Twitter Files: New set of documents allege political influence on micro-blogging site

Journalist Matt Taibbi, who last year was in the spotlight for releasing the controversial set of documents from Twitter’s internal communication, labelled ‘Twitter Files’, has released another set of documents in a series of tweets.

In the latest edition of Twitter Files, Taibbi has accused US politicians, including Democratic Senator from Maine, Angus King, and Republican Mark Lenzi, a State Department official, of trying to influence Twitter for political gains.

Taibbi accused Sen King of trying to influence Twitter in order to get his opponents off the platform.


“Here’s Maine Senator Angus King writing to Twitter to call a slew of accounts “suspicious” for reasons like: “Rand Paul visit excitement”; “Bot (averages 20 tweets a day)”; Being followed by rival Erict Brakey; Or, my personal favorite: “Mentions immigration.”” read a tweet from Taibbi.

The journalist also pointed out that the mainstream media in the US had completely ignored some of the revelations made earlier in Twitter Files, while highlighting certain other allegations made against former President Donald Trump.

“4. Then House hearings were held last week, at which one witness told a story about Donald Trump asking to remove a mean tweet by Chrissy Teigen.

The press went bananas. Now THAT was big news!”, read another tweet from Taibbi.

What are ‘Twitter Files’?

In December last year, Elon Musk, through his tweets, promoted a series of tweets about Twitter’s internal communications by journalist Matt Taibbi, titled ‘Twitter Files’.

Twitter Files showed internal conversations between certain top-level officials at Twitter. The highlighted talks took place in the year 2020, amid the height of campaigning for the US presidential elections.

The New York Post published an article in which information concerning Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and his abandoned laptop was revealed.

According to the Post, emails and data discovered on the laptop supposedly indicated how Hunter Biden had traded influence with Ukrainian businesses, and also featured "a filthy, 12-minute film" of Hunter Biden.