Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty“The Twitter Files” weren’t a “nothingburger,” but they also weren’t the Pentagon Papers.Removed from culture war tribalism and performative outrage (which includes outrage that other people aren’t outraged enough about the thing you’re outraged about), the “Twitter Files” are legitimately newsworthy. They show just how cavalier the social-media gatekeepers of information are about following their own content moderation policies, and how cozy they are with the Democratic establishment.They also show just how far those gatekeepers will go to keep their users from sharing a controversial story about a presidential candidate’s son (going so far as to treat it as they would child porn, and forbidding users from even sharing the story in direct messages) weeks before an election.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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