Bari Weiss

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Editor-in-Chief @thefp and @CBSNews Host of @thehonestlypod Founder of @nelliebowles fan club

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1	Mar 4, '25	The Department of Justice is investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program that was part of Joe Biden’s $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act. Created in th	185×	36.8M	44k	15k	6.4k
2	Dec 16, '22	The old regime at Twitter governed by its own whims and biases and it sure looks like the new regime has the same problem. I oppose it in both cases. And I think those journalists	46.9×	9.3M	24k	2.9k	469
3	Jan 6, '25	"Britain now stands shamed before the world. The public’s suppressed wrath is bubbling to the surface in petitions, calls for a public inquiry, and demands for accountability. The	41×	8.2M	79k	20k	5.1k
4	Mar 9, '23	I am dead. Couldn’t get to D.C., but nothing but love for @ShellenbergerMD and @mtaibbi who do a heroic job of not completely breaking down here.	27.4×	5.4M	26k	2.7k	531
5	Feb 9, '23	Jamie Reed is a progressive. She is a queer woman married to a transman. She has devoted her career to the vulnerable. Which is why she joined the Transgender Center at St. Louis C	25.2×	5M	20k	5k	1.7k
6	Oct 8, '23	You are about to withstand a barrage of lies about the war that broke out today in Israel. Some of those lies will be explicit. Some of them will be lies of omission. Others will b	22.6×	4.5M	27k	5.2k	1.6k
7	Dec 7, '23	At Harvard, "fatphobia" constitutes violence. But "globalize the intifada" requires context. WATCH:	22.4×	4.5M	29k	7.6k	2.4k
8	Oct 30, '23	If you thought that the Hitler-loving reporter in Gaza was the only scandal @nytimes, think again. 🧵	20×	4M	24k	4.7k	1.6k
9	Oct 22, '23	This was scrawled outside of our offices this week. If the antisemites who did this think it will intimidate me and the journalists of @TheFP, they don’t know me, they don’t know u	19.8×	3.9M	26k	4.9k	370
10	Dec 9, '22	THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO. TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.	19.7×	0	214k	73k	17k
11	Dec 26, '22	Twitter suppressed true information from doctors and public-health experts that was at odds with U.S. government policy. This is a story, by @davidzweig, that impacted every Americ	12.5×	2.5M	21k	5.6k	454
12	Apr 22, '24	For a second, imagine that black students at Columbia were taunted with chants of "Go back to Africa." Or imagine that a gay student at Yale was surrounded by homophobic protesters	12.1×	2.4M	30k	6.4k	1.4k
13	Jan 25, '24	Over the past few months my friend @DouglasKMurray has emerged as perhaps the most important defender of the West. Was worth the flight to Tel Aviv to thank him in person.	11.5×	2.3M	22k	1.5k	299
14	Oct 23, '23	"If you consider yourself 'liberal' or even 'progressive,' it must surely be clear by now that America and her allies are the only places in the world where your values are even co	11.4×	2.3M	21k	4.1k	783
15	Dec 12, '22	THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE. THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM TWITTER.	9.4×	0	109k	34k	7.4k
16	Oct 24, '23	In the summer of 2020, the @nytimes was plunged into a moral crisis after an oped by @TomCottonAR. Hundreds of journalists said the piece put their lives in danger. The opinion edi	8.8×	1.7M	20k	4.9k	563
17	Oct 6, '25	From day one, the promise—and the business proposition—of @TheFP was simple: We would marry the quality of the old world to the freedom of the new. We would seek the truth and tell	8.4×	1.7M	10k	1k	368
18	Dec 9, '22	1. A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire	7.7×	0	105k	26k	1.2k
19	Nov 7, '23	What should we do now? Many things. One of them: End 'DEI'. It’s not about diversity, equity, or inclusion. It is about arrogating power to a movement that threatens strivers of ev	7.6×	1.5M	18k	3.7k	783
20	Dec 9, '22	3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” w	7.0×	0	98k	24k	702
21	Dec 9, '22	6. Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: “We do not shadow ban.	5.5×	0	86k	15k	259
22	Jun 28, '24	Last night was more than a catastrophe for Biden. It was a catastrophe for an entire class of experts, journalists, and pundits, who have, since 2020, insisted that Biden was sharp	5.2×	1M	26k	4.4k	822
23	Dec 9, '22	5. Twitter set the account of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) to “Do Not Amplify.”	4.8×	0	73k	15k	257
24	Dec 9, '22	4. Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino (@dbongino), who at one point was slapped with a “Search Blacklist.”	4.7×	0	73k	15k	173
