Independent journalist Bari Weiss took to Twitter on Thursday night to unload a second trove of internal memos and documents exposing how Twitter officials silenced the voices of prominent conservatives on the platform. Radio host Dan Bongino, Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya, and activist Charlie Kirk were among those Twitter censored or blacklisted, along with the popular “Libs of TikTok” account.
1. A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022
Elon Musk: Twitter blacklisting proves ‘the inmates were running the asylum’
Elon Musk has called the damning confirmation that Twitter blacklisted conservative opinions proof that “the inmates were running the asylum” before his free-speech overhaul.
The second richest man in the world added to the growing condemnation sparked Tuesday by the release of part two of “The Twitter Files” detailing his $44 billion purchase’s previous “secret blacklists.”
However, he defended his predecessor, the site’s co-founder Jack Dorsey, who’d previously insisted: “We don’t shadow ban, and we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints.”
That’s the Oligarch variant of “I was just following orders.”
Twitter Files flashback: Jack Dorsey testified under oath Twitter does not censor, ‘shadow-ban’ conservatives
