(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) Twitter CEO Elon Musk blew up the social media platform Friday night when he released files that detail the DNC and the Biden regime’s collusion with Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, which proved the family’s international corruption.
Several emails show Twitter employees simply taking orders from the White House:
8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.” pic.twitter.com/mnv0YZI4af
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
Twitter employees were actively censoring and suppressing any dissent from the narrative being pushed by the Biden campaign, in a desperate attempt to keep the story from gaining traction before the election:
19. White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who seethed: “At least pretend to care for the next 20 days.” pic.twitter.com/CcXTfsdzCT
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
Journalist Matt Taibbi published a 36-post thread on Twitter that goes through the social media company’s complex censorship system, which often acted on directives from top-ranking executives and operatives within the Biden administration.
Democrats and their operatives at times seemed to use their inside track to Twitter as a personal point of privilege and without regard to basic rights.
36.Twitter files continued:
"THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE”
Szabo’s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democratic lawmakers’ attitudes. They want “more” moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights, it's "not absolute" pic.twitter.com/cWdNYIprp8— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
Without any specific intelligence from the Trump administration or outside knowledge, Twitter executives decided to block the laptop story under their “hacked materials” policy.
24. “They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.”
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
Several internal conversations show executives questioning whether the story should fall under Twitter’s hacked materials policy without specific evidence of the laptop having been stolen or unlawfully accessed. Hunter left the laptop at a computer story, and the owner reported it to the FBI.
https://t.co/j4EeXEAw6F can see the confusion in the following lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gadde and former Trust and safety chief Yoel Roth. Comms official Trenton Kennedy writes, “I’m struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe”: pic.twitter.com/w1wBMlG33U
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
The new information about the Biden-Twitter collusion scandal came a few days after Musk confirmed that Twitter interfered in multiple elections, especially the 2020 presidential election, during which it tipped its editorial scales against President Donald Trump.
Apparently former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who has endorsed a liberal free speech policy for the platform, did not participate in many censorship decisions, and often opposed them.
23. The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
