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Posted By: Garnet, 12/15/2022 3:17:43 PM

At dinner time on December 2 , I received a text from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, founder of SpaceX, founder of the Boring Company, founder of Neuralink, on most days the richest man in the world (possibly history), and, as of October, the owner of Twitter.  Was I interested in looking at Twitter’s archives, he asked. And how soon could I get to Twitter HQ? Two hours later, I was on a flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco with my wife, Free Press writer Nellie Bowles, and our three-month-old baby. In the days that followed, we—the journalist Matt Taibbi; investigative reporters connected to The Free Press,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: davew 12/15/2022 3:50:38 PM (No. 1357541)
The Twitter files stories pulled back the curtain on the intellectual and cultural groupthink manipulating a public platform masquerading as "free speech". But this is only one of dozens of similar curtains that need to be torn down. How about Facebook, Google, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, WSJ, NYT, WaPO, etc.? Does anyone doubt that the same cult has been, and continues, to gaslight the masses regarding the Biden administration, border crisis, vaccine safety, election fraud, Jan 6 political prisoners, gun safety, anthropogenic global warming, nuclear energy, and fiscal spending priorities? These sources are now just "state media" mouthpieces where the truth is whatever elite opinion makes up on any day. Multiply Twitter by 10,000 and you have some idea of the dimensions of the brave new world we are trying to survive in.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Dreadnought 12/15/2022 4:27:50 PM (No. 1357554)
From the article... "We also had to work through lawyers using e-discovery tools—software designed for lawyers to help them search huge amounts of information. So we entered search terms—mostly dates and names of former Twitter executives—and, over many hours, files would pop up. We then stitched together a chronology of events and communications." If you've ever gone through a hostile court ordered discovery event you'll find those email tools to be very powerful. Musk basically opened Twitter's Slack channels to such tools. But those tools cannot capture what's compartmentalized from them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Blackfeet 12/15/2022 5:07:57 PM (No. 1357568)
Good article. Musk is heading in the right direction. Thanks Elon and thanks Bari. FREEDOM IS EASY - UNTIL IT ISN'T Dave Morgan Co-author: Online Freedom Act https://onlinefreedomact.org/
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Reply 4 - Posted by: downnout 12/15/2022 5:22:44 PM (No. 1357576)
This reads as though Ms. Weiss is trying to regain those New York cocktail party invitations.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: maryann4629 12/15/2022 6:17:54 PM (No. 1357617)
So, Bari Weiss has a "wife," and a baby.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bad-hair 12/15/2022 6:39:23 PM (No. 1357637)
Edison and Marconi in our time. Genius and drive combined. When the Chinese get to the moon Elon will have built them a runway they think thy need.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Frederic F. Frew 12/15/2022 6:55:42 PM (No. 1357647)
#4 -- What are you talking about? The left hates Musk, printing the Twitter files makes their hair catch fire. She's revealing how they discriminated against conservatives. How does that get her NY cocktail invitations. #5 -- Yes, and?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Rama41 12/15/2022 8:09:16 PM (No. 1357688)
#7. Good response. Too few know who Bari Weiss is. She wrote for the NY Times until she quit because of the woke bigotry of its other reporters. Great Spotify interview with Joe Rogan, #1415.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Safari Man 12/15/2022 8:13:47 PM (No. 1357692)
I obviously have no clue how all these documents are stored, but on my computer I can delete or modify anything I want. I am surprised there was so much incriminating evidence available to Mush given that they had months to clean up the data they were handing over to him. In fact, I simply do not believe that Musk got untainted documents. As bad as this whole thing sounds for Twitter and the Deep State, reality is almost sure to be FAR worse.
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