Oliver Darcy of CNN Business, December 20, 2022, argues that new Twitter owner Elon Musk made misleading claims about Twitter collusion with the FBI. Musk tweeted that the FBI paid Twitter $3..4 million to censor information. In actuality, says Darcy, Twitter collected money for work on information requests from the FBI that had nothing to do with censorship or content moderation. Nonetheless, the conservative media is headlining news of the Twitter/FBI relationship.
First Amendment litigator Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, December 21, 2022, writes that the files that Elon Mursk released showed indisputable evidence of collusion between the FBI and Twitter as they conferred regularly on shutting down political speech based on content, a violation of the First Amendment.