To restore public trust in Twitter, CEO Elon Musk hinted last month that he would release internal communications showing how Twitter censored a story about Hunter Biden’s laptop just ahead of the 2020 presidential election and how everything went.
On Friday, Musk announced in a Twitter post that he would reveal full details of the Hunter Biden story’s suppression. He then published a number of journalists’ Twitter threads Matt Taibbi.
What Really Happened to Twitter’s Suppression of Hunter Biden Story Will Be Coming to Twitter at 5pm ET!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
In a lengthy tweet thread, Taibbi said he received "Thousands of internal documents" from sources at Twitter and detailed what was happening behind the scenes at the company during the incident.
In his tweets, Taibbi included screenshots of emails with requests from unidentified people in the president Joe Biden‘s administration that prompts contacts on Twitter to take action against specific tweets.
3. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a man-made mechanism that has outgrown its designer’s control.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
"Some of the first language control tools were…
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