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Originally Posted by _indigo1
making out like there was some grand conspiracy
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In reality what existed was a situation in which there were no rules, and the inmates really were running the asylum. There was no oversight; people and content got kickbanned or muted on a whim. Twitter really was like an IRC channel with mods on a power trip. It's just that all the mods had gone to the same schools and believed the same things and considered the same sorts of people to be bad and the same thoughts of ideas to be wrongthink.
E.g. - this professor at the Stanford School of Medicine thought that school closures could harm children, so his account was secretly set to "Do Not Trend". Nobody knows by whom, or on whose instruction, but everyone knew what to do with those sorts of ideas.
American conservative commentator Charlie Kirk had his account secretly set to "Do Not Amplify". Nobody knows why, no paper trail, nobody actually ordered a code red but everyone knew what to do.
And Jack was able to go before congress and testify "Twitter does not censor people based on their political beliefs" in complete honesty, because as far as he knew, it didn't.