Twitter Files — The Fight Against Evil Censorship

The Twitter Files: How a Handful of Journalists Exposed the Censorship Machine

The Twitter Files: How a Handful of Journalists Exposed the Censorship Machine

Published: November 28, 2025

In late 2022, a small group of independent journalists did something no one thought possible: they forced the most powerful government agencies and the world’s biggest social-media company to admit—on the record—that they had been secretly colluding to silence American citizens.

This is the story of the Twitter Files—one of the biggest free-speech victories in modern history.

What Actually Happened

Shortly after buying Twitter in October 2022, Elon Musk invited four journalists—Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger, and Lee Fang—to examine the company’s internal communications with zero restrictions.

Starting December 2, 2022, they began publishing thread after thread of primary documents showing:

  • The FBI paid Twitter millions and held weekly meetings to flag “disinformation” (including jokes and true information).
  • The White House, CDC, DHS, and even the Pentagon routinely demanded removal or throttling of posts.
  • Twitter maintained secret blacklists, “visibility filtering,” and whitelisted U.S. military psy-op accounts while shadow-banning doctors and journalists.
  • The 2020 blocking of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story was done under direct FBI pressure, even though executives knew the story was real.

Key Journalists to Follow on X

The Concrete Wins

  • Former FBI general counsel James Baker was forced out of Twitter in December 2022.
  • Former Twitter execs (Vijaya Gadde, Yoel Roth, etc.) were grilled in Congress in 2023 and admitted the laptop suppression was a mistake.
  • The laptop story—once branded “Russian disinformation” by 51 intelligence officials—was authenticated by the Washington Post, CBS, and NYT by 2022–2023.
  • The landmark case Missouri v. Biden (now Murthy v. Missouri) used Twitter Files evidence to prove government coercion. A federal injunction was issued, upheld on appeal, and even after the Supreme Court dismissed on standing in 2024, the exposure permanently chilled the censorship pipeline.

Best Primary Sources & Threads

A tiny group of stubborn writers, armed only with documents and X accounts, took on the combined might of the FBI, DHS, White House, and Silicon Valley—and won.

Evil hates daylight. They proved daylight still works.

Next in this series: The Stanford Internet Observatory takedown, the Dutch farmers’ revolt, Javier Milei, and more stories of ordinary people beating the machine.

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