Exhibit 1115 · Social-media thread (Twitter Files)
The Twitter Files: How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate (thread, 26 December 2022)
Internal files at Twitter that I viewed while on assignment for @TheFP showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s pandemic content according to their wishes.
Forty-one-post thread. Post 5 says internal files showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations pressed Twitter executives over pandemic content. Posts 6 and 7 describe early-pandemic meeting notes in which the Trump administration, with Google, Facebook and Microsoft also attending, asked for 'help from the tech companies to combat misinformation' about runs on grocery stores. Posts 8 to 12 say one of the Biden administration's first meeting requests to Twitter concerned 'anti-vaxxer accounts', especially Alex Berenson, and that a summary by Twitter's head of U.S. public policy said the Biden team was 'very angry' that Twitter had not deplatformed more accounts (the thread dates that summary December 2022, as printed). Post 13 says Twitter executives 'did not fully capitulate'. The thread's conclusions about bias (posts 17 to 38) are the author's.
- Source
- David Zweig (@davidzweig), Twitter thread
- Date
- 26 December 2022 (posted 14:10 UTC per the post ID; the capsule index lists 28 December)
- Quoted from
- Post 5 of 41 (Thread Reader copy; the copy displays 26 Dec 2022)
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607378386338340867
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Reported: internal Twitter documents as selected, screenshotted and described by the thread's author after Twitter's owner gave the writers access; no complete archive is public and the one X capture opened (Part 1) rendered as an empty shell in the Wayback Machine, so the readable copy is the Thread Reader capture linked under archive (the posts themselves were not re-opened on X). The primary documents that would replace it are the underlying emails and Slack messages, which a court, Twitter or a regulator has not produced in full.