I love this friends so as the world turns or tweets... Whichever fits your fancy. All I know is that these leftist heads keep exploding like a nuke over Elon Musk's release of 'The Twitter Files,' journalist Matt Taibbi attacked: 'Selling your soul for the richest white nationalist on Earth'
What a clown show this Matt Taibbi guy... Musk, a self-described free-speech absolutist, retweeted the Twitter Files Friday night, releasing a series of internal communications released to and reported on by the independent journalist Matt Taibbi, who called the internal documents a “Frankenstinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.”
The documents show Twitter staff took “extraordinary steps” to suppress an October 2020 New York Post story that claimed unseemly ties between then Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian energy company that paid money to Biden’s son Hunter and which former President Donald Trump took as an October Surprise to falsely allege Biden had acted corruptly.
Twitter officials, the documents show, debated whether or not to suppress the story, which claimed to be sourced to a laptop once owned by Hunter Biden, but which they feared could be the result of Russian hacking.
Even without evidence the information came from the Russians—or any other third party Twitter seemed, according to the documents, to decide to suppress the story under its Hacking Policy (no evidence has ever emerged that the information was hacked).
Twitter ultimately suppressed the story and accounts trying to share it a decision done without the knowledge of former CEO Jack Dorsey, who later admitted the suppression was a mistake.
Taibbi also alleges “celebrities and unknowns alike” could have their accounts removed or reviewed at the request of a political party, though the system “wasn’t balanced” between the parties but rather determined by contacts with staff, which he said leaned heavily to the left, providing more room for Democrats to “complain.”
It’s Musk’s latest plea to conservatives, one month after he said he would reinstate Trump’s account which was suspended after the January 6 insurrection (although the former president has sworn off a return to the site) and after he urged his followers to vote for Republicans in the midterm elections.
Musk had teased the release of the documents pertaining to “free speech suppression” throughout the week, tweeting on Friday that Twitter would publish “what really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter.”
By the end of 2020, Dorsey had admitted to members of Congress that Twitter’s suppression of the story was a mistake and that Twitter had since updated its policies, after news of an alleged suppression was the makings of anti-conservative bias within the platform. Earlier this week, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth said the decision to suppress the story was the result of a fear that the story was the result of a hack, although he added he personally disagreed with the decision.
Taibbi suggests in his thread that there is “no evidence, that I’ve seen, of any government involvement in the laptop story”—undermining a Republican conspiracy that the FBI was involved in the move to suppress the reporting. Nonetheless, Musk tweeted separately, with no supporting evidence, that Twitter acted “under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review.”
Musk has also faced scorn from former Twitter officials, including Roth, who criticized Musk’s rollout of Twitter Blue, Musk’s program to allow people to purchase verification checkmarks without going through any vetting process. That rollout led to multiple parody accounts spreading disinformation about celebrities, athletes, politicians and brands, including Lockheed Martin, Eli Lilly and Nintendo.
Before he completed his $44 billion purchase of the social media giant, Musk had pledged to advertisers he would prevent the platform from plummeting into a “hellscape” where anything can be said “without consequences,” although he has since come under fire, again, for loosening its free speech policies.
That plea, however, did not prevent advertisers from leaving. After a series of high-profile antisemitic posts, primarily from rapper Kanye West, Musk suspended the controversial rapper’s account.
Hours after the Twitter Files were released, Musk tweeted, “Tune in for Episode 2 of the Twitter Files tomorrow,” although he did not specify what the content of those files would include.
But wait there is more! Don't forget how Hollyweird is handling this! LMAO! Our #MeToo stealing AMIGA!
The one who used to call Tony Danza the boss but now thinks she rules the planet and we all need to do what she says "Alyssa Milano" yes she still on her B/S, now she says she needs therapy over Twitter even 'The View' hosts find her RIDICULOUS... On “The Rubin Report” Wednesday, BlazeTV host Dave Rubin shared a clip of Alyssa Milano telling the hosts on “The View”
why she has "spent many, many days with [her] therapist" talking about Twitter. "Never ever read the comments [on Twitter]," co-host Sunny Hostin advises at the beginning of the clip.
"I always read the comments. Who doesn't read the comments?" Milano countered. "Do you turn the comments off?" she asked co-host Joy Behar. "No," Behar answered. "I just don't read them. I'm not interested unless it's somebody that I respect."
"I left [Twitter]," co-host Whoopi Goldberg chimed in. "Listen, I've spent many, many days with my therapist talking about Twitter and social media," Milano said.
"Because of what some anonymous person said to you?" Hostin asked. "Yeah, it's hurtful," Milano answered.
"Somebody who doesn't know you, hasn't met you, doesn't know your family, doesn't know you, doesn't know anything about you?" Goldberg asked.
The Twitter Files, a 37-part Twitter thread of internal documents that shows some of the internal debate and reasoning behind the social media platform’s controversial “free speech suppression” around a bombshell 2020 report on President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden though despite Musk’s hype, it doesn’t deliver any particular shocking new details.
We all know the truth about what happened... Trump was innocent, the media including Social Media and BIG TECH all got together to suppress information in order to help with the real "BIG LIE" as Nasty Nancy Pelosi would say.
Elon Musk doesn’t own a home, because he currently lives rent-free in the heads of AOC, Mark Ruffalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen King, Gigi Hadid, Jack White and Trent Reznor.
— TY LEMMON (@tuxlemons) November 23, 2022
