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Everything inside Elon Musk's 2nd ‘Twitter Files’ EXPLAINED

Elon Musk recently handed over to reporter Bari Weiss ANOTHER set of ‘Twitter Files.’ And they, once again, confirm what conservatives knew all along: The old Twitter — before Musk’s takeover — was wildly corrupt: ‘Teams of Twitter employees built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts, or even trending topics, all in secret, without informing users,’ Weiss reports. But that’s just the beginning. In this clip, Glenn explains everything inside the 2nd set of ‘Twitter Files.’

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GLENN: So Elon Musk has released the second set of Twitter files. Now, there is a caveat to that, and I'll give it to you here in just a second. But gave them to Bari Weiss. And Bari Weiss, formally with the New York Times. And not a conservative. But not somebody who is crazy either. Decided to -- or, she was given the files. And she outlined it pretty well on Twitter.

One, new Twitter files investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts, or even trending topics, all in secret, without informing users. So, in other words, everything that we said, that was going on, was going on.

Twitter once had a mission to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers. Along the way, barriers, nevertheless were erected. Three, take for example, Stanford's doctor Jay -- I can't pronounce his name.

STU: Bhattacharya.

GLENN: Bhattacharya, who argued that covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a trends blacklist, which prevented his tweets from trending.

STU: We should point out, she's posting the screen shots of this. Like you can see, on his account, it says, trends blacklist. Like, they have these recent abuse strike count. And then trends blacklist. This is something that denied doing over and over and over again.

GLENN: Stu. They not only denied it. The media covered up for it. This, as the media is saying, is old news. Is old news.

STU: I guess in a way.

GLENN: Or consider the right-wing talk show host Dan Bongino, who at one point was slapped with a search black lits. So you can search him.

Twitter set the account of conservatives Charlie Kirk to, do not amplify. And, again, all the screen shots are there. Twitter denied it does such things. In 2018, Twitter's head of legal policy and trust, and the head of product said, we don't shadow ban. And we certainly don't shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology. Hmm. Looks like they were lying. What many people call shadow banning, Twitter executives employee call visibility filtering. Oh.

STU: Not Orwellian at all.

GLENN: No. Think about visibility filtering, Bari Weiss writes, as a way for us to suppress what people see, to different levels. It's a very powerful tool. This is one senior Twitter employee. VF refers to Twitter's control over visibility. It used VF to block searches of individual users to limit the scope of a particular tweet's discoverability, to block select user's posts from ever appearing on the trending page. And from inclusion in #searches. All without the user's knowledge.

We control visibility, quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do. One Twitter user told us. The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the strategic response team, or the global escalation team.

They often handled up to 200 cases a day. But there existed a level beyond official ticketing. Beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company's policy on paper. That is the cite integrity policy. And policy escalation support. This secret group, head of legal policy and trust. And global head of trust and safety. Subsequent CEO's Jack Dorsey and Parog (phonetic) -- whatever his name is, and others. Bari Weiss said, this is the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions that were made. Think higher follower account. Controversial. Another Twitter employee told us, these -- for these, there would be no ticketing or anything.

STU: So they did not want the rest of the company, even knowing they were doing this. They wanted this to be kind of their own little pathway to censorship.

GLENN: Uh-huh. And let's just remember when Jack got on Hannity and said, we don't do any of this. I got to promise you, we don't do it.

STU: To be fair to Jack himself, some of the files were showing that he wasn't even consulted on this stuff.

There were other levels of employees doing it. It wasn't necessarily going to him.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: He seems to be an Elon Musk supporter, by the way.

GLENN: I know he is. And Elon Musk supports Jack.

STU: Yeah. It seems to be the culture was the big problem.

GLENN: This is what I said about Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg is either completely out of the loop. And has no idea of what's happening at his own company. Or he's a fantastic liar. And I'm not sure what it is. I mean, I don't think he's a fantastic liar. But I -- I am not sure. It's like Jack. I'm not sure if he really knows what's going on in his own company. If you believe the Jack story. The account, let's see here. Where was I?

STU: Sixteen.

GLENN: Oh, I'm at 16. One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was Libs of TikTok, an account that was on the trends blacklist. And it was designated as, do not take action on user without consulting with the higher group. The account now boasts over 1.4 million followers with subject to six suspensions in 2022 alone, or yeah. 2022 alone. Each time they were blocked for posting for as long as a week.

Twitter repeatedly informed the Libs of TikTok that they had been suspended for violating Twitter's policy against hateful conduct. But in an internal memo from October 2022, after their seventh suspension, the committee acknowledged that Libs of TikTok had not directly engaged in favor, violative of the hateful policy.

GLENN: That's incredible.

GLENN: And here it is. There's the email.

GLENN: Yeah. They have the email. And basically, they're saying, they suspended her for no reason. Right?

GLENN: Right.

STU: At least no reason that was identified in in their rules. They came up with a new one.

GLENN: Right. The committee justified her suspensions internally by claiming her post encouraged online harassment of hospitals and medical providers.

STU: Stop.

GLENN: By insinuating that gender affirming health care is equivalent to child abuse and grooming.

Compare this to what happened when she was doxxed. The Libs of TikTok poster.

November 21st, 2022, a photo of her home and address was posted in a tweet that had garnered more than 10,000 likes. When Libs of TikTok told Twitter that the address had been disseminated, she says, Twitter supported response with this message. We reviewed the report content, didn't find it to be in violation of the Twitter rules. No action was taken. The doxxed tweet is still up.

STU: Still.

GLENN: Still.

STU: I wonder if Elon will take care of that one.

GLENN: I would hope.

In internal Slack messages, Twitter employees spoke of using technicalities to restrict the visibility of tweets and subjects.

Here's Yaol Roth, Twitter's then global head of trust and safety in a direct message to a colleague.

SI is technically spam enforcements as a way to solve. I can't read the whole thing.

STU: Solve a problem created by safety under -- underenforcing their policies. Which, again, is not a problem, per se, but it keeps us from addressing the root cause of the issue, which is that our safety policies need some attention.

GLENN: Six days later, a direct message with an employee on health misinformation, privacy and identity research team.

Roth requested more research, to support expanding non-removal policy interventions like disabling engagements and de-amplification,
visibility filtering.

STU: These are all the things that were under the ban of shadow bans, that they deny over and over.

GLENN: Yep. Yep. So it just goes on and on, but it is more of the same. Everything that we knew.

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INSIDE Trump’s soul: How a bullet changed his heart forever

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?


SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.