Going Full Lindell

Sorry folks, the Hunter Biden's laptop truth session has been delayed by an hour while Elon does some quick fact checking.

— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) December 2, 2022

I have no interest in this issue, but Elmo promised BIG NEWS!

lol bye pic.twitter.com/17O3Kwl6xn

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) December 2, 2022

So, in brief, this happened:

Many people think you should fact check before announcing news. Common misconception pic.twitter.com/GlCLnS00tj

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 2, 2022

Sorry folks, the Hunter Biden's laptop truth session has been delayed by an hour while Elon does some quick fact checking.

— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) December 2, 2022

Only an hour and 44 minutes late on Friday, cool~

Will screenshot thread below: pic.twitter.com/2JA6VbqxSG

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) December 3, 2022

hahahaha he got taibbi to do it! Glenn wasn’t available! https://t.co/pMj3qt6ozj

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 2, 2022

What Elon Musk’s Twitter files have revealed so far is that content moderation at Twitter WAS being decided by a team of people with differing viewpoints.

Now it’s being decided by the richest man on Earth with an axe to grind against one political party — a true scandal.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 3, 2022

So far, the big scoop from Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk's Hunter Biden Files collaboration is that the Biden campaign asked the Twitter moderation team to remove some posts and accounts that featured Hunter Biden dick pics, which is basically a form of revenge pornography.

— steven ''italian elon musk'' monacelli (@stevanzetti) December 3, 2022

JMM has a few of the more interesting details:

Fwiw, this was an entirely reasonable surmise and it’s highly likely that this is actually what happened https://t.co/uZQAEXiJq8

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2022

when you got called in to do the reporting late Thursday night https://t.co/eyP3woUoil

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2022

Oops.

👇 https://t.co/UdHBtVww4U

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2022

You get the idea.

“chilling passages” lol … remember, show don’t tell, Matt https://t.co/N2lsXbzU2i

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2022

JMM repeats this tweet several times, paying attention to different things. What he never addresses is that all caps quote. Taibbi may think it’s a great scandal to say the Bill of Rights is not absolute, but…it isn’t. Period.

So @elonmusk turned to a known Russia attack denialist to be his mouthpiece. Figures. And don’t @ at me unless you’ve read the bipartisan, GOP-approved Senate intel report on Putin’s operation & the 2016 Trump campaign.

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) December 3, 2022

Yeah, Taibbi is more interesting than the story. Slightly.

Taibbi really blowing open the whole "If an organization isn't staffed by MAGA, it's corrupt" scandal.

— RSchooley@socel.net (@Rschooley) December 3, 2022

Or: Twitter was doing what it was supposed to do pre-Elmo?

Hey Elon, the Biden campaign wasn't the government in 2020. So, no, it's not a 1st Amendment violation. And highlighting people posting dick pics for Twitter's trust & safety team to see if they violate policy is... how trust & safety works? pic.twitter.com/Bdy0hzJ80S

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) December 3, 2022

Or is Elmo just continuing to play to his rubes?

Because it doesn’t matter. You insist it’s a shocking bombshell exposé and the intended audience will dutifully act as though that’s what it is. https://t.co/IqrW8fNtF0

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) December 3, 2022

So, members of the House GOP? Isn’t that superfluous? Although this should save us from two years of equally pointless hearings.

Should; but won’t.

You get the idea. Taibbi and Musk went full Lindell. You never go full Lindell.