Steve Bannon and Breitbart spent months trying to sabotage Twitter

[Milchshake]

Interesting case of wannabe oligarchs trying to undermine social media to their own purposes. Steve Bannon and Breitbart spent months trying to sabotage Twitter after Milo got de-verified. They went after the platform from financial, legal and editorial angles.

Ironic the people operating under the "free speech" flag, really just want speech for themselves and no one else.

BuzzFeed News released a report today detailing efforts made by Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos and Breitbart News to damage Twitter. For about a year, they explored various ways to bring down the platform, tactics that included legal action, an anti-Twitter editorial campaign and attempts to push down the company's stock price.
Bannon, Yiannopoulos, and Breitbart CEO Larry Solov also proceeded to look into potential lawsuits against Twitter with outside actors offering advice on various legal angles to pursue. However, communication amongst the group stalled and at one point Yiannopoulos said he would be looking into a legal course of action on his own.

As for the third prong of its Twitter war, Breitbart published 176 stories about Twitter between January 1st and August 17th -- the day Bannon left Breitbart to manage Trump's campaign. They covered all sorts of topics, all critical of the platform, with Bannon at times being very involved with the structuring of those stories.

On Jan. 11, 2016, Milo Yiannopoulos emailed Steve Bannon a screenshot of Twitter’s stock, which had dropped more than 3% during day trading. The company’s shareholders may have been hurting, but Yiannopoulos was in the mood to celebrate: He was convinced Breitbart had helped drive down Twitter’s share price.

“If it goes down to -5 [percent] and stays we can claim this as a victory I think,” wrote Yiannopoulos above the image. “This will be a week of pain for Twitter. … I want to underscore how petty what they did was and what it has revealed about the company and what the consequences are going to be.”

On Jan. 15, Yiannopoulos sent a peace offering to Twitter — a cordial email to Jack Dorsey asking for his verification to be restored in exchange for a detente. A screenshot of an email tracker Yiannopoulos used registered that the email was opened 111 times.

But Dorsey never responded.

Reads like text-book bullying or gaslighting tactics. After the bully is called out and ostracized, they immediately pretend to be nice and sociable while still trying to emotionally blackmail their targets.


**then there's the case of Bannon trying to get a mole into Facebook.
This and the earlier Milo-emailing-white-supremacist-leaks show that Breitbart needs to worry more about the mole Buzzfeed has.

[XDurionX]

It's not like they've been very proficient in pretending to be sane people.

[Machismo]

I question the intellect of anyone who actually likes/supports Milo.

[Graeham]

Twitter is a mess, especially when it comes to political issues. It's a shame the company doesn't show the same amount of concern for political extremists of all flavours.

[shimerra]

I summon thee with a but CNN/But her Emails!

Above poster basically gave us but the alt left which I forgot.

[Mormolyce]

The mask of "free speech" isn't really fooling anyone who isn't one of their shills.

Twitter is a mess, especially when it comes to political issues. It's a shame the company doesn't show the same amount of concern for political extremists of all flavours.

Poor little Nazis, so persecuted. What did they ever do to deserve that?

[chrisnumbers]

Humans are still doing politics?
Ok.

[Graeham]

Poor little Nazis, so persecuted. What did they ever do to deserve that?

They should be stamped out, though so too should the people expressing equally troubling views directed at other groups of people. The likes of Twitter cannot claim to be against extremism and discrimination if they're only taking on flavour of it seriously.

[Milchshake]

The mask of "free speech" isn't really fooling anyone who isn't one of their shills.



Poor little Nazis, so persecuted. What did they ever do to deserve that?

At some point you figure they're just gaslighting themselves.

Or maybe the better explanation is a parallel to the opioid crisis. They get to consume their favorite youtube,twitter, or breitbart content that lets them forget their pain. And their favorite youtube celebrity makes easy money for being their constant supplier. It's easier money than dealing drugs.

[Mormolyce]

Humans are still doing politics?
Ok.

It's Bannon and the Breitbart crowd we're talking about here, so human might be a bit of a stretch.

[chrisnumbers]

It's Bannon and the Breitbart crowd we're talking about here, so human might be a bit of a stretch.

There may or may not be some resemblance. Cannot confirm.

[gyrados]

good ol buzzfeed 10 ways you might be a superhero number 4 will shock you. and yeah breitbart is just as bad imo its biased bs

[Super Kami Dende]

Wait. You guys don't see the irony in being butthurt they tried to sabotage Twitter after the amount of people on Twitter that try to sabotage Breitbart? I mean both sides have shit everywhere.

Just another day of hypocrites being hypocrites I guess.

[Mormolyce]

There may or may not be some resemblance. Cannot confirm.

Hmmm, might have to wait for the dental records to be sure.

[Powerogue]

Same Steve Bannon as the insane propagandist who made Torchbearer?

Hmmm, might have to wait for the dental records to be sure.

Hoo yeah that's him. Or a lizard person wearing his skin. Leaning towards the latter, I know my lizard people after Alex Jones set me straight.

[Hammerfest]

I thought conspiracy threads weren't allowed here...

[Usagi Senshi]

They should be stamped out, though so too should the people expressing equally troubling views directed at other groups of people. The likes of Twitter cannot claim to be against extremism and discrimination if they're only taking on flavour of it seriously.

I like how no one replied to this response and I agree completely!

[Blamblam41]

Twitter is a mess, especially when it comes to political issues. It's a shame the company doesn't show the same amount of concern for political extremists of all flavours.

Are you one of those types that believes 'extreme political beliefs' are anything you don't personally agree with?

Really it's the only people I find that have a problem with other peoples 'extremism'.

[Svad1287]

Wasnt aware that milo could be apologetic, or meek. Must be someone prentending to be him...

[Mormolyce]

I thought conspiracy threads weren't allowed here...

I retract my speculation that Steve Bannon might be human.