Both political sides had access to Twitter during the previous leadership, but the company's employees predominantly belonged to one side, so the left side was much more open - according to the documents made public based on internal correspondence about the previous operating practices of the social media, which the new owner , were published on the initiative of Elon Musk in the name of transparency on Friday evening.
The internal correspondence of Twitter Elon Musk to a journalist, Matt Taibi , who made it public on his own channel on the social site, which shows the workings of the medium in an unprecedented way in the history of social media. content related to New York Post information about the laptop Hunter Biden , in October 2020, the last month of the presidential election campaign. According to the internal exchange of letters presented, there was an example where a request from the Biden campaign team was fulfilled directly.
According to Matt Taibi, who summarized and presented the documents (Twitter Files), both parties had access to Twitter's tools, and there was also an example of Trump's White House turning to the company, but at the same time, the system was not balanced, it was based on relationships. Since Twitter employees predominantly belonged to one political side, they had many more channels and opportunities to file complaints, and for a reason, there was more openness towards the left than the right, the documents read.
Twitter's first tool used to monitor freedom of speech was originally designed to fight spam and financial fraud, but over time the company's employees and managers used it for more and more purposes - the summary states, according to which "from 2020 it became completely routine based on requests from various related actors delete entries".
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, became the owner of Twitter at the end of October, promising to restore freedom of speech and transparency. Last week, the company announced the release of internal information about the practice and the Hunter Biden laptop from the previous period.
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Share it, there's nothing to see here! What is special about the fact that the so-called right-wing materials were blocked by the community forum? After all, it is well known that representatives of liberal-Bolshevik ideas are progressives, and conservative opinions are against progress. Even more simply: the censors of the USA will decide what your opinion can and cannot be. A Libsi opinion is okay, but a conservative opinion cannot exist. This is real freedom of speech, but we already know this well from the time of the one-party system. In a free country, a free person is free to say what he is free to say. And America is truly free, so the Twitter reviewers were right to delete harmful dissent.
However, one somehow feels that everything is not quite right with this thing. God knows why. But if that's the case, the concepts should be adjusted somewhat, in a Twitter way anyway. The term freedom of speech has lost its meaning, so it is right if in the future it is not free speech, but liberal Bolshevik censorship. It is already trendy in the USA, but we know that what is born overseas will sooner or later reach Europe as well.
Is it bad if we don't look forward to this with bursting joy?
Source: MTI
(Header photo: Elon Musk. Photo: Reuters)
