Musk's 2nd 'Twitter Files' On Secret Blacklists A Dud

A second edition of the “Twitter Files” claimed to reveal that the company has “secret blacklists”, which observers say sound highly similar to Elon Musk’s own policies, Graeme Massie reported for UK’s The Independent.

Photo Insert: The news came as British singer Elton John dumped twitter and Musk threatened to kill 1.5 billion Twitter accounts even as offered “amnesty” to those who have violated Twitter rules.

The news came as British singer Elton John dumped twitter and Musk threatened to kill 1.5 billion Twitter accounts even as offered “amnesty” to those who have violated Twitter rules, which is an irrational tack given that he had vowed to stamp out hate speech and disinformation, which have risen 85% when Musk, who craves media attention, took over the social media platform.

Former New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss presented a series of cases in which Twitter has limited the distribution and recommendation of certain tweets.

She explained the previous management’s position of reducing the visibility of Twitter users who violated company policies and highlighted conservative activist Charlie Kirk and Chaya Raichik, who operates the Libsoftiktok account as examples of those punished by the company.

Weiss wrote in the 30-tweet thread that Twitter had a team of employees who built blacklists, prevented particular tweets from trending and limited the visibility of topics or accounts.

Musk reluctantly bought the company for $44 billion and promised to protect free speech on the platform at all costs, allowing the return of banned users such as former president Donald Trump.

Musk insisted that the company was still committed to preventing certain tweets from being amplified.

“New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,” Musk tweeted last month. “Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.

“You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.”

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