Elon Musk says that Twitter was acting under government orders to suppress free speech.
His remarks followed the release of a trove of documents, referred to as the Twitter files, that blew the lid off of Twitter’s censorship of The New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
On Friday independent journalist Matt Taibbi shared a lengthy Twitter thread at the behest of Musk, detailing a series of internal Twitter communications that shed light on various actions taken by Twitter employees, including suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story.
“Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is,” Musk said in a tweet late Friday.
In one of his posts, Taibbi shared a screenshot of an internal Twitter email dated Oct. 24, 2020, which shows a Twitter executive sharing a list of five tweets allegedly identified by people from the campaign of then-candidate Joe Biden.
Taibbi wrote in a comment: “By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: ‘More to review from the Biden team.’ The reply would come back: ‘Handled.’”
Musk replied to Taibbi’s tweet with the word “Handled” followed by three “fire” emojis. He later responded to his own post with the statement: “If this isn’t a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment, what is?”
The First Amendment guarantees protections for freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,” states the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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