The Twitter Files are a perfect example of right wing dishonesty at play. Firstly, keep in mind they were posted last year. They were big on implication and had zero facts behind them. It was obvious to everyone who read them that Elon Musk basically used Taibbi to rewrite history and promote the lie that Twitter before Musk's purchase was biased towards leftists and there was a conspiracy to censor right wingers. This narrative lasted about 0.0002 nanoseconds until you realise the level of preferential treatment prominent right wingers like Trump and Libs of TikTok were given in violating Twitter's Terms of Service.
But for right wingers, it's never about whether something is true or not, it's about how successful they can repeat the lie. Republicans leaped to the chance of repeating the lie the Twitter was censoring them and even provide a fake hearing. One that once again,
proved the exact opposite.
But the greatest hypocrisy about this Twitter Files farce is Elon Musk and his collusion with the Indian government. As shown here:
Two months ago, Musk said he had been too busy to look into his company’s role in mass censorship in India. It’s only gotten worse.
theintercept.com
Musk is
doing the exact same thing that the supposed Twitter Files was revealing and condemning. This is the height of hypocrisy and is further evidence that every accusation from a right-winger is actually a confession.
When confronted with this obvious hypocrisy and equally obvious fact Taibbi is no longer a journalist and is now Musk's
whore mouthpiece, Taibbi gets a little defensive.
Challenge accepted. Here's the best part - Medhi Hasan calls out Taibbi's bullshit and points out the huge and real double standards of Twitter since Musk has taken over and specifically mentions India. Taibbi goes on MSNBC and when asked about the one thing Hasan had mentioned, his response was, "I haven't researched that". He demands to go on Hasan's show to talk about India and then when on the show admits he knows nothing about it. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what Q-tards consider a journalist.
If you want to see the full interview and the proper context you can find it
here, but I'll just quote the last paragraphs.
He presents it as a massive censorship operation, targeting 22 million tweets, with takedown demands from government players, seeking to silence the American public. When you look through the details, correcting Taibbi’s many errors, and putting it in context, you see that it was an academic operation to study information flows, who sent the more blatant issues they came across to Twitter with no suggestion that they do anything about them, and the vast majority of which Twitter ignored. In some minority of cases, Twitter applied its own speech to add more context to some of the tweets, and in a very small number of cases, where it found phishing attempts or people impersonating election officials (clear terms of service violations, and potentially actual crimes), it removed them.
There remains no there there. It’s less than a Potemkin village. There isn’t even a façade. This is the Emperor’s New Clothes for a modern era. Taibbi is pointing to a naked emperor and insisting that he’s clothed in all sorts of royal finery, whereas anyone who actually looks at the emperor sees he’s naked.
I have full confidence that we will start seeing Taibbi on hack shows like Russell Brand and Jimmy Dore because, and it's worth repeating, every right wing accusation is not true and actually is a confession.
What? The Bakery for the gay wedding cake was protected from putting something like "gay wedding cake" (or equivalent) on the cake. It has nothing to do with public service itself. The court determined a message on the cake is an expression made by the baker. They are still required to service gay couples with Cakes equivalent to what they have sold to others. You are one hilarious member.
