by Sharon Rondeau
(Dec. 16, 2022) — Just before 12:30 PM EST Friday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted that a “coup de grace” is coming, although he did not state when other than “soon.”
Following the release of “Twitter Files 5” by “The Free Press” founder and former New York Times journalist Bari Weiss on Monday, many Twitter users have anticipated Musk’s apparent pledge to publish evidence contained in Twitter archives surrounding the U.S. government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and any coordination of public messaging between it and and Twitter.
Whether or not the “coup de grace” Musk referred to concerns the pandemic and/or NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who officially retires today, is unclear as of this writing.
In a tweet which raised eyebrows and speculation, on Sunday Musk tweeted, “My pronouns are prosecute/Fauci.”
Over the last several weeks, America First Legal (AFL), founded by former Trump advisor Stephen Miller, obtained through FOIA requests email communications between Twitter decision-makers and employees at the CDC, a development which Musk termed in a tweet, “extremely concerning.”
The government also coordinated with Google, its designated partners and Facebook on COVID-19 messaging, AFL discovered.
“This production also reveals that the U.S. government was actively working to ‘socially inoculate’–or brainwashing–the public against anything that threatened its narrative,” AFL reported December 6. “It did so by using aligned Big Tech corporations to monitor and manipulate users for the purposes of censoring unapproved information and pushing government propaganda. For example, Facebook sent written materials to the CDC in which it bragged about censoring more than sixteen million ‘pieces of content’ containing opinions or information the U.S. government wanted suppressed.”
Earlier on Friday, “TwitterFiles6” was trending, with users speculating as to the time of its release given it was expected, at least by some, on Wednesday.
As of press time at 1:05 p.m. EST, Musk has not tweeted further, and no reference to “TwitterFiles6” appears on the platform.