Tim Pool on twitter: what the evidence says · JRE #1258
SUBJECT: TWITTER
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
you were also accused of being biased against conservatives in India recently. There was a report on that, as well as you held up a sign that said something offensive about the Brahmin.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Twitter faced public accusations of anti-conservative bias in India in the period before this podcast: Indian politicians, including some from the ruling BJP, alleged the platform suspended right-wing and Hindu-nationalist-aligned accounts more often than left-leaning ones, and Twitter executives were called to testify before a parliamentary committee investigating the claims ahead of India's 2019 general election. Separately, in November 2018, CEO Jack Dorsey was widely reported and photographed during an India visit holding a poster reading "Smash Brahminical Patriarchy," a reference to the Brahmin caste, handed to him by a Dalit activist; the photo sparked backlash from upper-caste Hindus, and Twitter's legal chief Vijaya Gadde publicly apologized for it. Tim Pool's characterization of both events is consistent with contemporaneous reporting, though the "report" he references corresponds to parliamentary hearings and public political accusations rather than a single formal finding of bias.