Magazine Award, the field's highest honor.
Graff is the author of multiple books, including the New York Times bestsellers Watergate: A New History and The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, as well The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and Raven Rock, about the government's Cold War Doomsday plans. He is the co-author of Dawn of the Code War: America's Battles Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat.
A regular voice and analyst on NPR, PBS NewsHour, the History Channel, and other outlets, he is also the host of "Long Shadow," an eight-episode podcast series about the lingering questions of 9/11 and executive producer of "While the Rest of Us Die," a VICE TV series based on his book Raven Rock, among other multimedia projects.
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/people/garrett-graff/
#18309381 at 2023-02-08 21:10:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22439: God Woke (You) up for a reason Edition
>>18309351 BREAKING: Fired Twitter censor James Baker just testified he was hired at Twitter by Sean Edgett, whom records show formerly worked for Latham & Watkins-the same law firm that employs Hunter Biden's
attorney Chris Clark, who is defending him against incriminating laptop evidence
notable
#18309351 at 2023-02-08 21:06:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22439: God Woke (You) up for a reason Edition
BREAKING: Fired Twitter censor James Baker just testified he was hired at Twitter by Sean Edgett, whom records show formerly worked for Latham & Watkins–the same law firm that employs Hunter Biden's attorney Chris Clark, who is defending him against incriminating laptop evidence
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1623426943419916290
#18072099 at 2023-01-04 13:19:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22150: There Aren't Enough of Us, Yet They Can't Stop Us! Edition
Matt Taibbi Twitter files Jan 3, 2023
1 of 2
1.THREAD: The Twitter Files
How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In
2.In August 2017, when Facebook decided to suspend 300 accounts with "suspected Russian origin,"Twitter wasn't worried. Its leaders were sure they didn't have a Russia problem.
3."We did not see a big correlation."
"No larger patterns." "FB may take action on hundreds of accounts, and we may take action on ~25."
4."KEEP THE FOCUS ON FB": Twitter was so sure they had no Russia problem, execs agreed the best PR strategy was to say nothing on record, and quietly hurl reporters at Facebook:
5."Twitter is not the focus of inquiry into Russian election meddling right now - the spotlight is on FB," wrote Public Policy VP Colin Crowell:
6.In September, 2017, after a cursory review, Twitter informed the Senate it suspended 22 possible Russian accounts, and 179 others with "possible links" to those accounts, amid a larger set of roughly 2700 suspects manually examined.
7.Receiving these meager results, a furious Senator Mark Warner of Virginia - ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee - held an immediate press conference to denounce Twitter's report as "frankly inadequate on every level."
8."#Irony," mused Crowell the day after Warner's presser, after receiving an e-circular from Warner's re-election campaign, asking for "$5 or whatever you can spare."
"LOL," replied General Counsel Sean Edgett.
9."KEEP PRODUCING MATERIAL" After meeting with congressional leaders, Crowell wrote: "Warner has political incentive to keep this issue at top of the news, maintain pressure on us and rest of industry to keep producing material for them."
10."TAKING THEIR CUES FROM HILLARY CLINTON" Crowell added Dems were taking cues from Hillary Clinton, who that week said: "It's time for Twitter to stop dragging its heels and live up to the fact that its platform is being used as a tool for cyber-warfare."
11. In growing anxiety over its PR problems, Twitter formed a "Russia Task Force" to proactively self-investigate.
12.The "Russia Task Force" started mainly with data shared from counterparts at Facebook, centered around accounts supposedly tied to Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA).But the search for Russian perfidy was a dud:
13. OCT 13 2017: "No evidence of a coordinated approach, all of the accounts found seem to be lone-wolf type activity (different timing, spend, targeting, <$10k in ad spend)."
14.OCT 18 2017: "First round of RU investigation... 15 high risk accounts, 3 of which have connections with Russia, although 2 are RT."
15.OCT 20 2017: "Built new version of the model that is lower precision but higher recall which allows to catch more items. We aren't seeing substantially more suspicious accounts. We expect to find ~20 with a small amount of spend."
16.OCT 23 2017: "Finished with investigation... 2500 full manual account reviews, we think this is exhaustive...32 suspicious accounts and only 17 of those are connected with Russia, only 2 of those have significant spend one of which is Russia Today…remaining <$10k in spend."
17.Twitter's search finding "only 2" significant accounts, "one of which is Russia Today," was based on the same data that later inspired panic headlines like "Russian Influence Reached 126 Million Through Facebook Alone": ...
