The ‘Twitter Files’ Are Too Serious to Be Left to Elon Musk’s Pals

Dec 14 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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I’m sorry, but the Twitter Files are not a “nothingburger.”

The information revealed so far about Twitter’s internal deliberations shows that the company’s “content moderation” decisions were often justified on grounds that the decision-makers themselves found dubious. The company routinely honored censorship requests from powerful factions, and some political commentators were “shadow banned” in a way that appears to...

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