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On Tuesday, Twitter owner Elon Musk slammed the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for contemplating removing its entry on the “Twitter Files Investigation.”
The billionaire and Tesla CEO accused the website – which allows anyone to edit information on it – of showing its “non-trivial left-wing bias” for signaling the entry on the topic may be removed.
Several Wiki users had alleged the story is not significant or that it is based on “nothing,” prompting a review.
As Fox News Digital reported Friday, the Twitter Files were a bombshell Twitter thread from Substack journalist Matt Taibbi revealing the internal communications of Twitter employees and U. S. lawmakers surrounding the censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020.
The suppression of the story protected the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign from major scandal involving Hunter Biden’s drug use and business dealings days ahead of the election.
The Twitter Files also documented how the platform could be influenced by outside parties to censor posts said parties did not like. Taibbi noted that because of Twitter’s liberal leaning staff, requests to censor conservative posts were fielded more than requests to censor liberal posts.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the “Twitter Files Investigation” page on Wikipedia described the posts as “a Substack article by Matt Taibbi published in December 2022. It presented internal emails amongst Twitter employees who were discussing moderation of content related to the New York Post article that fomented the Hunter Biden laptop controversy.”… (Read more)