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1610372352872783872.html
#17986775 at 2022-12-20 15:33:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22036: Morning Frens Edition
FBI paid Twitter back more than $3M for doing its dirty work on users, email shows
The FBI reimbursed Twitter to the tune of more than $3 million as it pushed the social media company to ban accounts and target so-called "foreign influence" operations, the latest installment of the "Twitter Files" revealed on Monday. In an email dated Feb. 10, 2021, an unidentified Twitter employee told then-deputy general counsel Jim Baker and then-general counsel Sean Edgett that "we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!" The email, published by independent journalist Michael Shellenberger, explained that Twitter's Safety, Content & Law Enforcement (SCALE) division had instituted a "reimbursement program" in exchange for devoting staff hours to "processing requests from the FBI." The message added that Twitter had opted not to exercise its right of reimbursement prior to October 2019, though it did not say why. The email notes that the funds will be used by Twitter on "[law enforcement]-related projects" including "LE training, tooling, etc." The reports by Shellenberger and fellow independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, have revealed extensive collaboration and employee overlap between Twitter and the FBI, who Taibbi reported last week treated the social media company as a "subsidiary" and repeatedly reported supposed "misinformation."
In the sixth installment of the Twitter Files, published Friday, Taibbi revealed that the bureau was so aggressive in sending Twitter "possible violative content" to review that an employee described one set of materials as a "monumental undertaking" that required several colleagues to pitch in and help. On Monday, Shellenberger reported that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly primed Twitter's former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth to dismiss The Post's bombshell October 2020 report on Hunter Biden's infamous laptop as a Russian "hack and leak" operation. The files reveal the FBI could communicate with top Twitter executives through multiple channels, including email accounts and specially built encrypted portals. The bureau would often send the company lists of users they wanted investigated for terms of use violations. In some cases, Shellenberger noted, Twitter would probe cases presented by the bureau but come up empty, not finding evidence of a foreign influence campaign. "[W]e haven't yet identified activity that we'd typically refer to you (or even flag as interesting in the foreign influence context)," Roth informed FBI San Francisco Special Agent Elvis Chan in one email from May 31, 2020. The FBI would also flag media articles on alleged foreign influence campaigns that Twitter would have to look into and debunk, "repeatedly" reporting "very little Russian activity," according to Shellenberger. "Time and again, FBI asks Twitter for evidence of foreign influence & Twitter responds that they aren't finding anything worth reporting," Shellenberger writes. The FBI also made repeated requests for internal data from Twitter that the social media company refused to send over, citing privacy concerns.
As recently as August 2022, Twitter continued to work with the FBI, which pressured the company to disclose more sensitive information. Baker and Edgett were fired after billionaire Elon Musk bought the social network in October.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/19/fbi-reimbursed-twitter-for-doing-its-dirty-work-on-users/
#17708612 at 2022-10-28 18:31:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21696: Look To Twitter, The Storm..... Edition
Donald Trump Touts Truth Social amid Twitter's Overhaul28 Oct 2022
Former President Donald Trump touted his social media platform Truth Social amid Twitter's ownership change to Elon Musk, although he struck an optimistic tone at the idea of Twitter no longer being controlled by "Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that truly hate our country."
Musk officially took ownership of Twitter on Thursday, closing his $44 billion deal. One of his first acts as owner included firing some of the social media giant's top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CEO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, or as Breitbart News noted, "the 'trust and safety' lead notorious for her fanatical left-wing censorship campaign":
Musk appeared to decide to start at the top of the company and promptly fired top executives including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety. The company's general counsel, Sean Edgett, was also let ago according to sources and all were promptly escorted out of the company's offices in San Francisco.
This would appear to confirm Musk's previous claims that he planned to take Twitter in an entirely new direction and was unhappy with current management, which Musk has publicly criticized on multiple occasions. Musk has taken issue with the former executives' decisions relating to content moderation and product direction, as well as criticizing moves such as the banning of former President Donald Trump.
There has been quite a bit of speculation on whether or not Trump would return to the platform if Twitter reinstated him under Musk's leadership. It has been well over a year since Twitter banned the former president, doing so in January 2021, citing the "risk of further incitement of violence":
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
- Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
On Friday, the day after Musk closed the deal, Trump took to Truth Social, expressing hope for the future of Twitter but touting Truth Social.
"TRUTH SOCIAL has become somewhat of a phenomena. Last week it had bigger numbers than all other platforms, including TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest," Trump said. "It also looks and works better to my eye."
"I am very happy that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be run by Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that truly hate our country. Twitter must now work hard to rid itself of all of the bots and fake accounts that have hurt it so badly. It will be much smaller, but better," he added. "I LOVE TRUTH!"
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/28/donald-trump-touts-truth-social-amid-twitters-overhaul/
#16705918 at 2022-07-10 14:15:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21073: Slow Drip Becomes A TORRENT Ebake Edition
>>16705916
"I guess it feels like we won," the employee said. "But it feels like the end of the movie, where the characters are bloodied and bedraggled with a Michael Bay explosion behind them. We could see this was coming, but in the meantime, he's f**king destroyed the company."
