Hello, you're listening to Unlimited Hangout. I'm your host Whitney Webb. If you've been online

recently, you have probably heard of the Twitter files, which for the most part are Twitter threads

written by one of two journalists, Matt Taibi or Barry Weiss, that are based on internal Twitter

documents shared with those journalists by the social network's new owner, billionaire Elon Musk.

Most of these internal company documents, which have not yet been released to the public and have

been curated by Twitter management for Taibi and Weiss, revealed the politically motivated suppression

of information or the suspension of prominent individuals, including then President Donald Trump from the platform.

The Twitter files have generated more hype in the past few weeks than most other media events in 2022.

A lot of that hype, unsurprisingly, has extended to the journalists affiliated with the releases,

Taibi and Weiss, as well as Elon Musk himself.

Many are lauding the trio as heroes and now view Twitter as a quote-unquote free speech platform.

But is this really so?

Like most things that seem too good to be true, the same probably holds when it comes to the Twitter files.

Have important revelations been made?

Yes, but they aren't necessarily new revelations as many of the internal documents at the center of the Twitter files merely confirm claims that were made over two years ago.

Is Elon Musk's Twitter currently free of the censorship that the Twitter files purports to expose? Not quite, despite the reinstating of some high-profile previously suspended accounts in recent weeks.

In looking at the main players, as well as the main effects of the Twitter files phenomenon,

it becomes quickly apparent that there is a lot to say about the whole affair that is sadly largely absent from even independent media coverage of the files.

In order to tease out and explore some of the deeper layers beneath the Twitter

files, I am joined today by James Corbett of The Corbett Report at CorbettReport.com. James is an

investigative journalist in one of the pioneers of open source intelligence-based independent

news. At The Corbett Report, he has spent well over a decade producing a trove of high quality

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