cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/65074
The released documents show how government actors on both sides could use backchannels to Twitter in order to have political enemies punished.
While such requests came from both sides, Taibbi is quick to point out that the political slant at Twitter is overwhelmingly weighted toward Dems (what a surprise!).
Internal communications show Twitter employees understood there was no way to truthfully maintain that the Hunter Biden story was hacked. They knew it was a lie and stayed the course anyway.