NBC “disinformation” reporter Ben Collins claimed Tuesday that Twitter files led to a lack of social media censorship and caused “speech inflation.”
“The real answer here is the political game here,” Collins said, noting that social media sites are backing away from previous censorship, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He told Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist, who noted he was back. 2021 ban. “For the past two years, the top priority of the Republican Congress has been to take Twitter files and all things internet speech. Do you know what really happened? Now it costs $8 to post something on Twitter and get noticed.” (Related: They can do it to anyone: Vivek Ramaswamy says LinkedIn censored him for remarks on China’s climate)
Musk introduced Twitter Blue. It’s Twitter’s subscription model that offers a number of features, including increased character limits, the ability to edit posts, and a 50% reduction in ad display for $8 a month on the web. according to Go to Twitter Help.
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Journalists Matt Taibi, Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger all said they would be responsible for the social media site based on documents released by Elon Musk, who signed a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion in October. reported on the censorship and “shadow banning” carried out by. “Digital Machinaka Square” on the premises, according to to the Wall Street Journal. Musk said transparency on issues such as the New York Post’s censorship of its October 2020 coverage was “necessary to restore public confidence.”
Shellenberger and Taibi testified at the March 9 rally hearing House Special Subcommittee on Federal Weaponization Held to Explain Multiple Findings report Based on documents provided by Mr. Musk. The FBI reportedly paid Twitter $3.5 million between October 2019 and February 2021, Shellenberger said.
“What we have is basically speech inflation,” Collins said. “All good information in the world costs money. It costs money to speak on the Internet, and it costs money to get good information on the Internet.”
“We have evolved to the point where we can get good information on the Internet and speak our minds,” Collins argued.
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