Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacts to the bombshell report Elon Musk released about Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden story on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
Not only did they do this, but they actually had the nerve to then call people stupid conspiracy theorists for claiming it. Where exactly does this end? When does somebody actually get in trouble? Or do we just keep having county bureaucrats and arrogant corporate minions, deciding who runs the country?
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1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
2. What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
4. Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true real-time global conversation possible for the first time.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
6. As time progressed, however, the company was slowly forced to add those barriers. Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.” pic.twitter.com/mnv0YZI4af
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
10.Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
12. The resulting slant in content moderation decisions is visible in the documents you’re about to read. However, it’s also the assessment of multiple current and former high-level executives.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022