Emotional reactions might be reasonable given the drama that has surrounded the acquisition from the moment Musk proposed it, but according to a leaked memo obtained by New York Times reporter Mike Isaac, Twitter's general counsel, Sean Edgett, just wants everyone to put a sock in it.
"Given this is an ongoing legal matter, you should refrain from Tweeting, Slacking, or sharing any commentary about the merger agreement," the internal memo read. "We will continue to share information when we are able, but please know we are going to be very limited on what we can share in the meantime."
"I know this is an uncertain time," Edgett continued, "and we appreciate your patience and ongoing commitment to the important work we have underway."
in an internal memo, Twitter's general counsel just politely told employees to please shut up about the deal:
"Given this is an ongoing legal matter, you should refrain from Tweeting, Slacking, or sharing any commentary about the Merger Agreement," he wrote.
- rat king (@MikeIsaac) July 8, 2022
Employees, it appears, did play a part in the demise of the deal.
In a regulatory filing on Friday, Musk's attorney argued that Twitter had violated a provision of the deal when it fired two managers, laid off members of its talent acquisition team, put in place a hiring freeze, and rescinded job offers, according to the Daily Mail. Three department leaders also resigned.
With these actions, Twitter failed to "preserve substantially intact the material components of its current business organization," the filing claimed.
Acting on Musk's behalf, Skadden Arps attorney Mike Ringler stated that "multiple provisions" of the agreement were breached by the platform Musk envisioned as being a global "town square."
and here's Elon officially trying to back out of the dealhttps://t.co/e3T76osMsc pic.twitter.com/1cLf7wDYkI
- rat king (@MikeIsaac) July 8, 2022
"Mr. Musk is terminating the Merger Agreement because Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of that Agreement, appears to have made false and misleading representations upon which Mr. Musk relied when entering into the Merger Agreement, and is likely to suffer a Company Material Adverse Effect," he wrote.
"While Section 6.4 of the Merger Agreement requires Twitter to provide Mr. Musk and his advisors all data and information that Mr. Musk requests 'for any reasonable business purpose related to the consummation of the transaction," Twitter has failed to meet its contractual obligations, Ringler continued.
"For nearly two months, Mr. Musk has sought the data and information necessary to 'make an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam accounts on Twitter's platform,'" he stated. "This information is fundamental to Twitter's business and financial performance and is necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement because it is needed to ensure Twitter's satisfaction of the conditions to closing, to facilitate Mr. Musk's financing and financial planning for the transaction, and to engage in transition planning for the business."
"Twitter has failed or refused to provide this information," Ringler said. "Sometimes Twitter has ignored Mr. Musk's requests, sometimes it has rejected them for reasons that appear to be unjustified, and sometimes it has claimed to comply while giving Mr. Musk incomplete or unusable information."
https://americanwirenews.com/twitters-general-counsel-warns-big-mouthed-employees-to-shut-up-about-elon-musk-deal/
#16350313 at 2022-05-27 13:18:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20684: Uvalde Attacked By Big Pharma SSRI Anti Depressant Assault Pill Edition
Former Comey FBI General Counsel James Baker Now Works at Twitter and Was Member of National Task Force on Election Crisis. Can He Really Be Trusted?
Attorney James Baker was at the heart of Deep State's attempted coup of President Trump and removal from office. He worked for James Comey in the FBI. He then joined Twitter and was involved in the 2020 Election as a member of the little-known National Task Force on Election Crisis. Based on all this, can he be trusted?
James Baker was Jim Comey's General Counsel at the FBI. He was in on every discussion and cunning calculation. TGP wrote about him numerous times. But Baker at times appeared to be willing to talk.
In June 2020 former Comey FBI attorney James Baker joined Twitter. His announcement noted that Twitter was committed to an open Internet and freedom of speech. This was before Twitter censored and removed President Trump's account from the platform and thousands of conservatives along with him.
Twitter has tapped former FBI general counsel James Baker, a central player in the Russia collusion investigation, to serve as counsel to the tech giant.
"Thrilled to welcome @thejimbaker to @Twitter as Deputy General Counsel," Twitter's chief legal officer, Sean Edgett, posted Monday.
Edgett continued, "Jim is committed to our core principles of an open internet and freedom of expression, and brings experience navigating complex, global issues with a principled approach."
But the real tell-all about Baker is that he was a member of the National Task Force on Election Crisis. This group included nearly every individual representing every key group involved in the 2020 Election steal.
Baker appeared to be chairman of the group which was described as follows. There are no listed members from the Protect Democracy Project on the Task Force simply because:
"The Task Force was convened by Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization. Protect Democracy's staff supports the work of the Task Force, and in doing so has drawn on assistance from Jenner & Block, the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law, the Democracy & Rule of Law Clinic at Harvard Law School, and the William & Mary Election Law Society."
