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WATCH LIVE: Hearing on the ‘weaponization’ of federal government: The ‘Twitter Files’ - Washington Examiner
The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the alleged "weaponization" of the federal government reported in the "Twitter Files." Twitter CEO Elon Musk provided select journalists with internal communications at the social media giant. The communications appeared to show collusion...
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The journalists have released their findings in numerous Twitter threads. They explored the behind-the-scenes communications regarding the censorship of the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story and the banning of former President Donald Trump. Other threads allege the widespread censoring of conservatives was privately urged by some members of the government.
MATT TAIBBI, "THE TWITTER FILES": I’ve been a reporter for over 30 years, and an advocate for the First Amendment. Much of that time was spent at Rolling Stone magazine.
Ranking member Plaskett, I'm not a so-called journalist. I’ve won the National Magazine Award, the I.F. Stone Award for independent journalism, and I've written ten books, including four New York Times bestsellers. I’m now the editor of the online magazine Racket, on the independent platform Substack.
I am here today because of a series of events that began late last year when I received a note from a source online.
A week later, the first of what became known as the "Twitter Files" reports came out. To say these attracted intense public interest would be an understatement. My computer looked like a slot machine as just the first tweet about the blockage of the Hunter Biden laptop story registered 143 million impressions and 30 million engagements.But it wasn’t until a week after the first report, after Michael Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, and other researchers joined the search of the "Files," that we started to grasp the significance of this story.
What we found in the "Files" was a sweeping effort to reverse that promise, and use machine learning and other tools to turn the internet into an instrument of censorship and social control. Unfortunately, our own government appears to be playing a lead role.
We saw the first hints in communications between Twitter executives before the 2020 election, where we read things like:
Hi team, can we get your opinion on this? This was flagged by DHS:
Or:
Please see attached report from the FBI for potential misinformation.
This would be attached to an excel spreadsheet with a long list of names, whose accounts were often suspended shortly after.