HACKER Q&A
📣 firstSpeaker

Why Twitter is not releasing “Twitter files” to the public?


Does anyone has some ideas on why the "twitter files" part 1 and or 2 are not released to the public?


  👤 bdcrazy Accepted Answer ✓
Like most news, they want to control the narrative. As they drip it out, they want you to form a specific opinion. Psychology has shown first impressions can be nearly impossible to change, especially if they conform to your already held beliefs.

👤 smt88
There's only one plausible reason. It's because they don't actual tell the narrative that Musk and other right-wing conspiracy theorists are suggesting they do.

Jack Dorsey confirmed as much and advocated for releasing them all immediately without editing them.

Musk doesn't care about a legal review of the documents, at least according to him when he fired their legal counsel over it.


👤 browserman
Because the whole purpose of the exercise is to manufacture right-wing agitprop, not an actual good-faith effort to provide transparency to the public?