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.

Slate
Show threadJoe Schmitt

“But another way to describe wokeness is accountability, and it is perhaps telling that many of those who yell the loudest about the perils of wokeness are so clearly trying to dodge accountability for their own words and deeds”

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

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
Dec 21, 2022 at 6:23pmWeb