In his prelude, Taibbi stated that the files told a " Frankenstein tale of a human-built mechanism" – "one of the world's largest and most influential social media platforms" – "grown out the control of its designer". Baker had previously been general counsel for the FBI and investigated Russian interference into the 2016 election. On December 6, Musk fired James Baker, deputy general counsel at Twitter, for allegedly vetting the information before it was passed on to Taibbi and Weiss and providing an explanation that Musk found "unconvincing." Taibbi said that the planned publication of Twitter's internal documents related to its handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story had been delayed because of Baker's vetting. Musk later stated he had not read the documents before their release to Taibbi and Weiss. Weiss stated that the only condition she and her reporting team agreed to was that the material would be first published on Twitter. Taibbi noted that "in exchange for the opportunity to cover a unique and explosive story, I had to agree to certain conditions" that he did not disclose.
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Musk subsequently gave a series of internal Twitter documents-including screenshots, emails, and chat logs-to freelance journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. On November 28, 2022, a month after Musk officially acquired Twitter, Musk announced that he planned to release a portion of Twitter's internal documents related to "free speech suppression", adding, "The public deserves to know what really happened" under Twitter's prior leadership. But American conservatives had long contended that Twitter used its moderation policies to muzzle conservative views. The inner workings of content moderation systems are not well known to the public, as knowledge of the details could enable manipulation. According to Rolling Stone, while a significant portion of the Twitter files were devoted to Twitter's handling of takedown requests by Democrats and federal officials, Republican officials also "routinely asked Twitter to take down posts they objected to".
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The releases have prompted debate over the nature of blacklisting, vows for congressional investigation, calls for the full release of all documents for the sake of transparency, and calls to improve content moderation processes at Twitter.Īfter the first set of Files was published, many technology journalists wrote that the reported evidence did not demonstrate much more than Twitter's policy team having a difficult time making a tough call but resolving the matter swiftly, while right-wing voices said the documents confirmed Twitter's liberal bias.
Taibbi and Weiss coordinated the publication of the documents with Musk, releasing details of the files as a series of Twitter threads. In December 2022, CEO Elon Musk gave the documents to journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and authors Michael Shellenberger, David Zweig and Alex Berenson shortly after he acquired Twitter on October 27, 2022. The Twitter Files are a series of releases of select internal Twitter, Inc., documents.
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