Re:The Twitter Files
by jeffreyrogers on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:28PM
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Do you have any evidence for that? I don't see anywhere where it says what the tweets contain. In either case, the claim I made is that twitter removed tweets and banned accounts at the request of certain parties, which remains true and is what the linked images show.
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Grab a link, go over to web.archive.org, paste it in, go to the capture from 2020, look at the dick picks of Hunter Biden.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201025002626/https://twitter.c... - yes, it's a dick pick. Do not click that link if you don't want to see it.
Re:The Twitter Files
by jeffreyrogers on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:37PM
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Thanks.
Yeah, just like they do every single day for reported material that violates their TOS.
Re:The Twitter Files
by jeffreyrogers on Sunday December 04, 2022 @12:20AM
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Sure, I don't disagree with that. But the existence of a backchannel is notable in itself and as far as I know wasn't publicly acknowledged.
It’s surprising that the teams around the most powerful political office in the country have communication lines open with media corporations?
That doesn’t strike me as notable or surprising at all, even if it’s new information.
For this to be surprising, I think one would have to implicitly believe one of a few things:
1) Twitter isn’t a meaningful political battleground, 2) politicians don’t know it’s an important political battleground, or 3) Twitter should treat a content report from “newuser18472” the same as a report from a notable organization or individual.
Reasonable things to believe, but IMO not surprising at all to find out they’re false.