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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.
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http://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”:
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1:21 PM · Dec 2, 2022
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1598834147946303488
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Remember when someone hacked the Freedom Convoy campaign and released the personal information of donors and Twitter let it stay up on the site?
1:19 PM · Dec 2, 2022
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10.Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:
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This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right. https://opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/summary?id=D000067113
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The resulting slant in content moderation decisions is visible in the documents you’re about to read. However, it’s also the assessment of multiple current and former high-level executives.
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Okay, there was more throat-clearing about the process, but screw it, let's jump forward
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The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
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On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop:
nypost.com
Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian…
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine…
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Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.
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White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who seethed: “At least pretend to care for the next 20 days.”
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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:
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Strom’s note returned the answer that the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company’s “hacked materials” policy: https://web.archive.org/web/20190717143909/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hacked-materials
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“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.”
1:19 PM · Dec 2, 2022
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598834231794315265
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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.
1:19 PM · Dec 2, 2022
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598837337584062466
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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.
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1:31 PM · Dec 2, 2022
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Holy crap, Jim Baker is involved in suppressing the story.
That absolute treasonous scumbag.
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All the posts on Twitter's censorship of the #HunterBidenBlackmailLaptop thus far:
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The next 3 of the series of tweets censored by DNC and Biden regarding Hunter Biden's laptop.
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The first 4 of the tweets Biden's campaign censored regarding Hunter Biden's laptop.
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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.”
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1:38 PM · Dec 2, 2022
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/miraculous-recovery-of-hypoxemic-covid-19-patients-with-ivermectin_4899987.html?
Miraculous Recovery of Hypoxemic COVID-19
Patients With Ivermectin
Epoch Times, by Dr. Peter A. Mccullough & John Leake
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Posted By: earlybird, 12/2/2022 5:24:16 PM
The past three years have generated millions of case vignettes of patients with COVID-19 respiratory illness. The most dramatic cases include critically ill inpatients with severe hypoxemia despite maximum respiratory support. By far, the most notable cases of survival have occurred with the administration of ivermectin. Former NIH researcher David Scheim, PhD, early in the pandemic proposed that SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein was acting like a grappling hook pulling together circulating red blood cells into long chains and clumps in a process called hemagglutination. This explained why the red blood cells could not carry oxygen normally and was congruent with the finding of micro blood clots in the lungs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11496629/Elon-Musk-publish-really-happened-Hunter-Biden-story-suppression-Twitter.html
Elon Musk to publish 'What really happened
with the Hunter Biden story suppression'
on Twitter at 5pm today
Daily Mail (UK), by Paul Farrell
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk has promised that: 'What happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!' The South African billionaire followed that up with a message reading: 'This will be awesome' accompanied by a popcorn emoji. He went on to say that the publishing will be accompanied by a life question and answer session. It's not clear who will be featured in the session. Last month, Musk said that releasing the details surrounding the laptop story was 'necessary to restore public trust' in Twitter. As far back as April, Musk has commented on the scandal describing it as 'wholly inappropriate.'