Real-Time Doxxing and the Littlest Musk – by Abigail Shrier

Musk had declared himself a “free-speech absolutist” and offered a team of journalists that included me, led by Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi, to examine the “Twitter Files”: internal company messages from the past decade.

We discovered evidence of a secret committee that systemically suppressed the visibility of disfavored speech: Feminists who dared define women as “adult human female,” like Megan Murphy and Kellie-Jay Keen, were kicked off Twitter. But critics of Covid lockdown policy like Physician and Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, Jay Bhattacharya; and also gay women who pushed back on what they saw as the excesses of LGBTQ activism, like Jaimee Michell were secretly suppressed. Entire user accounts were blocked from participating on the “trends” homepage or from ever being included in the feeds of those users who did not already follow the accounts. (This was the “Do Not Amplify” marker.)

The Twitter Files remain a vital revelation—evidence of a systemic attempt by Twitter executives to shape public debate and even political outcomes. (Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, among those whose account had been marked with a “Do Not Amplify” marker, was campaigning for re-election during the period her account was suppressed).

Michell’s organization, ‘Gays Against Groomers’ was placed on a “Trends Blacklist,” curtailing the visibility of her tweets.

For political conservatives, Covid vaccine skeptics, and critics of gender medicine, the revelations came as proof that their voices had been suppressed sub rosa. Proof that Big Tech has been pulling hidden strings to manipulate the political outcomes of an evenly-divided country. Proof that millions of Americans who believed their perspectives were being unfairly disregarded weren’t in the grips of a paranoid fantasy.

Source: Real-Time Doxxing and the Littlest Musk – by Abigail Shrier