Twitter’s muckety mucks were “clearly liaising with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies about moderation of election-related content,” the latest Twitter Files public release shows, as Matt Taibbi explained in an EXPOLSIVE Friday night thread.
17. During this time, executives were also clearly liaising with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies about moderation of election-related content. While we’re still at the start of reviewing the #TwitterFiles, we’re finding out more about these interactions every day.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
How clearly, you might ask? VERY VERY VERY CLEARLY.
As in they just talked about it out loud. Pickles said outright that they were working with the FBI and DHS.
18. Policy Director Nick Pickles is asked if they should say Twitter detects “misinfo” through “ML, human review, and **partnerships with outside experts?*” The employee asks, “I know that’s been a slippery process… not sure if you want our public explanation to hang on that.” pic.twitter.com/JEICGRTyz7
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
19. Pickles quickly asks if they could “just say “partnerships.” After a pause, he says, “e.g. not sure we’d describe the FBI/DHS as experts.” pic.twitter.com/d3EaYJb5eR
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
AND THEY WERE SPECIFICALLY MEETING ABOUT THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY JUST LIKE WE SAID AND JUST LIKE WE KNEW AND JUST LIKE THE MEDIA KNEW AND WERE STILL LYING ABOUT THIS FREAKING MORNING.
20. This post about the Hunter Biden laptop situation shows that Roth not only met weekly with the FBI and DHS, but with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI): pic.twitter.com/s5IiUjQqIY
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
I mean look at this ridiculousness.
21. Roth’s report to FBI/DHS/DNI is almost farcical in its self-flagellating tone:
“We blocked the NYP story, then unblocked it (but said the opposite)… comms is angry, reporters think we’re idiots… in short, FML” (fuck my life). pic.twitter.com/sTaWglhaJt— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
There is so so so so so much more in the thread.
The number of jerks that should be eating crow right now on Twitter is the exact giant number who are NOT because the media will never hold any of their own accountable for anything ever.
Here’s the perfect dumb twit example:
Each of these Twitter Files nonsense is just well they had a content moderation team and they were trying to moderate content since that’s basically what a content moderation team does more or less and then the president mounted a failed coup and that was fairly weird.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 10, 2022
That smell? Guilt and fear.
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