Former top-FBI lawyer James Baker sought to have an October 2020 tweet from then-President Donald Trump labeled as misinformation, according to the latest installment of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files.” Baker, who at the time was serving as Twitter’s deputy general counsel, targeted a tweet Trump wrote prior to his release from Walter Reed Medical…
Twitter’s Ex-FBI Lawyer Queried Why Trump’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID’ Post Wasn’t Misinformation: Twitter Files
December 27, 2022
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Twitter’s Ex-FBI Lawyer Attempted to Have Trump’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID’ Post Labeled as Misinformation: Twitter Files
December 27, 2022
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Former top-FBI lawyer James Baker appeared to have sought to have an October 2020 tweet from then-President Donald Trump labeled as misinformation, according to the latest installment of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files.” Baker, who at the time was serving as Twitter’s deputy general counsel, targeted a tweet Trump wrote prior to his release from…
Twitter’s Ex-FBI Lawyer Raised Misinformation Query on Trump’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID’ Post: Twitter Files
December 27, 2022
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Former top-FBI lawyer James Baker raised a query on an October 2020 tweet from then-President Donald Trump, seeking to know why it wasn’t misinformation, according to the latest installment of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files.” Baker, who at the time was serving as Twitter’s deputy general counsel, targeted a tweet Trump wrote prior to his…
Capitol Report: Lawmakers Rush to Pass $1.7 Trillion to Avert Shutdown; Rep. Biggs’s Plan for Opposing McCarthy as Speaker
December 20, 2022
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Lawmakers unveiled a $1.7 trillion spending bill in the early hours of Tuesday. Congress must pass this massive bill or a temporary funding bill to prevent a government shutdown this week. House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy says he’ll whip a no vote, calling it a “monstrosity.” What’s in it? A newly elected congresswoman says she…
We Are Still Locked Down
Commentary Consider just how fortunate we are to have the Twitter Files. Every few days, we are seeing dumps of documents from the operations of Twitter before Elon Musk took over. This weekend’s release was especially shocking. It revealed a close and symbiotic relationship between the company’s management and the FBI, which employs 80 people…
Big Tech-Funded Program Covers Part of Salaries for Local Journalists
Local news publications nationwide are taking part in a program that allows them to hire journalists partially sponsored by a project funded by big tech behemoths like Meta, Google, and Microsoft. Report for America (RFA), an initiative of The Ground Truth Project, allows newsrooms nationwide to compete for assistance to fill coverage gaps. Once RFA…
Celebrate Elon Musk, but Don’t Lose Sight of Big Tech’s Structural Problems
December 16, 2022
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Commentary The story of Elon Musk’s acquisition, transformation, and public rehabilitation of Twitter is nothing short of remarkable. Here is that rarest of confluences: A right-leaning (or at least right-sympathetic) mega-billionaire privately acquires a disproportionately influential public company out of genuine public-spiritedness, perhaps even a hint of noblesse oblige, and an earnest commitment to preserving…
GOP Lawmaker Demands Receipts From Big Tech on Alleged ‘Collusion’ With Biden White House to Censor Dissenting Views
December 16, 2022
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A top House Republican is demanding receipts from five Big Tech firms for alleged “collusion” with the Biden administration to censor conservative and other dissenting voices. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the incoming House Judiciary Committee chairman after Republicans seat their majority in the House next month, sent letters on Dec. 14 to the CEOs of big tech…
Truth Emerges From the Thicket of Lies
Commentary Reflect for a moment on the remarkable turn of events at Twitter. Elon Musk is the world’s richest man but he happens to have a moral conscience, which seems rather rare. He became interested in Twitter not as a money-making project but in the interest of free speech. He had some intuition that something…
The Twitter Files: Just the Beginning
December 9, 2022
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Commentary Last night was quite the ride. Bari Weiss, who left the New York Times in protest against the culture of that paper, had been given access to another tranche of inside information about the operation of Twitter before Elon Musk took over. She found vast confirmation of what we’ve suspected for years now: the platform was…
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