Move along folks, nothing to see here..That was the stance of the mainstream media on the weekend, after Twitter released a series of the social media giant’s internal documents dating back to 2020 that prove conclusively, Twitter staff colluded to censor information found on a laptop, abandoned at a repair shop by US First Son Hunter Biden..The New York Post broke the story, which came during the 2020 US presidential election campaign, a story ignored by the mainstream media, and a story that saw its Twitter account suspended to prevent it from being circulated..The internal documents show the chaos and confusion behind closed doors at Twitter in the immediate aftermath of the story, showing a small group of top-level execs decided to label the story as “hacked material” without any evidence, and behind the back of former CEO and founder Jack Dorsey..The top-level workers agreed after the controversial decision was “f*cked,” damning insider communications released by Twitter CEO Elon Musk Friday revealed..Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist Matt Taibbi after 6 p.m. on Friday, who shed light on Twitter’s censorship decision, posting redacted emails between employees..On Saturday, conservative radio host Clay Travis began tweeting how the mainstream media was ignoring the story..Travis posted “There is not one single article about @elonmusk or the @twitter email release last night on @nytimes app.” He followed that with “The @washingtonpost, which literally has “Democracy dies in darkness” at the top of its paper: not one single article about @elonmusk or @twitter’s email release last night. How is this possible @JeffBezos? Do you own a newspaper or a propaganda rag?”.And then “Remember one of the biggest, if not the biggest, powers of media is deciding which stories to cover. If you just read @nytimes & @washingtonpost, as tens of millions do, you’d have no idea about last night’s news on this site. The vast majority of Americans don’t use Twitter.”.“Whatever your politics are, if you’re in media and you don’t think new revelations about the most severe censorship of a newspaper’s story in big tech history isn’t a story worthy of covering you aren’t a journalist you’re a propagandist.”.Musk replied, tweeting: “That is because The New York Times has become, for all intents and purposes, an unregistered lobbying firm for far-left politicians.”.Later on Saturday, a Twitterite named Julie tweeted “Tweet count about last night's #TwitterFiles release: @WSJ: 0 @washingtonpost: 0 @nytimes: 0..Mainstream media’s denial of the story was just another chapter in its stance when the story first broke, as highlighted in this tweet by Scott Adams.
