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Let the Hearings Begin! Elon Musk Drops 'The Twitter Files' (Should House GOP Issue Subpoenas?)

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk releases internal documents of conversations between Twitter staff and political figures, and among Twitter staff and executives, about various restrictions on accounts that allegedly violated Twitter policies. Blocking accounts that Tweeted or re-Tweeted a NY Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop — nominally under Twitter's Hacked Materials Policy — drew intense internal discussions. Subsequent episodes of the Twitter files discuss the heavily-Democratic Twitter staff's approach to controversial conservative content, and former President Donald Trump's tweets. Should House Republicans issue subpoenas, and hold hearings to probe the roots and consequences of Twitter's controversial actions? Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott, have hosted a current events news show multiple times each week since 2009 thanks to our Members and donors. To give with PayPal, bank card or check: https://BillWhittle.com/donate-to-Bill-Whittle/ To become a Member: https://BillWhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

Okay, well, Leon Musk is the talk of the town and has suddenly generated armies of enemies from people who used to worship the ground.

0:07.0

He walked under because he was saving the planet with his electric cars.

0:10.0

But now, of course, he's enemy number one, and I've heard parenthetically that he's had to significantly increase his security budget,

0:18.0

personal security budget, since the Twitter takeover, since the number

0:21.9

of threats against him has risen enormously.

0:25.4

And we've been talking about Twitter, about must take it over Twitter since the first rumors

0:29.3

were announced months and months and months ago.

0:32.0

And we all decided, I think, kind of together that in the interest of having been disappointed before, and let's see what

0:39.8

happens, we would see, first of all, the deal went through, and then secondly, if he lived up

0:44.0

to what he said he was going to do, and nobody knew if he was going to. Well, Donald Trump was

0:48.9

reinstated. 60,000 canceled accounts were reinstated. And that to me was proof. You can say whatever you

0:58.3

want to on Twitter. He also got rid of a lot of the child pornography trafficking that was going

1:03.7

on on Twitter. And that to me seems like an appropriate use of banning somebody from a free speech

1:08.3

platform. So all of that, as far as I'm concerned,

1:12.0

Musk paid off when he unbanned those accounts

1:15.4

and made Twitter a free speech platform.

1:17.3

But he's gone above him beyond the call of duty now.

1:19.6

Because what he has done is,

1:21.5

he has released the internal emails

1:24.1

of the collusion between the Biden campaign

1:26.8

and Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden's story

1:29.2

and even more dramatically now, he had, well, at least for people in our trade, he's also

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