{"id":88267,"date":"2022-12-02T22:17:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T04:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88267"},"modified":"2022-12-02T22:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T04:20:34","slug":"88267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88267","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1598853708443357185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598822959866683394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Taibbi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0Thread: THE TWITTER FILES<br \/>\n<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweet_2\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598824197819666435\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">2.\u00a0<\/span>What you\u2019re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter.\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_3\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598824834334687236\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">3.\u00a0<\/span>The \u201cTwitter Files\u201d tell an incredible story from inside one of the world\u2019s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_4\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598825121992638465\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">4.\u00a0<\/span>Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true real-time global conversation possible for the first time.\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_5\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598825594908819457\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">5.\u00a0<\/span>In an early conception, Twitter more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people \u201cthe power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.\u201d\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_6\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598825917165572099\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">6.\u00a0<\/span>As time progressed, however, the company was slowly forced to add those barriers. Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598825917165572099\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">7.\u00a0<\/span>Slowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly.\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_8\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598827602403160064\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">8.\u00a0<\/span>By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: \u201cMore to review from the Biden team.\u201d The reply would come back: \u201cHandled.\u201d<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAtMntXkAM-CZC.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAtMntXkAM-CZC.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598828601268469760\"><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598828601268469760\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598828601268469760\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_9\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598828601268469760\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">9.\u00a0<\/span>Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party:<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAuD6eWAAEFiXY.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAuD6eWAAEFiXY.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_10\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598828932395978752\">10.Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_11\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598829996264390656\">\n<p><span class=\"nop nop-start\">11.\u00a0<\/span>This system wasn&#8217;t balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right.\u00a0<a class=\"entity-url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/twitter\/summary?id=D000067113\" data-preview=\"true\">opensecrets.org\/orgs\/twitter\/s\u2026<\/a><span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAuzYgWQAIspZ0.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAuzYgWQAIspZ0.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"entity-url-preview\">\n<div class=\"d-flex justify-content-between align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"border-right align-self-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-grow-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/twitter\/summary?id=D000067113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Twitter Profile: Summary<\/strong>Twitter organization profile. Contributions in the 2022 cycle: $185,267. Lobbying in 2022: $970,000. Outside Spending in the 2022 cycle: $0.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/twitter\/summary?id=D000067113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><small class=\"pre-url\">https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/twitter\/summary?id=D000067113<\/small><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p><span class=\"nop nop-start\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em;\">12. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em;\">The resulting slant in content moderation decisions is visible in the documents you\u2019re about to read. However, it\u2019s also the assessment of multiple current and former high-level executives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_12\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598830393360162817\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_13\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598830794558021634\">Okay, there was more throat-clearing about the process, but screw it, let&#8217;s jump forward\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_14\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598830911776251906\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">16.\u00a0<\/span>The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_15\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598831212310601728\">\n<p><span class=\"nop nop-start\">17.\u00a0<\/span>On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden\u2019s abandoned laptop:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"entity-url-preview\">\n<div class=\"d-flex justify-content-between align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"border-right align-self-center\"><strong>Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad<\/strong>Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine in\u2026<a style=\"font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><small class=\"pre-url\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/<\/small><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_16\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598831435288563712\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">18.\u00a0<\/span>Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be \u201cunsafe.\u201d They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_17\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598831758207696896\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">19.\u00a0<\/span>White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who seethed: \u201cAt least pretend to care for the next 20 days.\u201d<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAw9WoWAAEOMVU.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAw9WoWAAEOMVU.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em;\">20.This led public policy executive Caroline Strom to send out a polite WTF query. Several employees noted that there was tension between the comms\/policy teams, who had little\/less control over moderation, and the safety\/trust teams:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_18\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598832411025952768\"><span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAxiOUXwAAwbNt.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAxiOUXwAAwbNt.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_19\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598832691092127744\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">21.\u00a0<\/span>Strom\u2019s note returned the answer that the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company\u2019s \u201chacked materials\u201d policy:\u00a0<a class=\"entity-url\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190717143909\/https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/rules-and-policies\/hacked-materials\" data-preview=\"true\">web.archive.org\/web\/2019071714\u2026<\/a><span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAx0y2XwAAQ7cC.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAx0y2XwAAQ7cC.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_20\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598833927405215744\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">22.\u00a0<\/span>Although several sources recalled hearing about a \u201cgeneral\u201d warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there\u2019s no evidence &#8211; that I&#8217;ve seen &#8211; of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem&#8230;\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_21\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598834231794315265\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">23.