What exactly are "Twitter files" and what is its impact?

Elon Musk, Twitter's new owner, announced the publication of exclusive emails revealing some of the social media company's internal deliberations over a disputed decision made in 2020 before the US Presidential elections. The billionaire is now in charge of relieving Twitter of its prior obligations and secrets. “Twitter Files” is one method he is attempting to do.

Elon Musk the new owner began counting down the minutes on Friday evening, for a Twitter expose titled “Twitter Files”.

Know more about what Twitter files are and a rundown of the disclosures and how it is impacted.


Twitter Files showed internal conversations between certain top-level officials at Twitter. The highlighted talks took place in the year 2020, amid the height of campaigning for the US presidential elections. The New York Post published an article in which information concerning Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and his abandoned laptop was revealed. According to the Post, emails and data discovered on the laptop supposedly indicated how Hunter Biden had traded influence with Ukrainian businesses, and also featured "a filthy, 12-minute film" of Hunter Biden.

Matt Taibbi underlined how Twitter opted to classify the content as "unsafe," even suppressing related tweets and direct messages. He claimed Twitter used "extreme measures" to hide the report. It eliminated similar links and sent user warnings. Twitter even prohibited the delivery of the topic through direct messaging.

Taibbi's Twitter post did not have the effect he had hoped for. This is mostly due to one significant factor: the story provides no explanation for why that choice was made. It confirms a number of previously identified available facts while failing to offer light on the issue of whether such choices were made due to political influence or control. The discoveries have also been criticized for making public the email addresses and other personal information of those participating in the process.

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