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Hey folks, Carmine Sabia for Explain America, and we have an absolute bombshell for you
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today about the FBI and its involvement with Twitter. The news just broke moments ago, so I want you to make sure, please, that you like this
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So what the FBI did, we're just learning from journalist Matt Zibibi and from Elon Musk
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they were basically embedded in Twitter. They were basically, they were filing report after report about accounts, and we're talking
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about accounts with small amounts of followers. We're talking about accounts with large amount of followers
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Frankly, I'm looking for my name on the list, and maybe you should too
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Just constant reporting about people telling even jokes about the 2016 election, and folks
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here's the scary part. While the vast majority of the reports came against conservative people who were making
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jokes or quips or questioning any validity of the 2020 presidential election, it actually
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got further. They were even flagging liberal accounts who were making jokes about the election
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For one instance, the lady said, if you didn't wear a mask when you voted, she wasn't going
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to count your vote because she was a poll worker, and she'll even add a vote for a Democrat
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Obviously, she was kidding. She was clearly kidding. The account was flagged by the FBI for review on Twitter, and that's a left-wing account
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What I'm saying to you is, whether you're right or left, and we don't know from other
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social media companies, we just know Twitter, but you have to assume it's happening other
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places too, right? The amount of monitoring that the FBI has been shown to do here on the Twitter files
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tonight is staggering. It is frightening. You want to talk about a threat to democracy, the mainstream media wants to talk about threats
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to democracy. This is a gigantic, glaring threat to democracy, and frankly, everybody that's involved in
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this needs to be dragged before Congress when the Republicans take over and demand answers
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because when the FBI is trying to police your speech, that is absolutely a violation
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of your First Amendment rights. A social media platform is a private company, and they can do whatever they want
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They are not violating your First Amendment when they censor you, when they suspend you
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when they ban you. That is not a violation of the First Amendment. When they do it at the behest of the federal government, when they do it at the suggestion
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of the federal government, that is a violation of your First Amendment rights
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That is absolutely the government getting involved with your free speech. It is, and I don't care again if you're liberal, if you're conservative, if you voted for Biden
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if you voted for Trump, when people in the government are policing your speech, your
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First Amendment rights have been violated. Your leftist friend's First Amendment rights have been violated
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Your conservative friend's First Amendment rights have been violated. This is an absolute bombshell of a story
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This is an absolute pivotal moment in American history, and the media should be treating
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it with the gravity that it so richly deserves. Folks, thank you so much for watching us here tonight
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