Elon Musk released the anticlimatic “Twitter Files” about “free speech suppression” by the social-media platform on Friday evening. On Monday, he teased the release, writing, “The public deserves to know what really happened …”
What followed after was a series of tweeted snippets detailing what the public has known—and what Twitter executives themselves have detailed over the past two years—about the company’s deliberation surrounding the New York Post’s publication of files from Hunter Biden shortly before the 2020 election.
“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, Substack writer and former longtime Rolling Stone writer, darkly intoned Friday evening.
But contrary to the melodramatic billing, the files mostly show what’s already been documented: that Twitter removed links to the*Post’s story and files from Hunter Biden’s laptop and struggled with how to react to the surprise revelation of the leak of files from a presidential candidate’s son.
Taibbi and Musk’s “Twitter Files” appeared to add little beyond what former executives have said was a confused and bungled response.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-twitter-files-1234640842/
Poor poor poor Dr. InExcessivePain and Aunt Earl. They can not catch a break.
What followed after was a series of tweeted snippets detailing what the public has known—and what Twitter executives themselves have detailed over the past two years—about the company’s deliberation surrounding the New York Post’s publication of files from Hunter Biden shortly before the 2020 election.
“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, Substack writer and former longtime Rolling Stone writer, darkly intoned Friday evening.
But contrary to the melodramatic billing, the files mostly show what’s already been documented: that Twitter removed links to the*Post’s story and files from Hunter Biden’s laptop and struggled with how to react to the surprise revelation of the leak of files from a presidential candidate’s son.
Taibbi and Musk’s “Twitter Files” appeared to add little beyond what former executives have said was a confused and bungled response.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-twitter-files-1234640842/
Poor poor poor Dr. InExcessivePain and Aunt Earl. They can not catch a break.
