The Charlie Kirk Show - I was Blacklisted by Twitter—My Reaction.

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, I go through the breaking news of how I was one of the top stories on the planet and Twitter targeted me personally.

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00:01:15.000 I had an interesting evening last night.

00:01:18.000 I was working out, and all of a sudden, my phone starts lighting up, and it was 5:42 Arizona time.

00:01:30.000 And producer Andrew called me.

00:01:32.000 He said, Hey, Tucker wants you to come on the program.

00:01:36.000 I said, For what?

00:01:38.000 Because I had no idea I wasn't paying attention.

00:01:40.000 They said, Well, you were just mentioned in the latest Twitter files under a threat tag, do not amplify.

00:01:48.000 So then I scrambled and made it work and talked about this recent piece of news on Tucker's program.

00:01:54.000 But I want to take a step back and tell you my history with Twitter and why Twitter felt it was necessary to categorize my personal Twitter account with a do not amplify threat tag.

00:02:10.000 I first started my Twitter when I was a junior in high school.

00:02:15.000 I remember the class that I was sitting in.

00:02:18.000 I remember exactly what was going on with some teacher droning on about something that was largely irrelevant.

00:02:25.000 And we all had computers in this class, and we were supposed to listen to this teacher, nice person, but a bunch of nonsense.

00:02:32.000 And I remember days prior in high school, people were talking about this new website called Twitter, where people like Oprah Winfrey and LeBron James could verifiably communicate with their audience.

00:02:46.000 So I started my Twitter in 2011.

00:02:50.000 I remember exactly where I was sitting, and I was like, oh, this website's kind of fun.

00:02:53.000 And oh, wow, I could follow political people.

00:02:56.000 And throughout the growth of Turning Point USA, Twitter was an attachment of mine.

00:03:03.000 I actually have a tweet back in 2011 saying that Donald Trump should run for president.

00:03:07.000 That's how long my history with Twitter goes.

00:03:11.000 It goes back 11 years.

00:03:13.000 And so I started to study the platform.

00:03:16.000 In 2012, 2013, and 14, I became a master of Twitter.

00:03:23.000 I understood what would go viral.

00:03:25.000 I understood what messaging would work.

00:03:28.000 I understood how to get things trending.

00:03:31.000 And there was a small community of us that would do the same, Jack Pesobic as well.

00:03:35.000 And then in 2016, all of that work I put into Twitter actually started to pay off.

00:03:42.000 I got verified on Twitter in the fall of 2016.

00:03:46.000 And then Donald Trump, of course, won the presidency.

00:03:48.000 And Donald Trump legitimized the platform of Twitter beyond our wildest imagination.

00:03:55.000 In the spring of 17, in the summer of 17, I started to really lean in and say, oh, wow, okay, if you tweet every 25 minutes, if you word them in a certain way, if you're able to capture the spiciness of the messaging while also getting into the news cycle, you can really start to make things go viral. 0.85

00:04:17.000 And so then in 2018 and 2019, my Twitter became more than just kind of a an annoyance for the Democrat Party.

00:04:27.000 It started to materialize as a legitimate threat to the regime.

00:04:34.000 In fact, I was so focused, so I'll use the word obsessed with Twitter that it got to the point where I was averaging 115 to 120,000 retweets a day.

00:04:51.000 Now, for those of you that aren't familiar with the platform, you're like, oh, what is Twitter?

00:04:54.000 That's big.

00:04:54.000 I'll get that.

00:04:55.000 Okay.

00:04:56.000 In fact, I remember a piece written by Jonathan Swan came out by Axios where they did an objective analytical analysis of all the Twitter accounts in the world.

00:05:14.000 And they concluded that my Twitter account, the kid that didn't go to college, at the time was 23, 24 years old.

00:05:24.000 Turning point was a fraction of the size that it is now.

00:05:27.000 I would go to college campuses and go debate communists.

00:05:31.000 That my Twitter account was the fourth largest Twitter account on the planet.

00:05:37.000 I remember Donald Trump was so struck, President Trump was so struck by that article that he had his staff printed out and he signed it and sent it.

00:05:45.000 I still have it.

00:05:45.000 And he says, Charlie, don't catch me.

00:05:47.000 He was number one and I was number four or five.

