The #TwitterFiles "reports" have primarily been biased misinterpretations of old news.
Some even get basic facts wrong. It's a crime, not a joke, to deliberately lie about voting deadlines. Great piece from @emptywheel looking at this shoddy stuff https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/12/26/dumb-silent-we-may-be-led-like-sheep-to-the-slaughter-elvis-chan-hacks-the-klan-and-the-twitter-files/
The #TwitterFiles threads haven't revealed any government censorship or coercion. Their authors also failed to note existing laws/policies which required behavior they deem to be scandalous. They also fail to address the numerous studies showing right-wing content is favored.
@mattsheffield Keep in mind that posts like this come across as pretty hard gaslighting to those of us who read the #TwitterFiles releases for ourselves to see the revelation of government censorship and coercion.
It's like you're telling us that we didn't see the things that we read with our own eyes.
@mattsheffield @volkris
The Twitter files did not show that at all. The few documents posted often do not say what the attached commentary insinuates.
At least several of the Twitter file’s authors have backgrounds in PR so they are very capable at spin doctoring and when that is combined with a lack of journalistic ethics they can easily mislead readers. Please don’t let yourself be fooled. It only benefits the interests of wealthy people and not the public.
That documents do not say what they were trying to censor doesn't change that they were trying to censor, though.
You might even believe this level of censorship and official nudging is good for society. Great! Then own it.
Healthy censorship, if there is such a thing, is healthy.
So let's support it instead of denying what we see with our own eyes.
@volkris @HeterodoxThis The government is required by law to correct lies of any kind about voting procedures since they can serve to suppress votes.
You also fail to note that Trump White House staff routinely reported tweets as well.
The most important fact in this, however, is that Twitter was under no obligation to remove the content and usually didn't.
Your article primarily describes civil actions, though, not ones that would entail a law requiring the government to correct lies.
Also, Trump is guilty of stuff too, but that's a different issue.
I think the important thing is how the US government behaved. I don't care much about what some private company did; but I do believe we need to hold government officials accountable for things like working to silence people promoting viewpoints they don't like, even if their abilities to actually see that through were limited.
@volkris @HeterodoxThis Is very apparent you did not read the article I linked at the top of the thread. It explicitly discusses this topic. But here's another one http://www.louisianaweekly.com/how-the-klan-act-of-1871-is-fighting-voter-intimidation-today/