The internal Twitter documents, also known as the “Twitter Files,” provided by CEO Elon Musk to journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang and Michael Shellenberger for public release were intended to criticize the decisions of Musk’s predecessors. Primarily, the goal was to pull back the curtain on alleged bias and government influence in the company’s content moderation efforts, including banning former President Donald Trump. Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten argues the “Twitter Files” have “confirmed everything conservatives suspected about Big Tech censorship.” He also has a number of lingering questions:
Who were all the folks with ties to the national security state at Twitter involved in its censorship regime, and to what extent were they coordinating with said national security state as they censored political dissidents?
When are we going to see congressional hearings and lawsuits to fully expose the censorship regime and punish those who arguably broke the law in connection therewith – including Section 241 Title 18 of the U.S. Code? As Columbia Law’s Philip Hamburger recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal: “If the gov-tech partnership to suppress speech isn’t a conspiracy to interfere in the enjoyment of the freedom of speech, what is?”
Where are the Facebook Files, the Reddit Files and the Wikipedia files?
The Intercept reported that prior to the 2020 election, these and other Big Tech companies met on a monthly basis with the FBI, CISA and other government representatives…part of an initiative, still ongoing, between the private sector and government to discuss how firms would handle misinformation during the election.
What were they coordinating about, and how did these companies respond?
On what authority was the federal government acting? Shouldn’t heads roll for using “national security” or “public health” as a pretext to target political opponents by running roughshod over our right to speak?
And what were the Big Tech companies and the security state colluding on in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections, and what about right this minute?
As with Russiagate, if there is no exposing the corruption, and no accountability for the corrupt, it guarantees far worse to come – and far worse may well be happening right now.