00:05:51.000 And that was just based not on followers, but on engagement, on likes, retweets, shares, comments.

00:05:58.000 And so if you were trying to stop the MAGA movement, if you were trying to stop the conservative movement, if you were trying to thwart or stunt our momentum, to their great surprise, the kid that doesn't have a cable television show at the time did not have a radio program, at the time did not have a podcast, at the time did not have a live stream, but just a Twitter account, he became a problem.

00:06:26.000 Now, mind you, I understood the Twitter rules very well.

00:06:30.000 I studied them.

00:06:31.000 I grew up with them.

00:06:32.000 So I was a tough case for Twitter.

00:06:35.000 I was a tough case in more ways than one because I knew the line and I was very careful not to cross it.

00:06:42.000 Now, the rules were Soviet.

00:06:44.000 The rules were not fair, but I knew them.

00:06:47.000 And despite the unfair rules, I knew not to cross them because, you know, some people say, well, Charlie, why didn't they just ban you?

00:06:53.000 Because I never gave them an outright reason to ban me because I knew the rules.

00:06:58.000 And I played under their silly rules, despite the fact that they're totalitarian in nature, because I never wanted to be a martyr and lose my Twitter account because I knew that it actually was helpful in reaching millions of the unconverted and persuadable people.

00:07:12.000 And so then 2020 came along and the virus spread across our land.

00:07:19.000 And here I am with the fourth or fifth largest Twitter account, 115, 120, 125,000 retweets a day.

00:07:28.000 And you might think that I'm exaggerating these numbers.

00:07:30.000 They're all there in my Twitter dashboard.

00:07:31.000 That history is all saved.

00:07:32.000 You can go back and you could see what my engagement was in the calendar year of 2019.

00:07:38.000 And when I mean I was obsessed with Twitter, I would just be continually refreshing.

00:07:42.000 And when you study it for six or seven hours sometimes a day of what is working and what messaging is flying and what is getting retweets and what is getting likes, eventually you get good at it.

00:07:54.000 If you want to get good at something in life, focus on it and put energy towards it.

00:07:58.000 But then 2020 happened.

00:08:01.000 And in 2020, the New York Times reached out to our team and they wanted to write a story.

00:08:08.000 When they reached out, our Twitter account was one of the largest on the planet, as I mentioned.

00:08:13.000 But I was a legitimate threat to the narrative.

00:08:16.000 And looking back, the New York Times article might have seemed kind of innocent.

00:08:20.000 They did an okay job writing it.

00:08:22.000 But it was interesting: they placed me on 1A, the front page of the New York Times.

00:08:30.000 Now, this was April 19th, 2020, during the height of the lockdowns, the height of the virus.

00:08:37.000 And what they were doing, what the New York Times was doing that I didn't quite appreciate at the time, is they were laying the foundation.

00:08:48.000 They were setting the basis, the groundwork for my censorship, for the censorship of my account.

00:08:57.000 You see, they wrote in the New York Times that my engagement was more than CNN and the New York Times, the own piece that they were writing.

00:09:05.000 And it gave them an ability for them to send this to Twitter and say, keep an eye out for this guy.

00:09:11.000 They couldn't kick me off the platform, but what happened next, thanks to Elon Musk, is shocking.

00:09:17.000 It is Maoist.

00:09:18.000 It is Soviet, and it should not be tolerated in a decent and civil society. 1.00

00:09:24.000 A kid from Chicago who didn't go to college, tweeting about current events without a national television program, became such a threat to the World Economic Forum, to Washington, D.C., that they had to assign a threat-level tag of do not amplify.

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00:10:47.000 Somebody said, Charlie, don't brag that you were a master of Twitter.

00:10:51.000 It was a waste of time.

00:10:52.000 You see, this is where I disagree a little bit.

00:10:54.000 I was influencing millions of people every single day.

00:10:58.000 We were influencing so many people that Twitter went out of their way to censor us and to give us the threat assessment tag of do not amplify.

00:11:09.000 Now, in the summer of 2018, and I really have Candace Owens to thank for this, I sat down and met with Jack Dorsey.

00:11:18.000 Met with Jack Dorsey at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.

00:11:24.000 Candace Owens arranged the meeting.

00:11:26.000 And Candace and I were both very concerned about shadow banning.

00:11:30.000 Again, it was the summer of 2018.

