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 Zvi Mowshowitz gloss