The issue now, is that Twitter as a company is liable for its actions. At any point, if there becomes a tortious offense, CURRENT twitter gets sued. If there are found to be any FTC/SEC violations, current Twitter gets sued/fined. These leaks could be the very ammo that federal regulators use to silence Elon by shutting down twitter for any violations that occurred in the past, if egregious enough.

Past/current not necessarily. Musk is always a few steps ahead. This is very likely one possible reason he was floating bankruptcy earlier. Also he could publicly offer to turn evidence on the now former employees who did this stuff for criminal and personal civil enforcement by the gov and the PR angle would make it very hard for Biden to go after the newly purchased company when they had the smoking guns of the former employees who did the bad deeds.

Yeah but he's the second richest man alive. He can afford a legal army and also can afford judge shopping motions to a somewhat decent judge.

The system doesn't give a shit about former employees, it cares about silencing Musk and deplatforming Twitter as a whole.

That IS true.

BUT if a gov employee was paid or worked for Twitter, that doesn't matter?

Like that mattered with Strzok?

How many times did he say 'my beliefs didn't interfere or impact my work' ? Can't prove intent..

'I was working as a Twitter employee, not as a gov't agent' and *poof*... can't do shit.

Like that mattered with Strzok?

How many times did he say 'my beliefs didn't interfere or impact my work' ? Can't prove intent..

'I was working as a Twitter employee, not as a gov't agent' and *poof*... can't do shit.

Matt has dropped Part III.....

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601384986199805953

Taibbi shed light on the "panic" that erupted internally on Jan. 6. In one exchange Roth is shown executing the "bouncing" of Trump's account. 

"This theme of Policy perhaps being stressed by queries from Communications executives – who themselves have to answer the public’s questions – occasionally appears," Taibbi wrote. "The first company-wide email from Gadde on January 6th announced that 3 Trump tweets had been bounced, but more importantly signaled a determination to use legit 'violations' as a guide for any possible permanent suspension."

A screenshot of an exchange reacting lividly to a Trump tweet telling his supporters ""Go home with love & in peace."

"What the actual f---?" one employee reacted. "Sorry, I actually got emotionally angry seeing that. Turns out I'm not a full robot. Who knew?"

"It's gut-wrenching," another replied. "He's a horrible human being."

A screenshot shared by Roth showed that Trump was hit with a "TON" of "duplicate" bots. 

Taibbi foreshadowed of parts two and three of the Jan. 6-centric Twitter Files. On Saturday, journalist Michael Shellenberger will report on how Twitter internally contemplated the fluid changes that were made to its policies. On Sunday, Taibbi teased that The Free Press editor Bari Weiss will report on the "plaudits" Twitter received from "'our partners' in Washington," referring to government agencies.

Absolutely, no matter what is said or done, whatever pattern of behavior is shown, you can never assume nor prove intent.