Tag: censorship

LIVE: Documents Reveal Inner Workings of Censorship Establishment; Brazil Nears the ‘Rubicon’

A handful of people within Twitter colluded to censor former President Donald Trump and silence his political speech, internal company documents have revealed. The story behind how this happened, how Twitter’s rules were altered, and the inherent bias that influenced it, are now being exposed in the “Twitter Files” being released under the company’s new…


Documents Reveal Inner Workings of Censorship Establishment; Brazil Nears the ‘Rubicon’

A handful of people within Twitter colluded to censor former President Donald Trump and silence his political speech, internal company documents have revealed. The story behind how this happened, how Twitter’s rules were altered, and the inherent bias that influenced it, are now being exposed in the “Twitter Files” being released under the company’s new…


LIVE 12/12, at 10:30 AM ET: Documents Reveal Inner Workings of Censorship Establishment; Brazil Nears the ‘Rubicon’

A handful of people within Twitter colluded to censor former President Donald Trump and silence his political speech, internal company documents have revealed. The story behind how this happened, how Twitter’s rules were altered, and the inherent bias that influenced it, are now being exposed in the “Twitter Files” being released under the company’s new…


Big Business, Big Government, Big Brother

Commentary These days, poisonous collusion between powerful private sector interests and the state turns one’s thoughts to insecure cell phone data and social media censorship in the service of the Democratic Party. But devil’s bargains between Chamber of Commerce members and elected officials have been going on for a long time, maybe back to the…


What Is CISA and Why Does It Matter?

Commentary On Oct. 27, 2022, Elon Musk fired Vijaya Gadde from her job at Twitter where she was general counsel and the head of legal, policy, and trust. It became quickly obvious to him and others on his team that it was she who drove the censorship policy within the company, including that which blocked…


Internal Files Point to Twitter Meddling in 2020 Elections

The latest episode of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files,” internal communications about the social media giant’s “free speech suppression” on the platform, reveals a soft-on-Biden tough-on-Trump bias in content enforcement, raising questions about how heavily the social media platform put its finger on the scales in the 2020 election. The latest set of internal Twitter…


Twitter Part of Efforts to Interfere With US Elections: Gingrich

The revelations coming from Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk about the platform’s behind-scenes operation to suppress certain viewpoints has been “pretty horrifying,” and shows that the platform was part of the efforts to interfere with the 2020 presidential elections, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In the span of a week, Musk has released…


Elon Musk Exposes Real Reason Twitter’s Censored Former President Donald Trump

Journalist Matt Taibbi published the third volume of the so-called “Twitter files” on Friday, exposing the social media platform’s censorship and deplatforming of former President Donald Trump. The latest disclosure revealed that Twitter executives used the platform’s formidable “visibility filtering” powers against Trump ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections and that engagement with the FBI intensified…


Elon Musk Exposes Real Reason Twitter Censored Former President Donald Trump

Journalist Matt Taibbi published the third volume of the so-called “Twitter files” on Friday, exposing the social media platform’s censorship and deplatforming of former President Donald Trump. The latest disclosure revealed that Twitter executives used the platform’s formidable “visibility filtering” powers against Trump ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections and that engagement with the FBI intensified…


Elon Musk Exposes Twitter’s Censorship of Former President Donald Trump

The third volume of the so-called “Twitter files” was released on Friday by journalist Matt Taibbi, revealing the social media platform’s censorship and deplatforming of former President Donald Trump, including restricting the visibility of his tweets prior to the 2020 elections, and its relationship with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies. Taibbi and Bari Weiss, editor of…