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Now that they can't use it to their liking

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Fake news does not like to be challenged.

It must feel bad to them to have every story they propaganda push wind up getting ratioed to hell. The mean tweets from real people about their fake news must have hurt their feewings.

Who the fuck cares about Twitter anyway?

Trump should not return to posting on Twitter unless he is paid to do so; he's interesting and most others are not.

Do you really want to read a Tweet from Whoopie Goldberg and other assorted liberal losers?

What is CBS?

They must have lost a shit load of traffic, they're back on already:

Elon is instituting an algo that mines replies/retweets (so Mainstream News Misinfo Peddlers can't simply turn off replies) for counter-factuals/rebuttals and will appear under news articles. Sourced by twitter user interaction rather than Globalist NGO shlubs.

Already cleaning up the misinformation!

CBS is never, ever going to quit Twitter.
Twitter is a free propaganda platform for CBS to use to spread it's bullshit farther and wider than a non-existent TV audience.

I’ve found CBS to be pretty objective, at least compared with MSNBC and CNN. And they’re still tweeting. I wonder what going on.

Undoctored says

And they’re still tweeting. I wonder what going on.

Backpedaling.

Breaking news from CBS!

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/copy-of-hunter-biden-laptop-data-appears-genuine-independent-experts-find/

keeprubbersidedown says

Breaking news from CBS!

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/copy-of-hunter-biden-laptop-data-appears-genuine-independent-experts-find/

Gee, what everybody already knew more than 2 years ago, when it mattered...

Every "news" organization in the United States is propaganda. That includes Fox News, Breitbart, and Newsmax as well - also CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, LA Times, Washington Post, ALL of them. You're better off just ignoring them. They lie far more often than they tell the truth.

Booger says

Backpedaling.

I meant MSNBC and CNN were still tweeting. Why was CBS announcing a “pause” and not these clearly leftist outlets? I’m thinking someone may have been extorting CBS News, saying they would tweet something embarrassing from the CBS News account. That’s why they said “security concerns.” They probably had Twitter lock the account while they investigated and made sure no unauthorized people had access.

richwicks says

Gee, what everybody already knew more than 2 years ago, when it mattered...

Yes but now it’s official, “that’s the way it is” you know, ’cause it’s CBS! And it probably was related to the Twitter pause. Maybe just a publicity stunt to draw attention to them. “Independent forensic report” after all. Remember 60 minutes?

https://www.kunstler.com/p/krakatoa-blows

You’ve got to wonder who at CBS-News thinks it’s a good idea to quadruple down on mendacious grandstanding when the network faces a $20-billion lawsuit from Donald Trump — for assisting Kamala Harris’s campaign (aka election interference) — while the FCC under new Commissioner Brendan Carr questions the network’s license to operate on the grounds of “news distortion” and violation of the broadcast news fairness doctrine.

So, on Sunday night February 16, CBS’s flagship news show, 60-Minutes, pitched a doubleheader of knowingly faked-up feature pieces intended to scramble American minds to benefit the Party of Chaos and its manager, the US Intel Blob. The first piece was a sob-story on how sad and unjust DOGE’s deconstruction of the USAID money-laundering operation is. Yeah, boo-hoo. They interviewed several part-timers and consultants pretending to be long-term employees of the outfit. Complete horse-shit, and they knew it. What really matters is that a whole lot of bureaucrat grifters (and politicians) won’t get paid anymore. . . and the Blob won’t be able to soften-up faraway nations for plunder with its color revolutions and other hijinks.

The second piece was a ringing endorsement of Germany’s current censorship campaign, arresting ordinary citizens for mean tweets. Their camera crew followed the German Gedankenpolizei entering apartments and seizing cell phones. The viewing audience was asked to shed tears for German Green Party politician, Renate Künast, who got dissed on “X” (“misogynist comments” and insults) — the same week that an Islamic immigrant maniac drove a car into a Munich crowd on-purpose, injuring 39 people, including two dead (one, a child). No mention of that incident on 60-Minutes, or, more generally, that illegal immigration is the big taboo subject behind all the censorship.

CBS actually preceded that gaslighting job with a bit of Sunday morning constructed Orwellian fake syllogistic idiocy by Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, who said that free speech caused the Holocaust against the Jews. Her reasoning: free speech allowed the Nazis to gain power, therefore. . . Auschwitz . . . therefore, free speech is bad. Guest, Sec’y of State Marco Rubio, told her that he could not associate himself with her thesis. In fact, once in power, the Nazis totally controlled speech and news and did not permit other political parties to even exist. All of this, you understand, is just deliberate Gramscian distortion-and-perversion of language — black is white, up is down — to defeat any attempt at coherent public debate today.

The conclusion you might draw from all this is that CBS is terrified of free speech, and is trying desperately to hide the Blob’s long-running criminal racketeering activity — which they have aided and abetted for years and deserve to lose their license over, plus pay billions in penalties, and go out of business — a rather existential predicament.

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The entire market cap of Paramount Global (who owns CBS) is about $8 billion.

Trump's lawsuit all by itself is for $10 billion.

... and they are no longer getting paid by USAID. Trump's gotta shut down the coin they are still getting from the DoD though.

They are in the "Who cares" stage of existence. They're not gonna be able to pay their light bill soon.