Twitter Files Part 9: CIA Was "Policing" Domestic Speech On Twitter

Part 9 of the Twitter Files, analyzed and presented by journalist Matt Taibbi (who also presented Part 1 of the Files), might be the most rewarding yet for conspiracy theorists — and the most damaging for people who believed in the system, and our Constitution.

Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi put together Part 9 of the Twitter Files, which were analyzed and released as a series of tweets. Elon Musk retweeted Taibbi to bring further visibility to his analysis.

Put simply, FBI agents were skimming Twitter search results for “policy violations” — taxpayer money used to police conduct on an American social media network. The level of “policing” grew so burdensome that at one point two Twitter executives — both essentially loyal to their federal handlers in broad respects — questioned what was occurring, and pushed back, saying there simply wasn’t any link between Russian or Russian disinformation agents and the Americans the FBI was focusing on.

In other email exchanges, Part 9 also reveals that FBI agents at various points handed off interaction with Twitter to “OGA colleagues” — meaning Other Government Agency, a euphemism within D.C. for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Similarly, Part 9 shows that Twitter executives had routine meetings and calls with “OGA.”