A few weeks after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, the tycoon tasked former Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi with blowing the lid on the federal government’s attempts to strong-arm former management into removing tweets it didn't like from the platform.
The resulting data dumps, dubbed the Twitter Files, served as a goodwill gesture to gain trust among conservative and antiestablishment voices and coax them back to the platform through a demonstration of transparency.
