Twitter owner Elon Musk revealed during an interview this week that engineers at the social media company recently discovered a line of code more than decade old that would suppress tweets if they contained specific words.

Musk made the remarks during an interview with The Babylon Bee published on Twitter on Wednesday. Twitter’s previous censorship of The Babylon Bee was one of the company’s actions that sparked Musk’s interest in buying Twitter.

“One of the craziest things you did when you took over Twitter was start releasing the Twitter files,” Kyle Mann, editor-in-chief of The Babylon Bee, said to Musk. “Who takes over a company and then says, ‘Look, how horrible all this stuff is that’s going on’?”

“If we’re not going to expose the things that were done wrong, why should people believe us in the future? That’s why we’re trying to be as transparent as possible,” Musk responded. “Don’t take my word for it – literally look at the algorithm, you should be able to recreate the results that you see on Twitter using that algorithm.”

“So we’re trying to make sure that everything is brought to light, not just so there’s no hidden layers or anything,” Musk added. “We just discovered last week some hidden layer of censorship that was written in 2012.”

Musk said that while “‘censorship’ is probably the wrong word” to describe the code, Twitter had a list of words it would use to evaluate Tweets.

“If you put ‘suck’ in a tweet, then it does not get amplified on the platform,” he explained. “And that was literally code from like 2012. We found this relic of code last week.”

Musk confirmed the single line of code was being applied to all tweets, noting that there were about a thousand words on the list that, if used in a tweet, would suppress that tweet.

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@elonmusk reveals he’s still uncovering hidden censorship layers in Twitter’s code. pic.twitter.com/b4B1oBiSZU

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 31, 2023

Twitter owner Elon Musk explained during an interview this week why the political Left is no longer funny, saying that it’s because they no longer believe in things that are true.

Musk made the remarks during an interview with the Babylon Bee that was released in full on Wednesday. The interview came after Twitter’s previous censorship of the Babylon Bee was one of the things that sparked Musk’s interest in buying the company.

“What do you like to watch in terms of comedy and entertainment?” Kyle Mann, Editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee, asked Musk. “I know you share a lot of memes and, you know, obviously comment on some Babylon Bee articles and stuff like that. You commented, you tweeted one time about how wokeness is destroying comedy … it was, you can’t write come comedy from a leftist place of wokeness because there’s no truth claim. I’m butchering it.”

“The essence of a lot of comedy is a revealed truth, like a hidden truth that people understand, intuitively or explicitly,” Musk responded. “And there’s that sort of moment of reveal, you know, kernel of truth, of often unacknowledged truth. And in that unacknowledged truth is the humor.”

“So if you’re premised on a lie, you can no longer be funny, because there’s no revealed truth,” he added. “And this is, you know, why a lot of people on the Left have no sense of humor. They’re not funny. And if they’re, if there’s so many no fly zones, you know, that you have to, you have to avoid all the time then … there’s nothing left to make fun about.”

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@elonmusk on why the Left isn't funny: "If you're premised on a lie, you can no longer be funny, because there's no reveal of truth." pic.twitter.com/Kv6g8k4Dr5

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 31, 2023