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New Twitter Files Reveal How Company Allowed Intelligence Agencies to Influence It

January 4, 2023
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A series of tweets by investigative reporter Matt Taibbi has revealed how Twitter came under the influence of American intelligence agencies after concerns about foreign influence put the company under the spotlight. Until August 2017, Twitter was not on many people’s radars with regard to the Trump–Russia foreign influence scandal. In September that year, Twitter…

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Musk Versus the Bullies: Who Will Win?

November 29, 2022
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Commentary I wonder what odds the bookies are offering for the great fight? In this corner we have Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, the chap behind Tesla, SpaceX, Solar City, The Boring Company, and—as of October—Twitter. In that corner we have “the left,” a catch-all, imprecise, and probably misleading category. Even in aggregate, it…

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Twitter ‘Staying Vigilant Against Attempts to Manipulate Conversations About the 2022 US Midterms’ After Musk Takeover

November 2, 2022
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Twitter took down six “inauthentic” networks with technical links to China and Iran that had sent tweets about the upcoming November midterm elections, according to an independent analysis, which stated that the actors sought to amplify strong views on polarizing issues in American politics. “We’re staying vigilant against attempts to manipulate conversations about the 2022…

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