It has been an exposé week at Twitter! Since December 2nd, 2022, independent journalists Matt Taibi, an author, and Bari Weiss have been revealing the behind-the-scenes of the previous executives at one of the most important social media platforms. After two months of chaos and radical steps, Elon Musk has backed and led these Twitter threads titled ‘Twitter Files’, which are using internal documents and other sources to reveal the role of a former Twitter executive to hide and manipulate some of the biggest scandals that unfolded.
They started with the ‘Hunter Biden Laptop’ scandal investigation which got delayed. The reason that Matt cited was James Baker, who caused a hindrance during the research by “suppressing” the documents. But, the research and exposé continued since then by accusing the executives of shadow banning certain accounts. But, on December 9th, 2022, Taibi released the fourth edition of ‘Twitter Files’, wherein he analyzed the role of Twitter in the dethroning of Donald Trump. The former President of the United States gave his reaction to the ‘Twitter Files’.
Donald Trump Extends Gratitude Towards Elon Musk For The Exposé
On November 19th, 2022, the new CEO of Twitter restored Donald Trump’s account after conducting a public poll. Earlier he made sure that the content moderation council will be responsible to reinstate any banned accounts. But, he dismissed the council when activists pressured the advertisers to pull out of advertising on Twitter hampering the revenue. Twitter banned Donald Trump after Capitol Hills riots. Even after reinstatement, Donald Trump expressed that he will stay on TRUTH, which Trump Media & Technology Group created.
1. THREAD: The Twitter Files
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
On December 9th, 2022, in the ‘Twitter Files’ series, Matt Taibi released another story titled ‘The Removal Of Donald Trump Part One: October 2020-January 6th’. In the fourth edition, he alleged that Twitter was in cahoots with the FBI to overthrow Donald Trump even before the Capitol Hill riots.
After the release, Donald Trump updated his alt social media platform TRUTH about how he feels about it. He wrote, “Elon: The Twitter releases are revelation in that they show, in a powerful fashion, the FBI and “Justice” illegally colluding, proving conclusively, in one or more very powerful way, that the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged & Stolen”.
Donald Trump thanks Elon Musk (via Truth Social) for releasing the ‘Twitter Files’ and exposing the FBI’s interference in elections. Truth Social is an alternate social media platform, created by Trump Media & Technology Group. #TwitterFiles3 #TruthSocial #DonaldJTrump pic.twitter.com/BlXmVbuAn4
— Alexis Goncalves (@AlexisGoncalves) December 10, 2022
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Donald Trump Wants To Know The Thought Process Leading To Elections And His “Deplatforming”
Trump continued, “What everyone is REALLY waiting to see, however, is the Twitter information and thought process leading up to the time of the so-called “Election”, and ultimately the “Deplatforming” of the President of the United States. Big Moment in history. Thank you!”
In one of the Twitter Files, Bari Weiss also exposed the shadow banning that Twitter conducted on certain accounts. Even Vice ran a story on how certain Republican accounts are getting shadowbanned including the spokesperson of Donald Trump Jr.
At the time the head of Legal Policy and Trust, Vijaya Gadde said, “You are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although you may have to do more work to find them, like go directly to their profile). And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology”.
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