Twitter Files

7 statements across 7 episodes · 0 bullish · 6 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2022 by Jason Calacanis · said 45 times in 15 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Dec 10, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Twitter Files confirm secret blacklists tagged conservative voices
“We now have confirmation that what the right thought was happening all along, which is a secret silencing system built into the software. Of blacklists was tagging right-wing conservative voices in the system.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 10, 2022 ▶ 4:35 E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
Feb 17, 2023 negative
Opinion
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…”
David Sacks Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 23:49 E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
Sep 8, 2023 negative
Assertion Partly supported
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.”
David Sacks Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 1:13:02 In conversation with Chris Christie
Dec 16, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
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.”
David Sacks Dec 16, 2023 ▶ 1:05:52 E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
Aug 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
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…”
David Sacks Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 31:35 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Oct 31, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
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.”
Elon Musk Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 35:46 Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
Jan 22, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
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…”
David Sacks Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 31:15 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
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