Twitter Files
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Sacks: Biden administration pressured social networks to censor content
“And I would say President Trump, because I do think that that, President Trump's election definitely changed the direction of free speech in the United States, never mind the rest of the world, because I think under the Biden administration, we now know from c…”
Musk: Journalists had direct, unsupervised access to Twitter Files
“I was not looking over their shoulder at all. They just had direct access to everything.”
Sacks: Twitter Files showed Hamilton 68 tracked regular domestic accounts, not Russians
“During the Twitter files, we found out there was Yoel Roth, who you mentioned was the head of trust and safety, and definitely not a conservative. There was correspondence inside of Twitter saying, hey, we looked at their so-called API, and these are just regu…”
Sacks: Twitter Files showed 80 FBI agents sending platform takedown requests
“Once that censorship power was created, It attracted powerful entities from our government who wanted to co-opt and use that power. That's what we saw in the Twitter files with the 80 FBI agents sending takedown requests.”
Sacks: Twitter Files showed 80 FBI agents monitored social media accounts
“One of the revelations that came out during the Twitter files is that we had 80 FBI agents monitoring Americans' social media accounts and submitting takedown requests to Twitter.”
Sacks: Media ignored Twitter Files because they support state censorship
“There was zero interest in the exposés of the Twitter files. Why? Because the media doesn't really have an interest in exposing The permanent government or deep States involvement in censorship. They simply don't, they actually agree with it. They believe in t…”