'Twitter Files' reveal Twitter censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story, Vijaya Gadde's 'key role'

Social media platform â€œtook extraordinary steps to suppress story", claims journalist

ITDC INDIA EPRESS/ ITDC NEWS Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Friday shared the first part of 'The Twitter Files'—a series of tweets by independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi revealing how the platform censored a controversial article on Hunter Biden in 2020. “Here, we go!!" Musk wrote on Twitter while sharing Taibbi's thread based on “thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter”.

In one of the opening tweets, Taibbi wrote: “The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.”

“Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true real-time global conversation possible for the first time," the independent journalist said, adding that as time passed “the company was slowly forced to add those barriers”. "Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party," he wrote. In 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honoured, he added