Behind the Twitter Files Hype with James Corbett
Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb
Whitney Webb
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Whitney and James Corbett discuss the Twitter Files phenomenon and how the hype around it is being utilized for more than meets the eye.
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Originally published 12/16/22.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're listening to Unlimited Hangout, I'm your host Whitney Webb. |
| 0:23.2 | If you've been online recently, you have probably heard of the Twitter Files, which for the |
| 0:27.4 | most part are Twitter threads written by one of two journalists, Matt TIEB or Barry Weiss, that are |
| 0:32.4 | based on internal Twitter documents shared with those journalists by the social networks |
| 0:36.6 | to new owner, billionaire Elon Musk. Most of these internal company documents, which have not yet |
| 0:42.0 | been released to the public and have been curated by Twitter Management for TIEB and Weiss, |
| 0:47.0 | revealed the politically motivated suppression of information or the suspension of prominent |
| 0:51.2 | individuals, including the President Donald Trump from the platform. The Twitter Files |
| 0:57.4 | have generated more hype in the past few weeks than most other media events in 2022. A lot of |
| 1:03.4 | that hype unsurprisingly has extended to the journalist affiliated with the releases TIEB and Weiss |
| 1:08.5 | as well as Elon Musk himself. Many are lauding the trio as heroes and now view Twitter as a quote-unquote |
| 1:14.5 | free speech platform, but is this really so? Like most things that seem too good to be true, |
| 1:20.6 | the same probably holds when it comes to the Twitter Files. Have important revelations been made? |
| 1:25.5 | Yes, but they aren't necessarily new revelations as many of the internal documents at the center |
| 1:30.2 | of the Twitter Files merely confirm claims that were made over two years ago. |
| 1:34.7 | Is Elon Musk Twitter currently free of the censorship that the Twitter Files purports to expose? |
| 1:39.8 | Not quite, despite the reinstating of some high-profile previously suspended accounts in recent leaks. |
| 1:46.2 | In looking at the main players as well as the main effects of the Twitter Files phenomenon, |
| 1:50.0 | it becomes quickly apparent that there is a lot to say about the whole affair that a sadly |
| 1:54.0 | largely absent from even independent media coverage of the Files. In order to tease out and explore |
| 1:59.9 | some of the deeper layers beneath the Twitter Files, I am joined today by James Corbett of the |
| 2:04.5 | Corbett Report at CorbettReport.com. James is an investigative journalist in one of the pioneers |
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