The company’s new CEO leaked internal communications from the previous administration to Biden campaign officials to force them to delete tweets and suspend users who criticized him.
Elon Musk made good on his promise and released dozens of emails Friday through reporter Matt Taibbi that show how senior executives from the previous Twitter administration worked with Joe Biden’s campaign to censor news that would damage him in the middle of presidential elections of 2020.
Under the hashtag #TwitterFiles (“Twitter Files”), the new CEO of the company revealed the entire network of corruption between the high levels of the social network and members of the Biden campaign team to moderate the content of the platform in favor of the Democratic candidate.
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Taibbi, author of Griftopia and current adviser to Musk on Twitter, disclosed the compromising emails in a long series of posts.
They show that Twitter executives were receiving daily lists of tweets from the Biden campaign to be deleted because they were damaging to him.
Twitter, he said, had entire teams working to meet the Democratic nominee’s demands.
Biden’s campaign also asked Twitter to suspend the accounts of celebrities who spoke out against him.
The most serious case among those discovered seems to be that of the actor @RealJamesWoodscensored at the request of the Democrats after giving his support to Trump.
James Woods lost access to his Twitter account on October 24, 2020, hours after Twitter employees asked Biden’s team to take down his account, along with those of other top profiles.
Although Taibbi redacted the specific names, the email boxes used are seen as “@twitter.com”, proving that Elon Musk had access to these emails and chats as they were sent from Twitter’s corporate servers.
By buying the company in October, Elon Musk has the legal resources to make any information he wants public.
As popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson said, “Elon Musk didn’t just buy a company, he bought a crime scene.”
Elsewhere in the thread, Taibbi recounts a conversation between former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, who was directly responsible for the censorship policy and who made the decision to suspend Trump, and former head of Trust and Security Yoel Roth, who was tried to side with Musk after the acquisition, but was eventually kicked out when the mega-businessman realized he was still censoring Twitter posts behind his back.
In the leaked conversation, Gadde and Roth are discussing what justification they have to give to justify the Democratic campaign’s request to censor the explosive news about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which revealed an influence-peddling and money-laundering ring from the family of the then presidential candidate.
This story, originally published on October 14, 2020, by the New York Post, two weeks before the election, was heavily censored on Twitter.
The company went so far as to suspend any account that attempted to post the link, including @nypost account.
The final decision was to justify the censorship because the news had “hacked material”, which was against the company’s policies.
But this is obviously a lie.
]The information came from the laptop of Hunter Biden, who left it in a repair shop for over a year, so the warranty expired and the laptop became the property of the owner of the repair shop.
The reasoning Gadde and Roth came up with to justify their illegal actions didn’t convince other Twitter executives either, who admitted in other conversations that they didn’t find it convincing.
Twitter’s former head of communications, Trenton Kennedy, lamented the decision in a company chat.
“I have a hard time understanding the basis of the policy for marking the story as unsafe, and I think the best thing to do would be to not touch anything and wait to find out if the story is the result of hacked material,” he wrote. .
For his part, former Deputy Deputy Prime Minister of Communications Brandon Borrman questions whether “we can really be sure that this news belongs to the hacked material policy” but confirms that they complied with Vijaya Gadde’s order: “We are limiting visibility of related stories on Twitter. .
Finally, VP of Legal Jim Baker, who appears to remain in his position despite the Elon Musk buyout, confirmed at the time that he agreed to wait to say the story was censored because it had hacked material.
“However, at this stage, it is reasonable for us to assume that there may have been hacked material and signs are posted that the connection is not secure and you should continue reading carefully,” he wrote in another message.
Republicans in Congress announced that they would take this evidence and include it in the Hunter Biden Investigative Committee, which will open in January after the new lawmakers take office. Trump regains control of the House of Representatives.
Republican Congressman James Comer, who will lead this committee seeking the impeachment of Joe Biden, was interviewed on Jason Chaffetz’s Fox News program, where he assured that his analysts are processing all this information and that it will be included in the final report of Congress.
In summary, Elon Musk uncovered a web of corruption running from the Biden campaign team (now in the White House) to Twitter’s top executives, who worked together, outside the law, to prevent Trump from being re-elected in the election. of 2020.
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