Mike Masnick ✅Dec 16, 2022

If you're over here, you may have missed that Matt Taibbi is pushing a new batch of "Twitter Files" over on the other site... and once again seems to not understand the context of ANYTHING he's looking at, while presenting it in the most conspiratorially misleading way possible.

Yes, the FBI alerted Twitter to tweets that told people to vote on the wrong day. And asked Twitter if they violated policy. That's basically it.

Show threadJesse Vanderlaan

@mmasnick I just don't understand how they can frame it the way they are with a straight face. He says one thing and posts evidence that shows the opposite.

Like he says the FBI pressured Twitter, and then shows an image of a very polite request from the FBI for Twitter to review some tweets for possible ToS violations and demands nothing.

No pressure, no compulsion. It's truly aggravating to read.

Dec 16, 2022 at 10:31pmWeb
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 16, 2022
@jvanderlaan extraordinarily aggravating. like he says the FBI "demands action" when the actual message is literally "can you check to see if these maybe violate your policies?"