J. Christian Adams had this to say about this Task Force in an April 30, 2020 article in PJMedia:
One Potemkin outfit is the self-styled National Task Force on Election Crises. In reality, the group is the usual collection of far-left race activists, liberal law professors, vendor grifters sprinkled in with one or two non-crazies to give the organization a whiff of not-entirely-nuts. It is designed to appear bipartisan but in action, it is the opposite...
...Not only does this largely leftist task force represent phony bipartisanship, but it also uses that misleading brand to place hit-and-run pieces in conservative media.
So Baker moved from working with Comey on Russia collusion to working with the National Task Force on Election Crisis with far-left Protect Democracy and other far-left radicals in on the 2020 Election steal.
So again, can James Baker be trusted?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/former-comey-fbi-general-counsel-james-baker-now-works-twitter-member-national-task-force-election-crisis-can-really-trusted/
#16346587 at 2022-05-26 20:04:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20679: Blood is on 'Their' Hands Edition
Former Comey FBI General Counsel James Baker Now Works at Twitter and Was Member of National Task Force on Election Crisis. Can He Really Be Trusted?
Attorney James Baker was at the heart of Deep State's attempted coup of President Trump and removal from office. He worked for James Comey in the FBI. He then joined Twitter and was involved in the 2020 Election as a member of the little-known National Task Force on Election Crisis. Based on all this, can he be trusted?
James Baker was Jim Comey's General Counsel at the FBI. He was in on every discussion and cunning calculation. TGP wrote about him numerous times. But Baker at times appeared to be willing to talk.
In June 2020 former Comey FBI attorney James Baker joined Twitter. His announcement noted that Twitter was committed to an open Internet and freedom of speech. This was before Twitter censored and removed President Trump's account from the platform and thousands of conservatives along with him.
Twitter has tapped former FBI general counsel James Baker, a central player in the Russia collusion investigation, to serve as counsel to the tech giant.
"Thrilled to welcome @thejimbaker to @Twitter as Deputy General Counsel," Twitter's chief legal officer, Sean Edgett, posted Monday.
Edgett continued, "Jim is committed to our core principles of an open internet and freedom of expression, and brings experience navigating complex, global issues with a principled approach."
But the real tell-all about Baker is that he was a member of the National Task Force on Election Crisis. This group included nearly every individual representing every key group involved in the 2020 Election steal.
Baker appeared to be chairman of the group which was described as follows. There are no listed members from the Protect Democracy Project on the Task Force simply because:
"The Task Force was convened by Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization. Protect Democracy's staff supports the work of the Task Force, and in doing so has drawn on assistance from Jenner & Block, the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law, the Democracy & Rule of Law Clinic at Harvard Law School, and the William & Mary Election Law Society."
J. Christian Adams had this to say about this Task Force in an April 30, 2020 article in PJMedia:
One Potemkin outfit is the self-styled National Task Force on Election Crises. In reality, the group is the usual collection of far-left race activists, liberal law professors, vendor grifters sprinkled in with one or two non-crazies to give the organization a whiff of not-entirely-nuts. It is designed to appear bipartisan but in action, it is the opposite...
...Not only does this largely leftist task force represent phony bipartisanship, but it also uses that misleading brand to place hit-and-run pieces in conservative media.
So Baker moved from working with Comey on Russia collusion to working with the National Task Force on Election Crisis with far-left Protect Democracy and other far-left radicals in on the 2020 Election steal.
So again, can James Baker be trusted?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/former-comey-fbi-general-counsel-james-baker-now-works-twitter-member-national-task-force-election-crisis-can-really-trusted/
#16163942 at 2022-04-27 15:48:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20445: For 45 Edition
>>16163833
>James Baker formerly of the SPYGATE FBI
>Twitter's General Counsel
>now
>>16163857
>what if this homo is on work release.
>Or as anon likes to call it
>HUBER LAW
>>16163888
>dasting anon
>dasting
infinity trips confirm
Twitter hires former FBI lawyer James Baker to join legal team
By Thornton McEnery,
Jaclyn Hendricks and
Emily Jacobs
June 16, 2020 2:33pm
Twitter has tapped former FBI general counsel James Baker, a central player in the Russia collusion investigation, to serve as counsel to the tech giant.
"Thrilled to welcome @thejimbaker to @Twitter as Deputy General Counsel," Twitter's chief legal officer, Sean Edgett, posted Monday.
Edgett continued, "Jim is committed to our core principles of an open internet and freedom of expression, and brings experience navigating complex, global issues with a principled approach."
Baker responded to the welcoming message in kind, writing, "Thanks @Edgett!! I'm very excited to join such a great team @Twitter doing such important work. Glad to be on board."
