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The ‘Most Massive Attack On Free Speech’ Is Happening Right Now, And The Twitter Files Crew Is Mighty Quiet

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/18/the-most-massive-attack-on-free-speech-is-happening-right-now-and-the-twitter-files-crew-is-mighty-quiet/

Twitter Files : la France accusée d’avoir bâti un « complexe industriel de la censure » en Europe
https://www.clicanoo.re/article/societe/2025/09/05/twitter-files-la-france-accusee-davoir-bati-un-complexe-industriel-de-la-censure-en-europe

Selon les documents des #TwitterFiles – France, dévoilés par Elon Musk, Emmanuel #Macron aurait cherché à établir un contact direct avec Jack #Dorsey, fondateur de Twitter, afin d’infléchir les politiques de modération de la plateforme. Dans le même temps, des ONG françaises – #SOSRacisme, #LICRA, #UEJF, #SOSHomophobie – soutenues par des fonds publics, réclamaient un accès privilégié aux données internes et appelaient à des mécanismes de pré-censure, pourtant contraires à l’esprit de la Constitution.

#ElonMusk

Tulsi Gabbard Uses The Twitter Files Playbook To Mislead Gullible MAGA Fools

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/21/tulsi-gabbard-uses-the-twitter-files-playbook-to-mislead-gullible-maga-fools/

#GiftArticle

Everything Is the ‘#TwitterFiles’ Now

The #State Dept is using #ElonMusk’s playbook.

by Charlie Warzel

“Let’s be clear about what’s really happening here. A high-ranking member of the #Trump administration is turning federal-government #data—in this case, State Department communications—into a political weapon against perceived ideological enemies.”

#DarrenBeattie #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/state-department-beattie-twitter-files/682667/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXH42uhDx8m-O99wIxCNkhQ

For several people who received or saw the document, the broad requests for unredacted information felt like a “witch hunt,”…one that could put the #privacy & #security of numerous individuals & organizations at risk.

Beattie, whom #Trump appointed in Feb to be the acting undersecretary for #public #diplomacy, told #State Dept ofcls that his goal…was a “#TwitterFiles” like release of internal State Dept documents “to rebuild trust with the American public”….

#law #RevengePolitics

Senior #State Department official sought internal communications with #journalists, #European officials, & Trump #critics

#Trump appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, & #RightWing buzzwords for a “#TwitterFiles” style document dump about alleged conservative censorship.

#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #privacy #InfoSec #democracy #RevengePolitics
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1115988/senior-state-department-official-sought-internal-communications-with-journalists-european-officials-and-trump-critics/

We need some #xitter users to sue Elon for a 1A violation as he is seemingly a direct assistant to the president still making content moderation decisions. This is the exact shit they complained about with the #TwitterFiles. Has anybody brought this up?

The shutdown of #USAID feels similar to the #TwitterFiles. The organization has a long history of helping cover for #CIA operations, but I'm sure it also does a ton of good. Depending on your news sources, you're getting a very biased view of what they did. Why they are so important vs why they were so corrupt. Also whether it can be legally shut down the way it seems to be happening. And AFAIK only Elon and his friends have access to related secret docs and are spinning the reporting on them.

the #MAGAts have discovered that public government databases are public and are having a field day pawing through data they don't understand to accuse people they don't know of committing crimes they also don't understand (specifically "money laundering" is the new bogeyman).

here's #BillAckman declaring it obviously corrupt that political offices subscribe to a political news service via money from #USAID (except, of course, the data he's looking at makes it extremely clear the money is not from USAID).

it's very clear where this is going: #ElonMusk and co. are going to get ahold of #CIA and #FBI internal records and use them to gin up outrage akin to the #TwitterFiles nonsense and then use that as an excuse to kill the agencies.

"Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."

p.s. wait til they find out how much money the government spends on subscriptions to newspapers...

https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1887150875279282544

#moneylaundering #disinfo #Trump #uspol #politico

Fabrice Epelboin - X Musk, les twitter files

Dans la série "essayons de comprendre le monde de dingues dans lequel nous vivons", je recommande ce cours de 2h de Fabrice Epelboin qu'on retrouve beaucoup sur les médias ces derniers jours suite au mouvement de départs de X.

