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It's kind of interesting in the sense that reading internal emails is always kind of interesting...but otherwise, nothing here seems particularly shocking or groundbreaking.

The only real revelation here seems to be that there existed some internal debate whether or not blocking the story was a good idea, which seems...kind of obvious? I'd be more surprised if there wasn't internal debate.

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> The only real revelation here seems to be that there existed some internal debate whether or not blocking the story was a good idea, which seems...kind of obvious?

You'd think it'd be obvious but so many people seem to be convinced that Twitter was the seat of wokeness and the moderation team sat on the throne. That there was a debate totally contradicts the characterization Matt is running for.

I don’t really see a debate. I see an email listing tweets from “the Biden team” and a response that it’s been taken care of.

Must be very cool to be running for president and have a team with a direct censorship line to one of the biggest news proliferation websites in the world. Just lost a few tweets and BAM!

The tweets in question were naked images of Hunter Biden, which were against Twitter's TOS and would be illegal to circulate in California anyway under the state's revenge porn law. You can literally put the links into archive.org and see for yourself if you want. Taibbi's thread also makes clear that Trump's team had access to the same 'direct censorship line', and that some of their requests were honored too.

The story is in how anxious they were to fit it into a hacked material case. Because there was no other existing mechanism in which to do it. (They claimed it in the emails Taibbi referenced.) They admit it was not tenable, because first amendment issues were specifically raised by Rep. Mo Khanna.

It wasn't tenable because the hacked materials policy is for doxing not journalism. Many of the biggest stories broken by NYT and WaPo over the decades have come from hacked/leaked materials. The policy was never meant to prevent these kinds of stories.

So we should let NYPost publish nudes of anyone and everyone they want to, just because? And no one is allowed to call them out on that because Free Speech?

Why do people keep citing this tired already easily refuted line? It was not just about nude pictures. Read a little more about the contents of the laptop and his connection to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma as well as Chinese energy execs. If people had a little more curiosity about the stories and not just the headlines, we might not be on the verge of WWWIII right now in Ukraine.

Forgive me if you don't like Tucker Carlson, but very few are even dare to cover it. Or genuinely refute it without personal insults. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCApIZBdu-0

Tucker Carlson himself is among the emailers. Asking for a letter of recommendation from Hunter.

Not sure who the person is that posted this, is this legit? The format on most of those "emails" is just completely off and the grammar/spelling check underlining suggests that this is being viewed in an editor.

It's real. Or at least Elon says it is. He's been talking about this for days and retweeted the thread.

It was all over the news, seems pretty astounding to reveal the CEO at the time had no idea any of this was happening!

Yeah it's not surprising. We already knew Twitter favors progressivism.

When did it become political to take down non-consensual nudes? It's against California law.

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