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Anyhoo, he kicks it off with a very bad misunderstanding of the 1st Amendment and the whole "fire in a crowded theater" thing. cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social @jkosseff.bsky.social Not only is this wrong, it's meaningless. He runs a private platform and isn't Congress. Does he not have ANY 1A lawyers?
But in the lore of the Twitter Files/Murthy case, this email has been the smoking gun of "OMG, the Biden admin cursed out FB officials over content moderation!" You can see the email above though, it has nothing to do with content moderation.
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@mmasnick.bsky.social noted the “seems” in the Fed “the false narrative” part . This Zuck pivot / repudiation tour has been extremely well coordinated. An Elon Musk copycat, commanding a news cycle with “better late than never” extreme talking points. Appreciated your detail
@mmasnick.bsky.social thanks for the run through of that!
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