\u00a0<\/span>The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_22\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598834373482070016\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">24.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThey just freelanced it,\u201d is how one former employee characterized the decision. \u201cHacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn\u2019t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.\u201d\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_23\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598834882414727168\"><a class=\"entity-url\" href=\"http:\/\/25.you\/\" data-preview=\"true\">25.You<\/a>\u00a0can see the confusion in the following lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gadde and former Trust and safety chief Yoel Roth. Comms official Trenton Kennedy writes, \u201cI&#8217;m struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe\u201d:<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAzyaeX0AIsYd2.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjAzyaeX0AIsYd2.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_24\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598835411262279680\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">26.\u00a0<\/span>By this point \u201ceveryone knew this was fucked,\u201d said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of\u2026 continuing to err.<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA0R6cWIAgdwlk.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA0R6cWIAgdwlk.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_25\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598836068282814464\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">27.\u00a0<\/span>Former VP of Global Comms Brandon Borrman asks, \u201cCan we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?\u201d<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA02YIWQAElTqy.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA02YIWQAElTqy.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_26\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598836516553641989\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">28.\u00a0<\/span>To which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker again seems to advise staying the non-course, because \u201ccaution is warranted\u201d:<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA1NY3WAAEcV-5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA1NY3WAAEcV-5.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_27\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598836925129175040\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">29.\u00a0<\/span>A fundamental problem with tech companies and content moderation: many people in charge of speech know\/care little about speech, and have to be told the basics by outsiders. To wit:\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_28\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598837337584062466\"><span class=\"nop nop-start\">30.\u00a0<\/span>In one humorous exchange on day 1, Democratic congressman Ro Khanna reaches out to Gadde to gently suggest she hop on the phone to talk about the \u201cbacklash re speech.\u201d Khanna was the only Democratic official I could find in the files who expressed concern.<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA2C14XEAQv2-G.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA2C14XEAQv2-G.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_29\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598837666866339840\">Gadde replies quickly, immediately diving into the weeds of Twitter policy, unaware Khanna is more worried about the Bill of Rights:<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA2VaAXwAAlEBg.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA2VaAXwAAlEBg.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em;\">32.Khanna tries to reroute the conversation to the First Amendment, mention of which is generally hard to find in the files:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_30\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598838041371516929\"><span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA2s0gXEAE7vAr.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA2s0gXEAE7vAr.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_31\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598838956140789760\">33.Within a day, head of Public Policy Lauren Culbertson receives a ghastly letter\/report from Carl Szabo of the research firm NetChoice, which had already polled 12 members of congress \u2013 9 Rs and 3 Democrats, from \u201cthe House Judiciary Committee to Rep. Judy Chu\u2019s office.\u201d<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA3ZkOXgAAAhk0.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA3ZkOXgAAAhk0.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_32\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598839971451838465\">34.NetChoice lets Twitter know a \u201cblood bath\u201d awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it&#8217;s a &#8220;tipping point,&#8221; complaining tech has \u201cgrown so big that they can\u2019t even regulate themselves, so government may need to intervene.\u201d<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA4T3UXoAAmlLK.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA4T3UXoAAmlLK.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_33\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598840265266995203\">35.Szabo reports to Twitter that some Hill figures are characterizing the laptop story as \u201ctech\u2019s Access Hollywood moment\u201d:<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA4u00XgAA2969.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA4u00XgAA2969.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_34\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598840927199469569\">36.Twitter files continued:<br \/>\n&#8220;THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN\u2019T ABSOLUTE\u201d<br \/>\nSzabo\u2019s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democratic lawmakers\u2019 attitudes. They want \u201cmore\u201d moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights, it&#8217;s &#8220;not absolute&#8221;<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA5SvhX0AI9uFJ.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA5SvhX0AI9uFJ.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_35\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598843310042279936\">An amazing subplot of the Twitter\/Hunter Biden laptop affair was how much was done without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, and how long it took for the situation to get &#8220;unfucked&#8221; (as one ex-employee put it) even after Dorsey jumped in.\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_36\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598845423979884544\">While reviewing Gadde&#8217;s emails, I saw a familiar name &#8211; my own. Dorsey sent her a copy of my Substack article blasting the incident<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA9XTQWYAIdmQG.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjA9XTQWYAIdmQG.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_37\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598847065970204672\">There are multiple instances in the files of Dorsey intervening to question suspensions and other moderation actions, for accounts across the political spectrum\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_38\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598852182572298241\">The problem with the &#8220;hacked materials&#8221; ruling, several sources said, was that this normally required an official\/law enforcement finding of a hack. But such a finding never appears throughout what one executive describes as a &#8220;whirlwind&#8221; 24-hour, company-wide mess.<span class=\"entity-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjBDehFWAAAJT5S.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FjBDehFWAAAJT5S.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_39\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; background: #f5f8fa; border-radius: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598853399004708864\">It&#8217;s been a whirlwind 96 hours for me, too. There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more. These issues are not limited to the political right.\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"tweet_40\" class=\"content-tweet allow-preview\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, 'times new roman', Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-controller=\"thread\" data-action=\"click-&gt;thread#showTweet\" data-screenname=\"mtaibbi\" data-tweet=\"1598853816874831872\">Good night, everyone. Thanks to all those who picked up the phone in the last few days.\u00a0<i class=\"fas fa-link\"><\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is &mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 3, 2022 &nbsp; Matt Taibbi 1.\u00a0Thread: THE TWITTER FILES 2.\u00a0What you\u2019re about to read is the first installment in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88275,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88267\/revisions\/88275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}