Twitter Files Part 10 Reveals Government S Influence On Suppressing During the peak of the covid 19 pandemic, twitter’s leaders bowed to government pressure to censor information that was true but inconvenient, suspended medical professionals who disagreed with. "the united states government pressured twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about covid 19," zweig wrote.
Twitter Files Show Today S Censors Continue To Be Terrible At Their Benjamin wallace wells on the twitter files, internal documents now made public that reveal how the social media platform handled free speech matters pre elon musk. Video embedthe white house pressured twitter to suppress tweets that included "misinformation" about the covid 19 pandemic, even when twitter users shared information from the centers for disease. One lengthy twitter thread about the files — posted by independent journalist michael shellenberger on dec. 19 — included a redacted copy of a feb. 10, 2021, email that was sent to then. The high stakes debate among several employees, including several top execs, was revealed earlier this week in the latest edition of the “twitter files,” a tranche of internal company.
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