Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@tenorune I appealed. No response. Except waves of DM abuse from Mastodon users. You can remain a fanboy or read the comments on my essay here/at Post which reveal that the majority of folks have the same opinion of Mastodon that I do. You guys can enjoy your little clique; it’s all yours. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@activ8tion @vivrettem Yes, this is a situation in which someone who does not know how to communicate online to an audience largely of strangers is lecturing someone who teaches that subject That said, people who are convinced that they know what they do not actually know cannot be convinced otherwise — PolitiTweet.org

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@susantweetsNY In other words, it came from the government, which is why it is the only part of the entire Musk investigation that is of any interest to anyone as an actual scandal — PolitiTweet.org

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@susantweetsNY Nope, Taibbi repeatedly said it was from the Trump White House itself, not the campaign — PolitiTweet.org

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@Futurist_Juche Dammit, if this is a word association game I’m not sure what direction to go in with this “Garbage”, I guess? — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidvanderbyl Uh... because Taibbi himself said so? Multiple times? — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@binubirag That was probably unrelated, but I will certainly say that the deletion of those tweets without explanation was pretty weird, and it did come up at the one part of the thread that was of any actual significance whatsoever. Not sure what to think about any of it. Strange stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS) Worth reading the comments, too. This is the most significant part of the #TwitterFiles investigation now—the only scandal uncovered so far. But it could be a very big one. Congress (the Senate) should get involved. Musk will do nothing; he may even be part of the cover-up. — PolitiTweet.org

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@getoffmylawn081 Actually he was pretty nifty with the glove for the Rox — PolitiTweet.org

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(📢) NEW at POST NEWS: There Was a Big Reveal in Tonight’s #TwitterFiles—But Per Usual Musk, Taibbi, and Weiss Tried to Bury It https://t.co/Hqq4u0zyxm — PolitiTweet.org

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(UPDATE2) Assuming this statement can be trusted, one question I still have is how the “requesting” process worked. Taibbi and Weiss may not have had real-time “access” to DMs, but were they allowed to “request” screenshots of DMs? And if so, how many such requests were made? — PolitiTweet.org

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(UPDATE) Here is a statement from the new Twitter Trust & Safety Head. I certainly hope it can be trusted. https://t.co/wL0Yl0sBIW — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Did Elon Musk give Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss access to Twitter users’ *direct messages*...? How is it possible that we don’t yet have an answer from @ElonMusk to this critical question? I’m starting to think the Twittergate scandal is real—but not in the way the right supposes. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the sort of direct message I wake up to daily now that Elon Musk has “saved Twitter” https://t.co/B76yf5QzOd — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

These are the sort of direct messages I wake up to daily now that Elon Musk has “saved Twitter” https://t.co/m6tb8960Ie — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) NEW at PROOF: Twitter No Longer Has a Content Moderation Policy—and Appears to Be Hiding 1st Amendment Violations By… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: I was shadowbanned in September 2020 under the very Twitter policy @ElonMusk is here falsely claiming was only applied to… — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(PS2) And here’s one of my initial tweets on the September 2020 shadowbanning of this feed that @ElonMusk now claims never happened—though it was confirmed by thousands of readers and multiple feed tests on Shadowban[.]eu. Nearly 5,000 people retweeted this call. So people knew. https://t.co/mSMmwODBgk — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(PS) Here’s me tweeting about the thing @ElonMusk falsely says never happened as it was happening in September 2020. More than 1,000 people on Twitter “liked” the tweet, though it was one of the last ones in a very long thread. Nearly 200 people retweeted it. So yes—people knew. https://t.co/CjSnj6X94M — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

I was shadowbanned in September 2020 under the very Twitter policy @ElonMusk is here falsely claiming was only applied to people on the right. It was a major topic of conversation on Twitter at the time, because I made a big stink about it. Elon is *flat-out lying* here, period. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidSacks "One side," LOL Truth hurts dirtbag 2020: https://t.co/7eLumU8Iez — PolitiTweet.org

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@grambowpg I think you are thinking of Rocky V — PolitiTweet.org

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@no_mo_woe Whenever they try to get serious about nonsense, yes, in those locations — PolitiTweet.org

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@Gammit10 Interesting plot twist — PolitiTweet.org

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@no_mo_woe 💯 — PolitiTweet.org

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@RBMEllis Sorry, I can’t answer that question because it may well be a poll question during the next Matt Taibbi thread — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Okay, but now I have to get serious for a second. What Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss are doing in bringing all these erudite poll respondents together on a regular basis is important work. Which is why it’d be *heresy* to let the poll result below stand. Please vote! — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Keep in mind that there’s still plenty of time to vote in these polls under my “Tweets and Replies” tab. So if you’re as thoroughly riled up and cantankerous about the Bari Weiss Readers Poll result below as I am, you can *do* something about it. Don’t boo, *vote*! — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

On the *other* hand, I *nailed* this Bari Weiss Readers Poll. Called it from the jump. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Not gonna lie y’all this poll of Bari Weiss readers really caught me off-guard. I was so sure it’d be IV. But you know what? *That’s* why we pollsters put in the hours and take nothing for granted. — PolitiTweet.org