This humorous video was too much for Adam Schiff: he tried to get it off the Internet, but then everything went wrong

Journalist Matt Taibbi released another batch of internal Twitter documents that reportedly show Rep. Adam Schiff’s employees regularly contacting the platform and pushing them to censor certain posts — even posts that were made for comical purposes.

The thread is the latest version of the “Twitter Files” that were published by the platform’s new owner Elon Musk and published by independent journalists such as Taibbi.

Friday Taibbi reporthe reported that Schiff’s office was in regular contact with Twitter and frequently requested that the platform take down certain posts.

In one case, Schiff employees pushed Twitter officials delete meme mocking Joe Biden, who was running for president at the time.

Sloppy Joe is on trend. I wonder if it’s because of this? You can tell it’s a deep fake because Jill Biden isn’t covering for him. pic.twitter.com/LMzx7fpMaP

— Nate’s Liver — Comment (@SilERabbit) April 26, 2020

DNC also turned to twittersuggesting that the post violated a “media manipulation policy”, according to Taibbi.

However, former Twitter head of trust and security Yoel Roth noted that the message had an apparent “humorous intent” and refused to remove the message because “any reasonable observer” could conclude that the GIF was faked.

The most problematic part of the post was that it was retweeted by then-President Donald Trump, Taibbi said.

However, while Schiff contributor Jeff Lowenstein acknowledged that the meme might not violate the platform’s rules, he suggested that there was a “slippery slope problem” in allowing the post to stand.

4. Schiff employee Jeff Lowenstein didn’t give up, claiming there was a “slippery slope problem.” pic.twitter.com/qM1cJiZLFh

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 13, 2023

Taibbi informed that Schiff’s office regularly demanded the deletion of messages that amounted to little more than “political criticism”.

Of which Twitter rejected requests ban reports of employees serving under Schiff on the House Intelligence Committee.

Schiff’s office also frequently pushed Twitter to take down tweets on the grounds that they were “non-QAn activity,” Taibbi said, pointing out that the messages in question were irrelevant.

6. Even if Twitter didn’t suspend an account, that doesn’t mean they weren’t active. Schiff’s office repeatedly complained about “QAnon-related activity” which was often a tweet on other matters such as the identity of the Ukrainian “whistleblower” or the Steele dossier: pic.twitter.com/XKzY8AmB5R

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 13, 2023

According to TaibbiTwitter policy at the time dictated that QAnon-linked content would be “de-amplified” rather than banned.

However, Schiff’s office was concerned that “de-amplification” of the posts would make it harder for law enforcement to track down Twitter offenders.

9. “WE REALLY APPRECIATE”
“We’re curious if any of the de-amplification measures taken by the Twitter enforcement team, which we greatly appreciate, … could prevent law enforcement from searching Twitter for potential threats about Misko and other HPSCI employees.” pic.twitter.com/h7TRauK6j5

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 13, 2023

Recently, Taibbi also released another batch of “Twitter files” that indicated that Democrats and the mainstream media were trying to discredit a report that detailed flaws in the Trump-Russia investigation.

Democrats at the time argued that the report was “spinned by Russian ‘bots’ and ‘trolls’ on social media despite Twitter officials not finding any evidence of Russian influence.

“Twitter warned politicians and media [they] not only was there no evidence, but there was evidence that the accounts were not Russian — and they were completely ignored,” Taibbi said.

Nevertheless, Democrats such as Schiff publicly denounced alleged “Russian influence operations.”

Fixed theme #TwitterFiles were concrete evidence that the Russiagate headlines were fabricated by politicians and the media – the following thread exposes the absurdity #ReleaseTheMemo panic caused @senfeinstein, @SenBlumenthaland @AdamSchiffamong others.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

And rather than clear things up, Taibbi found that platform officials chose to remain silent on the matter. “As a result, reporters from AP to Politico, NBC and Rolling Stone continued to procrastinate the topic of “Russian bots”, despite the complete absence of evidence,” Taibbi wrote.

This article originally appeared in The Western Journal.

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