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Everything Is the ‘#TwitterFiles’ Now

The #State Dept is using #ElonMusk’s playbook.

by Charlie Warzel

“Let’s be clear about what’s really happening here. A high-ranking member of the #Trump administration is turning federal-government #data—in this case, State Department communications—into a political weapon against perceived ideological enemies.”

#DarrenBeattie #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/state-department-beattie-twitter-files/682667/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXH42uhDx8m-O99wIxCNkhQ

Senior #State Department official sought internal communications with #journalists, #European officials, & Trump #critics

#Trump appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, & #RightWing buzzwords for a “#TwitterFiles” style document dump about alleged conservative censorship.

#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #privacy #InfoSec #democracy #RevengePolitics
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1115988/senior-state-department-official-sought-internal-communications-with-journalists-european-officials-and-trump-critics/

We need some #xitter users to sue Elon for a 1A violation as he is seemingly a direct assistant to the president still making content moderation decisions. This is the exact shit they complained about with the #TwitterFiles. Has anybody brought this up?

The shutdown of #USAID feels similar to the #TwitterFiles. The organization has a long history of helping cover for #CIA operations, but I'm sure it also does a ton of good. Depending on your news sources, you're getting a very biased view of what they did. Why they are so important vs why they were so corrupt. Also whether it can be legally shut down the way it seems to be happening. And AFAIK only Elon and his friends have access to related secret docs and are spinning the reporting on them.

the #MAGAts have discovered that public government databases are public and are having a field day pawing through data they don't understand to accuse people they don't know of committing crimes they also don't understand (specifically "money laundering" is the new bogeyman).

here's #BillAckman declaring it obviously corrupt that political offices subscribe to a political news service via money from #USAID (except, of course, the data he's looking at makes it extremely clear the money is not from USAID).

it's very clear where this is going: #ElonMusk and co. are going to get ahold of #CIA and #FBI internal records and use them to gin up outrage akin to the #TwitterFiles nonsense and then use that as an excuse to kill the agencies.

"Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."

p.s. wait til they find out how much money the government spends on subscriptions to newspapers...

https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1887150875279282544

> 欧州連合は #X にアルゴリズムに関するドキュメントの引き渡しを命令
> 欧州委員会は #X がコンテンツをどのように調整・増幅するかに関する情報へのアクセスを要求

https://www.ft.com/content/a6dc562c-4fa0-4ec6-9f3a-ad3be594bc7c

この要求が実現したらイーロン・マスクが #Twitter 買収したあとにやってた #TwitterFiles よりえげつない #XFiles が出てきそう

Elon Musk swore to you the #TwitterFiles wouldn't happen again.

Then the Trump campaign called asking him to censor the JD Vance dossier. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-pennsylvania.html?ogrp=ctr&unlocked_article_code=1.RU4.gINW.HWHQrr931src&smid=url-share

"The #Taibbi/ #Shellenberger interpretation of the #TwitterFiles is an attempt to shut down the rights of private companies to enforce their own rules and cultivate their own communities, by laundering it with actual censorial #government acts."
@mmasnick
https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-files-hucksters-are-cosplaying-as-free-speech-martyrs

@ignova there won't a Mastodon problem corresponding to the #TwitterFiles

From pushing the #TwitterFiles to tweeting baseless conspiracies about former employees, Mr. #Musk’s actions have normalized and popularized #vigilante accountability, and made ordinary employees of his company into even greater targets. His recent targeting of the #AntiDefamationLeague has shown that he views personal #retaliation as an appropriate #consequence for any #criticism of him or his business interests.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/trump-elon-musk-twitter.html

@LaNaehForaday
Kushners, Musk and all the Saudi royalty in the stands
I'm so glad that my friend @dangillmor always refers to #X as the Saudi-funded social media company.
I wonder what the writer of the #TwitterFiles, #MattTaibbi, have to say about this?
(Of course now it would be the X-Files & would be on #Substack for his 30,000 paid subscribers only )
#ElonMusk #Twitter

So I guess #TwitterFiles should now be called #XFiles?

Police stop removal of Twitter HQ Sign halfway through

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/police-stop-removal-of-twitter-hq-sign-halfway-through/ar-AA1eiH3B?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3ce3bc6644034fa2a2f9842a5f5a5246&ei=16