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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 - The Untold Story

Researchers Pressured Twitter To Treat COVID-19 Facts as 'Misinformation'

The latest Twitter Files shows a partnership between Stanford University researchers and government-funded organizations encouraged social media companies to police true information.

Reason

House Republicans Pass Bill To Prevent Federal Meddling in Online Speech

The bill is overbroad and could have unintended consequences.

Reason

Double duds: Conspiracy bros bore MAGA

GOP propagandists believe MAGA buys whatever they're selling, so why put any effort into spinning lies?

Salon

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Democrats Deride the Twitter Files Reporters as 'So-Called Journalists'

Members of Congress showed their true colors at a Thursday hearing.

Reason

Elon Musk is being portrayed as ‘Hitler of the month’, claims one of his ‘Twitter Files’ journalists

Matt Taibbi says Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX CEO is being unfairly targeted

The Independent UK

Phony cybersecurity regulation

Episode 441 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Reason

Twitter Files: Employees Knew the Media's Favorite Russian Bots List Was Fake

"I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is."

Reason

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The FBI Paid Twitter $3.4 Million for Processing Requests

The latest Twitter Files installment shows the FBI paid Twitter millions of dollars to cover the costs of processing the agency's requests. Yikes.

Reason

FBI 'told Twitter to take action over jokes it flagged as misinformation'

Latest edition of the Twitter Files by Matt Taibbi says the FBI relationship with the social media platform is 'constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary'

Wales Online

Twitter Files: The FBI Frequently Flagged Joke Tweets, Asked for Moderation

Maybe the FBI has something better to do with its time?

Reason

Sifting Through the Twitter Files: Live With Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller

Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live analysis of the internal Twitter documents recently published by Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger.

Reason

Elon Musk is using the Twitter Files to discredit foes and push conspiracy theories

The Twitter CEO's selective release of internal communications largely corroborate what is already known about the messy business of policing a large social network.

WEKU

TechScape: I read Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ so you don’t have to

In this week’s newsletter: The leaks don’t reveal a hotbed of leftwing bias at the social media company – just a thin-skinned billionaire rehashing culture wars of years past

The Guardian - UK

The #TwitterFiles Rorschach test

Everybody sees what they were predisposed to see.

Axios

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Twitter Files: FBI, DHS Reported Tweets for Election Misinformation

Content moderators had "weekly confabs" with law enforcement officials, reports Matt Taibbi.

Fortune

Why is the FTC suing to stop Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal? Because it doesn’t trust the tech giant

Federal regulators are skeptical that the Xbox parent will make good on pledges to keep games available on PlayStation.

Fortune

Elon Musk's focus on Twitter leaves Tesla investors fuming

Musk can't stop finding new cans of worms to open at his new acquisition.

Al Jazeera

Twitter had ‘secret blacklists’ to limit users, journalist claims

Independent journalist Bari Weiss says platform restricted visibility of ‘disfavored tweets’.

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Musk's second "Twitter Files" claims "secret blacklists"

Outside journalists posted more internal documents showing Twitter's content decisions under Musk's predecessors.

The Independent UK

Elon Musk tells Jack Dorsey ‘most important data’ was hidden as former CEO asks for release of ‘Twitter Files’

“If the goal is transparency to build trust, why not just release everything without filter and let people judge for themselves?’” Dorsey asked

Tribune News Service

Musk says Twitter executive was ‘exited’ from company

Jim Baker, Twitter Inc.’s deputy general counsel, was pushed out of the company over his handling of information, Elon Musk said in a tweet.

Al Jazeera

Musk says Twitter lawyer fired amid Hunter Biden laptop dispute

Elon Musk accuses executive of possibly suppressing information about Twitter’s handling of Hunter Biden laptop story.

Axios

The alternative-media industrial complex

Elon Musk is giving a push to a new model of publishing built mostly on the idea that it's anti-mainstream media.

Reason

Rep. Khanna on Twitter, Free Speech, and the Hunter Biden Story

A Democratic member of Congress laments how Twitter handled the New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop.

Reason

What Twitter's Suppression of the Hunter Biden Laptop Story Tells Us About the Media

Plus: The editors consider a listener question on the involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill.

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