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.

Slate

@jayrosen_nyu "The Twitter Files show that the company’s executives were exquisitely sensitive to conservative charges of bias, and that they treated the most volatile prominent right-leaning accounts with kid gloves—even as those accounts were almost exclusively dedicated to flooding the platform with malignant garbage."

That of course is why the purveyors of malignant garbage are so tireless in their complaining. It provides cover and distraction.