the involvement of the fbi. and is we know that the fbi went to twitter and to facebook, mark zuckerberg s told us that that, in the weeks and days before our story came out to warn them of a specific what mark zuckerberg called a dump and what fbi agent elvis chan who was just deposed in a republican lawsuit the las, elvis chan called it a hack and leak operation. and that is what he told twitter executives, that they were expecting a hack and leak operation probably in october, and yael roth who was at that point twitter s top moderator he s now resigned basically the head of site integrity, he was at one of these weekly fbi meetings that were going on with the social media giants and fbi
don t have a constitutional republic. rah. rachel: you may with the only one though. will: you built a very strong digital presence throughout your career, and clay travis said it would be a mistake to think of this as exclusively a twitter story. we know about twitter because elon musk is opening the hood to twitter. you re very strong on multiple digital platforms. yeah. will: it s, you know, we know the government was meeting with all of them prior to the election. mark zuckerberg told us hat government was meeting with facebook. how broad, how wild, how many topics do you think how wide, do you think this deputizing of companies to suppress the first amendment was? is? on any given day, the second or first largest facebook page, me and ben shapiro swap spots a lot. they ve got to gone to war with my page. it s not just that they had the fbi go there. they use what they call fact
violating first amendment principles adding that it should not bar a journalist from running a story. and what s really interesting in this thread is the suggestion that ceo at the time jack dorsey actually knew little about the censorship taking place at twitter, but that the fbi may have or at least gave a reason for it. fox news digital reports hat fbi warned that the fbi warned there could potentially be russian hack and leak operations. and this is not over. musk has teased that round two of the twitter the files will be released sometime today to. will, rachel, pete. will: can t wait to see what might be in round two. we can only hope manager that does bring in or crystallizes the connection between the decisions made at witter and the impetus at twitter and the government. pete: that is the key connecting point. if there s something there, you ve got to believe elon musk would be willing to bring it up
at this point. let s bring in miranda devine, author of request the laptop from hell. miranda, when you saw that twitter thread last night talking about what had happened at the company pertain thing to the new york post pertaining to the new york post, your reaction. look, it s fantastic that elon musk has chosen to move the dial a little bit further to the truth for the american public to understand exactly the egregiousness of what went on back in october 2020 when the nation s oldest newspaper, fourth largest by circulation was censored by big tech in service to one of the two candidates for president. they interfered in the election. so it s fantastic that elon musk has sort of opened the twitter files. unfortunately, he left out a crucial element, and that was
commitments here? well, the germans have made some very important commitments including on german national defense and that is incredibly welcome. we ve been working closely with germany and with other nato allies and this meeting that secretary austin is holding today, that will enable us to map out future supplies and commitments to ukraine as the war enters a new phase. dana: i hope i get to meet you in person one day, madam ambassador. me, too. dana: see if we can make it happen. thank you so much. elon musk closes a deal, the $44 billion buy out of twitter went through yesterday. now some employees are sharing concerns about working for musk and if the buy-out will affect their jobs. how does this work now that if he doesn t take over until the fall, what do the employees do between now and then? the fall is not that far away. this is typical of mergers.