Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” show that Twitter staff nefariously helped Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision — Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn’t happy with Twitter’s years-old decision to suppress a news story …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elon Musk firing Vijaya Gadde is a loss for free speech as she was the most responsible for Twitter’s unmatched record defending “actual” free speech globally — Last night, Elon Musk closed his on-again, off-again, on-again deal to buy Twitter, and his very first order of business was to fire a bunch of top executives.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Despite Elon Musk’s opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias — Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Despite Elon Musk’s opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias — Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …
New York Times:
A look at Germany’s hate speech laws, more restrictive than other Western countries, as 1,000+ are charged or punished since 2018 for online speech crimes — Battling far-right extremism, Germany has gone further than any other Western democracy to prosecute individuals for what they say online …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A Twitter thread from Matt Taibbi exposes Twitter documents on the internal debate over the handling of content related to NY Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story — The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
Washington Post:
The FTC sues to block Microsoft’s $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard, charging that the deal would allow Microsoft to suppress its competitors in gaming — The lawsuit marks FTC chair Lina Khan’s most significant effort to date to address tech industry consolidation, and it could upend Microsoft’s gaming ambitions
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