25	Dec 9, '22	7. What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning.	4.4×	0	72k	12k	207
26	Jan 24, '25	"You have seen the video of my daughter Naama Levy. Everyone has. You have seen her dragged by her long brown hair from the back of a Jeep at gunpoint, somewhere in Gaza, her gray	4.3×	866k	24k	3.7k	641
27	Dec 9, '22	16. One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was @libsoftiktok—an account that was on the “Trends Blacklist” and was designated as “Do Not Take Action on User Withou	4.3×	0	65k	13k	395
28	Dec 9, '22	2. Twitter once had a mission “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.	4.2×	0	70k	11k	107
29	Dec 9, '22	11. “We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter engineer told us. T	4.0×	0	63k	11k	164
30	Dec 9, '22	8. “Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool,” one senior Twitter employee told us.	3.9×	0	64k	11k	99
31	Dec 9, '22	14. This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, an	3.7×	0	58k	11k	162
32	Dec 9, '22	9. “VF” refers to Twitter’s control over user visibility. It used VF to block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability; to block sel	3.7×	0	60k	10k	129
33	Dec 9, '22	22. When Raichik told Twitter that her address had been disseminated she says Twitter Support responded with this message: "We reviewed the reported content, and didn't find it to	3.5×	0	56k	10k	145
34	Dec 9, '22	10. All without users’ knowledge.	3.5×	0	59k	8.6k	67
35	Dec 9, '22	19. But in an internal SIP-PES memo from October 2022, after her seventh suspension, the committee acknowledged that “LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hate	3.4×	0	54k	9.5k	185
36	Sep 11, '25	Shabbat cannot come soon enough this week. I need to sit among other people who love this country and pray. And cry.	3.4×	679k	18k	768	269
37	Dec 9, '22	12. The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team - Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 "cases" a da	3.3×	0	55k	8.9k	118
38	Dec 9, '22	15. This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. “Think high follower account, controversial,” another Twitter employee told us. For these “there would	3.2×	0	53k	8.5k	78
39	Dec 9, '22	17. The account—which Chaya Raichik began in November 2020 and now boasts over 1.4 million followers—was subjected to six suspensions in 2022 alone, Raichik says. Each time, Raichi	3.1×	0	53k	7.9k	84
40	Dec 9, '22	21. Compare this to what happened when Raichik herself was doxxed on November 21, 2022. A photo of her home with her address was posted in a tweet that has garnered more than 10,00	3.1×	0	51k	8k	88
41	Dec 9, '22	20. The committee justified her suspensions internally by claiming her posts encouraged online harassment of “hospitals and medical providers” by insinuating “that gender-affirming	3.1×	0	51k	7.8k	101
42	Dec 9, '22	30. Watch @mtaibbi for the next installment.	3.0×	0	51k	6.5k	126
43	Dec 9, '22	13. But there existed a level beyond official ticketing, beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company’s policy on paper. That is the “Site Integrity Policy, Policy Esc	3.0×	0	50k	7.9k	92
44	Nov 6, '24	My cousin in Pittsburgh texts: "So it turns out running an 81 year old, replacing him four months before election day, and then having that replacement refuse to give interviews fo	3.0×	594k	32k	2.3k	660
45	Nov 6, '24	Winners: Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Josh Shapiro, X, prediction markets, Peanut (RIP). Losers: Randi Weingarten, ayatollahs, cable news, pollsters, Obama.	2.9×	569k	22k	2k	429
46	Dec 9, '22	29. We're just getting started on our reporting. Documents cannot tell the whole story here. A big thank you to everyone who has spoken to us so far. If you are a current or former	2.8×	0	49k	6.7k	70
47	Dec 9, '22	18. Twitter repeatedly informed Raichik that she had been suspended for violating Twitter’s policy against “hateful conduct.”	2.8×	0	48k	6.9k	61
48	Dec 9, '22	27. There is more to come on this story, which was reported by @abigailshrier @shellenbergermd @nelliebowles @isaacgrafstein and the team The Free Press @thefp. Keep up with this u	2.8×	0	45k	7.7k	456
49	Dec 9, '22	23. In internal Slack messages, Twitter employees spoke of using technicalities to restrict the visibility of tweets and subjects. Here’s Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then Global Head of T	2.6×	0	43k	6.8k	102
50	Dec 9, '22	24. Six days later, in a direct message with an employee on the Health, Misinformation, Privacy, and Identity research team, Roth requested more research to support expanding “non-	2.6×	0	42k	6.9k	113
