Twitter Files Setting Stage for Reckoning on 2020 Election Interference – AMAC – The Association of Mature American Citizens

New Twitter owner Elon Musk set the internet ablaze Friday afternoon by suddenly announcing that, after reviewing the company s internal documents, the public would soon learn what really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter. A few hours later, journalist Matt Taibbi (to whom Musk had presumably given the documents) released a roughly 40-tweet thread in what Musk hinted was just the first installation of The Twitter Files.

In the end, the series of screenshots and revelations that Taibbi published wasn t the smoking gun that many conservatives had hoped would take down Big Tech, the Democratic Party, and the mainstream media in one fell swoop. But the Twitter thread nonetheless confirmed long-held suspicions about collusion between Big Tech and elected Democrats, and it proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Twitter moderators indeed suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story two years ago without any reason to believe that the story was false or Russian disinformation. Perhaps more importantly, Musk s courageous effort to expose censorship and election meddling has now thrust the issue back to the forefront of the national conversation, paving the way for conservatives in both the media and Congress to continue their struggle against the enemies of free speech.

Taibbi s Twitter thread began by recounting how Twitter s moderation tools, originally designed to keep content like direct threats of violence and child pornography off the site, eventually evolved into a way for Democrats to outsource censorship to Twitter s left-wing staff. More to review from the Biden team, read one screenshot from October 2020, followed by a series of links that led to posts showing images from the now-infamous Hunter Biden laptop. Handled, came the reply a few hours later, presumably indicating that the Biden team s request to remove the posts had been granted.

via amac.us