So why no part 2 of the "Twitter Files? Let's speculate ...

[emulatorloo]

It was promised yesterday, Dec 3rd. Didn’t happen.
It was then promised today, Dec 4th at noon eastern time. Still nothing.

‘Journalist’ Matt Taibbi (aka #MattyDickPics) last post was a re-tweet of an article by MAGA lawyer, Jonathan Turley.

Any ideas? Has Elon/Taibbi figured out that a hardcore investigation by a real journalist of their very questionable “Twitter Files” might have repercussions for them?

Maybe Twitter’s former owners aren’t happy being doxed and slandered? Are they receiving death threats?

I wonder if there is some trouble in Taibbi/Musk/Trump paradise.

They ‘forgot’ to mention what Biden’s team requested the tweets that were nudes of Hunter be taken down. They ‘forgot’ to mention that those tweets violated Twitter’s TOS. Which is probably why they were taken down. But they wanted their readers to assume this was a nefarious “first amendment violation.”

Taibbi wrote Trump asked to have tweets down and his requests were granted by twitter as well. But Taibbi won’t say what tweets Trump asked to take down.

It is so one sided and biased.

Maybe they are having second thoughts. The MAGA’s want to shoot reporters and execute Biden. At this point it could be considered by some as incitement to violence.



What are your thoughts?

[Bev54]

1. There is a really good article at Empty Wheel about this, read the comments too

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/12/03/matty-taibbis-dick-pics/

[emulatorloo]

3. That article is great! She is so smart and so witty, and she always has the receipts.

Her tweets today on #MattyDickPics sloppy journalism have been great as well.

[womanofthehills]

6. Dec 3rd was Twitter Files Live Coverage

- Elon answered questions live
Almost 4 hrs of questions for Elon from reporters and other personalities. Over a million people tuned in. It’s now available over on YouTube.

Elon is not going thru all the emails and info - Matt Taibbi has access to all Twitters Internal emails and communications. Matt has another reporter who was just hired to help but I forgot his name Elon is working on software. More is coming according to Matt and eventually all past Twitter communications will be open to everyone- Elon said he wants everything abut past Twitter to be scrutinized so they can start a new.

Matt Tweeted: “It's been a whirlwind 96 hours for me, too. There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more. These issues are not limited to the political right.”

[Bev54]

9. It is all complete bullshit and just another distraction

They have nothing that can be verified at all.

[keithbvadu2]

2. Proud Boys on Twitter - They provide their own humor

Proud Boys proudly wearing kilts made by a gay friendly company.

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[emulatorloo]

5. Both of those threads were pretty hilarious.

Thanks for posting.

When I reach my twenty pound fat loss goal, I am gonna reward myself w a t-shirt from Verillas. Hadn’t heard of them before so thanks again.

[Yavin4]

4. In the end, nobody cares.

Nobody is ever going to care about this. This story makes very small men think that they're doing something huge like Watergate, but it's not.

[emulatorloo]

7. Agreed. It is really truly is a nothingburger. It is basically MAGA fanfiction, and the twitter

Maga will fall for anything. As I mentioned earlier though, some of those Maga’s are talking bullets rather than ballots; it is pretty disturbing.

[Takket]

8. Virtually no one of consequence even saw this crap

By “of consequence” I mean anyone besides Elon fanboys that already hated Dems anyway

This BS moved probably somewhere between 0 and 10 persons’ political opinions on Biden and family.

[UTUSN]

10. K& big R#5

[DemocraticPatriot]

11. I was just suspended from Twitter for 4 days, for asking Lauren B

why she has not yet accidentally shot herself to death with all her guns ???



(This was interpreted as 'suggesting suicide',
but clearly it was not...... whatever)

[Emrys]

12. I don't often bother reporting tweets on Twitter,

it's not a straightforward process, I usually have better things to do, and I mostly have little confidence anything will happen if I do. This was so even when Twitter was under Jack Dorsey.

Over the summer, I did report a couple of posts that purported to show Hunter Biden with some kids, just posted on some random hashtag. It should have been a no-brainer to remove the tweet and ban the poster no matter who was actually pictured.

I imagine I was far from the only person to report those sorts of tweets as they were blatant violations of the TOS and not the sort of thing you want to see (or indeed let minors have a chance see) when causally scrolling. I don't know whether Musk and Taibbi's "evidence" stretches to encompass that.

I suspect there won't be a part 2, or if there is, it won't add much. The whole issue seems only to be getting traction among right-wingers and loons who were already rabid about the laptop, and if there's more that could come out, it may implicate the Trump administration more than the DNC.

[emulatorloo]

13. The Taibbi twitter fans appear to finally catching on today. Part 2 pushed back to Tuesday.

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