Despite having left Washington behind, Baker is joining the social media company at a notable political moment.
Twitter has been engaged in an ongoing feud with President Trump and his conservative allies since May, when the site took the unprecedented step of labeling two tweets from the commander-in-chief as promoting misinformation.
The warnings are attached to missives Trump fired off in which he claimed that mail-in ballots are fraudulent and will lead to a "rigged election" in November.
The move marked the first time the social media had annotated tweets from the president of the United States - arguably Twitter's most prolific user, who frequently airs grievances to his 80 million followers.
In response, Trump issued an executive order curtailing liability protections for social media companies just two days later.
"We're here today to defend free speech from one of the greatest dangers it has faced in American history had unchecked power to censure, restrict, edit, shape, hide, alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences," the president said at the time.
"This censorship and bias is a threat to freedom itself. Imagine if your phone company silenced or edited your conversation. Social media companies have vastly more power in the United States than newspapers, they're by far more rich than any other traditional forms of communication," he added.
#16163573 at 2022-04-27 14:36:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20444: Durham Tightening the Noose Edition
So this is interesting Jerry Dunleavy says to tier Twitter lawyers were involved in the decision to ban the Huntet Biden Story and we find out James Baker (ex FBI counsel) has worked at Twittet since 2019, any connection? Were the lawyers also consulted about deplatforming POTUS from twitter?Was James Baket placed ar Twitter to help defeat Trump getting re-elected, he was hired in June of 2020 by twitter:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1519304020438966274?s=20&t=H3DYhpLc9nO5Wz8wv3NnlQ
Twitter Hires Ex-FBI Lawyer Who Played Key Role In Probe Of Trump Campaign
Chuck RossJune 16, 2020 8:38 AM ET
James Baker will serve as deputy general counsel of Twitter, said Sean Edgett, the general counsel of the social media company.
Baker "is committed to our core principles of an open internet and freedom of expression," Edgett said in a statement. Baker "brings experience navigating complex, global issues with a principled approach."
Baker joins Twitter amid a battle with President Donald Trump over censorship of conservative users of the platform.
Thrilled to welcome @thejimbaker to @Twitter as Deputy General Counsel. Jim is committed to our core principles of an open internet and freedom of expression, and brings experience navigating complex, global issues with a principled approach.
7:29 PM ? Jun 15, 2020
https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/16/twitter-james-baker-fbi-fisa-carter-page/
#16163465 at 2022-04-27 14:12:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20444: Durham Tightening the Noose Edition
>>16163432
Baker left R street to work at Twitter
JUN 24, 2020, Compliance Week
Twitter adds former FBI general counsel
From Compliance Week:
Social networking platform Twitter beefed up its legal team with the addition of Jim Baker as deputy general counsel.
Baker's hiring was announced by Twitter General Counsel Sean Edgett. "Jim is committed to our core principles of an open internet and freedom of expression, and brings experience navigating complex, global issues with a principled approach," Edgett tweeted.
Baker served as general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from January 2014 until he was reassigned in January 2018. He stayed on at the FBI as a senior strategic advisor until May 2018, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Most recently, Baker has held the role of director of national security and cybersecurity at think tank The R Street Institute since January 2019.
Jim Baker
Former Director, National Security & Cybersecurity; Resident Senior Fellow
https://www.rstreet.org/2020/06/24/twitter-adds-former-fbi-general-counsel/
#10015778 at 2020-07-20 02:26:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12817: Sunlight Kills Edition
>>10015687
Twitter hires former FBI lawyer James Baker to join legal team
Twitter has tapped former FBI normal counsel James Baker, a central participant within the Russia collusion investigation, to function counsel to the tech big.
"Thrilled to welcome @thejimbaker to @Twitter as Deputy Basic Counsel," Twitter's chief legal officer, Sean Edgett, posted Monday.
Edgett continued, "Jim is dedicated to our core ideas of an open web and freedom of expression, and brings expertise navigating advanced, international points with a principled strategy."
https://gruntstuff.com/twitter-hires-former-fbi-lawyer-james-baker-to-join-legal-team/58442/
Protecting Pedo ?
#10013468 at 2020-07-19 23:00:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12814: Follow For Days Ahead [DECLAS] Edition
Doing some digging around the Catherine Herridge pen pictures and found this.
FBI Office of General Council Attorney at the time was James A Baker, the one who altered the email.
Twitter has just appointed him to General Council.
Article from June 17th
https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2020/06/17/twitter-adds-former-fbi-general-counsel-to-legal-department/?slreturn=20200619184657
Here's the Tweet from Sean Edgett https://twitter.com/Edgett/status/1272672653841580032
Massive. Why would Twitter be hiring this guy?
