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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I need a cliff notes of what these "Twitter Files" are.  I have been living under a rock.[/quote]

The first installment described the decision-making leading to blocking the New York Post story about Hunter's laptop. There were internal deliberations leading to a decision based on the belief that the laptop story violated Twitter's terms of service regarding hacked or stolen data.

The second , third, and fourth installments described the decision-making process leading to Trump being banned. Trump had repeatedly violated Twitter's terms of service but rules were changed to allow him to continue using Twitter. He reached the point of having only one remaining strike — meaning that one more violation would cause him to be banned — when January 6 came along. Twitter faced lots of pressure to ban him in the wake of the insurrection, but his subsequent tweets were not clear violations. Ultimately Twitter execs agreed that while no single tweet was a clear violation, taken as a whole they were sufficient to ban him and his account was suspended.

The subsequent installments were so not noteworthy that I can't even recall what they were about.

The basic pattern has been to promise huge revelations, spin normal procedures as somehow being signs of the apocalypse, and then wrap up saying that something that was not shown to be true was, in fact, true. Then have Musk and his fan boys run around claiming that Twitter was nothing more than a FBI front operation.

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Thank you for saving me from reading, dozens and dozens of tweets and nonsensical posts.[/quote]

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