I wonder for how long that will still be the case. The fringe is getting more and more grip on HN and we may well be fighting a losing battle.
People seem to forget that Elon Musk was willing to throw his employees under the bus for his personal gain, and yet they now trust a selective reading of history driven by that very same person.
I don't care much for anything Musk says, or even what the reporters who publish this stuff say. The meat is the emails themselves, and the referenced tweets. And none of that has anything to do with Musk.
The other issue from that initial post was that requests from the actual government at the time, the Trump administration, were completely glossed over.
What’s the most telling is that despite having access to the information that would prove the strong claims surrounding these Files (government censorship! FBI paying Twitter! Twitter tilted for Democrats!), Musk withholds that information and instead tries to prove his case through innuendo and suggestion. Like you said, the meat is the e-mails. So why are we only getting to see a portion of them filtered through narrative spinning journalists? To me that says the strong information that would prove the Files doesn’t exist at all, so the strong claims of the Files are likely false.
I belive actual underlings of oppressive regimes around the world would beg to differ.