20.This led public policy executive Caroline Strom to send out a polite WTF query. Several employees noted that there was tension between the comms/policy teams, who had little/less control over moderation, and the safety/trust teams:

(Twitter Link)

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21. Strom’s note returned the answer that the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company’s “hacked materials” policy:

Link Attached To Post - https://t.co/EdTa2xbXn1

(Twitter Link)

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22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem... (Twitter Link)

23. The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role. (Twitter Link)

24. “They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.” (Twitter Link)

25.You can see the confusion in the following lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gadde and former Trust and safety chief Yoel Roth. Comms official Trenton Kennedy writes, “I'm struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe”: (Twitter Link) Photo Attached To This Post.

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26. By this point “everyone knew this was fucked,” said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of… continuing to err.

(Twitter Link)

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27. Former VP of Global Comms Brandon Borrman asks, “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?”

(Twitter Link)

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28. To which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker again seems to advise staying the non-course, because “caution is warranted”:

(Twitter Link)

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29. A fundamental problem with tech companies and content moderation: many people in charge of speech know/care little about speech, and have to be told the basics by outsiders. To wit: (Twitter Link)

30. In one humorous exchange on day 1, Democratic congressman Ro Khanna reaches out to Gadde to gently suggest she hop on the phone to talk about the “backlash re speech.” Khanna was the only Democratic official I could find in the files who expressed concern. (Twitter Link) Photo Attached To This Post.

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[Post was not numbered, I'm guessing its post 31]

Gadde replies quickly, immediately diving into the weeds of Twitter policy, unaware Khanna is more worried about the Bill of Rights:

(Twitter Link)

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32.Khanna tries to reroute the conversation to the First Amendment, mention of which is generally hard to find in the files:

(Twitter Link)

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33.Within a day, head of Public Policy Lauren Culbertson receives a ghastly letter/report from Carl Szabo of the research firm NetChoice, which had already polled 12 members of congress – 9 Rs and 3 Democrats, from “the House Judiciary Committee to Rep. Judy Chu’s office.”

(Twitter Link)

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34.NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it's a "tipping point," complaining tech has “grown so big that they can’t even regulate themselves, so government may need to intervene.”

(Twitter Link)

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35.Szabo reports to Twitter that some Hill figures are characterizing the laptop story as “tech’s Access Hollywood moment”:

(Twitter Link)

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36.Twitter files continued:
"THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE”
Szabo’s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democratic lawmakers’ attitudes. They want “more” moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights, it's "not absolute"

(Twitter Link)

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36.Twitter files continued:
"THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE”
Szabo’s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democratic lawmakers’ attitudes. They want “more” moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights, it's "not absolute"

(Twitter Link)

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[No number post this is the final message]

An amazing subplot of the Twitter/Hunter Biden laptop affair was how much was done without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, and how long it took for the situation to get "unfucked" (as one ex-employee put it) even after Dorsey jumped in.

(Twitter Link)

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...THE TURN-AROUND AND QUICK FIRE 'RELEASE' OF 'DISCLOSURE' WILL BE SUPER QUICK. HOW SOON DO YOU THINK THEY'LL COME BACK TO US AFTER THE CLOSED SESSION? MATTER OF DAYS, OR WEEKS?
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"We caught 'em all"
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[Question]
1:38:26
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@GEORGEnews Is Elon Musk a WH or BH??

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12:12 AM
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Musk gave the T45 WH early access to STARLINK :)
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If you don't mind reading a lot you should check this channel out. [Rattle Trap] He's very thorough with his research and he lays out huge posts on the topic he's researching. It's worth a look and we should support everyone sacrificing their time working against our common enemy. Subscribe and like everything if you like neat and slimmed down subscribed list's then make a folder in your settings and put all of the channels you don't visit often in it and create your main subscriber list folder and pin that at the top. We don't have the luxury to be picky. We're hardened digital soldiers not soft cowardly and lazy like everyone ignoring what's going on.

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Twitter Files 2

1. A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.

2. Twitter once had a mission “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.

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Twitter Files 2

3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (
@DrJBhattacharya
) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.

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Twitter Files 2

4. Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino (
@dbongino), who at one point was slapped with a “Search Blacklist.”

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