Last weekend, Elon Musk announced a limit on Twitter\u2019s post viewing to \u201caddress extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation\u201d much to the disgust of free-speech patriots.\u00a0 Accounts all across Twitter thought this was another form of censorship and a grab at obtaining more paid blue check marks.\u00a0 Outside of perhaps a small number of Twitter users, this was the overwhelming sentiment one would see while browsing through Twitter feeds (don\u2019t browse too much\u2026800 posts goes by quick!).<\/p>\n
Perhaps the best summation of the move by Musk came from Mike Benz of the Foundation for Freedom Online:\u00a0 this was an effort to beat the AI-censorship bots.\u00a0 Benz alludes to an \u201cAI censorship Death Star\u201d that has been under construction and renovation every week, every month, every year for the past 6 or 7 years now.\u00a0 And it all relies on massive scraping of Twitter data in order to build these models and databases to track trending narratives, to systematically surveil and build, sort of, intelligence dossiers, and to track and turn down all at once, communities online.\u201d<\/p>\n
Benz talks about the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) that was assembled with the Stanford Internet Observatory \u201cwith the narrow aim of defending the 2020 election against voting-related mis- and disinformation\u201d.\u00a0 Benz rhetorically asks how the EIP was able to get 22 million tweets classified as \u201c[mis]information\u201d:<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, first, they didn\u2019t flag 22 million by hand.\u00a0 This was something that Mehdi Hasan, the MSNBC<\/a> host, flagrantly deceived his millions of viewers about when he said \u2018they only flagged 3,000, not 22 million\u2026\u2019.\u00a0 Benz contests that they used AI to scrape the data of 22 million posts as \u2018misinformation\u2019 from 859 million tweets to build that AI model.<\/p>\n Wow. Musk has no idea the DARPA rattlesnake he just stepped on by this doing this\u2026<\/p>\n My take on @elonmusk<\/a>\u2019s new rate limit policy, from the lens of the censorship industry: https:\/\/t.co\/AZ5SPIgHiz<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Rw4KBZsT9O<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) July 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Hasan was technically correct based on Taibbi\u2019s use of the word \u201crunup\u201d.\u00a0 However, the concerns surrounding the censorship of the 2020 Election (outside of the Biden Laptop cover up, which Natasha Bertrand at Politico flat-out misrepresented her sources\u2019 own words)<\/a>, was not about the runup as much as it was censoring information about what actually happened on \u201cElection Week\u201d (it\u2019s not a \u201cday\u201d anymore\u2026in fact, in many locations is closer to \u201cElection Month\u201d than it is \u201cElection Day\u201d).\u00a0 Side note: I wonder if Hasan will have Bertrand on to discuss the misinformation in her Politico piece from 2020?<\/p>\n Page 182 and 183 from the EIP\u2019s \u201cLong Fuse\u201d report<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n While Hasan was standing high on his MSNBC soapbox claiming Taibbi was wrong because of a single word \u201crunup\u201d, he himself was flat-out wrong:\u00a0 he claimed the 22 million number Taibbi cited from the EIP report was \u201cafter the election\u201d and only 3,000 came before (still cannot find this citation in the Long Fuse Report).\u00a0 In fact, the 22 million number was the amount of tweets accumulated<\/strong> from the 859 million tweets scraped from August 15 through December 12<\/strong>.\u00a0 Just look above.\u00a0 That is directly from the report.\u00a0 I\u2019m almost certain August 15th was before the election.<\/p>\n But the shocking part about this data is this averages to approximately 7 million tweets per day<\/strong> that Artificial Intelligence was scraping from Twitter to analyze US citizens thoughts and formulate a plot, among other things, to \u201cpre-bunk\u201d (EIP\u2019s own phrase) election misinformation.<\/p>\n Think about that: companies using artificial intelligence to scrape an average of 7 million tweets per day, not to tell you what car you should buy, or what hair-do you should try out, but to censor<\/strong> you<\/strong> from questioning a wildly contested, opaque election with events we\u2019ve never seen before in the history of US elections (universal mail-in balloting, drop boxes with no transparent chain of custody, vote-counting shut downs in the middle of the night, hundreds-of-thousands vote spikes favoring one candidate, observer interference, late night mail drop offs after polls officially closed, etc).\u00a0 The same apparatus was in play for COVID \u201cmisinformation\u201d.<\/p>\n Musk may have dealt a crushing blow to this 7,000,000 per day by limiting accounts, especially \u201cbot accounts,\u201d to just 800 posts per day.\u00a0 It would take an army of 8,875 bots to scrape the data that was ingested in 2020 under Musk\u2019s new limit.\u00a0\u00a0Of course this is just a small bump in the road for AI to overcome.\u00a0 Online \u201cdata scraping\u201d services claim they can still be effective with these limits.\u00a0 But perhaps Elon Musk and the team at Twitter have a plan.\u00a0 After all, this was \u201cto address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n This service claims they can work around Elon\u2019s post limits \u201clegally\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Another key takeaway from Hasan\u2019s argument with Taibbi was \u201cadding an -A\u201d to CIS (Center for Internet Security) to make it CISA, a federal agency that monitors cybersecurity.\u00a0 The context is that Taibbi claimed the \u201cEIP was partnered with state entities like CISA and GEC\u201d because the #TwitterFiles stated \u201cAccording to CIS, escalated via EIP\u201d.\u00a0 While this was a mistake in that the CISA was not directly<\/strong> partnered with the EIP, the CIS, which Hasan argues is what Taibbi meant, was<\/strong> directly partnered with CISA to secure the elections.\u00a0 And the EIP helped aid the EI-ISAC (a part of the CIS and contracted with DHS) to censor information and work on behalf of governments to \u201cinform potential counter-narratives.\u201d\u00a0 This is the utter subversion of the First Amendment through a non-profit spiderweb:<\/p>\n\n The CIS acknowledges a partnership with the CISA on their own website<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The CIS\/EI-ISAC has also partnered directly with the Department of Homeland Security, of which CISA is a part of, to offer \u201cfree\u201d services to county election offices for security<\/a> in their elections.\u00a0 So while the CIS is \u201can official election community partner\u201d with the EIP, the DHS is contracted with the CIS to \u201csecure\u201d elections, for free, at the local level in potentially thousands of jurisdictions across the country.\u00a0 This seems to suggest Taibbi was right but the \u201cpartnership\u201d was done in an obscure way as to subvert people like Hasan from fully understanding what was arranged.<\/p>\n The same \u201cnon-profit\u201d, paid by the Federal Government, to \u201csecure\u201d our elections, for free, is also the parent company of the \u201cnon-profit\u201d that is censoring Americans who question said election.<\/p>\n\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Elon Musk has his work cut out for him.\u00a0 In doing so, one can only hope that he fully understands the extent to which these toxic non-profits and unlawful government agencies went to censor Americans in 2020 over elections and COVID.<\/p>\n The post Elon Musk Must Untangle a Twisted Web of Artificial Intelligence, Non-Profits, Government Agencies, and Massive Censorship<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last weekend, Elon Musk announced a limit on Twitter\u2019s post viewing to \u201caddress extreme levels of data 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