00:11:33.000 See, when I sat down with Jack Dorsey, we were talking about how they were using or our concern that Twitter was suppressing dissident voices, kicking people needlessly off of social media, and shadow banning people.

00:11:52.000 Jack at the time appeared very transparent.

00:11:56.000 Jack said, No, the technology doesn't even allow us to do this, and there's all these different checks and balances.

00:12:02.000 And he had some of his tech guys walk us through it.

00:12:05.000 That was a little bit above my head.

00:12:07.000 He had a legal representative there saying they're not even legally allowed to censor people based on viewpoint or shadow ban them based on viewpoint or based on information.

00:12:19.000 And I'm not going to say that Candace and I were satisfied.

00:12:22.000 I'll allow her to tell her memory of events.

00:12:25.000 It was five years.

00:12:26.000 It was almost four and a half years ago.

00:12:27.000 But I would say that Candace and I didn't leave the meeting necessarily with an overwhelmingly negative sentiment.

00:12:35.000 I appreciated Jack for his time, for his willingness to meet with us, because Candace and I together had two of the most powerful Twitter accounts out there.

00:12:44.000 But then as things started to change, and I obviously took the contact information and stayed in contact with some of the people there at Twitter, as things started to change, I started to email them.

00:12:52.000 I said, hey, guys, things are changing.

00:12:54.000 And my Twitter account and my Twitter engagement is really kind of going off a cliff.

00:12:59.000 And my ability to talk to millions of people is disappearing.

00:13:01.000 Radio silence.

00:13:03.000 And then the New York Times article comes out in April of 2020.

00:13:09.000 Now, you pair that New York Times article with the Axios study that showed that I had the second largest conservative Twitter presence behind Donald Trump and the ninth largest Twitter account.

00:13:21.000 So this is what this is the whole world.

00:13:24.000 This is international as well.

00:13:26.000 So K-pop had the largest Twitter account with 407 million interactions.

00:13:32.000 Donald Trump, the second largest, with 104 million.

00:13:35.000 Then Ariana Grande.

00:13:37.000 Then BTS Big Hit, which I don't know, but I could only assume it's pop culture.

00:13:43.000 Then Bleacher Report, which is sports, then Alexandria Casio-Cotez with 36.9 million engagements.

00:13:52.000 Then GOT7.

00:13:53.000 Don't know what they are, but I'm guessing it's pop culture.

00:13:56.000 And then Miley Cyrus and then Charlie Kirk at number nine.

00:14:02.000 Oh, so BTS is K-pop.

00:14:03.000 So K-pop is not exactly a competitor of mine and very popular in certain circles.

00:14:09.000 Not exactly my thing.

00:14:11.000 So number nine was our Twitter account, my Twitter account.

00:14:17.000 And so looking through this list, you can pair that then with the New York Times article that the information that we were spreading on the Charlie Kirk Twitter had to be stopped.

00:14:32.000 You see, in a kind of a weird way, I carved out a niche that a few others did.

00:14:39.000 Jack Pasobic did, Mike Cernovich did, and others did as well.

00:14:43.000 But I saw that Twitter was this place for elite thought to be incubated.

00:14:50.000 We went from 115 to 120,000 retweets a day down to 800 retweets a day.

00:15:03.000 And when I started to complain about this and started to try to tell news and media anchors about this, they'd roll their eyes and call me a conspiracy theorist.

00:15:12.000 Like, okay, Charlie, there's no evidence of this.

00:15:15.000 Or you kind of then end up indulging in their game because you kind of sound really narcissistic.

00:15:21.000 Like, look at me.

00:15:22.000 I used to get 120,000 retweets and now I only get 800.

00:15:25.000 So I just kind of said, all right, they're censoring me.

00:15:29.000 And I just kind of said, we'll keep tweeting for the spirit of it.

00:15:33.000 But they basically obliterated our ability to trend, to push back against consensus ideas.

00:15:40.000 And it gets even deeper than this because I do not believe that Twitter acted alone.

00:15:46.000 Based on my conversations and my meetings with Jack Dorsey, I believe that Twitter was influenced by somebody or something to shut me up and label me as Do Not Amplify.

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00:17:34.000 There's a couple other thoughts I want to unpack with this.

00:17:37.000 I don't believe Twitter acted in isolation here.

