The Twitter Files

Re:The Twitter Files by progrus on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:39PM (#33839909)

These actions effectively installed Biden as president. There was a poll where an easily-sufficient percentage of respondents said they would have changed their vote if the laptop story hadn’t been suppressed. Someone can probably find it.

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Re:The Twitter Files by myko on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:09PM (#33840144)

> These actions effectively installed Biden as president.

No, the millions of voters who selected him over trump did that.

This hit job using hacked iCloud information to post revenge porn of Hunter Biden was not going to change people's votes, it had nothing to do with Joe Biden. Just another Russian hack job.

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Re:The Twitter Files by djur on Saturday December 03, 2022 @02:50AM (#33841616)

The poll showed that 4 out of 5 people who said they had been following the laptop story (i.e., people who already knew about it despite the "censorship") thought that it was "very" or "somewhat" likely that coverage of the story affected the outcome of the election.

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Re:The Twitter Files by acdha on Saturday December 03, 2022 @10:00AM (#33843943)

That poll of people who closely follow Republican talking points found that they think that more coverage of Republican talking points would help Republicans win elections. It’s not untrue but it’s not telling you anything you didn’t already know.

(Note, for example that the poll numbers you read in the NY Post were based on 437 of the original 1,335 respondents because they literally excluded everyone else to get the numbers they wanted to base this story on.)

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Re:The Twitter Files by Klonoar on Saturday December 03, 2022 @05:12AM (#33842301)

Nobody with any realistic sense of reality gives a single shit about Hunter Biden and whatever the hell he did with his life.

People voted Trump out because he utterly gutted our country, even when handed layup after layup. Knock it off with this "Biden was installed" shit, jesus christ.

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Re:The Twitter Files by _a9 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @07:17AM (#33842909)

The country is currently being utterly gutted. Many of the things people accused Trump of doing is happening at this moment, under this administration.

But let's ignore that and repeat all the bad stuff the news told us Trump did, and how Biden is a saint for swooping in and saving our democracy.

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Re:The Twitter Files by myvoiceismypass on Saturday December 03, 2022 @11:32AM (#33844673)

> Many of the things people accused Trump of doing is happening at this moment, under this administration

Like what?

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Re:The Twitter Files by Klonoar on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:05PM (#33848425)

>Many of the things people accused Trump of doing is happening at this moment, under this administration. > >But let's ignore that

I am not engaging in a discussion where the other party handwaves away with a simple "many of the things". You don't get to pull that junk and then say "let's label everyone willfully ignorant".

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Re:The Twitter Files by chroma on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:38PM (#33839899)

Biden himself wasn't an elected official at the time, but many others were. One of Taibbi's tweets shows an email from the DNC requesting that certain tweets be censored.

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Re:The Twitter Files by belltaco on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:04PM (#33840118)

DNC is a private organization.

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Re:The Twitter Files by chroma on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:31PM (#33840274)

So if the RNC had a hotline to Twitter that they used to censor stuff so their candidates could win more elections, you'd respond in the same manner? They're a private organization.

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Re:The Twitter Files by belltaco on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:39PM (#33840317)

I wouldn't claim it was govt interference like you're doing to support a bogus argument.

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Re:The Twitter Files by sanderjd on Saturday December 03, 2022 @12:50AM (#33841026)

Taibbi's own claims are that both parties and both campaigns had this "hotline" to Twitter.

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Re:The Twitter Files by djur on Saturday December 03, 2022 @02:52AM (#33841622)

If people were posting revenge porn of Tiffany Trump on Twitter and RNC staffers contacted Twitter to notify them of the offending tweets, I think that would be commendable.

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Re:The Twitter Files by UncleMeat on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:38PM (#33848711)

In fact, there were nudes of Melania Trump shared on social media during the 2016 election. These weren't personal but were instead professional photographs. Everywhere I ever saw them they were taken down very very quickly.

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Re:The Twitter Files by andreysolsty on Saturday December 03, 2022 @07:12AM (#33842878)

It's in TFA:

"10.Both 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:"

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Re:The Twitter Files by imgabe on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:56PM (#33840055)

Ah yes, Biden the former vice president and 40 year career politician was a political naïf who had no influence whatsoever because he was not in office at the time. Of course.

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Re:The Twitter Files by UncleMeat on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:36PM (#33848701)

Biden was a person with considerable influence. But that's not the same as "Twitter and the US government collude." If there is anything most closely matching that phrase, it is the examples of reviews done based on information from the Trump team.

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