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The Twitter Files and the Future of the Democratic Party With Silicon Valley’s Congressman [Bari Weiss, TFP]

By Spencer Chen
In [The Free Press], Politics
December 17, 2022
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  • Ro Khanna is a progressive congressman from Silicon Valley who speaks out on the unintended consequences of technology and the digital revolution.
  • Khanna’s policies on Big Tech are not what many would expect, and he was one of the few Democrats to criticize Twitter’s decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
  • Khanna believes there is a need to have a conversation about how free speech works on social media platforms, and how to make sure everyone has a fair shake on them.
  • He believes that Twitter should have documented Donald Trump’s tweets inciting violence in a consistent way before banning him.
  • Khanna suggests solutions such as giving people the right to their own data, reforming Section 230, and embracing a “new economic patriotism” that focuses on bringing production back to America.
  • Khanna is not yet considering a future presidential run, and is currently happy making a contribution from Silicon Valley.

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Why Twitter Really Banned Trump [The Free Press]

By Spencer Chen
In [The Free Press]
December 15, 2022
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  • On January 8, 2021, Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s account, the first and only time a sitting head of state has been kicked off the platform.
  • Despite Trump’s tweets that morning not violating Twitter policies, the company decided to ban him due to pressure from employees, many of whom had been calling for his ban for months.
  • World leaders expressed their concerns, citing the precedent it set for freedom of speech and democratic rule.
  • Twitter had long resisted calls to ban Trump, citing their mission to provide a forum for people to engage their leaders directly.
  • Ultimately, Twitter’s decision to ban Trump raised questions about the power an individual or corporation has over public conversations.

Click HERE for original. Published December 15, 2022

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Twitter’s Secret Blacklists [Bari Weiss, Abigail Shrier, Michael Shellenberger and Nellie Bowles, TFP]

By Spencer Chen
In [The Free Press]
December 15, 2022
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  • Twitter secretly suppressed the visibility of accounts or subjects deemed undesirable or dangerous without informing users.
  • Twitter denies shadow banning, but executives prefer the term “visibility filtering” which is used to suppress posts by conservative or non-woke thinkers.
  • Prominent figures such as Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Turning Point USA Executive Director Charlie Kirk, and right-wing talk-show host Dan Bongino were all targeted.
  • Twitter’s Site Integrity Policy-Policy Escalation Support team (SIP-PES) was responsible for making the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions.
  • Twitter CEO Elon Musk believes the platform was sending civilization in a bad direction and is open to ideas to prevent censorship.

Click HERE for original. Published December 15, 2022

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How Elon botched his war on bots [Casey Newton, Platformer]

By Spencer Chen
In [Platformer]
December 12, 2022
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  • Elon Musk attempted to rid Twitter of spam by blocking traffic from roughly 30 mobile carriers around the world, impacting people with two-factor authentication.
  • Twitter quickly unblocked the carriers, but the incident highlights growing confusion within the company as it struggles to carry out Musk’s erratic commands.
  • Musk has fired employees seen as insufficiently loyal to him, and recently sent an email to Twitter employees threatening to sue people who leak confidential information.
  • He has also increasingly advanced the narrative that Twitter was a den of corruption before he bought it, and recently made a baseless smear against a former employee.
  • His full-throated embrace of the conservative mainstream has actively degraded Twitter as a news source, and caused anxiety for those who want to make jokes about tech.
  • It is time to start leaving Twitter behind and find new alternatives for gathering news and promoting work.

Published December 12, 2022

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The Twitter Files and Writing for the Maw [Freddie deBoer]

By Spencer Chen
In Freddie deBoer
December 12, 2022
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  • Freddie deBoer discusses the Twitter Files and the concept of the Maw, which is the expression of the culture war as operationalized by the consensus opinions of media.
  • He examines Eric Levitz’s article on the Twitter Files, noting that Levitz’s opinion is sufficiently nuanced to save face but which will in every instance satisfy the Maw.
  • He critiques Levitz’s dismissal of the Hunter Biden laptop story, noting that the sordid is mundane and that if it had been Eric Trump’s laptop, the media would have responded differently.
  • He concludes that there are interesting conversations to be had about the Twitter Files, but the Maw insists that there’s nothing there at all.

