Twitter Kept Entire 'Database' of Republican Requests to Censor Posts

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Source: Rolling Stone

Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" focus on Democrats, but former administration officials and Twitter employees say Trump’s team and other Republicans routinely demanded posts be taken down

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 Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter by Rep. Gerry Connolly — and others like it are nowhere to be found in Elon Musk’s “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 House’s 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 they’re 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.”

Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/

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[C_U_L8R]

1. The Musk/Taibbi scheme just self-immolated

along with whatever scraps of credibility they had.

[Talitha]

2. I don't get it.

Twitter is (and was) privately owned, right? I imagine they have a TOS, so how can anyone complain about having posts removed?

[PSPS]

8. Because they think the first amendment means Twitter can't be offended by what they have to say.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. GQP claim a conspiracy of selective enforcement. . . . nt

[thenelm1]

3. Of course they did. I mean Trump.

Why would any more need to be said. That guy is infamous for being incredibly thin skinned and can't stand the slightest bit of criticism.

[onenote]

4. Unfortunately it doesn't sound like anyone has access to this "database"

except Musk and what are chances he’d ever admit it’s existence?

[Martin68]

5. It's not joke. It's a conspiracy. I don't know if Musk is deluded, a right winger, or a

"libertarian", but bit if he's the latter, we may be in trouble. That could mean he's not a "nut." He may have intelligently figured out how to influence public opinion to his own advantage. I don't think he gives a fig about right or left. He's a capital "C" Capitalist, and all he cares about is profit. This guy could be truly dangerous because he clearly doesn't believe in democracy. If he plans to run for office, or uses his money to influence those who have, he could be the Uber-Trump.

[GenThePerservering]

6. Mush's biggest danger

is himself and his inability to hold a thought for more than about a minute.

[MayReasonRule]

13. Elon is...

Elon is a Y'all Qaeda Nat-C Fascist, as is the entirety of the GOP.

May they each quickly as receive their just desserts.

Darwin is waiting...

[Initech]

9. No, Marjorie represents Vladimir Putin, Trump, and a group of deranged conspiracy theorists.

The worst people on earth.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Oops! Looks like I copied the wrong Tweet...

[RussBLib]

11. Watched a lot of that House "hearing" on C-Span....

...fascinating. Most of the GOP questions were delivered in a very accusatory tone. And Gosar, damn, wtf is wrong with this guy? Some kind of neurological damage so bad no one on the panel could understand what he was asking. And when one, after another, panelist said they didn't understand what he just asked, Gosar would move to the next person. Pretty insulting and disjointedly deranged.

Several of the Dems were awesome. Will post names tomorrow, if I get around to it.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/

[JudyM]

14. That's quite a description of Gosar.

Hard to discern between crazy and sick.