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WHEN THE WHITE House called up Twitter in the early morning hours of September 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report: famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump a pussy ass bitch on Twitter and the White House wanted the tweet to come down.
That exchange revealed during Wednesdays House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter by Rep. Gerry Connolly and others like it are nowhere to be found in Elon Musks Twitter Files releases, which have focused almost exclusively on requests from Democrats and the feds to the social media company. The newly empowered Republican majority in the House of Representatives is now devoting significant resources and time to investigating this supposed collusion between liberal politicians and Twitter. Some Republicans even believe the release of the Twitter Files is the tip of the spear of their crusade against the alleged liberal bias of Big Tech.
But former Trump administration officials and Twitter employees tell Rolling Stone that the White Houses Teigen tweet demand was hardly an isolated incident: The Trump administration and its allied Republicans in Congress routinely asked Twitter to take down posts they objected to the exact behavior that theyre claiming makes President Biden, the Democrats, and Twitter complicit in an anti-free speech conspiracy to muzzle conservatives online.
It was strange to me when all of these investigations were announced because it was all about the exact same stuff that we had done [when Donald Trump was in office], one former top aide to a senior Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone. It was normal.
In interviews with former Twitter personnel, onetime Trump administration officials, and other people familiar with the matter, each source recalled what could be described as a hotline, tipline, or large Twitter database of moderation and removal requests that was frequently pinged by the offices of powerful Democrats and Republicans alike.
The voluminous requests often came from high-ranking political appointees working in different departments, offices, and agencies in the Trump administration. But during both the Trump and Biden presidencies, these types of moderation requests or demands were routinely sent to Twitter by the staff of influential GOP lawmakers ones with names like Kevin McCarthy and Elise Stefanik.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/
underpants
(182,823 posts)boston bean
(36,221 posts)emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)underpants
(182,823 posts)Not that RW media will ever let them know about it.
emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)underpants
(182,823 posts)Has Fox News Never Won a Pulitzer, Emmy, Peabody, or Edward R. Murrow Award?
The conservative news outlet has only been nominated once for any of the awards.
True
Though Fox News Channel has not won any of these awards, it is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which also owns the Wall Street Journal. The Journal has won a number of those awards. It is also possible that the channel has not submitted itself for consideration of the awards. Experts tell us that Fox News has always prioritized ratings and popularity over industry recognition.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-news-pulitzer-emmy-peabody/
emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)Because Trumpy Musky told him not to.
Glad this is finally coming out.