Abstract
The “Twitter Files” is an ongoing series of reports released on Twitter about content moderation on Twitter prior to its purchase by Elon Musk that resulted in censorship. The first 4 in the series were by Matt Taibbi , Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger 7 The initial report focused on suppression of the Hunter Biden Laptop story by Twitter staff. Later reports included the removal of Donald Trump from Twitter.
"Whatever your opinion on the decision to remove Trump that day, the internal communications at Twitter between January 6th-January 8th have clear historical import. Even Twitter’s employees understood in the moment it was a landmark moment in the annals of speech."—Matt Taibbi, “The Twitter Files” at Twitter, December 9, 2022. Tweet #5.
Original language | American English |
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State | Published - Dec 11 2022 |
Keywords
- Censorship
- Elon Musk
- Matt Taibbi
- Global Trust Security at Twitter
Disciplines
- Social and Behavioral Sciences