Part 01 - Hunter Biden Laptop

They blocked the Hunter Laptop story knowing it did not violate their rules, likely for partisan reasons.

Discussed internal deliberation to censor the NYP story on Hunter Biden's laptop. They did it knowing it did not violate their rules, likely for partisan reasons. (Which Dorsey CEO later denied to congress, this showed he lied). It also discussed how they blocked/banned/shadowbanned tweets and people for telling uncomfortable truths that the leftists at Twitter didn't like. The bias was left leaning (96-99% of donations went to Democrats). Both support the partisan bias theory that Democrats have denied (or laughably claimed was a anti-left-wing bias), it also proves the Biden admin lied that they were not in contact with Twitter over the Hunter Biden story.

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~ Matt Taibbi
Created: 2022-12-02

They censored based on the company's prohibition on hacked materials, knowing and admitting that the materials in question were not hacked. Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker approved the story's suppression anyways, "it is reasonable for us to assume they may have been (hacked)" despite zero evidence that supports that.
It mentioned that requests came from both Biden and Trump campaigns, but pointed out that there were more leftist channels and sympathies, and offered multiple examples of Trump campaign/officials getting blocked, or 5 tweets the Biden Admin had blocked and no examples provided for Trump examples of them going after the left.
Ro Khanna (d) had warned then-Twitter head of legal Vijaya Gadde (d) that there were free-speech implication and possible political backlash.
Four tweets contained nude photos and videos of Hunter Biden, with illegal drugs, guns, underage looking girls, and other crimes. Twitter used the idea that this was revenge Porn, to block it. Even though it's a stretch, and they virtually never apply those standards to other adult content on the site.
The left uses Taibbi's assessement that there was no government pressure to pretend that there was nothing wrong with Biden (the soon to be President) and his operatives collaborating with far-lefties at twitter to censor people for their common political agenda. Which even if it turns out to be legally true (wait and see), is still not ethically true.
The far left and FakeNews outlets like Wikipedia pretend there's no 1A problem with censoring things on Twitter, because they're a private company. However, past and likely future rulings will show that it's murky at best -- but certainly Cable Companies, Telco/Internet Providers and forums like Twitter can not be manipulated by government agents without some 1A implications.

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Twitter Files
Twitter Files is a series of releases on what Twitter did to unfairly suppress conservatives on their platform.

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https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394

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