/ 05 December 2022

The ‘Twitter files’ to rock US politics

There’s never a dull moment for tech billionaire Elon Musk as “episode 2” of the “Twitter Files” are set to drop. It follows the release of confidential emails on the weekend showing President Joe Biden’s staff instructing Twitter to suppress information about the contents of his son Hunter Biden’s laptop. The request was made weeks before he was elected president in 2020. But Musk isn’t dishing the dirt himself – the documents were handed over to journalist Matt Taibbi, and the 2nd drop of information is to show that both sides of US politics pressured Twitter workers to suppress unflattering content. Musk has vowed to be transparent about how information on the platform is curated just as a surge of hate speech has been reported. Twitter’s new ‘trust and safety’ boss Ella Irwin says they are relying on automated moderation and that Musk is encouraging those who remain with the company to “take more risks, move fast, get the platform safe”.

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