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  • Twitter Files: Elon Musk Reveales Top Executives Interfered With US Presidential Election Before Banning Donald Trump

    Twitter Files: Elon Musk Reveales Top Executives Interfered With US Presidential Election Before Banning Donald Trump

    San Francisco, December 10: Elon Musk on Saturday revealed the third season of ‘Twitter Files,’ which claimed that top Twitter executives suppressed and censored former US President Donald Trump in the days before the 2020 election, finally deplatforming him on January 8, 2021 — two days after the storming of the Capitol Hill that left five dead.

    Independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi shared the ‘Twitter Files Part 3’, saying there were erosion of standards within the company in months before January 6, “decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies”. Twitter Files Part 3: Elon Musk Reveals What Led To Removal of Donald Trump From Microblogging Site After January 6 US Capitol Riot.

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    Musk replied to him, saying “election interference by social media companies obviously undermines the public’s faith in democracy and is wrong”. “Unequivocally true. The evidence is clear and voluminous,” he added. According to Taibbi, Twitter executives removed Trump in part over what one executive called the “context surrounding”: actions by Trump and supporters “over the course of the election and frankly last 4+ years”.

    “The bulk of the internal debate leading to Trump’s ban took place in those three January days (January 6-8). However, the intellectual framework was laid in the months preceding the Capitol riots,” he mentioned in his Twitter thread. Twitter Files: ‘Just Release Everything and Let People Judge’, Says Jack Dorsey; Elon Musk Hints at Episode 2 Coming Soon.

    Taibbi said that as the election approached, “senior executives — perhaps under pressure from federal agencies, with whom they met more as time progressed — increasingly struggled with rules, and began to speak of ‘vios’ as pretexts to do what they’d likely have done anyway”. The reports, said the Twitter Files, are based on searches for docs linked to prominent executives, whose names are already public.

    “They include Roth, former trust and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, and recently plank-walked Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker,” claimed Taibbi. The latest Twitter Files claimed that Twitter executives “were also clearly liaising with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies about moderation of election-related content”.

    As soon as “they finished banning Trump”, Twitter executives started processing new power. “They prepared to ban future presidents and White Houses — perhaps even Joe Biden. The anew administration, says one exec, ill not be suspended by Twitter unless absolutely necessary,” he said in a Twitter thread. Musk has reinstated Trump on Twitter. However, he has not posted any tweets yet.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Dec 10, 2022 12:16 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Elon Musk Says ‘Twitter Failed in Trust and Interfered in Elections, Twitter 2.0 Will Be More Effective’

    Elon Musk Says ‘Twitter Failed in Trust and Interfered in Elections, Twitter 2.0 Will Be More Effective’

    Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said that the micro-blogging site will be more effective, transparent and even-handed. A Twitter user said that Twitter has shown itself to be not safe for the past 10 years and has lost users’ trust and the past team of “trust and safety” is a disgrace, so it doesn’t have any right to judge what is being done now. They had a chance, but they sold their souls to a corporation. Replying to the user, Elon Musk said that “Exactly. The obvious reality, as long-time users know, is that Twitter has failed in trust & safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections. Twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even-handed.” Also Read | Elon Musk Starts Reinstating 62,000 Suspended Twitter Accounts; Employees Call It ‘Big Bang’ Process.

    Twitter 2.0 Will Be Far More Effective, Transparent and Even-Handed: Elon Musk

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