How are y’all feeling about the latest Taibbi drop on Twitter files?
He has receipts that show that a bunch of well known neocons published fake research and claimed to have identified a list of Russian-controlled accounts.

Twitter did their homework and found these accounts were ordinary people with conservative views but no ties to Russia or bot activity.

Media picked up the “research narrative” many many times over the years and would quote anonymous sources and the supposed Hamilton68

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Not following any of it to be honest. The reporting feels pretty one-sided and orchestrated towards sensationalism to get more clicks. That's when I check out. Once the AP picks it up I'll pay attention, until then, it feels like Musk is trying to be Rupert Murdoch 2.0 via Taibbi.

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Everything still seems like it's being filtered and nit picked to tell a certain narrative. Release everything and let all the media look and analyze.

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Twitter files amount to what content moderation looks like. An issue is brought forth, discussions about that issue are discussed, a decision is made on that issue.

I'm sure Musk is going to release the internal deliberation of allowing white nationalists accounts back on Twitter and then the process of banning them again. I.e. Nick Fuentes.

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I know ACD1. Even news junkies aren’t following this disappointing story unfolding.

I bet you heard about Modi banning the Indian documentary. And that’s terrible right? We don’t want the US to be like that.
What do you think the media in India is saying? They aren’t saying the movie is true but Modi didn’t like it. They’re saying this is MISINFORMATION and politically motivated.

Now how about something similar happening here? There is a pseudo fake research agency, backed by very powerful people in Washington. They claimed to have analyzed Twitter data and found Russia-related bot accounts. And they tried to get Twitter to block them.
Sounds noble right?
But Twitter themselves knew Hamilton 68 was bullshit.
Internal emails have been released showing that Yoel Roth, head of trust and safety, showing frustration because the accounts Hamilton 68 identified had nothing to do with Russia. One of them hadn’t even tweeted anything about Russia.
Yoel Roth tells the head of Twitter communications that they should publicly say Hamilton68 is not credible. He thinks that’s the ethical thing to do.
There are two emails from the senior people (C-suite I think) saying “we have to be careful about disagreeing with Hamilton 68”, and someone else said “we are playing the longer game here”

The two internal Twitter people who said no to going public have been employed and are again employed by state agencies and democratic politicians.

The accounts they wanted banned were all pro conservative, pro Trump, accounts that did not have the markings of being bots or linked to Russia. Twitter internal emails show they thought these were “organic conversations”.


All of that - and I can’t believe normal educated well read people who care about democracy - is already shady.
This is very close to how it works in India by the way. There are NGOs that have various ministers and their right hand men and former senior state officials on their boards. Modi documentary is an extreme example. But India regularly censors people through proxy organizations and Twitter campaigns.
The methods are just very slightly different but it’s just another way of peddling influence!!


The worst part according to me however is that the US media reported all of Hamilton68 findings as fact. Hamilton68 refused to explain its methodology or even the list. They just said it’s true and so the media - in concert - all said exactly the same thing.
To me that is either extremely disappointing or highly suspect or both.


The media is failing this nation. And we’re letting them!

I can’t take anything seriously from Taibbi after the first Twitter Files BS. We don’t need to see Hunter’s stolen d*ck pics.

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OP, you're upset about something that supposedly got a lot of coverage and no one knows what you're talking about.

1) it looks like Twitter did its content moderation well.

2) what is this story even about. Give us a link to what this refers to.

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Has anyone heard of this before? Was this something that had more than passing coverage?

And why is Taibbi still the only journalist with this access?

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Bari Weiss is a one issue voter and cares only about Zionism.

And the people involved in this are the people Elon decided have access. So yes, I do question it, but I trust the widely criticized and reviewed media over Musk, who repeatedly does the opposite of what he claims

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When do we get the twitter files of Musk caving to Modi?

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Alright I give up.

Someone is reporting my posts despite NOTHING offensive in them!

I keep trying to draw out SOME skepticism and principled thinking in the group here.
It doesn’t exist.
Politics is like religion for y’all.

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I think OP has his answer.

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