On Friday, new Twitter CEO Elon Musk posted in conjunction with Substack journalist Matt Taibbi to release “The Twitter Files” where the two exposed the company’s media suppression. Now the two have teased a sequel to that groundbreaking report.
“Tune in for Episode 2 of The Twitter Files tomorrow!” Musk Tweeted.
Taibbi has joined in on building the hype for part 2 and has announced there are more releases to come and this is only the beginning.
“It’s been a whirlwind 96 hours for me, too. There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more. These issues are not limited to the political right,” Taibbi said.
Tune in for Episode 2 of The Twitter Files tomorrow!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 3, 2022
Part 1 of the Twitter files went like this: Just weeks leading to the Presidential election, the New York Post dropped a bombshell report on then-candidate, Joe Biden and his illegal family business dealings sourced from his son, Hunter’s abandoned laptop in a Delaware computer repair shop.
Twitter, along with Facebook, and several mainstream media outlets made mass censorship efforts, falsely alleging that the details of the story were part of a “Russian disinformation campaign.”
The Biden campaign was colluding with Twitter weeks prior to the election. According to the reporting, company executives would receive requests from the Biden team citing unfavorable content on Twitter. The executives would respond to the requests as “handled.”
Taibbi further reports that top-level Twitter executives made the decision without informing then-CEO, Jack Dorsey. The company’s former head of legal, policy, and trust Vijaya Gadde played a key role in the censorship of the New York Post story.
It's been a whirlwind 96 hours for me, too. There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more. These issues are not limited to the political right.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
Further discussions with former Twitter employees reveal that executives debating if the contents were indeed “hacked” as they had initially perceived. But without any verification, the ban on any discussion surrounding the story was upheld.
Taibbi further reports that Carl Szabo from the political research firm NetChoice, wrote to a Twitter executive indicating that members of congress are upset with the company’s decision to censor the story, warning of a potential hearing in the near future.
Szabo noted that some Democrats in Congress believed “THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE” and encouraged Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden story.
Taibbi remarks that most of the censorship decisions were made without the knowledge of the company’s then-CEO, Jack Dorsey.
This is what we know so far but there is so much more to come! Stay Tuned.
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