51	Dec 9, '22	28. The authors have broad and expanding access to Twitter’s files. The only condition we agreed to was that the material would first be published on Twitter.	2.5×	0	44k	5.7k	72
52	Dec 9, '22	26. He added: “We got Jack on board with implementing this for civic integrity in the near term, but we’re going to need to make a more robust case to get this into our repertoire	2.5×	0	41k	6.4k	69
53	Dec 9, '22	25. Roth wrote: “The hypothesis underlying much of what we’ve implemented is that if exposure to, e.g., misinformation directly causes harm, we should use remediations that reduce	2.4×	0	40k	5.9k	88
54	Dec 12, '22	20. In June 2018, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted, “#Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and	2.3×	0	33k	8.3k	292
55	Jun 4, '20	The civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country	2.1×	0	23k	5.2k	2.1k
56	Dec 12, '22	7. There were dissenters inside Twitter. “Maybe because I am from China,” said one employee on January 7, “I deeply understand how censorship can destroy the public conversation.”	2.1×	0	32k	6.1k	180
57	Oct 7, '24	I have thought of Shiri Bibas and her children (her nine-month-old baby Kfir and her four-year-old son Ariel) every day for a year. Look at her face.	2.0×	403k	18k	3k	199
58	Apr 26, '22	This is so perfect I almost can’t believe it’s real	2.0×	0	32k	4.1k	464
59	Dec 12, '22	2. 6:46 am: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be di	1.9×	0	33k	5k	82
60	Dec 12, '22	21. In October 2020, the former Malaysian Prime Minister said it was “a right” for Muslims to “kill millions of French people.” Twitter deleted his tweet for “glorifying violence,”	1.9×	0	29k	6.7k	218
61	Dec 12, '22	25. But Twitter executives did ban Trump, even though key staffers said that Trump had not incited violence—not even in a “coded” way.	1.9×	0	29k	6.1k	90
62	Oct 27, '18	Thinking of Mr. Rogers today. Tree of Life is three blocks from his home. Of this especially: "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me,	1.7×	0	27k	5.6k	46
63	Dec 12, '22	12. But the Twitter staff assigned to evaluate tweets quickly concluded that Trump had not violated Twitter’s policies.“I think we’d have a hard time saying this is incitement,”	1.7×	0	27k	4.9k	95
64	Dec 12, '22	1. On the morning of January 8, President Donald Trump, with one remaining strike before being at risk of permanent suspension from Twitter, tweets twice.	1.7×	0	27k	4.3k	175
65	Dec 12, '22	44. They’re about the power of a handful of people at a private company to influence the public discourse and democracy.	1.7×	0	26k	4.4k	73
66	Dec 12, '22	24. In early February 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government threatened to arrest Twitter employees in India, and to incarcerate them for up to seven years after they rest	1.7×	0	24k	4.8k	158
67	Dec 12, '22	23. In October 2021, Twitter allowed Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to call on citizens to take up arms against the Tigray region. Twitter allowed the tweet to remain up, and	1.6×	0	25k	5.5k	114
68	Sep 22, '22	It may be shocking for Americans to learn that in Sweden—the land of IKEA, Spotify and Greta Thunberg—there have been almost 500 bombings since 2018 . Perhaps the reason you don’t	1.5×	0	17k	6.5k	1.1k
69	Dec 12, '22	22. Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria, incited violence against pro-Biafra groups.“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war,” he wrote, “will trea	1.5×	0	24k	4.8k	83
70	Dec 12, '22	26. Less than 90 minutes after Twitter employees had determined that Trump’s tweets were not in violation of Twitter policy, Vijaya Gadde—Twitter’s Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust	1.5×	0	23k	4.6k	105
71	Dec 6, '22	It's been quite a weekend:	1.5×	0	25k	3.2k	214
72	Dec 12, '22	28. Things escalate from there. Members of that team came to “view him as the leader of a terrorist group responsible for violence/deaths comparable to Christchurch shooter or Hitl	1.5×	0	22k	4.1k	100
73	Dec 10, '21	This is quite something.	1.4×	0	21k	4.1k	518
74	Dec 12, '22	14. Another staffer agreed: “Don’t see the incitement angle here.”	1.4×	0	24k	4k	62
75	Dec 12, '22	4. For years, Twitter had resisted calls both internal and external to ban Trump on the grounds that blocking a world leader from the platform or removing their controversial tweet	1.4×	0	25k	3.2k	40
76	Dec 12, '22	19. To understand Twitter’s decision to ban Trump, we must consider how Twitter deals with other heads of state and political leaders, including in Iran, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.	1.4×	0	23k	3.9k	65
77	Dec 12, '22	3. 7:44 am: “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”	1.4×	0	25k	3.2k	31
