The statement was made in a sarcastic tone but is nonetheless serious. During a podcast interview, Twitter boss Elon Musk claimed that “almost every conspiracy theory about the social network has turned out to be true”.
Invited on Saturday December 24 of the “All-in” podcast to talk about the changes made to Twitter since its acquisition by the multi-billionaire, the boss of Tesla returned to the Twitter Files, which, since the beginning of December, have been revealing confidential and compromising details on the social network.
In these revelations, users learned about the previous team’s role in censoring content about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, “hyper-intrusion” and “omnipresence.” of the FBI as well as other intelligence agencies, the use of tools to limit the visibility of content or even behind the scenes of the banishment of Donald Trump’s account.
The Twitter Files also revealed how the CIA helped moderate content by putting pressure on platform executives, or how the social network “tolerated” Pentagon psychological operations campaigns through suspicious accounts. On Monday, part of the revelations highlighted the pressure exerted by the Biden administration to moderate the debate related to Covid-19 and to suspend “anti-vax” accounts.
“Cleaning up the past”
Asked about the continuity of the Twitter Files and their importance, Elon Musk explains his intention to “to do the housework” in the past of the platform “to be trustworthy in the future”. And to add: “To be completely frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had on Twitter turned out to be true”.
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“To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true.” pic.twitter.com/zBDY3AcrRq— Gretchen ???????? (@GretchenOO8) December 25, 2022
“Is there a conspiracy theory on Twitter that wasn’t proven? So far, they have all turned out to be true. If it’s worse than people thought”, he launched. Asked in stride about the part of the Twitter Files the most “shocking” in his eyes, Elon Musk has made it known that “the FBI part was pretty intense”.