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Twitter ie. Musk is making public internal documents and emails on past content moderation practices and direct lines between politicians' teams and senior Twitter personel, taking first the Hunter Biden Laptop / New York Post censorhip episode. More is supposed to follow, including publishing "The Algorithm" (?). It appears that the deal with the journalist, Matt Taibbi is that he has to publish it on Twitter...

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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Remember when there used to news articles in place of 33+ tweet threads

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

And inversely, news articles that weren't just embedded tweets.

[–] zigzagadhesive@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there evidence yet musk is the source of the Twitter files and not a former employee?

[–] gabor@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

None that I've read. But for me the fact that Taibbi had to make a deal to publish it on Twitter in this annoying thread format rather than on his substack makes it more likely, that this is sanctioned or even initiated by Musk...