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Greg Sargent

@theplumlinegs
18 posts
2023-06-23
Actual “Twitter Files” revelations about the company's handling of Jan 6 and incitement tweets, from @drewharwell: “The records reveal a company that fought until the end to give some of Trump's most belligerent supporters the benefit of the doubt...” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-06-23 View on X
Washington Post

Internal records undercut claims that Twitter censored pro-Trump views before the Capitol riot and show a reluctance to suspend Trump's account until January 8

In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence. Mastodo...

2022-12-10
Yeah, the level of grift here is just stunning, but the problem is that tweeting debunkings also fuels the grift. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
The Hill

Bari Weiss releases “Twitter Files Part Two”, sharing images of accounts that Twitter allegedly put on “blacklists” and screenshots of internal Slack messages

all in secret, without informing users. Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @DavidSacks As @bariweiss clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left Ash...

Yeah, the level of grift here is just stunning, but the problem is that tweeting debunkings also fuels the grift. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias

Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …

2022-12-09
Yeah, the level of grift here is just stunning, but the problem is that tweeting debunkings also fuels the grift. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-09 View on X
The Hill

Bari Weiss releases “Twitter Files Part Two”, sharing images of accounts that Twitter allegedly put on “blacklists” and screenshots of internal Slack messages

Former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss released the second installment of the “Twitter Files” …

Yeah, the level of grift here is just stunning, but the problem is that tweeting debunkings also fuels the grift. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs”

Elon Musk is giving outside writers unprecedented access to internal Twitter Inc. information …

2020-11-18
Criminal president fires official from his own administration for vouching for the integrity of a free and fair election that he has lost. Virtually every elected Republican will shrug, and those who say Trump represents no threat to democracy will sneer that this is meaningless. https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-18 View on X
CNBC

Trump says he has fired CISA Director Christopher Krebs, baselessly calling Krebs' previous statement on the security of the 2020 election “highly inaccurate”

- President Donald Trump announced Tuesday on Twitter that he has “terminated” top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs.

2020-10-16
Steve Bannon candidly explained how all this works. The key is to somehow vault the disinformation out of the conservative media bubble and into mainstream news coverage, where it gets laundered and legitimized simply by virtue of getting covered there: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-16 View on X
@vijaya

[Thread] Twitter updates Hacked Materials Policy, says it won't remove content unless shared by hackers themselves and will label tweets instead of block links

Over the last 24 hours, we've received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday. After reflecting on this feed...

Steve Bannon candidly explained how all this works. The key is to somehow vault the disinformation out of the conservative media bubble and into mainstream news coverage, where it gets laundered and legitimized simply by virtue of getting covered there: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-16 View on X
Platformer

Facebook and Twitter deserve some credit for rapidly restricting the New York Post hack-and-leak operation that made allegations about Hunter Biden

In a New York Post report, Facebook and Twitter smell a rat  —  I.  —  In the run-up to the 2020 election, platforms have been preparing for all manner of threats.

2020-05-30
@GlennKesslerWP Something very fundamental is getting lost here. Trump has made it *explicit* that the new exec order is direct retribution for Twitter daring to fact check him. His *own words* tell us this. Even if nothing happens, that's a flagrant abuse of power: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-30 View on X
Axios

Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230

For a Price Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot : Trump-Twitter drama causes Cameron Winklevoss to get relentlessly owned Facebook: John McCarthy : President Donald J. Trump is ramping u...

This, from the executive order, completely unmasks what a laughable exercise in bad faith this whole thing really is. It's all about bullying social media companies into treating Trump's lies as truths, and truths about Trump's bottomless corruption as lies: https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-30 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove Trump's post on Minnesota protests to “enable as much expression as possible”, says it doesn't violate its policies

“We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post  —  Facebook will not remove …

@GlennKesslerWP Something very fundamental is getting lost here. Trump has made it *explicit* that the new exec order is direct retribution for Twitter daring to fact check him. His *own words* tell us this. Even if nothing happens, that's a flagrant abuse of power: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-30 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove Trump's post on Minnesota protests to “enable as much expression as possible”, says it doesn't violate its policies

“We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post  —  Facebook will not remove …

This, from the executive order, completely unmasks what a laughable exercise in bad faith this whole thing really is. It's all about bullying social media companies into treating Trump's lies as truths, and truths about Trump's bottomless corruption as lies: https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-30 View on X
Axios

Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230

For a Price Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot : Trump-Twitter drama causes Cameron Winklevoss to get relentlessly owned Facebook: John McCarthy : President Donald J. Trump is ramping u...

2020-05-29
This, from the executive order, completely unmasks what a laughable exercise in bad faith this whole thing really is. It's all about bullying social media companies into treating Trump's lies as truths, and truths about Trump's bottomless corruption as lies: https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-29 View on X
Axios

Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies …

@GlennKesslerWP Something very fundamental is getting lost here. Trump has made it *explicit* that the new exec order is direct retribution for Twitter daring to fact check him. His *own words* tell us this. Even if nothing happens, that's a flagrant abuse of power: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-29 View on X
Axios

Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies …

2020-05-28
This is an important thread. As I tried to argue today, despite the claims of some that Trump's threats of retaliation won't amount to anything, the *threat itself* is a very real and serious abuse of power: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-28 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Trump is planning to sign an executive order Thursday that could threaten punishment for Facebook, Google, and Twitter over content moderation

The president is expected to sign the order on Thursday  —  President Trump is preparing to sign an executive order Thursday that could roll …

This is an important thread. As I tried to argue today, despite the claims of some that Trump's threats of retaliation won't amount to anything, the *threat itself* is a very real and serious abuse of power: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-28 View on X
Bloomberg

After Twitter adds a label to his misleading tweets, Trump says Republicans will “strongly regulate” social media platforms or “close them down”

in Kim Jong-Un style—could possibly be within a country mile of legal https://twitter.com/... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : Dear @HawleyMO you are far too smart to say this is pret...

2020-03-16
Remarkable new details about Trump's wildly incompetent hyping of coronavirus website: * Google exes caught completely off guard * Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai hadn't even talked to Kushner by then * Trump keeps making stuff up on many other fronts https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-16 View on X
CNBC

Alphabet's Verily launches a coronavirus screening website limited to the San Francisco Bay area, requires users to log in with their Google account

- Alphabet's Verily on Sunday night launched a pilot of a COVID-19 screening and testing website in the San Francisco Bay Area, a day earlier than it said it would.

Remarkable new details about Trump's wildly incompetent hyping of coronavirus website: * Google exes caught completely off guard * Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai hadn't even talked to Kushner by then * Trump keeps making stuff up on many other fronts https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-16 View on X
The Verge

An overview of the COVID-19-related work Google is doing, and how it falls far short of the comprehensive testing system implied by President Trump on Friday

Did we call? If you're interested in fighting misinformation, this would be a good place to start. https://twitter.com/... Daniel Dale / @ddale8 : False. Media outlets contacted Go...