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by ChaseMeAway 1181 days ago
I think that your first few points are fair, but I was a little confused about #4.

I had never heard of this, and it seemed important, some cursory research turned up many twitter posts from individuals amplifying your version of events.

I also found a write up on the situation from TechDirt[0]. The article is fairly good and well sourced, but it paints a substantially different picture than what you describe.

[0]https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/15/extraordinarily-confused...
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pffft8888 1181 days ago
from the source:

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1633830104144183298

"31. After the 2020 election, when EIP was renamed the Virality Project, the Stanford lab was on-boarded to Twitter’s JIRA ticketing system, absorbing this government proxy into Twitter infrastructure – with a capability of taking in an incredible 50 million tweets a day."

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pffft8888 1181 days ago
"It’s crucial to reiterate: EIP was partnered with state entities like CISA and GEC while seeking elimination of millions of tweets. In the #Twitter Files, Twitter execs did not distinguish between organizations, using phrases like ‘According to CIS[A], escalated via EIP,’" Taibbi wrote. "After the 2020 election, when EIP was renamed the Virality Project, the Stanford lab was on-boarded to Twitter’s JIRA ticketing system, absorbing this government proxy into Twitter infrastructure – with a capability of taking in an incredible 50 million tweets a day.
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