00:17:41.000 Based on my meeting with Jack Dorsey and my conversation with Twitter employees and the limited knowledge I had from the outside, I believe Twitter was pressured or forced to do this.

00:17:55.000 Now, that doesn't mean it's an excuse for their incredibly should be illegal.

00:17:59.000 I'll talk about that in a second and unethical behavior.

00:18:02.000 But I believe that someone was telling them to put the threat tag of do not amplify on my Twitter account.

00:18:10.000 So some of you are saying, Charlie, I don't understand what do not amplify is.

00:18:12.000 Okay.

00:18:13.000 So this is what Barry Weiss leaked yesterday.

00:18:16.000 This is a picture of my Twitter account with certain descriptions or threat tags to it.

00:18:22.000 Now, Twitter went out of their way to say for my Twitter account, do not amplify.

00:18:27.000 Essentially, do not allow my tweets to go viral.

00:18:32.000 Do not allow the content that I am putting up, pictures, videos, one-liners, do not allow it to be seen by lots of people, despite retweets and likes, do not allow it to be boosted in the algorithm.

00:18:49.000 Instead of allowing the Twitter algorithm to grow, of which I understood intimately in 2014, 15, 16, 17, 18, they put their thumb on the scale and say, we are going to single out Charlie Kirk and say we are not going to allow his account to be seen by other people.

00:19:08.000 It is banning by a different name.

00:19:11.000 So they disallowed my personal ability to go viral, to challenge big ideas, to question authority.

00:19:22.000 Now, Jack Dorsey, at the very same time that I met with Jack Dorsey, also said this to the great Sean Hannity.

00:19:30.000 He said, We don't shadow ban according to political ideology or viewpoint or content, period.

00:19:37.000 Play cut 77.

00:19:39.000 We do not shadow ban according to political ideology or viewpoint or content, period.

00:19:47.000 Every model that we have on the network is really looking at the behaviors on the network.

00:19:52.000 We take those behaviors as signals.

00:19:54.000 And I do want to point out that these signals evolve minute by minute, hourly by hourly.

00:20:00.000 Behaviors of bad faith actors who intend to manipulate, distract, divide a conversation or to unfairly amplify their content, which they didn't earn.

00:20:12.000 So he says that they do not.

00:20:16.000 Do you notice that he said amplify in that?

00:20:18.000 He used the word amplify.

00:20:19.000 That's their word, not mine.

00:20:20.000 It's confirmation.

00:20:22.000 He says that they do not suppress people based on political affiliation or ideology.

00:20:28.000 But then he says that we are not going to allow people to amplify based on information they did not earn.

00:20:34.000 That's a really weird way to word it.

00:20:37.000 But essentially, what we learned from the Twitter files is this.

00:20:43.000 My Twitter account needed to be taken out to defeat Donald Trump in 2020.

00:20:51.000 That if my Twitter account, alongside others, Jack Posobic and Mike Cernovich and Candace Owens, if our Twitter accounts were allowed to be free, same with Dan Bongino, maybe the Hunter Biden laptop story would have gone viral.

00:21:08.000 You see, if I would have had access to a Twitter account that was getting 115,000 retweets a day, and according to Axios, was the second largest Twitter account out there when the Hunter Biden laptop story broke, I could have made sure it was seen by half of the Western hemisphere, and that's not an exaggeration.

00:21:28.000 People says right here, Charlie, I don't understand why Twitter is such a big deal.

00:21:32.000 Get off this topic.

00:21:33.000 Social media is ruining the relationship of people.

00:21:36.000 Get over Twitter success.

00:21:37.000 So sick of social media.

00:21:38.000 I'll be honest, you're so unbelievably wrong with that take.

00:21:42.000 I appreciate the sentiment.

00:21:44.000 Where do you think the reporters and the journalists get their information from?

00:21:48.000 If you're able to make things go viral on Twitter, you're able to meaningfully move the Overton window of which public policy is decided, of which elections are decided.

00:21:59.000 We're getting a couple emails here.

00:22:00.000 Charlie, Twitter means nothing.

00:22:02.000 Stop talking about it.

00:22:03.000 Well, if you think Twitter means nothing, what do you think?

00:22:05.000 How do you think Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016?

00:22:08.000 You don't have to like Twitter.