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Goodbye, Twitter [Ken White, The Popehat Report]

By Spencer Chen
In Ken White [The Popehat Report]
December 12, 2022
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  • Ken White is leaving Twitter due to its recent changes and his disagreement with the brand they are exhibiting.
  • He has been on the internet since 1995, meeting his wife on Usenet and participating in many different communities.
  • White has been advocating for the exercise of free speech and free association, and is now voting with his feet by leaving Twitter.
  • People can still find him on Facebook, Substack, Post.News, Mastodon and by email.

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Why some tech CEOs are rooting for Musk [Casey Newton & Zoë Schiffer, Platformer]

By Spencer Chen
In [Platformer]
November 28, 2022
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  • Elon Musk’s radical remaking of Twitter is getting largely positive reception from tech CEOs.
  • CEOs are inspired by Musk’s leadership and tactics, which could have ramifications across the tech industry.
  • Musk’s sledgehammer tactics have given executives an excuse to begin unwinding some of the leverage that their workforce gained in the roaring 2010s.
  • Musk’s project to reinstate banned users and picking a fight with Apple is making it harder on himself.
  • Internally, employees have referred to the project as “the Big Bang”.
  • Advertisers remain deeply skeptical and Apple has threatened to remove Twitter from the App Store.
  • Musk is planning to lay off most of the remaining engineering managers this week.
  • It’s clear that the person in most need of a late-night performance review is Musk himself.

Published November 28, 2022

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Trump is restored to Twitter [Casey Newton & Zoë Schiffer, Platformer]

By Spencer Chen
In [Platformer]
November 21, 2022
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  • Trump is back (sort of) on Twitter, but he has said he won’t use it. Elon Musk restored his account based on a poll, without forming a content moderation council as he had promised.
  • Late-night code reviews: After offices were closed and employees were asked to sign loyalty pledges, Musk asked engineers to fly to San Francisco for brief code reviews.
  • The shrinking sales team: After two meetings with the global sales team, Musk laid off more employees.
  • Uncertainty: Security certificates are set to expire, raising concerns that Twitter could go down without the people on hand to bring it back.
  • Elsewhere in Twitter: Engineers must email Musk what they’re working on, blue verification might not re-launch, and Musk says layoffs are over for now.

Published November 21, 2022

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Elon only trusts Elon [Casey Newton & Zoë Schiffer, Platformer]

By Spencer Chen
In [Platformer]
November 14, 2022
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  • Elon Musk’s Twitter halted new enrollment into its $8-a-month Blue subscription offering after it led to widespread impersonation of government officials, corporations, and celebrities.
  • Days before the launch, the company’s trust and safety team had prepared a seven-page list of recommendations intended to help Musk avoid the most obvious and damaging consequences of his plans for Blue.
  • On Saturday afternoon, a week after an initial round of layoffs had cut Twitter in half, a second massive wave of cuts hit the company, targeting contractors.
  • On Monday morning, at around 1:45 AM, Twitter engineers were called into an emergency meeting and told they couldn’t even write any code — “until further notice.”
  • Eli Lilly, Volkswagen, Pfizer, IPG’s Mediabrands, and Omnicom Media Group have all paused their ad campaigns on Twitter, potentially costing the company millions of dollars in revenue.
  • GroupM has told its clients that Twitter is a high-risk media buy, and mid-afternoon on Monday, after Musk announced he would begin disconnecting up to 80 percent of unspecified microservices, two-factor authentication temporarily stopped working via SMS.

Published November 14, 2022

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Inside the Twitter meltdown [Casey Newton & Zoë Schiffer, Platformer]

By Spencer Chen
In [Platformer]
November 10, 2022
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  • Elon Musk held an hour-long Spaces call to reassure advertisers, but VPs Yoel Roth, Robin Wheeler, Damien Kieran, Lea Kissner, and Marianne Fogarty all resigned the next day.
  • Musk sent an email to the team demanding they return to the office and prioritize finding and suspending verified bots/trolls/spam.
  • A lawyer on Twitter’s privacy team posted a rebuttal to Musk on the company’s Slack, warning of potential legal risks and violations of the FTC consent decree.
  • Musk held an unannounced all-hands meeting with staff, where he said bankruptcy was not out of the question and threatened to accept resignations from those who did not return to the office.
  • Musk’s plan to make verification checkmarks available to anyone willing to pay $8 for a subscription to Twitter Blue was abused, and he is also working to make Twitter a payments company.
  • There is a real sense of doom that Twitter could become a shadow of its former self, and Musk and his team were unable to access the @twitter account until Wednesday.

Published November 10, 2022

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