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Anti-democrat journalists were given extensive access by Musk to internal files at Twitter and the best they could come up with is finding that the Biden campai

Anti-democrat journalists were given extensive access by Musk to internal files at Twitter and the best they could come up with is finding that the Biden campaign was sending emails with links to posts they believed were against Twitter terms of service, and Twitter employees then checked the posts, discussed internally, and usually agreed they should take those down. Some of the examples of tweets taken down by this process by the anti-Biden journalist were investigated by others and found to be pictures of Biden's son naked from his laptop. And the Trump presidency was also sending similar reports doing with the same results. So the worse that Musk's personally selected journalists could find was a special process that political figures from both parties had where their abuse reports were getting prioritized.

bdangubic 2y ago
this won’t help with people who comment “did you hear what zuck said…” :)
NitpickLawyer 2y ago
I'm talking about zuck and meta's products. edit since I can't reply: The thread went > It was state-sponsored media when the Biden administration colluded with Twitter and Facebook to censor Americans. reply > debunked > didn't zuck literally say that ... It's so sad that people want their take to be correct that they can't even follow a thread 2 ideas deep...
- Jare 2y ago
  You should probably have clarified this when you originally replied to a comment about X, on a thread about X, on a post about X.
throwawaythekey 2y ago
It was a fair bit more than that. From the left-leaning guardian > The most worrying issue the Twitter Files have exposed is the level of contact between the social media company and state security organisations. The FBI regularly holds meetings with Twitter executives, pressuring them to take action against “misinformation”, even when this amounted to little more than a satirical tweet, and demanding the personal data of users. Take note of the "pressuring", in line with what was reported by Zuck. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-twitter-files-should-disturb-liberal-critics-of-elon-musk-and-heres-why https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-tw...
- acdha 2y ago
  I’d recommend reading the source claim. Those “FBI meetings” were an email asking if Twitter would reconsider allowing their commercial data provider to access the bulk firehose feed: https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1604888013422485505 https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1604888013422485505 Whether or not you think that’s reasonable from a surveillance perspective it’s nothing even remotely like the “state-sponsored media” claim.

bdangubic 2y ago

this won’t help with people who comment “did you hear what zuck said…” :)

NitpickLawyer 2y ago

I'm talking about zuck and meta's products. edit since I can't reply: The thread went > It was state-sponsored media when the Biden administration colluded with Twitter and Facebook to censor Americans. reply > debunked > didn't zuck literally say that ... It's so sad that people want their take to be correct that they can't even follow a thread 2 ideas deep...

Jare 2y ago
You should probably have clarified this when you originally replied to a comment about X, on a thread about X, on a post about X.

throwawaythekey 2y ago

It was a fair bit more than that. From the left-leaning guardian > The most worrying issue the Twitter Files have exposed is the level of contact between the social media company and state security organisations. The FBI regularly holds meetings with Twitter executives, pressuring them to take action against “misinformation”, even when this amounted to little more than a satirical tweet, and demanding the personal data of users. Take note of the "pressuring", in line with what was reported by Zuck. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-twitter-files-should-disturb-liberal-critics-of-elon-musk-and-heres-why https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-tw...

acdha 2y ago
I’d recommend reading the source claim. Those “FBI meetings” were an email asking if Twitter would reconsider allowing their commercial data provider to access the bulk firehose feed: https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1604888013422485505 https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1604888013422485505 Whether or not you think that’s reasonable from a surveillance perspective it’s nothing even remotely like the “state-sponsored media” claim.