Passionnant !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWEtaqwJkJ4

#x #elonmusk #twitterfiles #fabriceepelboin #twitter #helloquittex #shadowban #reseauxsociaux

> 欧州連合は #X にアルゴリズムに関するドキュメントの引き渡しを命令
> 欧州委員会は #X がコンテンツをどのように調整・増幅するかに関する情報へのアクセスを要求

https://www.ft.com/content/a6dc562c-4fa0-4ec6-9f3a-ad3be594bc7c

この要求が実現したらイーロン・マスクが #Twitter 買収したあとにやってた #TwitterFiles よりえげつない #XFiles が出てきそう :tony_smirking:

Techdirt's @mmasnick mercilessly roasts the Zuckster.
https://skyview.social/?url=https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:waeh2azqfmi6xk2wwst3olso/post/3lfikdszuas26&viewtype=unroll

#Meta #Facebook #Zuckerberg #misinformation #TwitterFiles #factCheck #JoeRogan

Elon Musk swore to you the #TwitterFiles wouldn't happen again.

Then the Trump campaign called asking him to censor the JD Vance dossier. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-pennsylvania.html?ogrp=ctr&unlocked_article_code=1.RU4.gINW.HWHQrr931src&smid=url-share

Remember when former journalist Matt Taibbi debased himself for an exclusive story about Hunter Biden’s dick picks? #twitterfiles

Whenever the fascists say they are for “free speech” it’s always a lie.

@Richard_Littler

This 2022 manifesto by #JackDorsey is instructive:

"a native internet protocol for social media ~ Jack Dorsey
December 14, 2022 ~ ABN"

"There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.

I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe ... based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:

1) Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.

2) Only the original author may remove content they produce.

3) Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice."

"The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves.

This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets)."

Here: https://americanbuddhist.net/2022/12/14/a-native-internet-protocol-for-social-media-jack-dorsey/

cc @thisismissem

"The #Taibbi/ #Shellenberger interpretation of the #TwitterFiles is an attempt to shut down the rights of private companies to enforce their own rules and cultivate their own communities, by laundering it with actual censorial #government acts."
@mmasnick
https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-files-hucksters-are-cosplaying-as-free-speech-martyrs

The #TwitterFiles brouhaha's premise is that state (or even potential state) authority was used to strong-arm platforms into taking down legal content.
Given that Musk has canned those channels, what state-imposed penalties has X suffered as a result?
If none, doesn't that mean it's groundless?

@flancian

Read this by #JackDorsey and make up your own mind

Or do #Fascists always have to carry fasces to register with you?

"a native internet protocol for social media ~ Jack Dorsey
December 14, 2022 ~ ABN"

"There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified

I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:

1) Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2) Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3) Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice"

Power in the sole control of corporations

And Nazis, or Fascists

Sounds pretty "Fascist" to me

Here: https://americanbuddhist.net/2022/12/14/a-native-internet-protocol-for-social-media-jack-dorsey/

cc @Ulrich_the_Elder @tchambers @activitypubblueskybridge

@ramontrivino
CONTEXTO :
Recordad los #twitterfiles antes de Musk. Que no es santo de mi devoción, pero al menos Elon #Musk NO es tan servil como #META [ #FACEBOOK #INSTAGRAM ]
https://social.politicaconciencia.org/@danddv77/111139091166241738
MIRKO CASSALE [Ahí les va!] (27/9/2023) tengo la sensación de que en #EUROPA van a por #Twitter !

#RRSS

Jeg mener faktisk at #twitterfiles var mye skrik og lite ull, men at det ble avslørt noen ting som var problematiske. Gamle Twitter brøt den sosiale kontrakten med oss brukere ved å manipulere innholds-synlighet i større grad enn vi var klar over. Jeg er ganske sikker på at det skjedde da det var mest oppmerksomhet rundt Wikileaks.
Det ble også avslørt en slags innebygd rasisme i ulik moderasjon av US-engelsk innhold og f.eks. arabisk.
(4/x)
#norsktut #twitter #birdsite

…after Musk’s …takeover, #Beattie appeared on the podcast of #SteveBannon & called for #Musk to make internal emails from #Twitter management public.

One month later, Musk released the “#TwitterFiles” — a partial release of internal emails by #TwitterEmployees curated by Musk-friendly writers.

かつての #TwitterFiles より、もはや、いまの #X がいろいろいくところまでいったあとの #XFiles （という冗談みたいなネーミングも含めて）のほうが興味湧いてきてしまっている…

だいぶ下世話な興味だなと思うけど、これがイーロン劇場の魅力なのか… :tony_neutral:

From pushing the #TwitterFiles to tweeting baseless conspiracies about former employees, Mr. #Musk’s actions have normalized and popularized #vigilante accountability, and made ordinary employees of his company into even greater targets. His recent targeting of the #AntiDefamationLeague has shown that he views personal #retaliation as an appropriate #consequence for any #criticism of him or his business interests.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/trump-elon-musk-twitter.html

@KraftTea Yeah with Elon at the helm and the whole #twitterfiles debacle it seems ludicrous to suggest he is somehow being steered by Biden in this. Can't say I'm surprised TrentTelenko would suggest it but I am disappointed.