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“We’re just gonna put all the information out there try to get a clean slate,” Elon Musk noted.
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However, he noted that he has “not been poring over the Twitter files personally,” he said, instead leaving Workers blasted for video confronting
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Despite not reviewing the documents themselves, Musk said it appears there were “a very different
standard applied to Republican candidates in the US versus a Democrat candidates,” on Twitter. Now on

“I’m not saying this is definitely the case. There appears to have been a double standard where
Democrats were not censored … and Republicans were and it was and I think this is frankly obvious to
anyone who uses Twitter.

“It’s frankly the the behavior that is to be expected from an organization that is that is based in San
Francisco which is far left,” he said, noting that political contributions from Twitter were over 99%
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Part 1 of the Twitter files that Matt Taibbi aired on twitter.

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“Well, what kind of viewpoint would you expect people to have then? It’s the behavior you would expect
from a company that is essentially a distillation of San Francisco politics.”

Twitter’s former chief censor Vijaya Gadde will come under Judiciary Committee scrutiny when
Republicans take control of the House in January — as fallout from the first installment of Musk’s findings
of political favoritism and censorship at Twitter continues to mount.

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“We’re tracking Vijaya Gadde’s role in the suppression of the New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s
laptop,” a committee spokesperson told The Post on Saturday. “We absolutely plan to investigate this
more. Stay tuned.”

Gadde, 48, Twitter’s former head of legal, policy, and trust, played a “key role” in suppressing The Post’s
Hunter Biden coverage , Taibbi wrote after his review of the social media company’s internal
communications for a report he called “The Twitter Files.”

Vijaya Gadde reportedly played a “key role” in suppressing The Post’s Hunter Biden coverage.
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The ex-exec, who also played an instrumental role in the company’s decision to ban former President
Trump from the platform, was fired by Musk in October shortly after he purchased the company for $44
billion.

Gadde — who landed an influential administration post in an advisory committee to the Department of
Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency while still a Twitter employee
— reportedly earned $17 million in 2021.

Musk reveled in the traffic that Taibbi’s Friday document drop was generating for his newly acquired site.

“Twitter servers are running at Warp 9!!” he exulted early Saturday .

Musk has insisted full disclosure is needed on Twitter’s controversial choice to block The Post’s bombshell report about
Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election.

Taibbi’s report revealed that a small group of top-level execs chose to label The Post’s story about the son
of then-candidate Joe Biden as “hacked material” without any evidence — and repeatedly bowed to
Democrats’ demands to excise all discussion of the explosive report from the site.

According to Taibbi, the social media company “took extraordinary steps to suppress” the laptop story,
removing links to the expose shared by users and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.”

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Mainstream journalists — in lockstep with Democratic strategists — smeared Taibbi as a “sad”

“fraud” for working with Musk to substantiate the internal documents. “Selling your soul for the
richest white nationalist on Earth,” Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali posted . “Matt Taibbi always
was, and still remains, a fraud,” wrote Dem pollster Matt McDermott .

Both the New York Times and the Washington Post refused so far to cover the Twitter firestorm,
earning Musk’s ire. “The New York Times has become, for all intents and purposes, an
unregistered lobbying firm for far-left politicians,” Musk wrote on Twitter after radio host Clay
Travis pointed out the glaring absence from the two newspapers’ websites.

Furious Republicans blasted Twitter’s partisan censors. “Leftists hate your freedom,” tweeted
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz , who compared their suppression to that of the Chinese Communist Party.
“They want to silence all dissent.” Meanwhile, tech investor and GOP donor Peter Thiel cheered
the report. “Sunlight is the best disinfectant!” Thiel told The Post.

Actor James Woods, who Taibbi found was targeted for Twitter censorship at the behest of the
Democratic National Committee, threatened to lead a class action lawsuit against the social
media giant and the DNC. “How would you like to fund a class action suit for those who were
suppressed?” Woods asked Musk in a tweet that thanked the billionaire for making the documents
public. “I’ll be happy to be lead plaintiff.”

Twitter may have interfered in another national election as well, Musk said: the Oct. 30 contest in
Brazil , where left wing stalwart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ousted far right President Jair Bolsonaro..
“It’s possible that Twitter personnel gave preference to left wing candidates,” Musk tweeted early
Saturday in response to a user who asked him to find out whether the platform had meddled in
any other nation’s politics.

French President Emmanuel Macron met with Musk during his tour of New Orleans late Friday,
pressing him to reinforce Twitter’s content moderation. “We will work with Twitter to improve the
protection of children online,” Macron posted . “Elon Musk confirmed it to me today. Let’s better
protect our children online.”

Musk, 51, the world’s richest man, purchased Twitter last month in order to transform it into a haven for
free speech.

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Musk has insisted full disclosure is needed on the company’s controversial choice to block The Post’s
bombshell report about President Biden’s son ahead of the 2020 election — and has been teasing the
release of the internal files for days.

After Musk’s blockbuster takeover of Twitter, its top advertisers fled the site, devastating the company’s
revenue. On Saturday, Musk confirmed that Apple — the platform’s historically and presently biggest
advertiser — had returned, among others.

“Ithink we’re starting to see a lot of other advertisers also resume their spending,” Musk said in the Twitter
Space Q&A. “I think that the problem is that they would read all these stories in the media and then think
that they were true and they’re not true.”

Musk said advertisers are returning as “it’s becoming clear that the media stories about Twitter being
some sort of, like, right wing hellscape, which it absolutely isn’t,” are unfounded, adding that he’s
“cautiously optimistic about the future” of the company.

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