The Twitter Files

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On December 02, 2022, journalist Matt Taibbi had disclosed the "Twitter Files", a thread revealing emails, interspersed with his own reporting. 

 

Some of these documents had described Twitter's internal deliberations regarding the decision to censor the reporting of the New York Post regarding the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop*, while others contained information on how Twitter treated tweets that were flagged for removal at the request of the 2020 Joe Biden campaign team and the Donald Trump White House.

 

[*Background story: Three weeks before the 2020 United States presidential election, the NYP published a story presenting emails from the laptop and stating that they showed corruption by Biden].

 

According to the Hill, the documents indicate that there were back channels between Twitter and Biden's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee to ban critics or remove negative stories. 

 

And Twitter's Deputy General Counsel and former FBI general counsel James Baker (left) was "at the center of the Twitter suppression scandal". It has been pointed out that he was already knee deep in the Russian collusion hoax, having been featured repeatedly in the Russian investigations launched by the Justice Department. 

 

Thereafter, Elon Musk fired Baker on Tuesday for his "possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue". 

 

Some users noted this was part of a larger trend of Musk removing the old guard from Twitter leadership. 

PJ Media columnist Ryan Ledendecker wrote, "Now that’s leadership, baby. Boom". 

 

Commentator Ian Miles Cheong tweeted, "Cleaning house. There should be no space for those who would seek to undermine Twitter's role in the dissemination of truth over establishment narratives". 

 

I’m sure more of the dirty secrets will see the light of day. And it looks like there's no escape for Joe Biden. He seems to have been implicated.