MARIA STARTS NOW.
I’M DAGEN MCDOWELL IN FOR MARIA.
BIG MOVES AT TWITTER.
ELON MUSK TEGS THE IDEA OF
RELEASING INTERNAL DISCUSSIONS
SURROUNDING THE SENSORSHIP OF
HUNTER BIDEN’S LAP POP STORY
AHEAD OF THE 2020 ELECTION MUSK
SAYING IT’S NECESSARY TO RESTORE
PUBLIC TRUST.
HE WILL ALSO RESTORE SUSPENDED
TWITTER ACCOUNTS AFTER HIS
FOLLOWERS VOTED TO BRING THEM
BACK.
WE KNOW WHAT’S NEXT FOR TWITTER
BLUE.
JOINING THE CONVERSATION ALL
MORNING IS JOHN AND CHRISTIAN.
CHRISTIAN, ON THIS, THE THING
ABOUT UNCOVERING AND RELEASING TWITTER’S HUNTER BIDEN STORY.
TWITTER’S HUNTER BIDEN STORY.
I GET THAT.
THE POST HAPPENED AND TWITTER
ACCOUNT WAS LOCKED FOR TWO
WEEKS.
THERE WAS TIME TO FIGURE OUT
WHAT THERE?
>> RIGHT.
THIS WASN’T A STORY THAT EMERGED FROM SOME DARK CORNER OF THE
FROM SOME DARK CORNER OF THE
DARK WEB.
THIS CAME FROM THE WEB AND
HUNTER BIDEN AND PRESIDENT BIDEN
NEVER DENIED THE EXISTENCE OF
THE LAPTOP AND PHOTOS AND THIS
IS AN INCREDIBLE STORY TWITTER
DECIDED TO SENSOR AND MYSELF I
HAD THE TWITTER ACCOUNT AT THE
TIME AND LATER DELETED MY
ACCOUNT WHEN I RE-FEETED A PHOTO
OF HUNTER DOING SOMETHING
INTERESTING THAT CAUSED MY
ACCOUNT TO BE LOCKED.
THE QUESTION IS WAS THIS JUST
PROGRESSIVES SAYING, HEY, WE NEED TO STOP THIS STORY BECAUSE
NEED TO STOP THIS STORY BECAUSE
THIS COULD BE DAMAGING.
IF ANYONE FROM THE FBI OR DEEP
STATE WAS INVOLVED IN THAT.
>> DAGNEY: RIGHT, WE WERE
TALKING ABOUT THAT EARLIER ABOUT
DOZENS OF FORMER INTENSE
OFFICIALS SAYING THAT HUNTER
BIDEN STORY WAS DISINFORMATION
AND JOHN, THIS IS A RHETORICAL
QUESTION BUT HAVE ANY OF THOSE
FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS PAID ANY KIND OF PRICE AT ALL
PAID ANY KIND OF PRICE AT ALL
FOR SPREADING THAT BIDEN LIE?
>> WELL, THE SOLVE I CAN’T SOVIE
GERMANY IN THE 1930S.
IF I’M A AMERICAN CITIZEN, NOT
ONLY IS THERE A POLITICAL BIAS
ON THE PART OF THE MAINSTREAM
MEDIA AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
TRYING TO REINFORCE AND GUIDE
THE POLITICAL BIAS.
>> DAGNEY: IT’S A VIOLATION OF
THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND ANY
AMERICAN WITH ANY GOVERNMENT
INVOLVEMENT AT ALL IN THE
SENSORSHIP OF THIS STORY, IT’S
PARTICULARLY RIGHT AHEAD OF A
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. THE TIMING OF IT WAS SO -- AND
THE TIMING OF IT WAS SO -- AND
THE SENSORSHIP WAS SO AGRIUS
THAT EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD BE
CONCERNED IF THE GOVERNMENT HAS
ITS HANDS IN SILENCING SPEECH.
>> DEMOCRACY DIES WITH
SENSORSHIP.
THERE’S THAT QUESTION ABOUT
THAT.
THIS IS A GREAT THREAT TO
DEMOCRATIC PRACTICES IN THE
UNITED STATES AND HAS TO BE
EXPOSED AND BROUGHT TO AN END AS
SOON AS POSSIBLE.
HAVE TRANSPARENCY AND ADMIT THE
GOVERNMENT GOES THROUGH THE
PROCESS OF TRYING TO SHIFT MEDIA
ATTENTION AND H IN ORDER TO
PREVENT AN UNFAVORED CANDIDATE
FROM WINNING AN ELECTION.
>> DAGNEY: CHRISTIAN, BEFORE WE
GO, CBS NEWS JUST PUBLISHED THIS OH, WE’VE CONFIRM THAT HAD THIS
OH, WE’VE CONFIRM THAT HAD THIS
IS HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP.
WHY NOW KNOWING THEY’LL BE A
SOURCE OF RIDICULE GIVEN THE
TIMING OF IT?
>> IT’S BIZARRE.
THEY JUST PAUSED FOR A COUPLE OF
HOURS WITH INVOLVEMENT IN
TWITTER TO SEE IF IT WAS STILL
SAFE.
IT’S BIZARRE WHAT THE DECISIONS
THAT ARE MADE BY THE GROUPS DO.
WHY THEY PRIORITIZE AND WHAT CBS
HAS WON AND NOOSE ORGANIZATION
THAT COULD PIVOT TO THE MIDDLE
TO DO SENTRIES NEWS AND A HUGE
MARKET THERE AND EVERYONE ELSE
IS SO FAR LEFT, BUT THEY’RE JUST
CONGENITALLY UNABLE TO DO THAT.
UNABLE NOT TO BE PROGRESSIVE
ACTIVISTS IN THEIR REPORTING.
>> DAGNEY: CHRISTIAN, WITH MUSK
RUN IN TWITTER NOW OR OWNING
TWITTER, ARE YOU GOING TO OPEN
UP ANOTHER TWITTER ACCOUNT?
>> I THOUGHT ABOUT IT BUT NO.
I THINK HE COULD CAN -- IF HE
WERE SMART, HE’D TAKE IT IN A
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIRECTION
AND ALMOST COPY FACEBOOK AND
COMPETE HEAD-TO-HEAD AND PEOPLE
SAY IN THE NEWS BUSINESS, IF
THERE’S SOMETHING IMPORTANT ON
TWITTER, SOMEONE WILL E-MAIL TO
ME.
I FIND IT WAS SUCH A RELIEF AND
NEXT QUITTING SMOKING, NOT THAT
I’VE EVER SMOKED, BUT AS FAR AS
IMPROVING YOUR HEALTH AND
GETTING OFF TWITTER IS TOPNOTCH.
>> DAGNEY: YEAH, I’M NOT WORRIED
ABOUT TWITTER GIVING ME CANCER,
JUST SAYING.
AND FACEBOOK SUCKS.
FACEBOOK IS AWFUL.
FACEBOOK LIKE I’VE SEEN ENOUGH
BUTTER CAKE RECIPES TO LAST MY A LIFETIME.
IT’S A LOAD OF GARAGE.
AT LEAST FOR -- GARMIN BAG.
GARBAGE.
AT LEAST TWITTER HAS LOCAL NEWS
AND I FOLLOW ALL THE SMALLER
NEWSPAPERS.
I USE IT AND YOU CAN INSULT ME.