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Joe Biden wasn’t “the government” yet, look at the date. I wish we knew what these tweets actually were. If it was suppressing a news story, that’s bad. If it’s
by paulgb 4y ago
Joe Biden wasn’t “the government” yet, look at the date. I wish we knew what these tweets actually were. If it was suppressing a news story, that’s bad. If it’s asking for death threats to be removed, that’s not bad.
(Matt himself acknowledges that both parties had tweets taken down, his evidence for bias is apparently that Twitter employees donated more to democrats https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752?s=46&t=edhjSccEuxK5jecEXtW1dg https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752?s=46&...)
Surely Twitter still has the data in an archive somewhere, but it’s not clear from the thread that Matt knows what the content of these tweets was.
- mikeyouse 4y agoMany of the removed tweets flagged by Bidens team were literally nude pictures of Hunter Biden.
- bavell 4y agoWow, 99.7% contributions went to democrats... If that isn't damning evidence of partisan bias I don't know what is! I honestly wasn't expecting it to be that one-sided.
- CodeArtisan 4y agofor 2022 mid terms, opensecrets.org reports 95.38% for democrats, 0.19% republicans, 4.42% others. overview of 2022 mid terms for technology: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.php?ind=B&Bkdn=DemRep&cycle=2022 https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.php?ind=B&Bkd... Twitter specifically: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/recipients?toprecipscycle=2022&id=D000067113&candscycle=2022 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/recipients?toprecip... FTX: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ftx-us/summary?id=D000073694&topnumcycle=2022 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ftx-us/summary?id=D00007369...
- djur 4y agoThe two "others" were Bernie Sanders and Evan McMullin, and the one Republican was Adam Kinzinger, a high-profile Trump critic who didn't even run for reelection in '22. There was a single individual donation of $200 to the RNC. I don't know what anybody expects, though. Tech workers tend to be young, affluent, educated city-dwellers, and that demographic is strongly and increasingly inclined toward supporting Democrats. Twitter is headquartered in San Francisco, a liberal city in a heavily Democratic state. There's no conspiracy at work here. Republicans could choose to try to appeal to tech workers if they wanted.
- ttyprintk 4y agoThose are from individuals, capped at a few thousand dollars. The GOP raised more than the Democrats in the PAC arena, so we’ll never know the true balance when accounting for big donations at the top.