Taibbi - The Twitter Files, Part 1
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@jon-nyc said in Taibbi - The Twitter Files, Part 1:
I doubt it was perceived that way at all. Most of the ‘trust and safety’ (sic) team were fellow travelers and didn’t need much convincing.
Also from the emails Taibbi released it looks like there was discussion and, at the margin, disagreement about what to delete and not. They don’t seem to be behaving as if they’re taking orders.
Zoom out to the level of the social value of the friends one makes and does favors for, and it becomes transactional by definition. In any case the appearance of impropriety and the ease with which real impropriety could be plausibly denied makes such a situation fraught with hazards. Hazards which, were the shoe on the other foot and the Trust and Safety team were Trumpists in 2019, would be considered existential to the democracy.
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According to The Resident, anyway.
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It’s always something.
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@jon-nyc yes. I was unclear.
What the FEC statement says that they didn't receive requests from the Biden campaign about the the NY Post articles.
But, the the emails show is that the Biden campaign DID interact with Twitter regarding other issues that they found problematic.
Though the two statements are not the same, they are not necessarily contradictory.
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I suspect that hot potato was a phone call.
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