New Twitter Files raise question of how independent pre-Musk company was from Biden administration
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- Aug 25, 2024
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— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) August 22, 2024
The new tranche of internal emails "calls into sharp question claims by Democrats," including House Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee ranking member Delegate Stacey Plaskett, "and their allies in the media that Twitter did not collude with federal agencies and was free from Biden administration pressure to make its own censorship decisions," Thacker wrote.
"India censoring of social media drove Twitter right into the arms of [a] lobby shop of foreign policy experts staffing the Biden administration," he said. "How can a company [be] reliant on government advice and help make decisions independent of that same government?"
Plaskett represents the Virgin Islands and touts her bipartisan bona fides by noting she started as a George W. Bush administration Justice Department lawyer, but gave the GOP fodder by demanding Twitter Files journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger turn over their sources, as the Federal Trade Commission had demanded of Musk after he opened the files.
At a hearing on the Twitter Files last year, Plaskett claimed that "real evidence showed that there wasn’t coordination between Twitter and the federal government," referring to a previous hearing with former Twitter executives.
"That’s just laughable" now, Thacker wrote. "Twitter was highly reliant on the advice and help of the Biden administration and their allied lobbyists to manage problems in India, Twitter’s third largest market."
Plaskett's office didn't respond to a query about how she perceives pre-Musk Twitter's relationship with the Biden administration in light of the new evidence.
Before her passing in 2022, Albright was also a board member on the Atlantic Council, whose Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRL) partnered with State's Global Engagement Center on the "U.S.-Paris Tech Challenge against disinformation and propaganda" in fall 2021.
GEC funded the Atlantic Council, which in June 2021 sent Twitter a spreadsheet of tens of thousands of accounts for removal, for purportedly "engaging in inauthentic behavior" supporting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party "and Hindu nationalism more broadly" – regarded as India's version of Donald Trump's MAGA by American liberals.
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