OPINION | I’m sorry, but the Twitter Files are not a “nothingburger.”
Predictably, some conservatives have hyped Taibbi/Weiss/Shellenberger revelations up to the point of absurdity. In a tweet with tens of thousands of likes, right-wing commentator Pedro Gonzalez said he wouldn’t be happy until former Twitter executives Jack Dorsey and Yoel Roth were in prison—even though no one has actually alleged that either man broke any laws.
After all, when Twitter executives denied that they engaged in “shadow banning,” they defined the term in a way that wouldn’t apply to Kirk’s situation. And on Twitter’s decision to censor the’s article on Hunter Biden’s laptop, Levitz argues that nothing in the information revealed by Taibbi shows that “the decision was motivated by anything beyond concern that Twitter would find itself complicit in promulgating hacked materials.
It's also true that Twitter openly said at the time that “limiting visibility” was one of its enforcement tools. But the only cases in which it had ever admitted to doing so were narrow and uncontroversial cases like limiting tweets by users who tried to manipulate the algorithm by using unrelated hashtags.
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