The Biden campaign is not the government.

So if in 2016 the Trump campaign had done the same thing, you'd be fine with the response, "The Trump campaign is not the government."?

I would, yes. In fact, the Trump White House did just that, it’s right there in the thread. Without knowing what the tweets they had removed were, I don’t see evidence of wrongdoing. There are legitimate reasons to have tweets taken down: malicious impersonation, revenge porn (which apparently some of these were), death threats, etc.

But Biden was likely to be elected, members of his staff appointed to government positions and staff at Twitter likely understood that.

Were they? It wasn't clear even for most of a week after the election that Biden was likely to be elected.

it was clear for the whole campaign the odds were pretty even

Is that a defence or further proof of malfeasance?

The Biden campaign, which became the government, perhaps in part due to the assistance provided, requested and received assistance. If the campaign wasn't the government and didn't have the power to compel assistance, why did Twitter help?

Because at least some of the content reported by them was unequivocally bad? Like someone's nudes that were published without consent. Or are you saying that if NYPost decides to run some candidate's children's nudes all of a sudden it's journalism instead of revenge porn?

Joe Biden wasn’t “the government” yet, look at the date. I wish we knew what these tweets actually were. If it was suppressing a news story, that’s bad. If it’s asking for death threats to be removed, that’s not bad.

(Matt himself acknowledges that both parties had tweets taken down, his evidence for bias is apparently that Twitter employees donated more to democrats https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752?s=46&...)

Surely Twitter still has the data in an archive somewhere, but it’s not clear from the thread that Matt knows what the content of these tweets was.

Many of the removed tweets flagged by Bidens team were literally nude pictures of Hunter Biden.

Wow, 99.7% contributions went to democrats... If that isn't damning evidence of partisan bias I don't know what is! I honestly wasn't expecting it to be that one-sided.

for 2022 mid terms, opensecrets.org reports 95.38% for democrats, 0.19% republicans, 4.42% others.

overview of 2022 mid terms for technology: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.php?ind=B&Bkd...

Twitter specifically: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/recipients?toprecip...

FTX: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ftx-us/summary?id=D00007369...

The two "others" were Bernie Sanders and Evan McMullin, and the one Republican was Adam Kinzinger, a high-profile Trump critic who didn't even run for reelection in '22. There was a single individual donation of $200 to the RNC.

I don't know what anybody expects, though. Tech workers tend to be young, affluent, educated city-dwellers, and that demographic is strongly and increasingly inclined toward supporting Democrats. Twitter is headquartered in San Francisco, a liberal city in a heavily Democratic state. There's no conspiracy at work here. Republicans could choose to try to appeal to tech workers if they wanted.

Those are from individuals, capped at a few thousand dollars. The GOP raised more than the Democrats in the PAC arena, so we’ll never know the true balance when accounting for big donations at the top.