‘Twitter Files’ Paint an Ugly Portrait

On the menu today: Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi team up to offer the “Twitter files,” a look inside the internal deliberations at Twitter when it decided to block access to a New York Post story which revealed all kinds of embarrassing and scandalous information found on Hunter Biden’s laptop. You can quibble with Taibbi’s decisions here and there, but overall, the files paint an ugly portrait of a social-media company’s management unilaterally deciding that its role was to keep breaking news away from the public instead of letting people see the...