[ These Twitter files? ]
But many tech journalists, social media experts and former Twitter employees say Musk's claims are
over-hyped, given that the documents shared so far largely corroborate what is already known about the messy business of policing a large social network.
"What is really coming through in the Twitter Files for me is: people who are confronting high-stakes, unanticipated events and trying to figure out what policies apply and how," said Renée DiResta, research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, who studies how narratives spread on social networks.
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Musk's conspiracy-baiting has quickly turned ugly, as he uses a project that purports to be about transparency to discredit Twitter's former leadership and harass people he disagrees with. That's giving his 120 million Twitter followers easy targets.
Over the weekend, Musk smeared Twitter's former head of safety,
Yoel Roth, who features prominently in the documents, with homophobic tropes common in
anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theories. He also attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci, who Musk says will feature in future installments of the Twitter files, with a tweet amplifying a
conspiracy theory about the COVID-19 pandemic.
His tweets triggered violent threats against both men. Roth and his family have been forced to flee their home, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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