Comments by "Darlene" (@darlene2709) on "Global National: Jan. 12, 2023 | Canadian airline executives apologize for holiday travel chaos" video.
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On its face, the New York Post story was dishonest and misleading. Yet despite having access to virtually all of Twitter’s internal communications, Taibbi produced no actual evidence that the decision was motivated by anything beyond concern that Twitter would find itself complicit in promulgating hacked materials.
In sum: The New York Post published a story based on data that was apparently — but, at the time, unverifiably — Hunter Biden’s. That story falsely purported to offer “smoking gun” evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption, when it actually provided no such thing. Faced with warnings from federal law enforcement about impending foreign hacks, and a story based on apparently stolen emails sourced from Rudy Giuliani, Twitter’s content moderation team chose to suppress the Post article.
Nothing in Taibbi’s reporting indicated that Twitter had suppressed the Post story at the request of the Biden campaign, let alone of government officials. And even if it had, so long as the government did not coerce Twitter into suppressing the Post story, there would still have been no constitutional violation; the government is allowed to ask private actors to keep information secret. Indeed, U.S. officials routinely ask national security reporters not to publish certain facts whose exposure would, in their view, compromise U.S. interests.
One week later, Musk has yet to delete or retract his tweets, despite the fact that they unambiguously misrepresent Taibbi’s reporting. Instead, the Twitter CEO has carried on affirming the conservative movement’s false claim that the Post story’s suppression represents a constitutional crisis." New York Magazine
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