{"id":1757408,"date":"2022-11-30T17:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757408"},"modified":"2022-11-30T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:02:49","slug":"musk-admits-twitter-has-interfered-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-admits-twitter-has-interfered-in-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Admits Twitter \u2018Has Interfered In Elections\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-admits-twitter-has-interfered-in-elections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757408&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who only took the reins of the company last month, admitted that the Silicon Valley tech giant has meddled in past elections. <\/p>\n<p>The admission came in response to a user on the platform <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvaFoxU\/status\/1597924245178236929?s=20&#038;t=vf_0yeTY4ZBd3jHvc3HAsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">highlighting<\/a> Twitter\u2019s mirage of \u201ctrust and safety\u201d under prior leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe obvious reality, as long-time users know,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1598004480066621441?s=20&#038;t=vf_0yeTY4ZBd3jHvc3HAsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in reply, \u201cis that Twitter has failed in trust &#038; safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1598004480066621441?s=20&#038;t=vf_0yeTY4ZBd3jHvc3HAsg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Musk, who took over the platform with a $44 billion buyout in October on a pledge to restore free speech, also wrote in a post on Monday he would soon release \u201cThe Twitter Files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1597336812732575744?s=20&#038;t=gauC0R6hNQc86iKwJC0zAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe public deserves to know what really happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1597336812732575744?s=20&#038;t=gauC0R6hNQc86iKwJC0zAw\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>While Musk revealed Wednesday that the company deliberately interfered in prior elections, few needed the executive\u2019s public admission after the company\u2019s high-profile censorship of blockbuster stories in 2020. As voters went to the polls weeks before Election Day, Twitter barred users from linking to bombshell stories that implicated then-candidate Joe Biden in his son\u2019s potentially criminal overseas business ventures. <\/p>\n<p>In mid-October, the New York Post published its <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/14\/new-emails-show-joe-biden-lied-about-his-knowledge-of-his-sons-foreign-business-interests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first<\/a> in a series of expos\u00e9s on the Biden family deals wherein Joe Biden was caught lying when he claimed repeatedly to never have spoken about his son\u2019s business with Hunter \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/08\/28\/biden-brother-business-2020-1476815\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">or with anyone else<\/a>.\u201d The story was promptly suppressed on Twitter, which cited <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/16\/twitter-allows-actual-hacked-doxxing-of-freedom-convoy-donors-after-censoring-hunter-biden-reporting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">selectively enforced<\/a> standards to justify its censorship as it locked the New York Post\u2019s account for weeks. <\/p>\n<p>The New York Post followed up its first story with another <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/15\/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm\/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bombshell<\/a> the next day, which indicated the soon-to-be president-elect stood to personally profit from his son\u2019s business ventures linked to a Chinese Communist Party-affiliated energy firm. <\/p>\n<p>As Musk acknowledged Twitter\u2019s electoral interference, the company\u2019s former head of \u201ctrust and safety,\u201d Yoel Roth, who steered the company\u2019s censorship, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/30\/twitters-ex-safety-chief-admits-censoring-posts-hunter-biden-scoop-was-a-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> it was wrong to suppress the story weeks before polls closed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t know what to believe, we didn\u2019t know what was true, there was smoke \u2014 and ultimately for me, it didn\u2019t reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter,\u201d Roth <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/30\/twitters-ex-safety-chief-admits-censoring-posts-hunter-biden-scoop-was-a-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> journalist Kara Swisher on Tuesday. \u201cBut it set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 hack and leak campaign alarm bells. Everything about it looked like a hack and leak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The source for the New York Post\u2019s blockbuster reporting came from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop left abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop. By the final presidential debate, the idea that the laptop was some vehicle for Russian disinformation, which became an immediate talking point among Biden allies, had been debunked by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/21\/fbi-doj-debunk-claims-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-is-russian-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI, the Department of Justice<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/19\/intelligence-director-john-ratcliffe-debunks-russian-disinformation-theories-on-hunter-biden-emails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">director of national intelligence<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/pompeo-agrees-hunter-bidens-laptop-not-part-of-russian-operation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/rich-noyes\/2020\/11\/24\/special-report-stealing-presidency-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> conducted after the election by the Media Research Center found 17 percent of Biden voters across seven swing states would have recalibrated their ballots had they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who only took the reins of the company this fall, admitted the Silicon Valley tech giant interfered in past elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1757411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}