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NTD Evening News (Dec. 9): Twitter Blacklisted Candidates Before Elections: Musk; Biden Official Accused of 2nd Luggage Theft

December 9, 2022
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Elon Musk revealed on Dec. 9 that Twitter shadow-banned certain political candidates ahead of elections. Former President Donald Trump also responded to the revelations in the latest batch of Twitter Files. Arizona’s Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said she is leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an Independent. Sam Brinton, a Biden administration nuclear official, is…

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Democrats Demand Answers from Musk on China-Backed Influence Operations

December 9, 2022
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Three Democrat lawmakers are calling on Twitter chief Elon Musk to divulge information related to the alleged manipulation of the platform by China-backed actors in recent weeks. Numerous Chinese-language accounts on Twitter, many of them either new or dormant, allegedly flooded the platform with spam for several hours in late November to restrict access to…

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The Twitter Files: Just the Beginning

December 9, 2022
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Commentary Last night was quite the ride. Bari Weiss, who left the New York Times in protest against the culture of that paper, had been given access to another tranche of inside information about the operation of Twitter before Elon Musk took over. She found vast confirmation of what we’ve suspected for years now: the platform was…

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Members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council Resign, Claim Hate Speech on the Rise Under Musk’s Leadership

December 9, 2022
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Three members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council resigned this week, citing concerns that “the safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline.” Eirliani Abdul Rahman, Anne Collier, and Lesley Podesta all left the council on Thursday.  Rahman served on the council’s Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention advisory group and Collier had been serving…

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PREMIERING 8PM ET: Kash’s Corner: James Baker and Perkins Coie, Russiagate Architects, Are Back as the Twitter Files Saga Unfolds

December 9, 2022
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This episode will premiere on Friday, Dec. 9, at 8 p.m. ET. Earlier this week, Elon Musk confirmed that Twitter deputy general counsel and former FBI general counsel James Baker had been “exited” from the company. He’d reportedly been “vetting” the first batch of internal Twitter files before their release to independent journalists Matt Taibbi…

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Elon Musk to Remove 1.5 Billion Twitter Accounts, Announces New Feature

December 9, 2022
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Elon Musk announced in a series of early Friday morning posts that Twitter be removing 1.5 billion users from the platform in the near future in another shakeup at the company. The new owner of Twitter, who purchased the social media platform in October, said that the removal of user accounts will be done to…

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LIVE NOW: What Was a Top Spy Doing at Twitter?

December 9, 2022
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Elon Musk promised to return free speech and transparency to Twitter and said he was releasing internal documents related to Hunter Biden’s laptop. But then the company’s top lawyer—ex-FBI general counsel James Baker—was found hiding, and maybe destroying, key pieces of evidence implicating Twitter, the FBI, and perhaps the Bidens, too. In this jaw-dropping new…

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What Was a Top Spy Doing at Twitter?

December 9, 2022
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Elon Musk promised to return free speech and transparency to Twitter and said he was releasing internal documents related to Hunter Biden’s laptop. But then the company’s top lawyer—ex-FBI general counsel James Baker—was found hiding, and maybe destroying, key pieces of evidence implicating Twitter, the FBI, and perhaps the Bidens, too. In this jaw-dropping new…

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Musk Confirms Political Candidates Were Shadow Banned by Twitter’s Censors

December 9, 2022
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Elon Musk has confirmed that political candidates were shadow banned by Twitter while running for office, in the latest revelation on the social media giant’s meddling in conversations of public interest, including by putting disfavored users on blacklists and suppressing distribution of their tweets. Following the release of the second part of the “Twitter Files,”…

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2 Women Sue Twitter for Allegedly Targeting Female Employees in Musk-Led Layoffs

December 9, 2022
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A new class action lawsuit has been filed against Twitter alleging that the company targeted women during widespread layoffs initiated by Elon Musk. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Dec. 7 by attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan on behalf of two former Twitter employees who were laid off by…

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