The “Twitter Files”
- Reveals internal communications relevant to the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story in the critical months leading up to the 2020 Presidential election
- Shows how government actors on both sides could use backchannels to Twitter in order to have political enemies punished
- While such requests came from both sides, Taibbi points out that the political slant at Twitter is overwhelmingly weighted toward Dems
The suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story
- Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be "unsafe."
- They even blocked its transmission via direct message.
- The decision was made at the highest levels, with recently departed commissar Vijaya Gadde running the show. The incredible thing is that the nominal CEO Jack Dorsey was not even part of the process. - - "They just freelanced it," is how one former employee characterized the decision.
Twitter’s “hacked materials” excuse was a sham
- Normally, this would have required an official/law enforcement finding of a hack. But such a finding never appears throughout what one executive describes as a “whirlwind” 24-hour company-wide mess.
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