'Twitter Files' Is a Callback to The Wire vs Meta Scandal: Here's 5 Reasons Why

Twitter has been caught in a political controversy before but perhaps not like this.

In a 34-tweet thread on 3 December, journalist Matt Taibbi alleged that Twitter was biased in its content moderation decisions and posted screenshots of purported emails shared between company executives as proof. He also claimed that he had accessed thousands of internal documents, obtained from sources, dubbed the ‘Twitter Files’.

But the kicker? The publication of Twitter Files has been egged on by the social media company’s owner himself, Elon Musk.