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Source: #twitter https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394?s=20&t=1Jrb-EMdCJdfCPRrF7pjsA
Thread: THE TWITTER FILES
Matt Taibbi
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2. What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal #documents obtained by sources at Twitter.
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3. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out of the control of its designer.
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4. Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making an actual real-time global conversation possible for the first time.
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5. In its early conception, Twitter more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people “the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”
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6. As time progressed, however, the company was slowly forced to add those barriers. Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat spam and financial fraudsters.
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7. Over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly.