Originally Posted by wdmso
Twitter files as nothing burger,
They are nothing burger . they are a selected release by one man (Musk).
Actually, the honcho who initially was seclecting what was released from the Twitter files to the journalists that Musk appointed was a disgraced highly partisan ex-FBI operative, James Baker, who was selectively releasing, to the investigative journalists, only files that did not show FBI or government involvement in suppressing Twitter speech. That would have neutered the investigation of the files to a "nothingburger." Musk, wisely got rid of him. And he greatly expanded the number and types of files that were released.
Baker is an example of what has been called the "revolving door between government, liberal groups and Big Tech." He was probably an agreed upon government plant within the Twitter organization. That he was there to decide who or what would be banned and who would be in charge of what files to release, shows the thoroughness of FBI ability to influence even into the future.
without context
Not sure, but, at least part of the context, if there was one, was to investigate intervention, intrusion, or influence, of any sort by the federal government. What context did you want? The Twitter files are way, way more massive than the number of those within "the context."
to selected people, he selected ,
The journalists he selected, like Matt Taibi, have a reputation of being either non-partisan, or mostly so, or even (Taibi for instance) leaning left in his personal politics if not in his rather politically neutral reportage
with. restrictions by musk ! that they must be released only on, Twitter yet Musk he chosen to not have any released to any independent news organizations of course, to avoid scrutiny
The journalists he selected were "independent". They were not tied to politicized news organizations like the NYT or WAPOST, or FOX, etc. In my opinion it's probably impossible to find any journalist more independent than Matt Taibi. Musk was smart enough to know what would result if the NYT or WAPOST or even FOX were selected would or could have happened. The fact that the original Twitter staff member, James Baker, who was releasing the files to the "independent" journalists was basically a highly partisan mole and was selecting only "nothingburger" files attests to what probably would have happened if Musk released the files to mainstream news orgs.
And you people are worried about government control of information it’s laughable
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