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What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET! - CONSPIRACY THEORY YOU RACIST!!! (Let the shit show begin...)
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Taibbi has always been great. Him and Jimmy Dore are getting easy money right now just by posting what the mainstream media WON'T publish because it would hurt their narrative. The ONLY reason people who used to love him hate him now is because he just puts the information out there, all of it, and he doesn't preserve the establishment media's "context" when he does.
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One thing I noticed early on was some lame "I'm closing my account tonight" tweet, and it turned out to be copypasta. Why pay shills when you can pay one shill with an army of bots?
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Sounds like that's the end. "More to come".
It was a bit light. Were there any real surprises here?
A long-form piece would be much more effective, I think. I know Musk wants the engagement but this is more disappointing than I expected.
It was a bit light. Were there any real surprises here?
A long-form piece would be much more effective, I think. I know Musk wants the engagement but this is more disappointing than I expected.
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Ben, I don’t see what the big deal is. People like yourself are bought and paid for all the time.
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Based on his Substack, Matt was forced into this format, possibly by Musk. I love Matt but I don't think he did a very good job with this one. The smoking gun, absolute categorical proof that the DNC leaned on Twitter to censor political speech (a BLATANT First Amendment violation) kinda just got lost in the giant, poorly formatted thread.
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Nah man, his email is 0.pizza (as in zero pizza). We're fine.
Was it even proof? The timeline he presented shows that Twitter seemingly decided to crack down on the New York Post story using their bullshit hacked materials policy entirely on their own. The "more from the Biden team" email was just a list of links to posts sharing the story and thus violating Twitter policy which they had publicly talked about. They were helping flag accounts, but Twitter is the one who established the policy.
Sad to say, but this looks like a nothingburger outside of showing the extreme bias Twitter employees had in favor of the Democratic party, but we already knew that from anecdotes and their campaign donations.
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I would wait for the substack write ups. This was just so Elon could get more activity on twitter. His substack articles on all of this will be much better, and we'll know if there is anything truly scathing there.
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1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES
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.
3. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.
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.
5. In an early conception, Twitter more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people “the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”
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.
7. Slowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly.
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.”
9. Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party:
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:
11. This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right. opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/s…
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.
Okay, there was more throat-clearing about the process, but screw it, let's jump forward
16. The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
17. On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop:
nypost.com
18. 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, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.
19. White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who seethed: “At least pretend to care for the next 20 days.”
20. This led public policy executive Caroline Strom to send out a polite WTF query. Several employees noted that there was tension between the comms/policy teams, who had little/less control over moderation, and the safety/trust teams:
21. Strom’s note returned the answer that the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company’s “hacked materials” policy: web.archive.org/web/2019071714…
22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...
23. The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.
24. “They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.”
25. You can see the confusion in the following lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gadde and former Trust and safety chief Yoel Roth. Comms official Trenton Kennedy writes, “I'm struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe”:
26. By this point “everyone knew this was fucked,” said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of… continuing to err.
27. Former VP of Global Comms Brandon Borrman asks, “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?”
28. To which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker again seems to advise staying the non-course, because “caution is warranted”:
29. A fundamental problem with tech companies and content moderation: many people in charge of speech know/care little about speech, and have to be told the basics by outsiders. To wit:
30. In one humorous exchange on day 1, Democratic congressman Ro Khanna reaches out to Gadde to gently suggest she hop on the phone to talk about the “backlash re speech.” Khanna was the only Democratic official I could find in the files who expressed concern.
Gadde replies quickly, immediately diving into the weeds of Twitter policy, unaware Khanna is more worried about the Bill of Rights:
32. Khanna tries to reroute the conversation to the First Amendment, mention of which is generally hard to find in the files:
33. Within a day, head of Public Policy Lauren Culbertson receives a ghastly letter/report from Carl Szabo of the research firm NetChoice, which had already polled 12 members of congress – 9 Rs and 3 Democrats, from “the House Judiciary Committee to Rep. Judy Chu’s office.”
34. NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it's a "tipping point," complaining tech has “grown so big that they can’t even regulate themselves, so government may need to intervene.”
35. Szabo reports to Twitter that some Hill figures are characterizing the laptop story as “tech’s Access Hollywood moment”:
36. Twitter files continued:
"THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE”
Szabo’s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democratic lawmakers’ attitudes. They want “more” moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights, it's "not absolute"
An amazing subplot of the Twitter/Hunter Biden laptop affair was how much was done without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, and how long it took for the situation to get "unfucked" (as one ex-employee put it) even after Dorsey jumped in.
