What the ‘Twitter Files’ say about the future of journalism

Published December 15, 2022 12:00am ET



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Twitter owner Elon Musk’s decision to share internal records with a trio of independent journalists spawned stories about how Twitter executives worked to invent justifications for content decisions they’d already made on ideological grounds.

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