ClaimsMarc Andreessen

“the Twitter files are a hundred percent representative of what I’ve seen at every other one of these companies.”

Marc Andreessen, interviewee 26 January 2025 Transcript for Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America (Lex Fridman) archived copy

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Andreessen said the Twitter Files are a hundred percent representative of what he has seen at every other one of these companies, and that what happened at Twitter can be assumed to have happened at the others for the most part, certainly in terms of the kind of pressure they got.

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Depends on Andreessen's private observations of pressure at other companies, not publicly documented.

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Marc Andreessen, “Andreessen said the Twitter Files are a hundred percent representative of what he has seen at every other one of these companies, and that what happened at Twitter can be assumed to have happened at the others for the most part, certainly in terms of the kind of pressure they got.” (said 26 January 2025). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_581dda3631fa, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_581dda3631fa

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