Skip to content
A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network

Finally, proof Twitter invented reason to help Joe Biden win in 2020

We re erring on the side of including a warning and preventing this content from being amplified, Twitter s safety chief Yoel Roth said of why The Post s coverage of Hunter Biden s laptop in 2020 was censored. He attached a generic unsafe message to the Tweet not ideal, he wrote, but it s the only thing we have.

In other words we have to stop this, reasons be damned.

Roth s message is part of a shocking collection of inside correspondence released by new Twitter owner Elon Musk through journalist Matt Taibbi. The messages reveal a small group of busybodies a group that didn t even include CEO Jack Dorsey making their own decisions on what to delete or block based on their own liberal biases.

They just freelanced it, an employee says. 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.

The Post s reporting wasn t just blocked, it was suppressed. They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography, Taibbi writes.

Even internally, the logic was seen as weak. Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy? Brandon Borrman, vice president of global communications, asked.

via nypost.com