Twitter Files

The Twitter Files are a series of Twitter threads based on internal Twitter, Inc. documents shared by owner Elon Musk (Musk Buys Twitter) with freelance journalist Matt Taibbi, opinion writer Bari Weiss, and author Michael Shellenberger in December 2022. Taibbi and Weiss coordinated the release of the documents with Twitter management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files cf content moderation

Part 1, December 2, 2022 - general flow of requests from both parties to Twitter; blocking the Hunter Biden laptop story.

• Mike Solana re-post with better screenshots

Dec06 "supplemental": On Tuesday, Twitter Deputy General Counsel (and former FBI General Counsel) Jim Baker was fired. Among the reasons? Vetting the first batch of “Twitter Files” – without knowledge of new management.

Part 2, December 8, 2022 - blacklists, de-amplification, shadow bans

• Mike Solana repost

Part 3, December 9, 2022 - removal of Donald Trump

Part 4, December 10, 2022 - more on Donald Trump

Part 5, December 12, 2022 - more on Donald Trump

Part 6, December 16, 2022 - FBI communication with Twitter

Part 7, Dec19: FBI, Hunter Biden

Part 8, Dec20 aiding Pentagon PsyOps

Part 9, Dec24 involvement of many government agencies in censorship

Part 10, Dec26 COVID-19

• see (2022-12-31) ZviM The Twitter Files Covid Edition

As a result of the Twitter Files, Renee DiResta, a misinformation researcher formerly at the Stanford Internet Observatory, became the center of a conspiracy theory that falsely claimed she was a CIA operative leading a large-scale censorship operation.[110] DiResta confirmed she participated in a scholarship program with the CIA that ended in 2004 and denied any further involvement with the organization.[110] In an interview with Taylor Lorenz, DiResta said that the Files also contained the unredacted names of her students, who then received death threats.[111]

In 2024, after a hack of the Trump campaign which resulted in a release of opposition research on JD Vance, Twitter (now X) coordinated with the Trump campaign to suppress the story, including X banning journalists who linked to or mentioned the story.[112][113] This drew comparisons to the Twitter Files.[114]