Ever since he purchased Twitter, Elon Musk has released documents showing that the platform colluded with government agencies – the FBI, CIA, and Pentagon – to suppress information on elections, Ukraine, and Covid-19.
Twitter CEO now claims that all social media platforms are engaged in heavy censorship of content for the US government, either with its significant involvement or, at times, with its explicit direction.
In the tweet he published, Musk also added that Google, for example, frequently makes links disappear.
Previously this week, journalist Matt Taibbi published – with Musk’s approval – internal Twitter communications suggesting that Twitter’s senior executives had regular meetings with FBI and CIA members during which they were given lists of hundreds of problematic accounts the platform was supposed to suspend in the run-up to the 2020 election.
According to Taibbi’s claims, the US government was also in contact with virtually all major tech firms, explaining that the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force’s agents nearly always sat in on their meetings.
Taibbi claimed that this task force has made mountains of domestic moderation requests although it was convened to fight alleged election interference by foreign states.
The AGs of Missouri and Louisiana claimed in a lawsuit filed earlier this year that, in 2020, officials from more than 12 government agencies had weekly meetings with Twitter, Facebook, and other Big Tech firms’ representatives to decide the censorship over certain users and narratives such as the alleged election interference and Covid-19.
Although the White House has refused to answer allegations Twitter was ordered by the FBI to censor information damaging to Biden’s 2020 campaign, the agency commented last week saying that correspondence between Twitter staff and its agents is a classic example of the agency’s tradition of longstanding and ongoing engagements between the federal government and the private sector.
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