The Twitter Files: Elon Musk Has The Goods
Now we know why the left has been losing its collective mind over Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter.
He ought to be the darling of leftists. The climate crazies and those who want to go to war over Ukraine have a friend in Elon Musk. After all, he makes electric cars. (Sure, they’re coal-powered, but so are all the other electric cars in the world.)
More importantly, Musk hooked Ukraine to Starlink, his satellite company, so the Ukraine military and people in that embattled country could stay connected on the internet no matter what the Russians do.
foreignpolicy.com described Starlink this way, for those who don’t understand the importance of satellite connectivity:
Starlink is a constellation of thousands of satellites deployed relatively close to the Earth’s surface through a series of rocket launches since mid-2019 by parent company SpaceX. The company’s internet services are available to individuals, businesses, and even airlines, with costs starting at $110 per month. The hardware used to connect to them, small satellite dishes that the company calls terminals, are priced at $599 and up. Starlink’s satellites operate in lower-Earth orbit (LEO)—within 1,200 miles of the Earth’s surface—far closer than the geosynchronous satellites deployed by rival companies that provide internet connectivity. That means it takes less time for data to travel from terminals on the ground to satellites in orbit and back.
Musk has provided the service free to Ukraine. At one point he asked the US government to help defray the cost of providing the link, but he eventually withdrew the request.
Everyone agrees that Starlink has been hugely valuable to Ukraine's military operations and the general population.
Yet the left doesn't love Musk anymore.
The reason?
He's unpredictable. And they knew that the moment Musk took possession of Twitter he’d also own the company's archives and emails. The ones employees didn’t destroy on their way out, that is.
Turns out those documents appear to confirm what those of us who are on Twitter have suspected for years: The social media giant was engaged in a cozy game of footsie with the Democratic Party and the 2020 Biden presidential campaign to suppress information that would have cost Biden the presidency.
Musk gave that treasure trove of documents to Matt Taibbi, the former Rolling Stone reporter who may very well be the best “print” journalist left in America.
On Friday night, in a series of Tweets, Taibbi revealed his findings.
1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
It was worse than many of us suspected. In fact, it essentially confirms that there was interference in the 2020 election. Not of the variety Donald Trump claims, but in terms of deliberately suppressing and ridiculing as Russian hoaxes legitimate news stories that would damage Biden’s campaign.
It’s the sort of disinformation and censorship we witness daily in China, but don’t expect in America.
Fox News and The New York Post covered Taibbi’s revelations in depth, of course.
The legacy media? Crickets.
They know the end is near. Once Twitter and other social media outlets are wrested from the left, consumers will shun the corporate media for sources engaging in actual journalism.
On Sunday The Washington Post reluctantly reported on the story, still doing the bidding of the left by downplaying the importance of the Musk revelations.
Musk has also given access to the Twitter Files to another independent journalist, Bari Weiss, the former New York Times op-ed writer who now runs a popular Substack site and a podcast.
Between Taibbi and Weiss and the Capitol Hill hearings that are sure to come, the public will finally know the extent of censorship engaged in by Twitter in its push to elect Joe Biden.
As Matt Taibbi tweeted early in the day on Friday: “It’s about to get weird around here.”
Understatement.
