Twitter files have provided insight into the social media company’s suspicious activities ahead of Elon Musk’s emergence. It was censorship, a complicated collaboration between Silicon Valley and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Those who want to defend this activity can phrase it however they like. However, it was an operation aimed at suppressing certain political views and influencing a wider audience.
So when Emma Jo-Morris, politics editor at Breitbart, torched the dynamics of this Big Tech-Intelligence Community during her July testimony before the House Subcommittee on Weapons of the Federal Government, we shouldn’t be shocked that many former spies have stepped up for these social media ventures after they leave the company.
One of them, Nada Bakos, signed onto a now-infamous letter that claimed, without analysis, that Hunter Biden’s laptop constituted Russian disinformation. We know this is not true and these so-called intelligence officials lied to prevent Trump from getting a second term. Her face appeared on the front page of The New York Post. Ms. Morris was the publication’s editor and reporter at the time and was the first to write about the contents of the laptop, which caused the Post to be suspended on all platforms for several days. Substack reporter Texas Lindsey posted a lengthy Twitter thread about Ms. Bakos’ past. Lindsey added that there are three questions about Bako’s employment at Twitter:
Did it play a role in Twitter’s decision? [to] censor the NYPost article?
What led to her being given the policy/content position for content moderation at Twitter?
Why she tried [to] hide your work/role on Twitter from the public?
While working for Twitter before her departure in 2022, she tried to hide her intelligence background. The Daily Caller added that when Musk took over the company, he fired everyone linked to the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story (via Daily conversationalist):
The latest “Twitter Files” documents show that former CIA agent Nada Bakos, one of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a fraudulent letter in an attempt to discredit Hunter Biden’s laptop archive, tried to hide her subsequent work on Twitter.
Bakos was working for Twitter’s policy team in March 2022 when her photo appeared on the cover of the New York Post, exposing the signatories of an October 2020 letter that asserted without evidence that Hunter Biden’s laptop archive was “Russian information operation.
Hello everyone – I wanted to update you on the NYPost cover that “featured” me in connection with an October 2020 story about Hunter Biden’s emails while he was on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, and a letter signed by hundreds of former officials IC,” Bakos said in an internal email, which was first obtained by substack reporter Texas Lindsay. Her email signature states that she is a Senior Policy Officer for Site Integrity.
“(Twitter also blocked the NYPost at the time because of the story). Given my role in policy (and current enforcement) at CHA-O, I didn’t want it to be a surprise. I did not publicly acknowledge/acknowledge my work on Twitter and blocked my Linkedin. Of course, my mentions are a mess,” she added.
“If you have any suggestions or anything I should do, let me know. I do not intend to respond/make statements or endorse this article. Nada,” she concluded. Bakos left Twitter in November 2022, and her Twitter profile is blocked. Her LinkedIn account is also set to private.
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Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent Bakos multiple letters requesting additional information and documents related to her decision to sign the letter. According to the New York Post, Bakos did not respond to Jordan’s inquiries. Bakos could not be reached for comment.
And it’s not just about companies operating in social media. Dozens of former intelligence community officials have signed gigantic media contracts or agreements with collaborators in which they spread disinformation daily to protect Joe Biden. While it can be argued that those who whine for a few minutes on a CNN segment have less influence than those who suppress free speech behind the scenes in their offices, those who participate in these campaigns are just as annoying and unpatriotic.
2) When the New York Post put the faces of “spies who lied” on its cover in March 2022, agent Nada Bakos immediately went into hiding and hid her LinkedIn profile in hopes of hiding the fact that she worked on Twitter and set up her account on Twitter as private. pic.twitter.com/6OmVOfYkLW
— Te𝕏asLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) August 30, 2023
4) When the NY Post published the article “SPY WHO LIES” on Saturday, March 19, 2022, Bakos wasted no time – even though it was a weekend. That morning, she emailed her Intel colleagues on Twitter to let them know her photo was on the cover of the NY Post.
— Te𝕏asLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) August 30, 2023
6) It’s unclear when Bakos started working for Twitter or when she left the company (assuming she left because she didn’t show her employee X badge).
Requests sent to X to confirm dates of employment were not responded to in time for publication.
— Te𝕏asLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) August 30, 2023
8) Interestingly, in June 2017, Bakos wrote an OpEd in which she was critical of Trump’s tweets. Knowing that Bakos played a powerful role in moderating Twitter’s rules/content makes this article more relevant knowing that he was ultimately suspended.https://t.co/fpMNRaA1kz pic.twitter.com/xsDeIMcylQ
— Te𝕏asLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) August 30, 2023
10) News of Bakos’ work on Twitter raises more questions:
Did she play a role in Twitter’s decision to censor the NYPost article?
-What led to her being given the policy/content position for content moderation at Twitter?
— Why did she try to hide her job/role on Twitter from the public? pic.twitter.com/GHQolbmy6B— Te𝕏asLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) August 30, 2023
