The 'Twitter Files': How the Corporate State Uses Legal Jiujitsu to Blur Lines Between Private Industry and Government

Originally published via PJ Media:

This is a teachable moment, as Barack Obama condescendingly put it.

I spent last weekend considering how the progressive/liberal media would try to counter the Twitter Files story – which details the extent to which the Biden administration/Deep State colluded with Twitter to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story in the final days of the 2020 election — on behalf of their masters in the corporate state.

18. Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022

They had all weekend to devise their counternarrative, since the leaks were oddly released on a Friday night. MSNBC of the Internet, The Young Turks, delivered the goods.

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