Elon Musk gave conservative columnist Bari Weiss access to Twitter files, and all he could find was that the visibility of some of the most hateful right-wing accounts on the platform had been limited, in line with previous content moderation policies.
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Right-wing billionaire Elon Musk has given prominent conservative figures access to Twitter’s internal systems this week to create and publicize the so-called Twitter Files — a trove of information that Musk is using to “expose” the social media platform’s supposed left-wing bias under its previous management but that, in reality, only serves to spread far right conspiracy theories and propaganda.
showing that, under previous management, the visibility of some of the most hateful right-wing accounts on the platform had been limited. Although this was presented as a groundbreaking discovery, Weiss didn’t detail anything about Twitter’s previous content moderation that wasn’t already known. In fact, Weiss’s thesis that Twitter was biased against the right before Musk took over is entirely false: by, the platform’s algorithm actually favored right-wing politicians and news outlets in the U.S. and five other countries.
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