#9633080 at 2020-06-16 15:27:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12330: The Trump Econmy Is Taking Off! Edition
Twitter Hires Ex-FBI Lawyer, James Baker, Who Played Key Role In Probe Of Trump Campaign
Twitter has hired former FBI general counsel James Baker, the firm announced Monday.
Baker was the FBI's top lawyer during Crossfire Hurricane, the investigation into the Trump campaign.
In that role, Baker supported the decision to obtain surveillance warrants against Carter Page. A Justice Department watchdog has found that the FBI improperly relied on the Steele dossier in order to obtain those warrants.
Twitter announced Monday that it has hired the former FBI lawyer who approved key steps taken during the investigation into the Trump campaign, including the decisions to surveil former campaign aide Carter Page and to use an FBI agent to secretly monitor Michael Flynn during a national security briefing for the campaign.
James Baker will serve as deputy general counsel of Twitter, said Sean Edgett, the general counsel of the social media company.
Baker "is committed to our core principles of an open internet and freedom of expression," Edgett said in a statement. Baker "brings experience navigating complex, global issues with a principled approach."
Baker joins Twitter amid a battle with President Donald Trump over censorship of conservative users of the platform.
Trump signed an executive order on May 28 that calls to remove social media companies' shield against liability if they engage in censorship. He took the step after Twitter fact-checked two of Trump's tweets regarding mail-in voting ballots.
As the FBI's top attorney, Baker reviewed and approved decisions that the bureau took during Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign.
A Justice Department inspector general's report on the investigation said that Baker approved the decision to seek Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page, who served on the Trump campaign's foreign policy team.
"Baker told us that he also remembered being satisfied at the time that there was probable cause articulated in the draft application to believe that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power," the IG report says. (RELATED: Steele Dossier Played A 'Central And Essential Role' In Decision To Seek FISA)
The IG ultimately found that the FBI committed at least 17 "significant" errors and omissions in its applications to surveil Page. Many of the omissions involved the Steele dossier.
The FBI relied heavily on information from Christopher Steele, a former British spy hired by the Clinton campaign and by the Democratic National Committee to investigate the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russia.
Steele alleged in a dossier that the Trump campaign - and Page - conspired with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election.
The special counsel's office found no evidence that Page or any other Trump associate conspired with the Russian government to influence the election.
According to the IG report, investigators failed to disclose that the primary source for Steele disavowed many of the key allegations made in the dossier.
The Justice Department determined two of the four FISA warrants against Page to be invalid because of the FBI's numerous omissions.
Baker was unable to provide insight into the FISA process during his interviews with the IG because he was one of only two witnesses (including former FBI Director James Comey) who declined to undergo a classification review in order to answer questions regarding Crossfire Hurricane that involved classified information.
Baker, who is also a CNN analyst, was part of a small team at the FBI who approved sending a special agent into a national security briefing for the Trump campaign in August 2016 that was intended to collect evidence as part of an ongoing investigation of Michael Flynn.
Baker also met one-on-one with Mother Jones journalist David Corn, who provided him memos from Steele's dossier. The FBI attorney also met in September 2016 with Michael Sussmann, a lawyer for the firm that hired Steele on behalf of the DNC.
Sussmann provided Baker with now-debunked allegations regarding computer server connections between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank.
Baker was also investigated over a potential leak of classified information involving a story unrelated to the Trump probe.
Twitter did not respond to a request for comment about Baker's new role at the company.
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https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/16/twitter-james-baker-fbi-fisa-carter-page/
#9629655 at 2020-06-16 05:40:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12325: They are fighting to regain control. You stand in their way. Edition
might this new hire be involved in potus' future twitter removal?
James Baker
Ex-top FBI lawyer who took Steele dossier 'seriously' joins Twitter team
by Daniel Chaitin
& Jerry Dunleavy
| June 15, 2020 09:21 PM
| Updated Jun 15, 2020, 11:25 PM
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A former top FBI lawyer steeped in the Russian investigation joined Twitter.
James Baker, who was general counsel for the bureau during the period surrounding the 2016 election, was welcomed by the social media giant's top lawyer Monday evening.
"Thrilled to welcome @thejimbaker to @Twitter as Deputy General Counsel. Jim is committed to our core principles of an open internet and freedom of expression, and brings experience navigating complex, global issues with a principled approach," said Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett.
"Thanks @Edgett!! I'm very excited to join such a great team @Twitter doing such important work. Glad to be on board," Baker tweeted back.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ex-top-fbi-lawyer-who-took-steele-dossier-seriously-joins-twitter
#9629546 at 2020-06-16 05:23:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12325: They are fighting to regain control. You stand in their way. Edition
Ex-top FBI lawyer who took Steele dossier 'seriously' joins Twitter team
by Daniel Chaitin
& Jerry Dunleavy
| June 15, 2020 09:21 PM
| Updated Jun 15, 2020, 11:25 PM
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A former top FBI lawyer steeped in the Russian investigation joined Twitter.