00:22:10.000 You don't have to enjoy Twitter.

00:22:12.000 You don't have to think Twitter is good for society, but it is unmistakable that Twitter is critical to who is going to control the civilization.

00:22:21.000 It is undebatable.

00:22:23.000 It is not even up for dispute.

00:22:25.000 No Twitter, no Trump presidency, period.

00:22:30.000 And they found what we had to say to be such a legitimate threat that they had to say internally without ever telling me privately, suppress you.

00:22:43.000 Let's go to another piece of tape here.

00:22:45.000 I want to go to Trace Gallagher reporting on this, PlayCut 87.

00:22:48.000 The common denominators you point out in the early thread is that Twitter employees build these blacklists to prevent the disfavored tweets from trending.

00:22:57.000 And then they actively limit the visibility of the entire count or even trending topics.

00:23:03.000 And as you said, they do this all in secret without informing users, which is interesting because over time, they have said again and again that they do not do this.

00:23:13.000 And now we're learning that they do this all the time.

00:23:17.000 That's really well said by Trace Gallagher, where he said it was a way to thwart or stunt our distribution.

00:23:26.000 You see, as we reflect back on 2020 and 2022, you could only wonder what the election results would have been if we could have spoke freely about ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, intravenous therapy, the danger of lockdowns, how we were creating the most suicidal, depressed, alcohol-addicted, and drug-addicted generation in history.

00:23:47.000 No, they had to make sure that we were not able to communicate, to do what we as human beings have a moral right to do, to speak.

00:23:59.000 Another person said right here, Charlie, Twitter means nothing.

00:24:03.000 Please get off the topic.

00:24:05.000 I got to be honest, you're wrong.

00:24:08.000 Every journalist, every person on television, every producer, every congressional staffer, people at major corporations are influenced by the chatter, the conversation, the news cycle.

00:24:20.000 As we have said before, it is the incubator for elite opinion.

00:24:24.000 And when Axios comes out and they say out of the top 10 Twitter accounts, the three that are political, Donald Trump, AOC, and Charlie Kirk, they had to, and guess what?

00:24:37.000 They took out Donald Trump.

00:24:39.000 They just banned him from the account altogether, and then they suppressed me.

00:24:44.000 They knew exactly what they were doing.

00:24:46.000 And this is a big word that I know many of you are comfortable with, but the media hates when I say it.

00:24:51.000 This is cheating.

00:24:54.000 This is unadulterated cheating, using the power of a social media platform to, without ever telling me, without any of my knowledge, obviously without my consent, I would have given consent, without my knowledge, suppressing this.

00:25:12.000 Someone says here, Charlie, I find all of this very boring.

00:25:14.000 I don't understand any of it.

00:25:16.000 Well, I encourage you to get right up on it.

00:25:19.000 This is the largest technology scandal probably ever that is unfolding.

00:25:23.000 Or now we have the smoking gun of a smoking gun where we now know that Twitter influenced and rigged the 2020 election, the COVID lockdowns.

00:25:36.000 And I'll be honest, some of the attitude of the people here that are emailing me is one of the reasons why the left gets away with it.

00:25:44.000 It's disappointing because this is the verifiable, irrefutable, evidence-based story where finally we have the direct files themselves that show that conservative ideas were so popular, that conservative perspectives were so viral that they had to cheat, rig our voice from being able to be spread.

00:26:13.000 Not to mention, I believe these censors have blood on their hands.

00:26:16.000 For those of you that say, oh, Charlie, what does this matter?

00:26:19.000 Well, tell that to the victims' families whose children committed suicide the last two years, where if we were able to push back on the lockdowns more effectively on the world's public square, maybe the lockdowns wouldn't have happened.

00:26:30.000 Don't tell me it doesn't matter.

00:26:32.000 Don't tell me it doesn't matter for the victims that had to die alone in a hospital where treatments that very well could have helped them were not allowed to be discussed on social media, where Jay Bacachara was not able to communicate or become trending on Twitter.

00:26:46.000 You think it doesn't matter.

00:26:47.000 We are all living in the ramifications of the winners of a debate of what happens on Twitter.

00:26:53.000 It's not just some silly social media platform like TikTok.

00:26:57.000 I'm not saying you have to like it.

00:26:59.000 But what happens on Twitter ends up happening in your child's classroom, in the halls of Congress.

