• OT: Wait, what? It was Trump!

    From Alan@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 9 19:43:59 2023
    'But former Trump administration officials and Twitter employees tell
    Rolling Stone that the White House’s Teigen tweet demand was hardly an isolated incident: The Trump administration and its allied Republicans
    in Congress routinely asked Twitter to take down posts they objected to
    — the exact behavior that they’re claiming makes President Biden, the Democrats, and Twitter complicit in an anti-free speech conspiracy to
    muzzle conservatives online.'

    <https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/>

    '“It was strange to me when all of these investigations were announced because it was all about the exact same stuff that we had done [when
    Donald Trump was in office],” one former top aide to a senior Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone. “It was normal.”'

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