INTERVIEW | Jake Denton on 'Twitter Files' and Why They Matter
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🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal podcast for Tuesday, December 6th. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Virginia Allen. |
| 0:10.4 | Thousands of Americans were glued to Twitter on Friday night watching the release of Breaking |
| 0:15.6 | News related to Twitter's role in the censorship of a New York Post story about Hunter Biden |
| 0:21.7 | in 2020. |
| 0:22.7 | And there was information in that story regarding a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden |
| 0:29.2 | and Twitter censored that content, and many people asked the question, why? |
| 0:33.7 | Well, we started to find out some of that why on Friday. |
| 0:37.9 | And the release of the news is being called the Twitter Files. |
| 0:41.8 | And here with us, to talk about that is Heritage Foundation Research Associate in Tech Policy |
| 0:47.7 | Jake Denton. |
| 0:48.7 | Jake, welcome back. |
| 0:49.7 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 0:50.7 | So Elon Musk and Twitter, they continue to make headlines, very entertaining. |
| 0:55.9 | So the news that broke on Friday is truly some of the biggest news related to Twitter, |
| 1:01.6 | I think, in the history of the platform. |
| 1:04.4 | Jake, let's start at the very beginning. |
| 1:06.2 | Give us the big picture. |
| 1:07.6 | What are the Twitter files? |
| 1:08.6 | Yes. |
| 1:09.6 | So this is basically a collection of internal communications from Twitter, predating Elon |
| 1:13.6 | Musk's acquisition of the platform. |
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