Posted on 04/27/2022 5:42:07 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Senator Josh Hawley has been an outspoken critic and skeptic of Twitter during his time as a Senator. Yesterday, Hawley sent a letter to Elon Musk following his purchase of Twitter.
Hawley congratulates Musk on his acquisition and expresses that he is hopeful that Musk ensures the platform is committed to maintaining free speech on the platform. Hawley drags on Twitter for avoiding accountability for its shady policies regarding content moderation, viewpoint discrimination, suppression of content, and company security.
Hawley draws attention to his most important request against Twitter, which was to conduct a “third party audit and release all the results to the public, in full.”
Given that Musk is in charge of the company now, it seems that this could become an actual possibility to see the extent to which Twitter purposely intervened in suppressing certain viewpoints through the use of malicious content moderation.
Hawley lists five main points that he wants to see investigated:
Who was responsible for deliberately suppressing the New York Post’s now-vindicated reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop and business dealings?
How many Twitter users have had their accounts suspended, and why?
How many Twitter users have been shadow banned, and why?
Do Twitter’s shadow banning and suspension patterns evince a consistent political bias?
Have Twitter employees, since news of your acquisition of the platform became public, made changes to the platform or deleted records of their time at the service?
If Musk and Hawley share the same view that platforms like Twitter and Facebook now represent the de facto public square, then an audit of this manner will prove essential to unveil the extent of Twitter’s corruption and the actors responsible.
Musk has expressed his discontent with Twitter’s practices on his Twitter many times. Most recently, he expressed discontent with the suppressing of the New York Post’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Dearest Hawley,
GFY
Love,
The richest man on Earth ever
I am SURE the shredders are working OVERTIME at Twitter.
Is there legal code prohibiting suppression of news and information contrary to one’s bias? I didn’t think so.
“Dearest Hawley,
GFY
Love,
The richest man on Earth ever”
LOL, but I think the two of them are on the same page here.
“Is there legal code prohibiting suppression of news and information contrary to one’s bias? I didn’t think so.”
If it’s done by a corporation and shown that the intent is to provide assistance to a political candidate or office holder, then it is illegal.
Otherwise companies like defense contractors would be flooding the political system - but since they cannot do that, they have to create PACs and convince their higher-ups to individually donate.
Yeah, but Musk doesn’t need anyone telling him what to do.
When Musk fully takes over, the company is private, correct?
They’ve been wanting to take him down a few notches. Looks like they’ve found their issue.
I would have that on business cards and hand them out to everybody!
It would be fun for a week to just act crazy and no one can do anything about it.
Like show up on Joe Rogan, smoke joints, drink whisky, and fire a flamethrower...
“Yeah, but Musk doesn’t need anyone telling him what to do.
When Musk fully takes over, the company is private, correct?”
Agree that Josh doesn’t need to be public about his suggestion for Musk, unless Josh has other things in mind.
Hopefully he’s just looking to get his name in the press and attached to Musk.
You mean like wiped it with a cloth???
“Hopefully he’s just looking to get his name in the press and attached to Musk.”
Could be, or he’s trying to scare Twitter people even more...to get them to loosen up further, and more quickly (they’ve already greatly loosened up).
I’ve heard some banned people are already back on.
The RATs are sure doing a lot of crying and whining these days.
I’m thinking this is to HELP Elon.
Let’s see how involved the USG is....with Twitter.
Rats?
Good thing Hawley isn’t a rat.
Yes, Musk will delist the company. I suspect that Musk will publish internal emails describing the enterprise-wide anti-Conservative fuckery that Twitter were engaged in…
I hope he does. Evil doesn’t like the light.
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