Key Points
- Twitter swiftly blocked a posting days before the 2020 presidential elections about the contents of a laptop owned by then-Democrat nominee Joe Biden.
- Musk retweeted a thread from independent journalist Matt Taibbi, who slowly rolled out information from the so-called “Twitter files.”
- The thread appeared to show Twitter considered requests from political groups to suppress material.
- Musk, the new Twitter owner, vowed late Friday after to reveal new information, which didn’t start to emerge until at 7:30 p.m. ET.
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