- 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.
