{"id":1760306,"date":"2022-12-02T19:48:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T00:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760306"},"modified":"2022-12-02T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T01:25:39","slug":"musk-releases-hunter-biden-files-tweets-deleted-at-behest-of-team-biden-exec-was-key-behind-censorship-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-releases-hunter-biden-files-tweets-deleted-at-behest-of-team-biden-exec-was-key-behind-censorship-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Releases \u2018Hunter Biden\u2019 Files: Tweets Deleted At Behest Of Team Biden, Exec Was Key Behind Censorship Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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-releases-hunter-biden-files-tweets-deleted-at-behest-of-team-biden-exec-was-key-behind-censorship-decision%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=1760306&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 data-reader-unique-id=\"1\">Twitter CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reader-unique-id=\"2\">Elon Musk<\/a> released information through journalist Matt Taibbi Friday afternoon showing that Twitter was working in conjunction with then-Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden\u2019s team, removing tweets that team Biden wanted deleted.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"1\">Musk said that he decided to release the information because it was \u201cnecessary to restore public trust\u201d in the platform after it censored the New York Post\u2019s bombshell report about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"1\">Musk quote retweeted Taibbi\u2019s multi-tweet thread on Twitter, writing: \u201cHere we go!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"1\">Taibbi began by explaining that the company was \u201cslowly forced to add \u2026 tools for controlling speech [that] were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"1\">\u201cSlowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly,\u201d Taibbi said. \u201cBy 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: \u2018More to review from the Biden team.\u2019 The reply would come back: \u2018Handled.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: \u201cMore to review from the Biden team.\u201d The reply would come back: \u201cHandled.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mnv0YZI4af\">pic.twitter.com\/mnv0YZI4af<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598827602403160064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another:  \u201cMore to review from the Biden team.\u201d The reply would come back: \u201cHandled.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mnv0YZI4af\">pic.twitter.com\/mnv0YZI4af<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598827602403160064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCelebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party,\u201d Taibbi continued. \u201cBoth parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However: This system wasn\u2019t balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">11. This system wasn&#8217;t balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sa1uVRNhuH\">https:\/\/t.co\/sa1uVRNhuH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K1xmqQ0TrD\">pic.twitter.com\/K1xmqQ0TrD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598829996264390656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post published \u201cBIDEN SECERT EMAILS\u201d on October 14, 2020, a report about the laptop belonging to Biden\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be \u2018unsafe,\u2019\u201d Taibbi continued. \u201cThey even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who seethed: \u2018At least pretend to care for the next 20 days,\u2019\u201d Taibbi continued. \u201cThis led public policy executive Caroline Strom to send out a polite WTF query. Several employees noted that there was tension between the comms\/policy teams, who had little\/less control over moderation, and the safety\/trust teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">20.This led public policy executive Caroline Strom to send out a polite WTF query. Several employees noted that there was tension between the comms\/policy teams, who had little\/less control over moderation, and the safety\/trust teams: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0IFnVPCOgY\">pic.twitter.com\/0IFnVPCOgY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598832411025952768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrom\u2019s note returned the answer that the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company\u2019s \u2018hacked materials\u2019 policy,\u201d he continued. \u201cAlthough several sources recalled hearing about a \u2018general\u2019 warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there\u2019s no evidence \u2013 that I\u2019ve seen \u2013 of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role,\u201d he continued. \u201c\u2018They just freelanced it,\u2019 is how one former employee characterized the decision. \u2018Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn\u2019t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">24. \u201cThey just freelanced it,\u201d is how one former employee characterized the decision. \u201cHacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn\u2019t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598834373482070016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">24. \u201cThey just freelanced it,\u201d is how one former employee characterized the decision. \u201cHacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn\u2019t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598834373482070016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see the confusion in the following lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gadde and former Trust and safety chief Yoel Roth. Comms official Trenton Kennedy writes, \u2018I\u2019m struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe\u2019,\u201d Taibbi continued. \u201cBy this point \u2018everyone knew this was f***ed,\u2019 said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of\u2026 continuing to err.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">26. By this point \u201ceveryone knew this was fucked,\u201d said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of\u2026 continuing to err. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2wJMFAUBoe\">pic.twitter.com\/2wJMFAUBoe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk released information through journalist Matt Taibbi Friday afternoon showing that Twitter was working in conjunction with then-Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden\u2019s team, removing tweets that team Biden wanted deleted. Musk said that he decided to release the information because it was \u201cnecessary to restore public trust\u201d in the platform after it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1890629,"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":"Musk Releases \u2018Hunter Biden\u2019 Files: Tweets Deleted At Behest Of Team Biden, Exec Was Key Behind Censorship Decision","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Musk Releases \u2018Hunter Biden\u2019 Files: Tweets Deleted At Behest Of Team Biden, Exec Was Key Behind Censorship Decision","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760306","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}