Twitter Files Part 1: What secret details the document revealed and what is it impact?

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk h promised to release Twitter Files to uphold principle of transparency. files were meant to grant an insight into what happened at Twitter before Musk acquired firm. It was specifically meant to release information about Twitter’s election interference. Twitter Files were released on Friday and journalist Matt Taibii and Bari Weiss were first journalists who gained access to files.

Matt Taibii disclosed some of information Twitter Files h and ded that more information will follow. Elon Musk said that files that were released were just part one of Twitter Files and more will come soon. When Twitter Files were released, y did reveal a lot. Many people in America and around world have for long suspected that Twitter has a political bias and it censors people who are not aligned with political ideology of platform.

Twitter's rights as a company

Whilst Twitter has received a lot of criticism for its political bias, it should be flagged that as a company, it is allowed to have bias. Many, including Elon Musk believe that Twitter is a public sphere, in way Habermas conceptualised public sphere. Ban on Twitter is equal to ban from town square so to say. Whilst that may or may not be true, according to American law, Twitter is not a town square but simply a company, it can decide what kinds of tweets it will allow and what kind of tweets it won't allow. Of courcs, if a consistent pattern is noticed, where it is discriminating against a certain race, group or politcal ideology, people have option to knock door of courts. 

Sanctity of democracy 

What Twitter does not have a right to is colluding with an American political party to suppress speech that is against interest of that political party. part 1 of Twitter Files published by Matt Taibii reveals exactly that. In run up to 2020 elections, Democrats would send email to Twitter with links of tweets that were against interest of Democratic party and Twitter would respond by writing "we'll handle m". "Handling" in this context meant suppressing those tweets, deleting m or deleting account which wrote those tweets. Democrats are avoiding story and downplaying it. It is crucial to understand what Twitter Files reveal - an American political party colluded with an American social media firm to suppress information that is against interest of political party, just before 2020 elections. Information for example about actions of president candidate's son, which suggest he was using his relationship with his far to sell access. Prevention of dissemination of this news story might have impacted election results of 2020, according to  Republicans. 

Why was a former FBI employee vetting release of Twitter Files without informing Musk?

All of this information is public now just because of Elon Musk's decision to release internal documents and communication of Twitter. However, something else has happened. new files which Musk promised to release are not public yet and time which Musk gave for ir release has long passed. So, what happened? word "extremely" is often thrown out uselessly but it fits rar aptly in this situation. What happened is extremely important so let's go over this slowly. person who was vetting release of Twitter Files to journalists was Twitter Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker. 

He was vetting se files to control what kind of information was being me public under release of Twitter Files, without knowledge of new management at Twitter. In or words, without knowledge of Elon Musk. journalist Bari Weiss, who was following this story along with Matt Taibii, said that her jaw hit floor when she found that Jim Baker was vetting release of se documents, without knowledge of Twitter's new management. She h to confirm what Jim's surname is to make sure she was hearing right thing. Before becoming Twitter Deputy General Counsel, Jim Baker was FBI's General Counsel. 

Jim Baker played a dodgy role as FBI's General Counsel, he was forced to resign in 2018, during Trump's presidency, after an investigation into leaks to press. According to Lee Fang, an investigative journalist at Intercept (Matt Taibii's previous workplace), Jim Baker, in 2016, passed on fake information from Hilary Clinton's campaign, claiming that Trump's organisation was using secret servers to communicate with Russia's private commercial bank. This story was false. Jim Baker "has been something of a Zelig of FBI controversies dating back to 2016, from Steele Dossier to Alfa-Server mess. He resigned in 2018 after an investigation into leaks to press," wrote Matt Taibii. Elon Musk said that he found out about Jim Baker vetting release of Twitter Files just on Sunday. Jim Baker has been fired from Twitter now. As of now, it is not clear what documents Jim Baker decided to not release. re is also a possibility that he might have destroyed some documents. Republicans have won House as a result of midterms and y might soon launch a probe into this matter.