While reviewing Gadde's emails, I saw a familiar name - my own. Dorsey sent her a copy of my Substack article blasting the incident
There are multiple instances in the files of Dorsey intervening to question suspensions and other moderation actions, for accounts across the political spectrum
The problem with the "hacked materials" ruling, several sources said, was that this normally 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.
It's been a whirlwind 96 hours for me, too. There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more. These issues are not limited to the political right.
Good night, everyone. Thanks to all those who picked up the phone in the last few days.
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.
3. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.
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.
5. In an early conception, Twitter more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people “the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”
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.
7. Slowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly.
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.”
9. Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party:
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:
11. This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right. opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/s…
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.
Okay, there was more throat-clearing about the process, but screw it, let's jump forward
16. The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
17. On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop:
Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine in…
nypost.com
18. 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, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.
19. White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who seethed: “At least pretend to care for the next 20 days.”
20. This led public policy executive Caroline Strom to send out a polite WTF query. Several employees noted that there was tension between the comms/policy teams, who had little/less control over moderation, and the safety/trust teams:
21. Strom’s note returned the answer that the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company’s “hacked materials” policy: web.archive.org/web/2019071714…
22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...
23. The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.
24. “They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.”
25. You can see the confusion in the following lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gadde and former Trust and safety chief Yoel Roth. Comms official Trenton Kennedy writes, “I'm struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe”:
26. By this point “everyone knew this was fucked,” said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of… continuing to err.
27. Former VP of Global Comms Brandon Borrman asks, “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?”
28. To which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker again seems to advise staying the non-course, because “caution is warranted”:
29. A fundamental problem with tech companies and content moderation: many people in charge of speech know/care little about speech, and have to be told the basics by outsiders. To wit:
30. In one humorous exchange on day 1, Democratic congressman Ro Khanna reaches out to Gadde to gently suggest she hop on the phone to talk about the “backlash re speech.” Khanna was the only Democratic official I could find in the files who expressed concern.
Gadde replies quickly, immediately diving into the weeds of Twitter policy, unaware Khanna is more worried about the Bill of Rights:
32. Khanna tries to reroute the conversation to the First Amendment, mention of which is generally hard to find in the files:
33. Within a day, head of Public Policy Lauren Culbertson receives a ghastly letter/report from Carl Szabo of the research firm NetChoice, which had already polled 12 members of congress – 9 Rs and 3 Democrats, from “the House Judiciary Committee to Rep. Judy Chu’s office.”
34. NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it's a "tipping point," complaining tech has “grown so big that they can’t even regulate themselves, so government may need to intervene.”
35. Szabo reports to Twitter that some Hill figures are characterizing the laptop story as “tech’s Access Hollywood moment”:
36. Twitter files continued:
"THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE”
Szabo’s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democratic lawmakers’ attitudes. They want “more” moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights, it's "not absolute"
An amazing subplot of the Twitter/Hunter Biden laptop affair was how much was done without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, and how long it took for the situation to get "unfucked" (as one ex-employee put it) even after Dorsey jumped in.
While reviewing Gadde's emails, I saw a familiar name - my own. Dorsey sent her a copy of my Substack article blasting the incident
There are multiple instances in the files of Dorsey intervening to question suspensions and other moderation actions, for accounts across the political spectrum
The problem with the "hacked materials" ruling, several sources said, was that this normally 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.
It's been a whirlwind 96 hours for me, too. There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more. These issues are not limited to the political right.
Good night, everyone. Thanks to all those who picked up the phone in the last few days.
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It will forever be entertaining to see neo liberals shoot their credibility and perceived morality in the foot by denying strong evidence of misconduct by those within their movement just to epic own the opposition. You look far more unreliable and rat-like by refusing to oust the obvious rapist druggie pedophiles your leader is hiding rather than acknowledging that Hunter Biden is an issue.
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I was promised Hunter penis and I did not get Hunter penis.
It's okay. I have it on good insider authority from Top Men that Matt is hoarding all the dick pics for himself. He said he will post them but only once he's finished with them. This could be a long wait fellas....
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So my takeaway from this is that (pre-Musk) Twitter were literally god damn jannies and they did it for free.
Hell not even for free. They paid the dems for the prestige of being their fucking mods.
Hell not even for free. They paid the dems for the prestige of being their fucking mods.
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You think that's bad, they at least collected a paycheck somewhat related to their work for twitter.So my takeaway from this is that (pre-Musk) Twitter were literally god damn jannies and they did it for free.
Hell not even for free. They paid the dems for the prestige of being their fucking mods.
