Musk publiceert "THE TWITTER FILES" over o.a. Hunter Biden en zwaar pro-Democratische bias
Primeur terecht aan Matt Taibbi gegund
Okay, onderstaand 41 tweets waar mogelijk als screenshot, en waar nodig opklikbaar embedded. Samenvatting van de belangrijkste bevindingen: beide politieke partijen hadden de optie om tweets te laten reviewen of zelfs te laten verwijderen. Maar dat systeem leunde op menselijke contacten, en aangezien Twitter letterlijk voor 99% uit Democraten bestond, hadden de Democraten veel meer toegang tot politieke censuur. Taibi: "This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right."
En dat brengt je natuurlijk bij het heerlijkste verhaal van dit decennium: Hunter Bidens LAPTOP FROM HELL. Want dat ging volgens Taibi ook precies zoals iedereen dacht dat het ging. "Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography."
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THE TWITTER FILES
11. This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right. opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/s…
18. Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.
20.This led public policy executive Caroline Strom to send out a polite WTF query. Several employees noted that there was tension between the comms/policy teams, who had little/less control over moderation, and the safety/trust teams:
22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...
26. By this point “everyone knew this was fucked,” said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of… continuing to err.
28. To which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker again seems to advise staying the non-course, because “caution is warranted”:
30. In one humorous exchange on day 1, Democratic congressman Ro Khanna reaches out to Gadde to gently suggest she hop on the phone to talk about the “backlash re speech.” Khanna was the only Democratic official I could find in the files who expressed concern.
32.Khanna tries to reroute the conversation to the First Amendment, mention of which is generally hard to find in the files:
34.NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it's a "tipping point," complaining tech has “grown so big that they can’t even regulate themselves, so government may need to intervene.”
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