Matt Taibbi published his opening statement in advance of his upcoming testimony about the Twitter Files, which he said expose the danger Americans face.
, as well as the office of Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. Other installments revealed Twitter's"blacklisting" of prominent conservatives, gave an inside look at Trump being suspended from the platform and put a spotlight on Twitter's close ties with the FBI. Taibbi has also conducted a deep dive into the media's enthusiastic embrace of Hamilton 68, a so-called"dashboard" that gave a misleading impression of widespread Russian bot activity.
Taibbi noted that once other reporters, such as Michael Shellenberger and Bari Weiss, joined him in exposing Twitter’s once-secret internal communications, he began to"grasp the significance of this story." Twitter owner Elon Musk has been vocal about being transparent when it comes to Twitter's past and present actions curating content on the platform."We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation ‘requests' from every corner of government: the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA.
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