When Democrat Representative Sylvia Garcia asked a similar question, Taibbi said: "I can’t give it to you, unfortunately, because this is a question of sourcing, and I’m a journalist. I asked if they were talking to Elon Musk,” Plaskett said in response while both journalists refused to answer such questions. The hearing also saw heated moments between Democrat and Republican representatives as Republican Jim Jordan accused Plaskett of asking journalists about their sources. He said the Twitter Files were the “most grave story that I've ever worked on.” Taibbi also hit back at Democratic Representative Stacey Plaskett, who had referred to him and Shellenberger as “so-called journalists,” reminding her that he has been a reporter for 30 years. “Ordinary Americans are not just being reported to Twitter for deamplification or de-platforming,” he said, “but to firms like PayPal, digital advertisers like Xandr and crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe.” “We learned that Twitter, Facebook, Google and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, the DHS, the HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at state, even the CIA,” he said. “Unfortunately, our own government appears to be playing a lead role,” he said. He said the Twitter Files “have revealed a large and growing network of government agencies, academic institutions and nongovernmental organizations that are actively censoring American citizens, often without their knowledge on a range of issues.”įor his part, Matt Taibbi said what they found in the files was a “sweeping effort” to “use machine learning and other tools to turn the Internet into an instrument of censorship and social control.” Michael Shellenberger said his testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government will sound the “alarm over the shocking and disturbing emergence of state-sponsored censorship” in the US. Two journalists behind a series reports known as the “Twitter Files” appeared before a subcommittee of the House of Representatives on Thursday, where they accused US government agencies of “disinformation” and “digital McCarthyism.”
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