![]() And I suppose he’s sort of correct about that, too. Musk sees reinstating Donald Trump’s and (until he started posting swastikas) Ye’s Twitter feeds, as well as those of scores of self-described neo-Nazis, as blows against censorship and a win for the open marketplace of ideas. Musk clearly fancies himself as a free speech warrior liberating Twitter from the iron grip of progressive elites who’d supposedly been skewing the site’s mediation policies in favor of the Democrats (even though Taibbi’s report also points to incidents in which the Trump campaign also asked Twitter to remove posts - and back then Trump did have power). The New York Post’s Hunter Biden story, published just before the 2020 election “Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1 st amendment violation,” he conceded in a followup tweet, “but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is.” Musk himself ultimately came around to a somewhat more nuanced, if still muddled, understanding of what happened at Twitter before he took over. When Fox News declined to air the January 6 congressional hearings in full, as both CNN and MSNBC did, it was a shockingly shameful omission for a network that’s been all but built on shameful omissions. ![]() ![]() When Fox News decided to overlook Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Holocaust-denyin g white nationalist Nick Fuentes, barely mentioning it at all on its newscasts, it was an eyeball-rolling dereliction of journalistic responsibility. But it wasn’t a violation of the First Amendment. When Tucker Carlson deleted the antisemitic portions of his interview with Kanye “Ye” West before putting it on the air in October, it was an egregious and despicable act of misinformation. It turns out the tweets Biden’s campaign asked Twitter to take down were selfies of Hunter Biden’s private parts, as well as a few shots of him smoking crack, all presumably purloined from the laptop.Įlon Musk Says He’s ‘Hardly Read Any’ of the Twitter Files, Has Given Bari Weiss Access to Work on Rollout Matt Taibbi in 2010 (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)īut the other, racier part of Taibbi’s reporting, that Biden’s staff had directed Twitter to delete other unflattering posts like the ones from James Woods, is a much easier call. You can have a rational debate about whether that was a smart decision or a dumb one - Twitter’s then-CEO Jack Dorsey ultimately apologized for blocking the Post piece. For starters, the Post story that Twitter blocked in 2020 had also, at the time, been rejected for coverage by not-so-liberal outlets like The Wall Street Journal and Fox News, both of which had concerns about how the material in the piece had been collected. Musk himself weighed in on Taibbi’s “smoking gun” revelations in a tweet of his own: “If this isn’t a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment, what is?” Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri was equally fired up by Taibbi’s posts, tweeting, “Here we have it - Dem lawmakers pressing Twitter for MORE censorship to advance their political agenda, First Amendment be damned. Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos Confront Republicans Over Trump’s Call to Suspend Constitution (Video) Even more sensationally, Taibbi also claimed that Joe Biden’s campaign staffers had further directed Twitter to remove other tweets - like the ones posted by conservative actor James Woods - that they saw as damaging to the Biden presidential campaign. More specifically, Taibbi posted a bunch of internal Twitter documents and emails - wherever could he have got them from? - which supposedly prove that Twitter was politically motivated when it suppressed the posting of a October 2020 New York Post story about the contents of Hunter Biden’s computer, material that shed an unflattering light on young Biden’s alleged influence peddling with a Ukrainian energy executive. Have you read “The Twitter Files” yet? You know, that “explosive” exposé posted on Friday - in a long thread of three dozen tweets - by Rolling Stone columnist-turned-Substack provocateur Matt Taibbi that supposedly rips the lid off Twitter’s role in the whole Hunter Biden laptop affair? According to Taibbi, during the run-up to the 2020 election, Twitter’s liberal-leaning pre-Musk leadership conspired with the Democrats to censor politically sensitive material about Joe Biden’s son that might have swung the race for Donald Trump.
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