Hello and we're delighted to the spike podcast I'm Fraser Meise and back with me as ever we have

Spikes editor Tom Slater and we're delighted to be joined by spiked columnist and author of

the brilliant how woke, Joanna Williams.

Hello.

Coming up on today's show, the Twitter Files, Harry and Megan,

and the unraveling of Mermaid. So last weekend a huge kind of dump of information about Twitter in

particular in in relation to its antics with censorship was revealed.

It's been called the Twitter files.

It was given to journalist Matt Taeavy.

Tom, there's some really kind of exciting revelations in this.

Do you want to spell some of those out?

And there'll be more to come as well by the time this podcast lands people might know more

than we do at this point in time. But yes, the sort of first installment of the Twitter files that's

been called was released by Matt Tuyby on Twitter

in a Twitter thread quite naturally.

It's in many ways kind of spelling out

what many people already suspected

or what everyone already knew but didn't really see the kind of full grim detail.

But what we have been shown is really quite startling. So at first just kind of

spelling out how much Twitter by 2020 had become in many respects the kind of

personal censor of the Democratic Party. Any respects. So Tybee shows screenshots of the Biden team, or correspondence from within

Twitter talking about certain tweets that the Biden team had flagged up with the response coming

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