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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.
Re:The Twitter Files by belltaco on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:04PM (#33840118)
DNC is a private organization.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:"