78	Dec 12, '22	15. “I also am not seeing clear or coded incitement in the DJT tweet,” wrote Anika Navaroli, a Twitter policy official. “I’ll respond in the elections channel and say that our team	1.4×	0	22k	3.9k	61
79	Jul 17, '18	My uber driver today spent 28 years in the military. Served in Iraq. He told me he hasn’t stopped thinking about what the president did yesterday. “It actually hurt me. It was a be	1.4×	0	21k	3.8k	19
80	Dec 12, '22	9. After January 6, Twitter employees organized to demand their employer ban Trump. “There is a lot of employee advocacy happening,” said one Twitter employee.	1.4×	0	22k	3.7k	58
81	Dec 12, '22	18. Next, Twitter’s safety team decides that Trump’s 7:44 am ET tweet is also not in violation. They are unequivocal: “it’s a clear no vio. It’s just to say he’s not attending the	1.3×	0	22k	3.7k	58
82	Dec 12, '22	30. “Multiple tweeps [Twitter employees] have quoted the Banality of Evil suggesting that people implementing our policies are like Nazis following orders,” relays Yoel Roth to a c	1.3×	0	21k	3.6k	101
83	Dec 12, '22	8. But voices like that one appear to have been a distinct minority within the company. Across Slack channels, many Twitter employees were upset that Trump hadn’t been banned earli	1.3×	0	23k	3.1k	28
84	Dec 12, '22	16. She does just that: “as an fyi, Safety has assessed the DJT Tweet above and determined that there is no violation of our policies at this time.”	1.3×	0	22k	3.6k	52
85	Dec 12, '22	6. But after January 6, as @mtaibbi and @shellenbergermd have documented, pressure grew, both inside and outside of Twitter, to ban Trump.	1.3×	0	22k	3.2k	42
86	Feb 6, '22	Ditto. Grateful for @joerogan.	1.3×	0	24k	1.9k	40
87	Dec 12, '22	27. A few minutes later, Twitter employees on the “scaled enforcement team” suggest that Trump’s tweet may have violated Twitter’s Glorification of Violence policy—if you interpret	1.3×	0	20k	3.7k	69
88	Dec 12, '22	11. In the early afternoon of January 8, The Washington Post published an open letter signed by over 300 Twitter employees to CEO Jack Dorsey demanding Trump’s ban. “We must examin	1.3×	0	21k	3.4k	49
89	Dec 12, '22	13. “It's pretty clear he's saying the ‘American Patriots’ are the ones who voted for him and not the terrorists (we can call them that, right?) from Wednesday.”	1.3×	0	22k	3.2k	44
90	Dec 12, '22	40. Merkel’s spokesperson called Twitter’s decision to ban Trump from its platform “problematic” and added that the freedom of opinion is of “elementary significance.” Russian oppo	1.3×	0	20k	3.4k	93
91	Dec 12, '22	5. “Our mission is to provide a forum that enables people to be informed and to engage their leaders directly,” the company wrote in 2019. Twitter’s aim was to “protect the public’	1.3×	0	22k	3k	50
92	Dec 12, '22	10. “We have to do the right thing and ban this account,” said one staffer. It’s “pretty obvious he’s going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules,”	1.3×	0	20k	3.3k	52
93	Dec 12, '22	29. Two hours later, Twitter executives host a 30-minute all-staff meeting. Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde answer staff questions as to why Trump wasn’t banned yet. But they make som	1.2×	0	21k	3.3k	46
94	Dec 12, '22	17. (Later, Navaroli would testify to the House Jan. 6 committee:“For months I had been begging and anticipating and attempting to raise the reality that if nothing—if we made no i	1.2×	0	20k	3.1k	58
95	Dec 12, '22	39. Macron told an audience he didn’t “want to live in a democracy where the key decisions” were made by private players. “I want it to be decided by a law voted by your representa	1.2×	0	19k	3.1k	75
96	Dec 12, '22	38. Outside the United States, Twitter’s decision to ban Trump raised alarms, including with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Prime Minister Angela Merkel, and Mexico's Pre	1.1×	0	18k	3.2k	61
97	Dec 12, '22	45. This was reported by @ShellenbergerMD, @IsaacGrafstein, @SnoozyWeiss, @Olivia_Reingold, @petersavodnik, @NellieBowles. Follow all of our work at The Free Press: @TheFP	1.1×	0	19k	2.3k	67
98	Dec 12, '22	43. Ultimately, the concerns about Twitter’s efforts to censor news about Hunter Biden’s laptop, blacklist disfavored views, and ban a president aren’t about the past choices of ex	1.0×	0	17k	2.8k	41
99	Feb 3, '22	I cannot stop laughing	1.0×	0	18k	1.6k	111
100	Feb 6, '22	Love both of these people.	1.0×	0	19k	1.2k	43
101	Dec 12, '22	41. Whether you agree with Navalny and Macron or the executives at Twitter, we hope this latest installment of #TheTwitterFiles gave you insight into that unprecedented decision.	1.0×	0	17k	2.1k	23

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