{"id":521195,"date":"2022-12-05T02:13:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T23:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/here-are-the-real-takeaways-from-the-twitter-files\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T02:13:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T23:13:41","slug":"here-are-the-real-takeaways-from-the-twitter-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/here-are-the-real-takeaways-from-the-twitter-files\/","title":{"rendered":"#Here are the real takeaways from The Twitter Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a24ce3d2d3c0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a24ce3d2d3c0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/here-are-the-real-takeaways-from-the-twitter-files\/#%E2%80%9CHere_are_the_real_takeaways_from_The_Twitter_Files%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Here are the real takeaways from The Twitter Files&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHere_are_the_real_takeaways_from_The_Twitter_Files%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Here are the real takeaways from The Twitter Files&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Hand it to ex-President Donald Trump to present exactly the wrong takeaway to The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> Files: \u201cA Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,\u201d he posted Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>No, it doesn\u2019t. In fact, the Constitution was written with full awareness of humanity\u2019s imperfections, including election cheating (which is as old as democracy itself). The Electoral College count is the final word, no matter how messy the process that leads to it.<\/p>\n<p>The nation couldn\u2019t function if elections didn\u2019t truly end, and the Founding Fathers were <em>practical<\/em> idealists. Heck, they gathered to write the Constitution (for ratification by the 13 sovereign states) precisely because the nation\u2019s then-government, under the Articles of Confederation, wasn\u2019t working. All the nation\u2019s later political woes, even the Civil War, would sadden but not surprise them.<\/p>\n<p>That is, in a (completely imaginary) world where Trump somehow today finally produced actual proof of <em>all<\/em> his wild 2020 ballot-box-stuffing claims, Joe Biden would <em>still<\/em> be our legitimate president (though it\u2019d certainly bring a vast political firestorm).<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention the simple fact that neither Twitter nor the rest of the mainstream media (social and old-school) did nothing <em>illegal<\/em> in suppressing our Hunter Biden laptop reporting: They simply failed their own expressed principles (not remotely for the first or last time). Americans\u2019 rights to a free press, and free speech, allow for all manner of mis- and even dis-information.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/hunter-biden-laptop-34.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Trump said Twitter's suppression of the Hunter Biden article proved &quot;Massive Fraud&quot; in the 2020 election.\" class=\"wp-image-24892905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/hunter-biden-laptop-34.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/hunter-biden-laptop-34.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/hunter-biden-laptop-34.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Trump said Twitter\u2019s suppression of the Hunter Biden article proved \u201cMassive Fraud\u201d in the 2020 election.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Similarly, the 51 top former intelligence officials whose (transparently disingenuous) letter suggesting the laptop was \u201cRussian disinformation\u201d stand revealed as partisan political hacks, not (for this, anyway) as criminals.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s entirely possible that the active-duty FBI agents who prepared the ground for the suppression were engaged in criminal activity, abusing the powers of their office \u2014 but that still wouldn\u2019t make Trump the 2020 winner.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Knowledge today of other 2020 dirty tricks, like the Zuckerberg family\u2019s abusive \u201ccharitable giving\u201d to boost turnout overwhelmingly in heavily Democratic areas, doesn\u2019t change the result, either \u2014 even if <em>could <\/em>be shown to have cost Trump the election.<\/p>\n<p>It can\u2019t be, by the way, any more than we can know if honest coverage by other media of the laptop revelations would\u2019ve turned the election. The inherent limits of what we can know about such things are among the many reasons the Founders made the Electoral College count, as ratified by Congress, the final word. (They made provisions, incidentally, for what to do if the College didn\u2019t produce a winner: See the elections of 1800 and 1824).<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s welcome to take the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> as reason to feel even more aggrieved. For everyone else, the real takeaways here include the need for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1) Proper investigations of what the laptop tells us \u2014 e.g., did Joe \u201cBig Guy\u201d Biden do anything in exchange for the millions showered on Hunter &amp; Co. (besides give face time to a host of unsavory characters)? Did he later take any actions for fear of blackmail?<\/li>\n<li>2) A thorough look at government insiders\u2019 efforts to (mis)direct media coverage.<\/li>\n<li>3) Lowered trust in the mainstream media <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly (already well under way).<\/li>\n<li>4) Thundering condemnation of Twitter\u2019s then-management\u2019s failure to live up to its professed mission \u201cto give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers,\u201d Facebook\u2019s fails on \u201cBetter connecting you with the pages and groups you care about,\u201d The New York Times\u2019 lapses on \u201cAll the news that\u2019s fit to print,\u201d The Washington Post\u2019s hypocrisy on \u201cDemocracy dies in darkness\u201d and so on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for us: We\u2019re confident Alexander Hamilton would be OK with our political reporting, and would be an avid reader of Page Six. And he\u2019d outright laugh at all the whining now about how our reporting helped boost New York Republicans in the last election.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: We\u2019re also still outraged at the suppression of our early commentary on the possibility that COVID started at that Wuhan lab. But we\u2019re not demanding any do-overs \u2014 we just want the rest of the press to do better next time.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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