Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press.

Yeah. Yes, God, God, God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. I'm Douglas Wilson. This is episode 261.

So let's talk about Elon Musk, Twitter, and rigged elections.

Twitter, Elon Musk, and rigged elections.

So as everybody who doesn't live under a rock knows.

Elon Musk, with a good deal of drama and towing and froing and back and forthing,

successfully bought Twitter for some 40 odd billion dollars.

And he went into Twitter and has been cleaning house.

He fired a bunch of people.

Twitter kept on running despite those people being gone.

And he has started to release in different batches some of the internal documentation that he has discovered, that documents how corrupt

Twitter had become and how they had basically lied through their teeth.

They said that they didn't shadow ban conservatives on the basis of their politics.

Turns out they did, they suppressed the Hunter Biden story and this is significant

because as we heard a number of times if Twitter is a private company and they can make, they can set the rules

for what gets published on their platform, right?

But even there, actually, that was in the old dispute. Back when

conservatives were complaining about the possibility of the shadow banning, the

people being thrown into Twitter jail,

people having their accounts suspended and so forth.

Conservatives would complain about this,

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