by Alana Mastrangelo at Breitbart
“Now we know that they were cheating, rigging the platform for their own political ends,” Kirk told Breitbart News. “Let all the truth out, and let’s see the extent to which the DOJ and the FBI were involved. That is the other shoe to drop.
Kirk was reacting to the Twitter Files posted to Elon Musk’s platform by former New York Times reporter Bari Weiss, which confirmed that Kirk — among other conservative voices — were shadowbanned by the company under the rubrics of “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.”
Breitbart News has been reporting for years on the shadowbanning by Big Tech and other censorship tools like the ones revealed on Thursday. Meanwhile, the establishment press had suggested that such concerns were nothing more than conspiracy theories pushed by Breitbart and people like Kirk.
After being asked if he feels vindicated now that the Twitter Files have confirmed otherwise, Kirk told Breitbart News, “Yeah, I do feel vindicated. I have been complaining about this for the last 2-3 years, and I was told to stop complaining and that I was a conspiracy theorist.”
“I went from one of the top 10 most engaged accounts on the planet doing over 115K retweets, to some days…
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