A shocking thread of tweets reveals the FBI and CIA’s connections to Twitter amid the company’s crackdown on leftist interference.
Journalist Andy Ngo tweeted on Friday that former Twitter employees had engaged in right-wing censorship and election interference from Democrats.
“Bari doesn’t name too many names but the head of Twitter’s Strategic Response Team when secret actions were taken to stifle conservative accounts happened under Jeff Carlton, who worked for both CIA & FBI,” Ngo wrote. “He just deleted his LinkedIn. But I have an archive. @elonmusk”
So-called “Trust Advocate” Ella Irwin chimed in to try to correct the record, saying that Carlton was already a senior manager at Twitter when Elon Musk took over the company.
This is actually false. I would recommend checking information like this before posting. Jeff stepped into this role as part of Twitter 2.0.
— Ella Irwin (@ellagirwin) December 9, 2022- Advertisement -
“This is actually false,” she claimed. “I would recommend checking information like this before posting. Jeff stepped into this role as part of Twitter 2.0.”
However, Carlton’s archived LinkedIn profile shows that he was on the Strategic Response Team, and was a Senior Program Manager from May 2021 to November 2022.
“Built and led a programs team that optimizes intake, new workflow integration, training and quality, systems and tooling, and knowledge management for Twitter’s Strategic Response Team,” his LinkedIn profile read.
His now-scrubbed LinkedIn page also details his experience working with the intelligence community such as the FBI and CIA.
“U.S. Naval Academy graduate with 14 years in the Marine Corps leading XFN intelligence teams in data analysis, strategy development, and operational planning,” his profile continued. “Team-builder and problem-solver in dynamic, high pressure, resource scarce environments from the Southern Philippines, to Iraq, to the Korean Peninsula. Proven manager of managers. Expert communicator whose briefings and writings drove Cabinet and White House-level decision-making during special assignments to the CIA and FBI. Innovative and technically savvy in integrating dozens of complex hardware and software solutions into operations.”
Ngo and Irwin continued to debate about Carlton’s role with Twitter, without her ever addressing his intelligence background.
This comes after new Twitter CEO Musk confirmed on Thursday that the company had engaged in massive election interference, including the politically motivated boosting and suppression of candidates’ accounts, along with shadowbanning and blacklisting conservative Americans.
