TWITTER FILES EXPOSE EX-TOP OFFICIAL VIJAYA GADDE'S 'LEFT' BIAS

Gadde, an Indian, then working as head of Twitter's Legal Policy, Trust, and Safety in the US, used her influence and authority to suppress a story damaging to Joe Biden's election prospects.

- DIBYENDU MONDAL

A series of tweets put out by an independent American journalist and endorsed by Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, on Saturday morning (IST), revealed how some former employees sitting at the "highest" level of authority at Twitter were secretly influencing content, engaging in "censorship," and suppressing facts and information to favour one side of the political spectrum. In a series of 36 tweets, independent American journalist and author Matt Taibbi described how Vijaya Gadde, then the head of Twitter's legal policy, trust, and safety in the US, used her influence and authority to suppress a story published by the New York Post in October 2020, ahead of the US presidential elections, so that the story did not harm Joe Biden's election prospects.