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IlyaF's avatar

True, but Taibbi muddied the waters by claiming that government agencies were involved in telling Twitter what to to delete and who to suspend. If true, that would kind of cross into censorship territory. This article does a good job of dismantling that, although there were a few cases of government agencies flagging tweets that Twitter then removed

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/#comments

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howard's avatar

absolutely fair point, but as you realize, flagging a comment is not the same as suppressing it, but musk didn't pay taibbi to come to that conclusion.

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