{"id":1765297,"date":"2022-12-06T18:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765297"},"modified":"2022-12-06T18:02:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:02:35","slug":"why-elon-musks-twitter-files-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-elon-musks-twitter-files-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018Twitter Files\u2019 Matter"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fwhy-elon-musks-twitter-files-matter%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=1765297&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>Mostly because the evidence confirms all my priors.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s release of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/03\/twitter-files-confirm-big-tech-leftists-suppressed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-ahead-of-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emails<\/a> relating to Twitter\u2019s 2020 presidential election censorship efforts confirms that\u00a0big political media, Big Tech companies, and former intelligence officials were part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=ratfucking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ratf\u2014ing<\/a> operation in 2020. It confirms that the social media platform suppressed unfavorable stories to benefit one party, dispelling the notion that the platform acted as a neutral arbiter. It confirms that claims of \u201cdis-\u201d and \u201cmisinformation\u201d are often used by censors to quash inconvenient news and debate. And the reaction from political journos to these revelations confirms there are\u00a0no regrets.<\/p>\n<p>We haven\u2019t even <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1600243405841666048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seen<\/a> all the emails. Not that we need a Ron Klain email demanding Twitter suspend the New York Post\u2019s account to know what happened. Coordination doesn\u2019t necessitate explicit instructions from a political Svengali. People know what to do without being told. Partisans coalesce around talking points and groupthink metastasizes. This happens all the time on both sides. It happened when journalist Matt Taibbi was reporting on the Twitter files the other night, and virtually every big left-wing account dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/the-twenty-seven-most-embarrassing-reactions-to-taibbi-thread-about-twitter-censoring-hunter-biden-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly the same<\/a> rhetoric and framing to smear him.<\/p>\n<p>What we learned was that plenty of Twitter higher-ups knew the company\u2019s rationale for killing a major news story right before an election was hopelessly rickety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/02\/elon-musk-releases-twitters-files-on-censorship-of-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> communications official Trenton Kennedy about the Hunter story. \u201cCan we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?\u201d then-Vice President of Global Communications Brandon Borrman asked.<\/p>\n<p>But then, General Counsel Jim Baker, one of the Democrats who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-twitter-censorship-files-intelligence-spooks-russia-new-york-post-laptop-taibbi-11670189776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped<\/a> run the Russia collusion swindle on Americans (who was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1600243405841666048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fired<\/a> Tuesday for vetting the first batch of released emails without telling management), responded that it was \u201creasonable for us to assume that they may have been [hacked] and that caution is warranted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All they needed were 51 former intelligence officials, including known perjurers like Jim Clapper and John Brennan, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claim<\/a> the Hunter Biden story had \u201call the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d They passed this deceitful claim to the unscrupulous \u201cjournalist\u201d Natasha Bertrand, then at Politico. From there, the story was repeated endlessly by gullible reporters and\/or willful hacks. And Twitter had its justification.<\/p>\n<p>They would never be able to hide the story, but they could undercut the public\u2019s trust in the newsworthy aspects. If more voters believed that Joe had known about his son cashing in on the family name or that there was circumstantial evidence that the former vice president was a beneficiary of those shady Chicom and Ukrainian deals, it could have mattered. And, after the media had convinced themselves that the Hillary Clinton email scandal \u2014 a completely legitimate story \u2014 had handed the election to that orange fascist, they would never let journalism get in the way again.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if journalists had gotten their hands on a laptop containing pictures of Don Jr. weighing out 21 grams of crack with a, um, \u201csex worker,\u201d there is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1765300,"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-1765297","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\/1765297","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}