What we’ve learned from Elon Musk’s Twitter Files is what we’ve long suspected. The social media platform was run by progressives who favored Democrats and held conservatives to a higher standard for maintaining access to the forum.
It’s less a smoking gun than it is a warning shot. The role Twitter played in the 2020 presidential balloting provides a chilling view of the potential for Big Tech to manipulate the electorate and sway the outcome of elections.
The internal communications examined with Musk’s permission by a team of independent journalists follow two threads. The first tracks Twitter’s censorship just prior to the election of the New York Post’s report on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop.
