Thread by @mattsheffield

The Twitter Files threads have not revealed much of anything consequential. What's far more significant about them is what they do not talk at all about:
-Saudi Arabia
-China
-Any country besides US
-Private communications by Elon Musk with heads of state and other politicians

Musk's ties to Chinese and Saudi governments are far more extensive than anything talked about in the Twitter files. He desperately doesn't want people to know how dependent he is on these two adversaries of the U.S.

There are a number of serious issues regarding Saudi Arabia and the previous Twitter management. An ex-Twitter employee with privileged access to user account data was convicted & sentenced to 3 years of prison for his Saudi spying. news.yahoo.com/former-twitter…

What the Saudi royal family, Twitter's second largest shareholders, directly did with spying on citizens is far more serious than FBI complaining about lies about when to vote. But since Elon is desperate for Saudi cash, he will never, ever release these #TwitterFiles

I got bored of the poor writing and research behind the Twitter Files ages ago, but to my knowledge, they have not talked one bit about the Trump White House directly asking for tweet removals. Instead they talk about Biden campaign complaining. The rw bias is obvious.

I think that giant social media sites should be more transparent, but the Twitter Files so far are pure right-wing propaganda, designed to misinform by severely constraining what is revealed. If Musk were truly transparent, he'd release all the data to everyone. He won't. /end