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Twitter yelp ceo12/16/2023 ![]() But… there’s literally no scandal here (or if there is one, it’s something entirely different, which we’ll get to at the end of the article). I’m no fan of the FBI, and have spent much of the two and a half decades here at Techdirt criticizing it. The problem is that, once again, that’s not what “the Twitter Files” show, even as the reporters working on it - Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger - either don’t understand what they’re looking at or are deliberately misrepresenting it. Most of the people who believed that have either ignored that there was no evidence to support it, or have simply moved on to this new lie, suggesting that “the FBI” was “sending lists” to Twitter of people to censor. It’s just flat out wrong.Īs with pretty much every one of these misleading statements regarding the very Twitter that he runs, where people (I guess maybe just former people) could explain to him why he’s wrong, it takes way more time and details to explain why he’s wrong than for him to push out these misleading lines that will now be taken as fact.īut, since at least some of us still believe in facts and truth, let’s walk through this.įirst up, we already did a huge, long debunker on the idea that the FBI (or any government entity) was in any way involved in the Twitter decision to block links to the Hunter Biden laptop story. ![]()
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