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Ask HN: Why Twitter is not releasing “Twitter files” to the public?
Does anyone has some ideas on why the "twitter files" part 1 and or 2 are not released to the public?
- bdcrazy 4y agoLike most news, they want to control the narrative. As they drip it out, they want you to form a specific opinion. Psychology has shown first impressions can be nearly impossible to change, especially if they conform to your already held beliefs.
- smt88 4y agoThere's only one plausible reason. It's because they don't actual tell the narrative that Musk and other right-wing conspiracy theorists are suggesting they do. Jack Dorsey confirmed as much and advocated for releasing them all immediately without editing them. Musk doesn't care about a legal review of the documents, at least according to him when he fired their legal counsel over it.
- browserman 4y agoBecause the whole purpose of the exercise is to manufacture right-wing agitprop, not an actual good-faith effort to provide transparency to the public?