BREAKING: Elon Musk drops third set of 'Twitter Files' detailing federal involvement in decision to ban Trump
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk released a third trove of documents detailing the decision at Twitter to suspend former President Donald Trump permanently and how federal agencies might have been involved.
The thread was posted by journalist Matt Taibbi on his Twitter account.
\u201c1. THREAD: The Twitter Files\nTHE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP\nPart One: October 2020-January 6th\u201d— Matt Taibbi (@Matt Taibbi) 1670627063
"We’ll show you what hasn’t been revealed: the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies," wrote Taibbi.
Emails showed "chaos" internally as Twitter executives tried to find the rationale for suspending Trump.
"The bulk of the internal debate leading to Trump’s ban took place in those three January days. However, the intellectual framework was laid in the months preceding the Capitol riots," Taibbi reported.
"After J6, internal Slacks show Twitter executives getting a kick out of intensified relationships with federal agencies. Here’s Trust and Safety head Yoel Roth, lamenting a lack of 'generic enough' calendar descriptions to concealing his 'very interesting' meeting partners," he continued.
Taibbi reported that there was a tension between the small Safety Operations department and "a smaller, more powerful cadre of senior policy execs."
He said there was clear interaction with "federal enforcement and intelligence agencies" about content moderation during that time. One email showed the FBI expressing concern about two tweets with claims about election fraud that were debunked by Politico.
"Examining the entire election enforcement Slack, we didn’t see one reference to moderation requests from the Trump campaign, the Trump White House, or Republicans generally. We looked. They may exist: we were told they do. However, they were absent here," said Taibbi.
He goes on to document a bizarre debate over whether to censor a joke made by former Gov. Mike Huckabee about election fraud.
"This seemingly silly case actually foreshadows serious later issues," Taibbi writes.
Meanwhile, tweets in support of President Joe Biden that decried possible voter fraud by Republicans were shown to be approved in some emails.
Taibbi said there would be more documents released on Saturday and Sunday.
Musk promised to reveal documents related to controversial decisions made by the Twitter team before the acquired the social media platform. The first "Twitter Files" showed why Twitter employees decided to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, while a second edition released documents related to the shadow-banning of conservatives on the application.
Musk also ended the ban on Trump's Twitter account, but the former president has so far refused to return and instead is posting on "Truth Social."
This is a developing story and may be updated.
Here's more about the Twitter Files revelations:
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Glenn Beck: Elon Musk's 'Twitter Files' part 2 EXPLAINED
Former New York Times journalist Bari Weiss has unveiled the second round of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" and, despite what the corporate media insists, this is a very big deal. Twitter clearly lied to us about shadow-banning conservatives, and now we have proof.
"Teams of Twitter employees built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts, or even trending topics, all in secret, without informing users," Weiss reported.
But that’s just the beginning. On "The Glenn Beck Program" Friday, Glenn explained everything inside the second set of "Twitter Files."
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Jean-Pierre calls 'Twitter files' revelations about censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story a 'distraction that is full of old news'
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called revelations about Twitter censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story a "distraction" that was full of "old news."
She made the comments during Monday's White House media briefing.
"My question was that you had said I think six or so days ago that the White House was watching closely the situation at Twitter after Elon Musk's ownership of it with respect to misinformation. And because these files were released on the basis of, you know, hacked materials clause at Twitter, decisions were made to censor reporting leading to the election," said a reporter.
"My question was, is it the White House view that these decisions were made appropriately in light of what has come out?" she asked.
"So look, we see this as an interesting, or a coincidence, if I may, that he would so haphazardly, that Twitter would so haphazardly push this distraction that is full of old news, if you think about it," Jean-Pierre responded.
"And at the same time, Twitter is facing real and very serious questions about the rising volume of anger, hate, and anti-Semitism on that platform and how they're letting it happen. And you know, the president said last week, more leaders need to speak out and reject this, and it's very alarming and very dangerous," she continued.
"But our focus right now is helping the American family," she concluded and pivoted to other Biden policies.
Elon Musk released a trove of internal emails related to the decision to censor the laptop story ahead of the 2020 election. The emails show that the Biden campaign asked the company to review tweets and users who might have violated its terms of service, but the debate over the Hunter Biden story was criticized internally.
While the report also said the Trump team asked for reviews from Twitter, the left-leaning values of the employees at the social media company meant that Biden requests were given precedence. The emails also showed many Democrats calling for more censorship while at least one Democratic lawmaker warned Twitter that the censorship was in violation of free speech rights.
Here's the video of Jean-Pierre's comments:
\u201cJean-Pierre on @elonmusk releasing the TwitterFiles on Twitter's censorship:\n\n"We see this as an interesting, or a coincidence, if I may, that Twitter would so haphazardly push this distraction that is full of old news."\u201d— TheBlaze (@TheBlaze) 1670275613
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