The TL;DR of the Twitter files is this:
Certain foreign governments have been known to engage in hacking to obtain dirt on politicians, which they then leak around election time to influence voters (remember the DNC leaks? That was Russian Intelligence). Social media platforms are aware of this, and are actively working to try and limit foreign intelligence agencies ability to influences the public via these 'hack-and-leak' operations.
Several US government agencies track this from the intelligence side (monitoring the people doing the hacking and leaking). It makes sense for the government to give a heads up to social media platforms about potential upcoming influence operations so the platforms can get ahead of it. In the case of Hunter Biden's Laptop, this is what they did. The heads up resulted in several platforms basically deciding to flat out block links to the story altogether. US politicians on the side who would have benefitted from these leaks tried to frame it as government censorship (The FBI simply gave a heads up to social media platforms, but didn't state how the story should be dealt with, as that would be a clear cut violation of the first amendment).
The Twitter files is just data pertaining to the legal process from the FBI working with companies to notify them of influence ops. None of the released files suggest any censorship, and it's mostly just really boring internal politics. But, the current Twitter CEO knows that people on Twitter only read headlines, so by adding their own commentary to the releases, they can spin it in such a way that people will believe there's some big conspiracy afoot.
@malwaretech The DNC leak was not Russian intelligence, that was debunked, it was an internal leak. Please don't spread disinformation.
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Guccifer 2.0 from GRU was the most likely source of the DNC leak.
Despite what the Washington Examiner says.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner/
Jennifer Kerns (@JenKernsUSA) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog. A GOP communications strategist, she served as spokeswoman for the California Republican Party, recalls in Colorado, and California's Prop. 8. Previously, she served as a writer for the 2016 U.S. presidential debates for FOX News.
@modrobert @viraptor The Washington Examiner is a far right conspiracy mill. Literally the least real site you could have linked.
@modrobert
Yeah...this is not a reliable source. Do better.
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@modrobert @viraptor @malwaretech That Washington Examiner article is completely based on an article by Patrick Lawrence in The Nation about a report from Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) that *many VIPS members objected to.*
There’s more to the story than just picking the narrative you like best.
Here is the follow up to Lawrence’s article and the article itself. Go to the source.
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Jennifer Kerns (@JenKernsUSA) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog. A GOP communications strategist, she served as spokeswoman for the California Republican Party, recalls in Colorado, and California's Prop. 8. Previously, she served as a writer for the 2016 U.S. presidential debates for FOX News.