Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@archtype Yeah, for all the claims about how much I changed, I sure do find myself often citing stories that I covered from 2006-2010, in part because they're so relevant now but in larger part because so many people began paying attention only in 2016 and thus don't know this history. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TomJumboGrumbo @oliverdarcy You've been begging for my attention for awhile now with this lie, but since you're reduced to tweeting from your dogs' account - 🤣 - I'll point out: the first screen shot happened 3 years after you say everyone stopped taking me seriously, the second happened 11 years later. https://t.co/g7ArDUUyaV — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Excerpts from last night’s show on how the very same government officials and media corporations who built and cheered Big Tech’s censorship regime suddenly objected because, for once, the targets were their friends and allies rather than their enemies:👇👇 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@oliverdarcy What metrics support your claim that "nobody takes me seriously anymore?" You work for a corporation *very few* watch, trust or like. All metrics suggest there's vastly more interest in my work than yours: all metrics. You also haven't told me what metrics make CNN this?👇#Top https://t.co/SvuZQdupyY — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@oliverdarcy At CNN, "white nationalists" means: "anyone who disagrees with the liberal-left orthodoxies of the Democratic Party" - ie serfs. Journalists have been banned by Twitter for years, yet you never objected. While I have you: what metric(s) make CNN a "top news organization"? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @micsolana: CNN’s “senior media reporter” just learning how suspensions work for the first time. they have truly been on a different pla… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

A major driver of corporate-journalist rage toward Musk is the loss of what they regard as their rightful entitlements as "the top journalists." They break no meaningful stories. They're CIA puppets. They just work for big corporations. And they think that makes them special.👇 https://t.co/GF2o2C9961 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Note the common claim implicit in @oliverdarcy's tweet: They think pre-Musk Twitter censorship was great because it was only serfs and illegitimate journalists censored. But Musk suspended the ones from "the top news organizations"! 😱 By what metric does CNN qualify as this? https://t.co/zRKhR2OQGh — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @mtaibbi: This FBI response is disingenuous on multiple fronts. None of this expains flagging the silly jokes of ordinary Americans with… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Absolutely. The part of the media now treating a bunch of banal media employees as if they're Nelson Mandela for suffering a 12-hour Twitter ban is silent-to-supportive about Assange's imprisonment. They justify it by saying Aaron Ruper is a real journalist, but Assange isn't: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Good to see @AriMelber explaining to an MSNBC audience -- which he knows doesn't want to hear it -- why the Biden DOJ's prosecution of Julian Assange is such a grave threat to press freedom. He does it by affirming dubious liberal beliefs, but that's fine: that's persuasion: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@grartsh When I saw how well my kids and their 3 friends were doing today in the intensive English class I designed for them. People who believe others are unhappy because they critique powerful institutions are weird. That's the job of a journalist. That work also makes me happy. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@LuizPersechini I'm sorry you're so offended when journalists criticize employees of the planet's largest and most powerful media corporations. I'll try to be more thoughtful of your feelings in the future, but it's nice how you rise in their defense. CNN and NBC are marginalized groups. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Not just any people. Those who were temporarily banned spent years not only cheering and agitating for Big Tech's censorship regime, but bitterly complaining not enough people were being censored. The self-importance of these inconsequential "journalists" is off the charts... — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @JackPosobiec: Every single time https://t.co/4rdosBIDK2 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @pissmarck: AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH https://t.co/ad8a54SBoa — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@tomvonclef @ComradeDoom1 @JacobAShell @thecomfortzoone @fitnessfeelingz I devoted an hour-long program to critiquing Elon for abandoning his own definition of "free speech absolutism" two weeks ago. Stunted liberals with Ukraine flags and Mastadon emails in their bio think it only counts if you call someone Hitler. https://t.co/2TnO59oFmh — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ComradeDoom1 @JacobAShell @thecomfortzoone @fitnessfeelingz (And I'll happily confess to the schadenfreude component. Few factions sicken me more than that one). — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ComradeDoom1 @JacobAShell @thecomfortzoone @fitnessfeelingz I get that point, but it depends on one's goal. I'm hoping Elon fulfills his pledges about what he wants Twitter to be, so I think I can be more constructive with civil critiques rather than spewing invective. Plus, media corporations are powerful: they need constant criticism. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @SystemUpdate_: How to find success in today’s corporate media? Lie in service of establishment power. Some choice examples 👇 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

But since jealous media corporations and their employees told themselves this is all a "nothingburger" from illegitimate journalists - even though @mtaibbi has more journalistic accomplishment that almost all of them - they now have to ignore all these vital stories. Pathetic. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Last night's reporting on the Twitter Files by @mtaibbi contains the most important and damaging revelations yet about how integrated FBI was into Twitter's censorship scheme and how it abused its power. FBI obtained non-public data on accounts they said spread "misinformation": — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

We started the program with the story of Jane Harman, an 8-term Dem Congresswoman who was Bush/Cheney's key ally in defending NSA's domestic spying. Then she learned NSA eavesdropped on *her*, became enraged, gushed about privacy rights. Sound familiar? https://t.co/nRUG5QXbgJ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Hontas_Farmer @elonmusk I'm sure it's a huge coincidence that a large percentage of liberal criticisms of me involve species of homophobic imagery. I know you think being a liberal means you're too enlightened to be bigoted, but you might wonder why such crude images are at the forefront of your mind. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

While NBC News and CNN dweebs get attention because they're so explicit in their craving for censorship, far worse are NYT's "tech reporters." They've led the media crusade for Big Tech censorship. Look at their article yesterday: Dems may punish Tesla and SpaceX over this: https://t.co/oMNhGD7ZnV — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And: as repressive and censorship-happy as the Dem Party is, at least we have the 1st Am to keep them in check. The EU does not. Brussels bureaucrats are little tyrants. EU officials issue exact opposite threats based solely on who is censored. Look at the despotic @VeraJourova: https://t.co/s5ZhI8dB8o — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Sometimes, the only solution to rotted, corrupt, tyrannical systems is to force the elites who built and cheered it to live under its constraints. That's all that happened this week: the corporate "journalists" who want their enemies censored got a taste of their own medicine. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I can count on one hand the number of liberal employees of media corporations who ever once objected on principle to Big Tech's censorship regime -- as long as it was aimed at their ideological enemies, they cheered it. That's because they have no principles. By contrast: https://t.co/nu14qwoU3k — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Meanwhile, as NBC News admits, conservative journalists and those rooting for @ElonMusk to succeed in restoring free speech were critical of how these bans were done. With polls, Musk listened to the critiques, reversed the bans, and issued clear rules: https://t.co/mPfP9jcIZy — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

On last night's @SystemUpdate_, we examined how the exact same US and EU officials and media corporations who spent years demanding expansion of Big Tech's censorship regime suddenly turned into free speech advocates because it got aimed at their friends: https://t.co/nRUG5QFzS9 — PolitiTweet.org