Internal Twitter documents released by journalists Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse late Saturday showed how executives of the social media platform decided to deviate from a longstanding company policy to permanently ban former President Donald Trump. Yoel Roth, then-Twitter’s head of trust and safety, told a sales executive in a message on Jan. 7, 2021—one day…
Twitter Deviated From Longstanding Policy to Justify Trump Ban, Part 4 of ‘Twitter Files’ Reveals
December 11, 2022
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What Is the JCPA?
December 10, 2022
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The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is a bill that attempted to attach to the National Defense Authorization Act. After blowback from both the right and the left, the non-defense provision has been stripped from the bill and calls Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s leadership into question. – BUY Jan 6 DVD: www.epochtv.shop/product-page/dvd-the-real-story-of-january-6, Promo…
Internal Files Point to Twitter Meddling in 2020 Elections
December 10, 2022
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The latest episode of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files,” internal communications about the social media giant’s “free speech suppression” on the platform, reveals a soft-on-Biden tough-on-Trump bias in content enforcement, raising questions about how heavily the social media platform put its finger on the scales in the 2020 election. The latest set of internal Twitter…
Twitter Part of Efforts to Interfere With US Elections: Gingrich
December 9, 2022
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The revelations coming from Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk about the platform’s behind-scenes operation to suppress certain viewpoints has been “pretty horrifying,” and shows that the platform was part of the efforts to interfere with the 2020 presidential elections, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In the span of a week, Musk has released…
PREMIERING NOW: Kash’s Corner: James Baker and Perkins Coie, Russiagate Architects, Are Back as the Twitter Files Saga Unfolds
December 9, 2022
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This episode will premiere on Friday, Dec. 9, at 8 p.m. ET. Earlier this week, Elon Musk confirmed that Twitter deputy general counsel and former FBI general counsel James Baker had been “exited” from the company. He’d reportedly been “vetting” the first batch of internal Twitter files before their release to independent journalists Matt Taibbi…
Kash’s Corner: James Baker and Perkins Coie, Russiagate Architects, Are Back as the Twitter Files Saga Unfolds
December 9, 2022
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Earlier this week, Elon Musk confirmed that Twitter deputy general counsel and former FBI general counsel James Baker had been “exited” from the company. He’d reportedly been “vetting” the first batch of internal Twitter files before their release to independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. While he was at the FBI, Baker played a…
Members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council Resign, Claim Hate Speech on the Rise Under Musk’s Leadership
Three members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council resigned this week, citing concerns that “the safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline.” Eirliani Abdul Rahman, Anne Collier, and Lesley Podesta all left the council on Thursday. Rahman served on the council’s Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention advisory group and Collier had been serving…
PREMIERING 8PM ET: Kash’s Corner: James Baker and Perkins Coie, Russiagate Architects, Are Back as the Twitter Files Saga Unfolds
December 9, 2022
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This episode will premiere on Friday, Dec. 9, at 8 p.m. ET. Earlier this week, Elon Musk confirmed that Twitter deputy general counsel and former FBI general counsel James Baker had been “exited” from the company. He’d reportedly been “vetting” the first batch of internal Twitter files before their release to independent journalists Matt Taibbi…
Trump to Musk: Release Twitter Files on My Suspension, Other 2020 Election-Related Decisions
December 9, 2022
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Former President Donald Trump may not be returning to Twitter, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t watching closely to see what the platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, will release next. Following the latest disclosures in Musk’s ongoing Twitter Files saga—which included the revelation that Twitter had “secret blacklists” of users to “shadow ban,” or limit…
Musk Confirms Political Candidates Were Shadow Banned by Twitter’s Censors
December 9, 2022
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Elon Musk has confirmed that political candidates were shadow banned by Twitter while running for office, in the latest revelation on the social media giant’s meddling in conversations of public interest, including by putting disfavored users on blacklists and suppressing distribution of their tweets. Following the release of the second part of the “Twitter Files,”…
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