Our Reporting at Twitter

At dinner time on December 2 , I received a text from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, founder of SpaceX, founder of the Boring Company, founder of Neuralink, on most days the richest man in the world (possibly history), and, as of October, the owner of Twitter.

Was I interested in looking at Twitter’s archives, he asked. And how soon could I get to Twitter HQ?

In the days that followed, we—the journalist Matt Taibbi; investigative reporters connected to The Free Press, including Abigail Shrier, Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse; plus Free Press reporters Suzy Weiss, Peter Savodnik, Olivia Reingold, and Isaac Grafstein—camped out in a windowless, fluorescent-lit room at Twitter headquarters and began looking through the company’s vast archive of internal communications.

The only condition Musk imposed was that we first publish our findings on Twitter itself. (We did. Today, on The Free Press, we are publishing versions of those stories that aren’t limited to 280-character chunks.)

Twitter was founded in 2006. It is impossible to calculate how many emails and internal Slack messages and reports it has generated over the years. Looking for information about big subjects relevant to the public—the question of whether Covid-19 started with a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, say, and how the platform suppressed or shaped the conversation around it—is like trying to put together a 100,000-piece jigsaw puzzle.

We also had to work through lawyers using e-discovery tools—software designed for lawyers to help them search huge amounts of information. So we entered search terms—mostly dates and names of former Twitter executives—and, over many hours, files would pop up. We then stitched together a chronology of events and communications.

The Free Press. Of course it would be a publication with that name! Let’s use words that reinforce the narrative, and hope nobody notices that Twitter really isn’t about freedom. See Twitter Rules.

“I’m not going to spend $44 billion to reinstate a satire blog,” Musk said about the Babylon Bee, which had been banned from Twitter in March 2022. “I did it because I was worried about the future of civilization,” he told us late one night.

Is that human civilization...or the transhuman civilization ...that he is working on with Schwab and Harari?

As far as Musk sees things, “birth rates are plummeting, the thought police are gaining power, and even having an opinion is enough to be shunned. We are trending in a bad direction.” (but the Twitter Rules are pretty much the same as before)

He says he wants to transform Twitter from a social media platform distrusted and despised by at least half the country into one widely trusted by most Americans. To have it fulfill its highest mission: that of a digital town square where all ideas can be heard, and the best will win out.

Digital Town Square - how cool. Where approved speech is moderated and controlled.

This is a genuine question: how does the length of time that a person has been posting on FR relevant to the legitimacy or acceptability of their posts? If I was posting things positive about Musk, the people who make an issue out of it wouldn’t have even looked at my start date. Very strange.

Donald Trump walks the walk, every day. If you can find something I’ve posted critical of him, please feel free to post it here.

I post questions here about Musk that no one wants to answer. All I get is either anger and vitriol for asking reasonable questions (akin to a weird religious fervor); or pivots to changing the subject, as in disregarding the questions and just adding more information that supports the narrative. The reason I keep posting about Musk is to prove the double standard that exists for him and him alone. And the Elon fanboys and girls do not disappoint!

Musk is completely onboard with the globalist agenda: world government, transhumanism and human enhancement; universal basic income; sustainable energy; climate change. I’d post the supporting proof, but it wouldn’t make any difference to you. I’ve posted it before on other threads and nobody touches it because it can’t be defended. It’s much easier to ignore facts and attack the person who posts uncomfortable truths, I guess.

Musk's history includes the fact that at the time of starting SpaceX, he was working closely with Mike Griffin, President and CEO of In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. His association with high-level intel is extremely relevant, yet largely ignored.

Musk’s vision is the same as Klaus Schwab and Yuval Harari. Totalitarian world government and surveillance state. That’s part of what he’s been doing for the last twenty years - helping to build the infrastructure (Starlink).

It’s world-class irony that Musk’s fans here on FR defend him for his alleged stance against censorship, but would happily censor those on FR they disagree with.

He’s not Jesus, he’s a human being. He should be vetted like any other powerful public figure. His past, his work, are all relevant to what he’s doing now with Twitter. But if anyone tries to do that here, they are attacked, ridiculed and marginalized. That is a clever, disingenuous form of soft censorship. More irony: censoring those who disagree with “the guy who’s against censorship!

”To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” - Voltaire

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