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Apr 07 2023
News
‘Twitter Files’ Reporter Bails on Twitter After Elon Makes It ‘Unusable’
Matt Taibbi, one of Elon Musk’s handpicked disseminators of the so-called “Twitter Files,” informed his readers on Friday that he was ditching Twitter after the Chief Twit restricted links to Substack this week.
On Friday, Twitter began preventing users from engaging with tweets that contained links to Substack articles, blocking any likes, retweets and comments from these posts.
Daily Beast
Dec 05 2022
Analysis
The Twitter files on Hunter Biden
On Friday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk told his followers that he would be releasing documents showing "what really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter" in the lead-up to the 2020 election, calling the company’s actions "free speech suppression." On Saturday, independent journalist Matt Taibbi started a Twitter thread he called "the Twitter files," sharing screenshots of
Tangle
Jul 29 2023
News
San Francisco Files Complaint About New 'X' Logo On Former Twitter Headquarters
Since purchasing Twitter for $44 billion, Elon Musk has received constant pushback. Now, it’s coming from San Francisco itself. The City by the Bay has opened a complaint and launched an investigation into a giant “X” sign installed Friday on top of the social media platform’s downtown headquarters. Yes, the city with legalized retail theft, surging crime, a drug crisis and homeless camps on
OutKick
Sep 29 2023
News
Baltimore Archdiocese Files For Bankruptcy Protection
The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, less than two days before a new state law takes effect allowing victims of child sexual abuse to sue institutions, no matter how long ago the abuse took place. Federal bankruptcy law halts all lawsuits against an entity that files for bankruptcy. Instead, the legal action will shift to a bankruptcy court, where the
JoeMyGod
Dec 20 2022
News
Shellenberger on ‘Twitter Files’: Investigation necessary
A seventh batch of internal Twitter documents was released Monday, further detailing how the FBI and broader intelligence community allegedly sought to shut down a story about Hunter Biden and the contents of his laptop.
The author of the latest “Twitter Files” dump, Michael Shellenberger, argues the contents show that a congressional investigation is needed into the communications the
NewsNation
Dec 16 2022
Opinion
Why the ‘Twitter Files’ Are Falling Flat
The public has recently gotten an inside peek at the workings of Twitter and Facebook, thanks to a pair of extraordinary document drops.
The first release — the “Facebook Files” — came in late 2021 from Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee. The second — the “Twitter Files” — came this month from Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner. Unfortunately for Musk, the “Twitter Files” are not
Politico
Dec 15 2022
Opinion
Why the Twitter Files actually matter
Big surprise: The Twitter Files — the reports based on internal Twitter documents and messages that the company’s new owner Elon Musk provided to journalists — have landed as a polarizing salvo in the culture war.
Many inclined to distrust what they see as Big Tech’s liberal leanings have cried vindication. The documents show in detail how Twitter made key content moderation decisions
Vox
Sep 29 2023
News
Archdiocese of Baltimore files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
THEY’RE NOT HELPING SURVIVORS. THEY NEVER WANTED TO CHARLES SEX ABUSE SURVIVOR TERESA LANCASTER IS NOT A BIT SURPRISED. THE BALTIMORE ARCHDIOCESE IS CONSIDERING FILING FOR CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. THE CHURCH IS ANTICIPATING HUNDREDS OF LAWSUITS BEGINNING OCTOBER 1ST WHEN A NEW LAW GOES INTO EFFECT THAT ELIMINATES THE STATUE OF LIMITATIONS TO FILE A CLAIM. THE CHURCH DOESN’T NEED THIS
WBAL 11
Dec 09 2022
Opinion
Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are Bait
Last night, Elon Musk celebrated the release of a new entry in the “Twitter Files” series, which aims to … Well, that’s complicated. It’s a supposed transparency project from Musk that, to date, has included giving two independent writers access to internal Twitter communications, as well as to the company’s Slack channels. So far, they’ve produced two threads, each totaling about 30 tweets,
The Atlantic
Dec 05 2022
Analysis
‘Twitter Files’ Paint an Ugly Portrait
On the menu today: Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi team up to offer the “Twitter files,” a look inside the internal deliberations at Twitter when it decided to block access to a New York Post story which revealed all kinds of embarrassing and scandalous information found on Hunter Biden’s laptop. You can quibble with Taibbi’s decisions here and there, but overall, the files paint an ugly portrait of
National Review (News)