Do I have to care about the Twitter Files?
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🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As 2022, Stagger's Tour de Clos, Elon Musk of all people, has given us a glimpse into |
| 0:06.3 | an issue that has the potential to consume Washington in 2023. |
| 0:11.0 | We have a duty to do the work, to get the truth out there, to get the facts out there. |
| 0:15.6 | Earlier this month, Musk started leaking the Slack messages and emails of Twitter employees |
| 0:20.7 | and former employees to a handful of journalists. |
| 0:23.4 | The journalists labeled them the Twitter files, and suggested that the leaked messages proved |
| 0:28.0 | Twitter, Primusk, had unfairly banned Republican voices from the platform, blocked mentions |
| 0:33.2 | of Hunter Biden's alleged misdeeds, and threw former President Donald Trump off of Twitter |
| 0:37.9 | without cause. |
| 0:39.2 | Republicans are now calling for investigations. |
| 0:41.6 | We need to haul these people before Congress to testify under oath, and anyone who committed |
| 0:48.3 | a crime should be prosecuted. |
| 0:50.9 | And in 2023, Republicans will control the House, so not an empty threat. |
| 0:55.8 | Speaking up on today's point, what's in the Twitter files? |
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