by Kyle Becker at Becker News
The Twitter Files’ first batch was released on Friday night, and the contents were just stunning.
Matt Taibbi, a veteran journalist, handled Elon Musk’s release of the information on how Twitter interfered in the 2020 election.
The following comprises the first release of “The Twitter Files”:
Thread: THE TWITTER FILES
What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer. Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true real-time global conversation possible for the first time. In an early conception, Twitter more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people “the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”…
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