Hopes that a change in leadership at Twitter might produce less political division about the social media site favored by journalists and political junkies are far from reality.
about the way the company previously operated. Released with much fanfare, the reports from the two reporters are either “blockbuster revelations” or a “nothing-burger,” depending on where one stands politically and how closely he or she has followed the long-running battle over content moderation.Republicans have for years accused Twitter, among other social media platforms, of favoring content from the Left while suppressing or removing a disproportionate amount of the Right’s postings.
Liberals’ anxieties about Twitter’s direction are a serious problem for the company, given the leftward bent revealed in those user numbers. Research shows that the partisan distribution at Twitter competitors such as Facebook and TikTok is much more balanced, increasing audience growth and advertiser reach.
The newly released documents chronicle the internal debate around the decision to mark the story as “unsafe” and prevent users from sharing it by direct message at Twitter, pre-Musk. The initial justification for blocking the laptop story being based on fake or hacked materials, a violation of Twitter’s Terms of Service, was the source of tense conversation inside the company that day.
“The American people deserve to know why Twitter took down the Hunter Biden laptop story even when your colleagues were questioning the rationale for suppressing the story,” incoming House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman James Comer wrote in a letter seeking the testimony of Jim Baker, a top lawyer for the FBI who went on to a senior legal position at Twitter before Musk recently ousted him.
That’s part of why many, particularly on the Left, don't view the correspondence as a smoking gun. Mike Masnick, editor of, wrote that it revealed “basically nothing of interest.” Masnick said that in “a few internal communications,” the Musk team “simply confirmed everything that was already public in statements made by Twitter, [former CEO] Jack Dorsey’s congressional testimony, and in declarations made as part of a Federal Elections Commission investigation into Twitter’s actions.
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