I intentionally put “journalists” in quotes.

The “Twitter files” show the old Twitter established a relationship with “journalists” who actively participated in selecting tweets and accounts to be censored on Twitter’s platform. The old Twitter gave reporter’s inside and privileged access to Twitter censors.

The original source for this report here and here.

And full reports here and here. Related report on the Censorship Industrial Complex here – and the web of organizations involved. These included media groups, reporters, academics, government agencies – all working to control the spread of “misinformation” (which is anything they define it to be, even true information was declared as misinformation) through censorship of viewpoints on social media platforms.

WaPo “journalist” Taylor Lorenz once sought to have Apple and Google ban the Twitter app from their app stores, after Elon Musk bought Twitter – because she no longer had access to getting accounts banned on the new Twitter.

Fascinating that many reporters came from extreme wealth.

I am so old, I remember when the media promoted the quaint concept of “freedom of speech”. Today, the media promotes censorship of opposing viewpoints – and uses their personal connections and background wealth to delete information about reporters’ histories, from the Internet. Wow.