<story><title>The Twitter Files</title><url>https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noah_buddy</author><text>It’s blowing my mind to see people on Twitter reading the story and thinking this is an issue of whether or not Hunter Biden is a problem. This is clearly the much more pernicious issue that 1. social media companies are massively influencing the dissemination of information on an ad hoc basis informed by personal political whims and 2. even the leaders of these organizations are unable to rein in these influences.</text></item><item><author>Dem_Boys</author><text>Most concerning thing here is that this proves political parties (including the white house[0]) have a direct line to Twitter[1] to get stuff they dislike removed.  One would have to assume that there was also a direct line to other social medial platforms.  It&amp;#x27;s so wild to have the slimy-ness of our American political system be revealed in yet another way.  So in America you cannot say negative things about political leaders online?!?!&lt;p&gt;Since this is true, then where else are political parties trying to get unflattering speech suppressed that we don&amp;#x27;t even know of yet?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mtaibbi&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1598828932395978752&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mtaibbi&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1598828932395978752&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mtaibbi&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1598827602403160064&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mtaibbi&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1598827602403160064&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aeolun</author><text>So in a way Elon taking over is good. At least it’s abundantly clear the whole platform is run based on his personal whims now.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Twitter Files</title><url>https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noah_buddy</author><text>It’s blowing my mind to see people on Twitter reading the story and thinking this is an issue of whether or not Hunter Biden is a problem. This is clearly the much more pernicious issue that 1. social media companies are massively influencing the dissemination of information on an ad hoc basis informed by personal political whims and 2. even the leaders of these organizations are unable to rein in these influences.</text></item><item><author>Dem_Boys</author><text>Most concerning thing here is that this proves political parties (including the white house[0]) have a direct line to Twitter[1] to get stuff they dislike removed.  One would have to assume that there was also a direct line to other social medial platforms.  It&amp;#x27;s so wild to have the slimy-ness of our American political system be revealed in yet another way.  So in America you cannot say negative things about political leaders online?!?!&lt;p&gt;Since this is true, then where else are political parties trying to get unflattering speech suppressed that we don&amp;#x27;t even know of yet?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mtaibbi&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1598828932395978752&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mtaibbi&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1598828932395978752&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mtaibbi&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1598827602403160064&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;mtaibbi&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1598827602403160064&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;This is clearly the much more pernicious issue that 1. social media companies are massively influencing the dissemination of information on an ad hoc basis informed by personal political whims&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course mainstream TV and print &amp;quot;news&amp;quot; has been doing this for decades, but for some strange reason people assume they&amp;#x27;re somehow &amp;quot;better&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I personally think it&amp;#x27;s great all this is coming out, because it shows how dangerous and manipulative large media (in all forms) really is.</text></comment>