00:27:07.000 What happens on Twitter ends up becoming law.

00:27:10.000 What happens on Twitter ends up becoming president.

00:27:14.000 And now we know that Twitter cheated.

00:27:18.000 There's no question that they interfered with our elections, our ability to debate and have dialogue.

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00:29:32.000 What we have seen with Twitter and what we are learning, in my personal opinion, is the fatal flaw of the Chamber of Commerce, overly libertarian slant of the Republican Party.

00:29:47.000 For years we were told that private companies need to be treated with zero oversight and zero regulation.

00:29:56.000 And I used to buy into this nonsense.

00:29:58.000 That private companies through competition will be able to improve and get better.

00:30:02.000 Now, in defense of that argument, Elon Musk buying Twitter actually does strengthen their very weak argument only slightly, only slightly.

00:30:15.000 It is in many ways an unexpected development that we should not count on.

00:30:21.000 However, with that being said, for years we were told and said, just go to a different platform, just go to a different one.

00:30:29.000 So the principles of why we are conservative are as follows.

00:30:36.000 We believe that people are made in the image of God.

00:30:40.000 We believe there's something special about a human being.

00:30:43.000 At the very least, you believe the human being is more than just a combination of chemicals and cells.

00:30:49.000 You believe there is a soul in the human being.

00:30:51.000 The founding fathers believed this when they yielded to the laws of nature and nature's God.

00:30:58.000 We believe that human beings have natural rights given to them by their creator, life, speech, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of virtue, not licentiousness.

00:31:09.000 We also believe that human beings, the raw material we're dealing with, we have a heart, we have an operational programming, you could say, that tilts towards greed, avarice, deceit, arrogance, corruption.

00:31:24.000 As Lord Acton famously said, and you'll hear it repeated, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

00:31:30.000 Therefore, we as conservatives have an apprehension towards centralized government.

00:31:36.000 But the proper way of looking at it is a slightly different way of wording it: it's not centralized government, it is centralized power, centralized power, because we do not want one person or one group of people to be able to do something without a check and a balance.

00:32:00.000 This is why we talk about separation of powers, separating the power so that people can be free, free to flourish, free to speak, free to explore different ideas.

00:32:12.000 And yet, when all of those things manifest into a private company, centralized power, the ability to shut people up, suppress other ideas, influence our elections.

00:32:25.000 Too many Republicans say, well, it's a private company.

00:32:28.000 How do you act then when a private company starts to possess all of the attributes of the very government that you also feel?

00:32:38.000 How do you handle that?

00:32:40.000 Well, for traditional Republicans that are purchased by big tech, which is far too many of them, they say, well, it's a free market and we can't do anything.

00:32:47.000 That is nonsense.

00:32:50.000 That is balderdash. 0.98

00:32:52.000 That is horsepucky.

00:32:54.000 Instead, it should be when our principles of human freedom are violated either by a Politburo, the FBI, the CIA, or Twitter, we're not going to put up with it.

00:33:08.000 And the byproduct of that was an interfered with, rigged 2020 election that we are just still starting to grapple with.

00:33:19.000 And we don't even know the impact of this last midterms.

00:33:23.000 Dr. Robert Epstein was just on our podcast and he says Google rigged the midterm elections in favor of the Democrats.

00:33:29.000 We don't even, we can't even comprehend how much power these tech companies actually have.

00:33:34.000 And so the question is: will Republicans and conservatives and this new Republican House have the courage to say we are not going to only execute oversight over the FBI and the Department of Justice and DHS and Maorcus and all the nonsense happening,

00:33:57.000 but we are going to offer a check and a balance and oversight over a private company, private company that acted in a more tyrannical, authoritarian, and damaging way than even our government did in 2020.

00:34:14.000 And then the even sicker question is: was Twitter acting at the behest of our government?

00:34:22.000 Was Twitter colluding?

00:34:24.000 Were they partners?

00:34:25.000 Were they in a joint partnership agreement?

00:34:28.000 Did they execute a merger and acquisition with the federal government against the American people also suppressing my Twitter account?

00:34:36.000 I hope Republicans in January have the courage to get those answers.

00:34:42.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:43.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:46.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:34:48.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - December 09, 2022

I was Blacklisted by Twitter—My Reaction.

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