{"id":1777971,"date":"2022-12-16T15:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777971"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:03:00","slug":"twitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbi-confirms-platforms-supreme-court-had-ben-shapiro-in-its-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbi-confirms-platforms-supreme-court-had-ben-shapiro-in-its-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Twitter Files\u2019 Journalist Matt Taibbi Confirms Platform\u2019s \u2018Supreme Court\u2019 Had Ben Shapiro In Its Sights"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ftwitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbi-confirms-platforms-supreme-court-had-ben-shapiro-in-its-sights%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=1777971&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>Journalist Matt Taibbi, who is playing a lead role in exposing Twitter\u2019s prior\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/social-media-censorship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">censorship<\/a> regime, told Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/author\/ben-shapiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Shapiro<\/a>\u00a0Friday that the platform\u2019s top content cops did indeed actively discuss suppressing him.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple installments of the \u201cTwitter Files,\u201d a set of internal documents Twitter CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> recently provided to Taibbi and others handpicked by new owner Elon Musk have shown that the platform had several ways of silencing conservatives. From shadow banning, where users\u2019 visibility to others is obscured, all the way up to outright suspensions, a small cabal of Twitter managers meddled with accounts, sometimes making up the rules as they went along. Shapiro, who suspects he was shadow banned, came close to having the whole Twitter toolbox thrown at him by what Taibbi called the platform\u2019s \u201cSupreme Court of moderation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey actually decided in that case not to slam you,\u201d Taibbi said\u00a0during Friday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Ben Shapiro Show,\u201d one of Taibbi\u2019s first interviews since taking on the Twitter Files project. \u201cBut for sure you were being discussed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro, who said that his account has gained roughly one million new followers in the month since Musk acquired the platform, said that he adopted various rhetorical tactics in order to avoid censorship.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-ben-shapiro-show\/id1047335260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE LATEST EPISODE OF \u201cTHE BEN SHAPIRO SHOW\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was always extremely careful on Twitter as to what I thought their standards were, and so I tended to use sarcasm instead of just straight out saying what I meant,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cSo instead of getting banned for saying that \u2018a man is a man and a woman is a woman,\u2019 I would say that a man who said that he was a woman was in fact \u2018the most womanly woman that has ever womaned.\u2019 That was my sort of end-around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter executives insisted for several years that no censorship or shadow banning of conservatives had ever occurred on the platform. Shapiro noticed the lack of journalistic interest from mainstream outlets despite news of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/twitter-files-part-iii-twitter-worked-in-coordination-with-u-s-government-to-censor-content-during-2020-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cooperation<\/a> between corporate America and government agencies such as the FBI to suppress entire subsets of the national discourse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of it is more just hive-mind narrative policing,\u201d Taibbi, a former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, said when asked about the phenomenon. \u201cThis story doesn\u2019t fit neatly into a category that they would like. I know old-school journalists would have been very interested in this story because we\u2019re getting a look at stuff you never get to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taibbi noted that such publications\u2019 failure to cover the Twitter Files is \u201creally more of a burn on them than they realize,\u201d as mainstream America finds the story fascinating. Many outlets had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/here-are-the-news-outlets-that-spread-twitter-execs-lies-about-not-shadow-banning-conservatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent years<\/a> uncritically parroting the claim that Twitter had not been censoring content, often mocking conservatives who nevertheless insisted that their pages were artificially subdued.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro observed the irony of journalists who \u201cwork for corporate outlets that are owned by extraordinarily rich people,\u201d such as The Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, and The New York Times, which is controlled by the Sulzberger family, criticizing Taibbi and other independent reporters for purportedly \u201cdoing the bidding of the world\u2019s richest man.\u201d Taibbi remarked that legitimate journalists engage with evidence in accordance with the facts, no matter who the findings may benefit or detriment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually laughed out loud when I saw somebody from Bloomberg giving me a hard time and using that line,\u201d Taibbi replied. \u201cIf you work for Mike Bloomberg permanently and you\u2019re going to give me a hard time about doing one story in conjunction with Elon Musk, that\u2019s just laughable. But as journalists, we don\u2019t care where the material comes from. As long as it\u2019s true, we can verify its authenticity and we can verify that it\u2019s newsworthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taibbi said that Musk has so far been \u201cgenuinely interested in transparency\u201d and harbors a \u201cgenuine distaste for certain kinds of internet censorship.\u201d The billionaire entrepreneur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/read-it-elon-musk-explains-why-he-bought-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the public<\/a> that he acquired the social media company for $44 billion to foster a space for respectful disagreement in the public square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Matt Taibbi, who is playing a lead role in exposing Twitter\u2019s prior\u00a0censorship regime, told Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro\u00a0Friday that the platform\u2019s top content cops did indeed actively discuss suppressing him. 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