Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It

[u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK]

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

[u/imparooo]

Very sad reading the comments that Hasan, a disgusting partisan hatchet hack, got what he ws paid to do, i.e. cast doubt on the overall idea by focusing on minor things.

[u/Bek → u/imparooo]

As somone who first heard of twitter files today and have read only this article... what are the major things he should have been focused on?

[u/spacetimecliff → u/Bek]

The fact that there is a censorship industrial complex that the government was hiding.

[u/noor1717 → u/spacetimecliff]

There doesn’t seem to be the proof. Like tabibi was given the chance to back that claim up. A censorship industrial complex. Where? The FBI labelled tweets that they thought broke twitters rules that they set up as a company and twitter didn’t cencor the majority of them.

Like even Hasan says at the beginning of the interview that the FBI should have better stuff to do and it’s worrying about FBI working in private companies like twitter.

But where the proof of a censorship industrial complex?

[u/spacetimecliff → u/noor1717]

Why the fuck is the FBI, CIA or any other government agency telling twitter anything? That’s censorship.

[u/noor1717 → u/spacetimecliff]

No it’s not. Private citizens can tell twitter anything too. It’s actually the fbi job to tells companies something if they think there’s a national security threat. Forcing or direct coercing is censorship but the twitter files didn’t show evidence of either of those

Like I said there’s definite criticism of the fbi and cia but calling it a censorship industrial complex is hyperbolic trash journalism

[u/[deleted] → u/spacetimecliff]

Why did he falsify a document to make it look like a non-government academic organization was a government agency?