James Baker, who was general counsel for the bureau during the period surrounding the 2016 election, was welcomed by the social media giant's top lawyer Monday evening.
"Thrilled to welcome @thejimbaker to @Twitter as Deputy General Counsel. Jim is committed to our core principles of an open internet and freedom of expression, and brings experience navigating complex, global issues with a principled approach," said Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett.
"Thanks @Edgett!! I'm very excited to join such a great team @Twitter doing such important work. Glad to be on board," Baker tweeted back.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ex-top-fbi-lawyer-who-took-steele-dossier-seriously-joins-twitter
#9337948 at 2020-05-27 23:57:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11951: Shills n Lag. Comfy. Edition
POTUS to sign executive order on social media on Thursday: White House
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies on Thursday, White House officials said after Trump threatened to shut down the platform he accused of stifling conservative voices. The officials, who spoke to reporters traveling with Trump to Washington from Florida aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, gave no further details.
Before leaving for Florida earlier in the day to observe a space launch that was postponed because of bad weather, Trump again accused Twitter Inc and other social media of bias without offering evidence. It was not immediately clear whether Trump has the authority to shut down the companies. Twitter declined comment on news of Trump's plans. Facebook and Google did not immediately comment. The American Civil Liberties Union said the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution limits any action Trump could take to regulate social media platforms.
Separately, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington on Wednesday upheld the dismissal of a suit brought by a conservative group and right-wing YouTube personality against Google, Facebook, Twitter and Apple alleging they conspired to suppress conservative political views.
Trump's latest dispute with social media emerged after Twitter on Tuesday for the first time attached a warning to some of his tweets prompting readers to fact check the president's claims. In the tweets tagged by Twitter, Trump made unsubstantiated claims about mail-in voting. Trump falsely claims that mail-in ballots lead to vote fraud and ineligible voters getting ballots.
"Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen," Trump said in a pair of additional posts on Twitter on Wednesday.
The president, a heavy user of Twitter with more than 80 million followers, added: "Clean up your act, NOW!!!!"
Trump's threat to shut down platforms like Twitter and Facebook is his strongest yet within a broader conservative backlash against Big Tech. Shares of both companies fell on Wednesday.
The White House circulated drafts of a proposed executive order about anti-conservative bias last year which never gained any traction.
The Internet Association, which includes Twitter and Facebook among its members, said online platforms do not have a political bias and they offer "more people a chance to be heard than at any point in history." Asked during Twitter's annual meeting on Wednesday why the company decided to affix the label to Trump's mail-in ballot tweets, General Counsel Sean Edgett said decisions about handling misinformation are made as a group. "We have a group and committee of folks who take a look at these things and make decisions on what's getting a lot of visibility and traction…," he said.
In recent years Twitter has tightened its policies amid criticism that its hands-off approach allowed fake accounts and misinformation to thrive. Tech companies have been accused of anti-competitive practices and violating user privacy. Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon face antitrust probes by federal and state authorities and a U.S. congressional panel.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers, along with the U.S. Justice Department, have been considering changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a federal law largely exempting online platforms from legal liability for the material their users post. Such changes could expose tech companies to more lawsuits. Republican Senator Josh Hawley, a frequent critic of Big Tech companies, sent a letter to Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey on Wednesday asking why the company should continue to receive legal immunity after "choosing to editorialize on President Trump's tweets."
Twitter's rival Facebook left Trump's post on mail-in ballots on Tuesday untouched.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-trump/trump-to-sign-executive-order-on-social-media-on-thursday-white-house-idUSKBN2331NK
#567721 at 2018-03-06 16:23:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #699: Speed Baking Edition
>>567637
>>567687
he extent of Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential election remains unclear, but it's no secret that social media played a major role. This year brought with it a great deal of scrutiny for tech giants, particularly Facebook, Twitter and Google. These three companies came under the US government's microscope after news that Kremlin bots and trolls, spearheaded by a group known as the Internet Research Agency, used their sites to tamper with the 2016 presidential election. They spread misinformation (fake news!) and dubious ads across Facebook, Twitter and Google to hundreds of millions of users in the US, with the aim of fomenting hostility among Americans. And it's safe to say they succeeded.
In October, Facebook revealed to Congress that more than 145 million Americans were exposed to Russian-linked pages and ads in the lead-up to the election – a revelation that laid bare the scope of the Kremlin's misinformation campaign. That, as it turns out, was actually more damaging than originally disclosed: Facebook first said that 10 million people had seen these types of ads. Twitter discovered more than 2,500 accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency, while Google found Russian-bought ads on its most popular platforms, including Gmail and YouTube.
