The Twitter Files, a collection of internal documents made public by the company, have been at once among the most interesting and the most complicated journalistic documents of the Trump era, benwallacewells writes.
account. On one level, the decision seemed straightforward. The President, having been voted out of office, had repeatedly insisted that a fair election had been stolen, summoned what would become a violent crowd of his supporters to Washington and directed them to the Capitol, where they tried to forcibly stop the official tally that would remove him from office. Trump had communicated much of this effort on Twitter itself; accounts had been suspended for far less.
Musk set at least one condition: that the reports be published first on Twitter itself. Because of this, and because the journalists he chose tend to write polemically and have fierce online cliques of supporters and opponents, the Twitter Files have arrived pre-factionalized. Conservatives have cheered their publication, while many progressives have either ignored them or rolled their eyes.
Two years later, Trump is still not back on the platform. The Twitter Files suggest that the company made a subjective determination, some might say a commonsensical one—that Trump had gone too far—and then found a legalistic rationale for doing what it wanted. Of course, businesses do things like this all the time, but in a company that had come to play such a central role in convening global political speech, this whiff of arbitrariness was bound to set off alarms.
The backbeat of the Twitter Files is a heightened sensitivity to the power of information. Three weeks before the 2020 election, the New Yorkpublished a splashy story implying, without much evidence, that emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop revealed that he had connected a Ukrainian businessman with his father. Twitter reacted by suspending theaccount and also by suspending the accounts of people who promoted the story, among them the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany.
After a careful read of the Twitter Files, I don’t think that the evidence suggests a coherent political agenda. It is certainly true that Twitter executives donated, overwhelmingly, to Democratic candidates for public office, and it seems equally true that they expressed mostly progressive views on social media.
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