evidence: IN SHORT: Social media posts claim Elon Musk’s Twitter Files "exposed" Bill Gates "so hard" that the Microsoft co-founder turned off comments on his tweets. But the Twitter Files, released in December 2022, don’t discuss Gates. And Gates turned off comments in July 2020. [...] "Elon Musk EXPOSED Bill Gates in the latest twitter files so hard that he has now turned off comments on his Twitter," reads a claim circulating on social media in South Africa and elsewhere in January 2023. [...] The Twitter Files didn’t "expose" Gates. And the files were first released in December 2022. Gates "turned off comments on his Twitter" more than two years before, in July 2020.