As a result, Facebook, Twitter and Google were summoned to testify before the House Judiciary Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee this fall. Members of Congress sought answers about the extent of Russia's influence during the 2016 presidential election and the role technology played in it, particularly social media platforms. During the hearings, lawyers for Facebook, Twitter and Google were asked by members of the Intelligence Committee about their failure to control Russian bots and trolls from spreading misinformation.
The main point of concern for the committee was the number of deceptive political ads that people potentially saw, including one of Aziz Ansari holding a sign that suggested that you could vote from home using a hashtag. That advertisement as well as thousands of others that hit Facebook and Twitter were targeted at Hillary Clinton supporters.
The plan, it seems, is to trust more actual humans to filter malicious content rather than the algorithms that have already failed us.
Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch testified that the company is deeply concerned about these threats and is already doubling its engineering efforts to crack down on these "bad actors" going forward. He said Facebook is hiring more ad reviewers and requiring more information from political advertisers, including proof that they're affiliated with a campaign.
Twitter and Google echoed Stretch's statements: They both told the Intelligence Committee that they're working to ensure that the events of 2016 don't repeat themselves in future elections. The plan, it seems, is to trust more actual humans to filter malicious content rather than the algorithms that have already failed us. Sean Edgett, Twitter's acting general counsel, said the company is "sharpening its tools" and plans to be more transparent with users and the government in the future. Meanwhile, Google's Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security, said the company is working on systems that can better detect fake news and fake accounts across its ecosystem.
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#155589 at 2023-01-08 06:55:35 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #774: 2023.. Year of [PAIN] Edition
>>155562
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372367909363714
7.Receiving these meager results, a furious Senator Mark Warner of Virginia - ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee - held an immediate press conference to denounce Twitter's report as "frankly inadequate on every level."
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372371101138949
8."#Irony," mused Crowell the day after Warner's presser, after receiving an e-circular from Warner's re-election campaign, asking for "$5 or whatever you can spare."
"LOL," replied General Counsel Sean Edgett.
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#20520974 at 2024-03-05 15:30:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #54: Freedom Convoy 2nd Anniversary Edition
Former Twitter Executives Sue Elon Musk For $128 Million in Severance
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/former-twitter-executives-sue-elon-musk-128-million/
Four former Twitter executives are suing Elon Musk for $128 million in severance, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Twitter's former CEO Parag Argrawal, Ned Segal, former CFO, Vijaya Gadde, former head of legal policy and Sean Edgett, former general counsel all sued Elon Musk.
"In their complaint, lawyers for the ex-Twitter executives say that after Musk backed himself into a deal to buy Twitter, now X Corp., for $44 billion, he took revenge against these execs personally, and tried to recover some of his expenses by "repeatedly refusing to honor other clear contractual commitments."" - CNBC reported. Continue…
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#75903 at 2022-10-31 04:11:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #223: Bolsonaro Cheated Out Of Presidency Edition
>>75789
DARPA is going to milk the Twits too, $20 a month that blue checkmark is
==Twitter to start charging $20 a month for verification under new owner Elon Musk==
October 30, 2022
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Twitter plans to start charging nearly $20 a month for users to keep their blue checkmarks as part of a premium service that will be rolled out under Elon Musk's leadership, according to a report.
"The whole verification process is being revamped right now," Musk, who took over as the CEO of the social media platform Friday, tweeted Sunday.
The hefty price bump is reportedly one of the revamps, The Verge reported.
The company plans to raise its optional $4.99-a-month premium subscription called Twitter Blue to $19.99 a month. However, that price is subject to change, the outlet reported, citing internal correspondence and people familiar with the matter.
Twitter will add more features, including verification, to bring its subscription up to par with the cost hike.
The billionaire plans to make verified users fork over the cash to keep their status.
Existing verified users have 90 days to subscribe to the new Twitter Blue after its launch or they'll lose their checkmarks, according to The Verge.
The current Twitter Blue launched about a year ago and offers subscribers a way to view ad-free articles from some publishers as well as additional customization settings.
Musk has been outspoken about his desire to grow subscription numbers to account for half of Twitter's revenue as well as his eagerness to overhaul the platform's verification process in the months ahead of his $44 billion takeover of the company on Thursday.
==Employees working on the Twitter Blue upgrades were informed on Sunday that they need to meet a November 7 deadline or face firing==, according to the outlet.
Since acquiring Twitter, Musk has moved swiftly in making cuts to the staff. Starting at the top, he ousted chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Sega, the company's top legal and policy executive Vijaya Gadde and general counsel Sean Edgett.
Sauce:https://nypost.com/2022/10/30/twitter-to-start-charging-20-a-month-for-verification-elon-musk-says/