{"id":55707,"date":"2022-12-13T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T18:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55707"},"modified":"2023-02-28T10:51:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:51:45","slug":"elon-musks-twitter-files-farce-fails-pitifully-in-portraying-poor-trump-as-a-put-upon-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55707","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ Farce Fails Pitifully in Portraying Poor Trump as a Put Upon Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

From its outset, Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files”<\/em> Soap Opera purported to expose the social media platform’s content moderation staff as biased against Donald Trump. However, after four episodes it utterly failed to achieve its own blatantly biased objective. Now the fifth and latest installment flops in a similarly humiliating manner.<\/p>\n

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Episode five was a 46 tweet spray by conservative author Bari Weiss that sought to disparage the decision makers at Twitter. She accused them of being predisposed to banning Trump merely due to “the risk of further incitement of violence”<\/em> that he represented following his January 6th insurrection. However, the messages that were cited actually show a team that was conscientious of the complexity of the situation and committed to fully and fairly deliberating the choices available to them.<\/p>\n

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As has been the established practice by the previous installments, Weiss posted<\/a> a slew of screenshots of private internal communications that failed to advance her premise. Then she closed with a rather muddled observation that only illustrates how poorly she understands the concepts of free speech and public discourse.<\/p>\n

Musk introduced episode five saying<\/a> that “Under pressure from hundreds of activist employees, Twitter deplatforms Trump, a sitting US President, even though they themselves acknowledge that he didn\u2019t violate the rules.”<\/em> That admission, aside from disparaging the free speech of hundreds of Twitter employees, is an inadvertent validation of Twitter’s team because it shows that they had not prejudged Trump. Weiss elaborated on that in several of her tweet quotes. For instance, these three tweets contradict the whole premise that Twitter insiders were bent on banning Trump from the start…<\/p>\n

4. For years, Twitter had resisted calls both internal and external to ban Trump on the grounds that blocking a world leader from the platform or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information that people should be able to see and debate.<\/p>\n

7. There were dissenters inside Twitter.<\/p>\n

12. But the Twitter staff assigned to evaluate tweets quickly concluded that Trump had *not* violated Twitter\u2019s policies.\u201cI think we\u2019d have a hard time saying this is incitement,\u201d wrote one staffer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is not the discourse of a biased cabal of Trump haters intent on banishing the coup-plotting, sore loser. To the contrary, it’s evidence of a diversity of opinion and a commitment to an open dialogue. And most of the rest of Weiss’ tweet storm was more of the same. However, when she got near the end she summed up her harangue with a couple of tweets that show how little sense she makes…<\/p>\n

43. Ultimately, the concerns about Twitter\u2019s efforts to censor news about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, blacklist disfavored views, and ban a president aren\u2019t about the past choices of executives in a social media company.<\/p>\n

44. They\u2019re about the power of a handful of people at a private company to influence the public discourse and democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Wiess is lamenting the wholly contrived “concerns”<\/em> that Twitter censored and blacklisted news, and was intent on banning Trump. Then she claims that those concerns “aren\u2019t about the past choices of executives in a social media company,”<\/em> but they are about “the power of a handful of people at a private company.”<\/em> How exactly are those two things different? It’s like saying that the sky isn’t blue, it’s actually blue.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Weiss appears to be oblivious to the fact that lots of private companies “influence the public discourse and democracy.”<\/em> The media, for instance, and virtually every major corporation that has vested interests in how their industries are regulated. Does she think that oil or banking or pharmaceutical companies (to name just a few) don’t try to exert such influence?<\/p>\n

In fact, Twitter itself is trying to exert such influence by releasing these messages that were sent by people who had an expectation of privacy when they were communicating amongst themselves. In at least one case a Twitter employee was driven from his home<\/a><\/strong> due to threats as a result of Musk’s inappropriate exposure of these people’s identities.<\/p>\n

In addition to his callous recklessness, Musk is being flagrantly hypocritical by pretending that he’s interested in free speech or transparency. The inescapable fact is that he’s releasing this limited batch of pre-selected messages through his hand-picked, right-wing biased puppets. Meanwhile, he’s refusing to make all of the messages available to the news media and the public so that everyone can see everything that was discussed and all of the relevant context.<\/p>\n

In other words, Musk is limiting what the public can know, and he is delegating his power to “a handful of people at a private company to influence the public discourse and democracy.”<\/em> Go figure.<\/p>\n

What’s worse is that increasingly those people are repugnant cretins who promote racism, anti-Semitism, and neo-fascism, such as most of those whose Twitter accounts Musk has restored, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kanye West, Project Veritas, Roger Stone, neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, and especially Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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