Sifting through the Twitter files: Live with Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller
Channel: ReasonTV
Date: 15/12/2022

Independent journalist Matt Taibbi dropped the first version of the Twitter Files as a thread on the social media site on December 2.

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022

Since then, Taibbi and his collaborators Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger have published several more threads on topics ranging from Twitter's suspension of former President Donald Trump's account to the systematic, secret suppression of topics and accounts like those of Stanford University economist and medical school professor Jay Bhattacharya, conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, and Libs of TikTok.

Join Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller at 1 p.m. Eastern time for a live discussion of the Twitter Files, Elon Musk's reboot of Twitter, the cozy relationship between social media companies and federal law enforcement, and what it all means for the future of online speech.

Ask questions or leave comments ahead of or during the stream on the YouTube video above or at Reason's Facebook page here.

Chapters
0:00 — Why does Twitter matter?
6:00 — How the media lost its gatekeepers
13:00 — The Twitter Files: Hunter Biden’s laptop
24:00 — The Twitter Files: Content moderation and shadow banning
31:00 — The Twitter Files: Trump’s removal from Twitter
50:50 — Audience questions
57:00 — Democrats and Republicans both want to control social media
1:04:00 — Mastodon and decentralizing social media
1:08:00 — Elonjet kicked off Twitter and media criticism of the Twitter Files