For years Republicans asserted that Trump would be appreciated for his great accomplishments if he only quit Tweeting. Now they’re saying he lost because not enough people saw his tweets. Okay.
Since @elonmusk and his redoubtable hired hands seem determined to obscure what happened on Jan. 6 and why Twitter executives were scrambling on Jan. 7, it seems essential to point out that Twitter in fact played a central role in Trump’s coup attempt: specifically, this tweet.
Wait… so you’re saying a company can limit someone’s speech if the private parties have both agreed to some kind of terms????
Who’d believe a thing like that?
If a president of the United States can be silenced by Big Tech just for urging his supporters to abduct or kill his vice president, is this even a free country any more?
Twitter Files has been one big incitement campaign. To drive engagement on Twitter at the expense of former employees. And if someone gets hurt or worse? That's just the price of doing business, I guess.
MUSK: libs have the woke mind virus
NYT ...
MUSK: I'm literally urging you to vote Republican
NYT ...
MUSK: *high-fives every far right account on Twitter*
NYT: ...
MUSK: I support Ron DeSantis
NYT ...
MUSK: *reinstates a slew of Nazis*
NYT: It's unclear what he stands for
The purported exposé "offers overwhelming evidence that Twitter’s current management is using the platform to promote tendentious, partisan narratives and conservative misinformation," argues @EricLevitz https://t.co/Vr06X15uDJ
Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk rummaged through millions of emails & Slack messages from pre-Musk Twitter & all they found was employees deliberating & consulting w/each other about how to fairly apply & enforce rules. But I get it..
To a rich white man, that seems very oppressive
In late 2018, Trump released Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the top leaders of the Taliban, along with 5000 other Taliban fighters, in exchange for... *checks notes*... nobody.
it’s extremely funny that Nate Silver created an alter ego named “Nate Bleu” that was a hopium-sipping democrat strawman for him to dunk on but Nate Bleu ended up basically predicting the election dynamics exactly right