Reporters helped Twitter develop products and shared intelligence on a major competitor, according to newly released internal Twitter files.
Reporters from NBC, Fox News, the New York Times, and Reason, including NBC’s Ben Collins, helped Twitter develop its Birdwatch “fact-checking” tool, according to one of the files.
Collins and a slew of other reporters later met in closed sessions with Twitter officials, with one official saying the goal was to “solidify key relationships, encourage intel sharing, and, more broadly, help to reinforce comms’ network of trusted reporters.”
Summaries of the 2021 meetings showed CNN reporters pushed Twitter to change their system to help prevent abuse, including calling for a new “read only mode” that would not allow people who have been blocked to see that they’ve been blocked….