I'm sure if you got Elon Musk and I in a room together, we would disagree about a lot of stuff.

He apparently likes to have lots of kids.

So that's one thing we agree on.

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As always, it's your host, Tom, and I'm here with Erica and editor of the loop, Josh Mercer.

So, Had a bombshellhell off over the weekend.

We're talking about the Twitter files.

It has a cool name, felt like old school detective-e flashlight on the wall type stuff.

So, Erica, if you could just lay out what the heck happened this weekend, what was uncovered in the Twitter files.

So what happened over the weekend on Friday evening, Elon Musk tweeted out a link to the account of an independent journalist Matt Taibi. I hope I'm saying that right,

Matt. And Matt had posted a long Twitter thread, so a series of tweets on the coverage of the Hunter Biden, the internal debate, if you will, at Twitter

about the Hunter Biden laptop story back in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election. And I particularly

like that the loop linked the New York post's coverage to Tebe's work because that sweet, sweet irony, if you will remember, originally it was the New York Post's story on Hunter Biden that Twitter decided to censor.

And what the what the coverage exposes is what the New York Post calls the chaos and confusion behind closed doors at Twitter in the immediate aftermath of the Hunter Biden Exposé.

And what it shows is that a small group of top-level executives at Twitter decided to label the post story as, quote, hacked material without

any evidence. And they did so, it seems, according to Taibi, behind the back of Jack Dorsey,

who was then the CEO and who was the founder of Twitter. The company's shaky rationale for

taking this extraordinary censorship step was that

the story violated the company's hacked materials policy, which was questioned by many people

inside Twitter. Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized

that it just wasn't going to hold. But as one ex-employee added, no one had the guts to reverse it.

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