The billionaire and journalist Matt Taibbi, author of the scoop, want to highlight how the system had gone out of control without the knowledge of the very top management of the social platform
Three weeks from US presidential election of 2020 Twitter played a leading role, obscuring the scoop of New York Post on secret emails from Hunter Biden
, son of Democratic candidate Joe Biden. And the operation could have been done, probably, at the request of the Biden campaign team, prompting those responsible for checking the contents of the posts to violate some internal rules. But at stake was the impact on the electoral campaign. The story was told on Twitter with a very long thread by the freelance journalist Matt Taibbi, collaborator of the magazine Rolling Stoneswhose scoop it had been announced more than an hour earlier by Elon Musk, with a series of posts that had sent millions of followers of the billionaire and owner of the social network into fibrillation.
Secret internal files would be made available to the network. What emerged a structured system control and review of tweets, also on detailed requests from Washington: Taibbi premises that they had a direct relationship with Twitter’s control team both parties, and the White House itself, under Donald Trump, had made requests to censor some posts and accounts, and the requests had been met and granted. But the reporter suggests that the reviewers would end up unbalance their intervention on behalf of the Democrats, given that the vast majority of employees were donors to the Democratic campaign.
What Musk and Taibbi want to highlight as the system had gone out of control, even without the knowledge of the very top management of the platform. Twitter’s then-CEO Jack Dorsey called the Hunter Biden cover-up in an internal email pi grave of the same story. Posting a screenshot of the email landed Taibbi in a serious blunder for a journalist, that of invasion of privacy: in the image he left Dorsey’s email uncovered, deleted when opening emails but remained in the queue of the letter. The photo was then deleted, but probably, given the readiness of the web people, it is no longer secret.
And I stumble in a story of light and shadow. The journalist talks about a Frankenstein-like story of a mechanism built by humans but escaped the control of his own designers. But at the moment, says Taibbi, no one knew for sure whether the story of Hunter Biden’s emails was the result of a hacking or, as would in fact turn out later, it had only emerged because the candidate’s son had forgot the computer in a repair shop. However in the end, and perhaps not quite what Musk hoped for, it is the children who come out of it strengthened former top management of Twitter, because Dorsey emerges as the one who did not like the connivance between the controllers and the staff of the two campaigns.
Taibbi, at the end of the thread, reiterates that the former CEO had started ainternal analysis. Who knows if it will be enough to make him accept the fact that his personal e-mail has been placed in front of million users. But the story seems like only the first installment. Musk he kept his parents awake during the night 119 million followers with an announcement: Tune in tomorrow for Episode 2 of The Twitter Files.
Here we go!! ??? https://t.co/eILK9f3bAm
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
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