discussion Matt Taibbi leaks emails showing Biden admin had Twitter censor Hunter Biden news

[Khal]

So, the OP's source himself admitted that there's no evidence that the Biden admin had anything to do with this? Is this where we are now, being a liberal, but using right wing methods (lying, twisting and posting incomplete sources) because it suits your agenda in this instance?

[Stimulus]

Flop.

 

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Elon Musk’s promised Twitter exposé on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/2/23490863/elon-musk-twitter-expose-hunter-biden-flop-doxxed-multiple-people

 

The emails show Twitter’s team struggling with how to explain their handling of the New York Post story that broke the news of Hunter’s leaked laptop files — and whether they made the correct moderation decision in the first place. At the time, it was not clear if the materials were genuine, and Twitter decided to ban links to or images of the Post’s story, citing its policy on the distribution of hacked materials. The move was controversial even then, primarily among Republicans but also with speech advocates worried about Twitter’s decision to block a news outlet.

 

While Musk might be hoping we see documents showing Twitter’s (largely former) staffers nefariously deciding to act in a way that helped now-President Joe Biden, the communications mostly show a team debating how to finalize and communicate a difficult moderation decision.

“I’m struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this unsafe,” one former communications staffer wrote. “Will we also mark similar stories as unsafe?” asked another.

 

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of trust and safety at the time, said the company had decided to err on the side of caution “given the SEVERE risks here and lessons of 2016.” Jim Baker, Twitter’s deputy general counsel, weighed in to agree that “it is reasonable for us to assume that they may have been [hacked] and that caution is warranted.”

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43 minutes ago, Khal said:

So, the OP's source himself admitted that there's no evidence that the Biden admin had anything to do with this? Is this where we are now, being a liberal, but using right wing methods (lying, twisting and posting incomplete sources) because it suits your agenda in this instance?

That makes sense for quite a few of the posters on this site

[FameFatale]

The way I saw Republicans showing out on Twitter last night I thought it was some huge smoking gun but it wasn’t really much of anything and stuff we kind of already knew   

 

 

 

 

[Katy V.!]

2 hours ago, Khal said:

So, the OP's source himself admitted that there's no evidence that the Biden admin had anything to do with this? Is this where we are now, being a liberal, but using right wing methods (lying, twisting and posting incomplete sources) because it suits your agenda in this instance?

Both Biden's campaign team and the Trump administration used Twitter to supress stories they don't like (even by going with Democrats narrative that the Hunter story was just gossip and no criminal activity).  Multiple parties across different countries have done the same (and not with just Twitter). 

 

Why is "Politicians controlling social media for their own benefit" not against your "agenda"? Will it take Elon going full fascist to finally realize this is at least somewhat wrong? Because it certainly looks like we're heading there so you might as well catch up

[GhostBox]

So they are having a party because the Biden campaign did not xactly the same thing as the trump admin was doing and asking for certain things to be censored. Specifically the candidates sons revenge porn nudes.  ?

 

they just keep failing at bring Joe down. 
we will see more of this when the gop house majority overstep their boundaries over and over again. 

Edited December 3, 2022 by GhostBox

[Kamil24]

Twitter was always corrupt

 

[Vermillion]

12 hours ago, Mr. Mendes said:

So what this basically says is that Democrats have indeed gotten in contact with Twitter to remove some things but that the laptop story in particular, which the right is calling their smoking gun, had nothing to do with the government and everything to do with Twitter’s own internal team. 

The investment the right is putting into this laptop story is baffling to me, seeing as it has little to do with what will ACTUALLY likely bring Hunter down, which is the separate DOJ investigation on Ukraine that actually has very little to do with this. But to your point...

 

[Vermillion]

Also, side bar, I don't need to hear ANY criticism from Trump supporters in this thread that ignored Jared's billions to save his 666 building from the Qataris followed by billions from the Saudis POST-Khashoggi slaughtering. So spare me those lectures. 

[GhostBox]

Perfect thread on this ?

 

 

[Kassi]

Sounds like Elon trying to change the subject over his inconsistent ban of Kanye 

 

Hmm.

[fauxtography]

Talk about a scandal that I literally give 0 fucks about. The way the right is running around like this expose will break the fundamentals of government and they're all allowed to go anarchist now.

[Jotham]

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[Brishka]

ATRL's main far-left propagandist is busy spreading MAGA lies. Political parties and campaigns are private actors who do not wield government power. 

Edited December 4, 2022 by Brishka

[loveisdead9582]

This entire thread is literally just flame bait. The only things that were surpressed were hacked nudes. Nothing involving finances or any sort of illegal goings on we’re censored. 

[Sergi91]

Lol

[RunUpDoneUp]

The way this turned out to be a NOTHINGburger. 

 

 

Elon is just incapable of Ws.

[Bosque]

The biggest nothing Burger of all time  yet the right and far left is running around trying to get everyone to be shocked about the democrats (who weren’t in government at the time) asking for a leaked dick pic to be removed from Twitter 

 

Edit: not him outright admitting literally that the government had absolutely nothing to do with the Hunter biden story, and his right wing followers (as well as some posters here) being just unable to read at all

Edited December 4, 2022 by Dephira

[Wonderland]

How kind of Elon to spend $46B to expose this. A champion of the people  

[Komet]

Stuff like this is why RATpublicans flopped at the midterms. Nobody cares except for the brainwashed fascists that would've already voted for them no matter what 

Edited December 5, 2022 by Komet blu

[BowWow]

Who cares

 

Elon can still choke on his apartheid vomit 

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[spree]

is his dick BIG at least?