{"id":64639,"date":"2023-01-04T17:39:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64639"},"modified":"2023-01-04T17:39:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:39:47","slug":"capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter-files-threads-to-date-with-links-and-a-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64639","title":{"rendered":"Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary<\/a><\/h3>\n

For those who haven’t been following, a compilation of one-paragraph summaries of all the Twitter Files threads by every reporter. With links and notes on key revelations<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s January 4th, 2023, which means Twitter Files stories have been coming out for over a month. Because these are weedsy tales, and may be hard to follow if you haven\u2019t from the beginning, I\u2019ve written up capsule summaries of each of the threads by all of the Twitter Files reporters, and added links to the threads and accounts of each. At the end, in response to some readers (especially foreign ones) who\u2019ve found some of the alphabet-soup government agency names confusing, I\u2019ve included a brief glossary of terms to help as well.<\/p>\n

In order, the Twitter Files threads:<\/p>\n

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  1. Twitter Files Part 1<\/a>: December 2, 2022, by\u00a0@mtaibbi<\/a>\n

    TWITTER AND THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Recounting the internal drama at Twitter surrounding the decision to block access to a\u00a0New York Post\u00a0<\/em>expos\u00e9 on Hunter Biden in October, 2020.<\/p>\n

    Key revelations<\/strong>: Twitter blocked the story on the basis of its \u201chacked materials\u201d policy, but executives internally knew the decision was problematic. \u201cCan we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?\u201d is how comms official Brandon Borrman put it. Also: when a Twitter contractor polls members of Congress about the decision, they hear Democratic members want more moderation, not less, and \u201cthe First Amendment isn\u2019t absolute.\u201d<\/p>\n

    1a.\u00a0Twitter Files Supplemental<\/a>, December 6, 2022, by\u00a0@mtaibbi<\/a><\/p>\n

    THE \u201cEXITING\u201d OF TWITTER DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL JIM BAKER<\/strong><\/p>\n

    A second round of Twitter Files releases was delayed, as new addition Bari Weiss discovers former FBI General Counsel and Twitter Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker was reviewing the first batches of Twitter Files documents, whose delivery to reporters had slowed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary For those who haven’t been following, a compilation of one-paragraph summaries of all the Twitter Files threads by every reporter. With links and notes on key revelations It\u2019s January 4th, 2023, which means Twitter Files stories have been coming out for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,379,3733,655,819,33536],"class_list":["post-64639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-government","tag-matt-taibbi","tag-propaganda","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64640,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64639\/revisions\/64640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}