In a newsletter to subscribers, journalist Matt Taibbi, who has played a leading role in reporting on the material known as the Twitter Files, offered some reflections on the process:
While the recipients list of U.S. intelligence reports used to be CIA offices and officers and other intelligence agencies, Taibbi writes, nowadays “the ‘offices’ copied at the top of their reports weren’t other agency stations, but Twitter’s Silicon Valley colleagues: Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, even Wikipedia. It turns out these are the new principal intelligence outposts of the American empire.”
Realizing the control of social media has provided retrospective relief for those who considered frankly impossible what were supposedly trends of public thought:
