Jay RosenDec 20, 2022

What the so-called “Twitter Files” actually reveal.

“It isn’t Twitter’s fault that so much conservative discourse in the Trump era is so deeply, fundamentally dishonest.”

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/elon-musk-twitter-files-bari-weiss-matt-taibbi-shadowbanning.html

This is one of the best cut-through-the-noise pieces I have read in months. Seriously. It's that good.

#journalism #journalists #USpolitics

The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well.

The “Twitter Files,” and the journalists hand-picked for them, don’t reveal what Elon Musk wanted.

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