Reddit jannies literally do it for free every. Single. Fucking. Day.
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Biden: We'll create a government propaganda arm out of twitter and make the jannies pay for itSo my takeaway from this is that (pre-Musk) Twitter were literally god damn jannies and they did it for free.
Hell not even for free. They paid the dems for the prestige of being their fucking mods.
Wait a minute, where have I heard this before......
Yes it was made with such lack of knowledge of the CEO that he was CC'd in several of the emails discussing itRandom Internet Person said:
Fucking idiot journos
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>Both Democrats and Republicans have the power to get Twitter to delete content as requested
>Biden's campaign team emailed Twitter HQ to ask them to delete 5 of Hunter Biden's reposted dick pics which could legally count as revenge porn.
>Second hand quote of a second-hand quote with the scary paraphrase "The Bill of Rights isn't absolute" (this means that the democrats are going to cram gay vaccines into your eyeballs!!)
>Dems wants Twitter to janny harder
>Twitter's mods LITERALLY did it for free
tl;dr -- This is a giant fucking nothingburger. There's absolutely no new info about Hunter Biden whatsoever here that damns anyone.
All Elon wanted to do here is run black PR for Biden/the Democrats and try to curry favor with Republicans after Kanye spent the last week and a half wiping his dick all over the party and Trump's reputation. 95% of conservative drones won't read this shit themselves without having shills like Jack Posobiec or Tucker Carlson's voice narrating it and "explaining" it to mean that the world is coming to an end because Twitter removed some dick pics (not that Tucker or any conservative journo will ever go into any detail about what those links entail).
The worst part about any of this is that it revealed that the jannies were doing this shit under Dorsey's nose, in which case the problem is basically solved since Dorsey abdicated his position to Elon, Elon has fired the people responsible for their gayops and now he's in control of the website to make sure it never happens again and Hunter Biden's dick pics stay up for as long as possible.
This laptop faggotry is on the same level of the private email server faggotry. It's election era black PR that no one will care about after a week. 44 Billion dollars well spent Elon, you fucking idiot.
Can't wait for the #RedditFiles where it's revealed that liberal tranny jannies remove content that offends liberals and/or trannies!
>Biden's campaign team emailed Twitter HQ to ask them to delete 5 of Hunter Biden's reposted dick pics which could legally count as revenge porn.
>Second hand quote of a second-hand quote with the scary paraphrase "The Bill of Rights isn't absolute" (this means that the democrats are going to cram gay vaccines into your eyeballs!!)
>Dems wants Twitter to janny harder
>Twitter's mods LITERALLY did it for free
tl;dr -- This is a giant fucking nothingburger. There's absolutely no new info about Hunter Biden whatsoever here that damns anyone.
All Elon wanted to do here is run black PR for Biden/the Democrats and try to curry favor with Republicans after Kanye spent the last week and a half wiping his dick all over the party and Trump's reputation. 95% of conservative drones won't read this shit themselves without having shills like Jack Posobiec or Tucker Carlson's voice narrating it and "explaining" it to mean that the world is coming to an end because Twitter removed some dick pics (not that Tucker or any conservative journo will ever go into any detail about what those links entail).
The worst part about any of this is that it revealed that the jannies were doing this shit under Dorsey's nose, in which case the problem is basically solved since Dorsey abdicated his position to Elon, Elon has fired the people responsible for their gayops and now he's in control of the website to make sure it never happens again and Hunter Biden's dick pics stay up for as long as possible.
This laptop faggotry is on the same level of the private email server faggotry. It's election era black PR that no one will care about after a week. 44 Billion dollars well spent Elon, you fucking idiot.
Can't wait for the #RedditFiles where it's revealed that liberal tranny jannies remove content that offends liberals and/or trannies!
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Early articles:
Elon Musk’s Twitter Files reveals former executives’ abuse of power, trust & safety
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Former Employees React to Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ as Snoozefest
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‘Twitter Files’ Touted by Musk Reveal How Execs Debated Decision to Block NY Post Account Over Hunter Biden Articles
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Kanye Who? Musk Shifts Twitter Focus to Hunter Biden Laptop
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Files reveals former executives’ abuse of power, trust & safety
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Former Employees React to Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ as Snoozefest
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‘Twitter Files’ Touted by Musk Reveal How Execs Debated Decision to Block NY Post Account Over Hunter Biden Articles
Twitter Files: Execs Debated Blocking NY Post Over Biden Stories - Va…
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Kanye Who? Musk Shifts Twitter Focus to Hunter Biden Laptop
Kanye Who? Musk Shifts Twitter Focus to Hunter Biden Laptop
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