SpaceX founder and newly minted Twitter owner Elon Musk has claimed the risk of his assassination is ‘quite significant.’ During a two-hour Q&A on Twitter Spaces, Musk said he believes his life is likely in danger but that he hopes ‘fate’ will ‘smile upon the situation’.
On Friday, Taibbi published a lengthy Twitter thread offering evidence of the ways the company had worked to cover up the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Musk has been critical of the platform’s former leadership and the role they played in quieting certain political voices and promoting others.
“What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter,’ wrote Taibbi. ‘The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story.
“The emails contained back-and-forths between various members of Twitter’s content moderation team that ultimately led to the shaky decision to ban the story without consulting co-founder and then-CEO, Jack Dorsey.
“Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe,”‘ wrote Taibbi.
“They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.”
Musk has granted journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss access to all previous corporate communications that took place on Twitter.
The goal, he said, of the exercise is to expose ways in which the company has behaved badly in the past so that trust can be established moving forward.
