evidence: Twitter owner Elon Musk spoke out on Saturday evening about the so-called "Twitter Files," a long tweet thread posted by journalist Matt Taibbi, who had been provided with details about behind-the-scenes discussions on Twitter’s content moderation decision-making, including the call to suppress a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden and his laptop. [...] Musk – who claims to have not read the released files himself – said the impetus for the original tweet thread was about what happened in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election and "how much government influence was there." [...] Musk on Saturday also criticized the mainstream media for downplaying the "Twitter Files" release, while accusing news organizations – particularly the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post – of "setting agendas." In its coverage of the story, the Washington Post had concluded "it produced no smoking gun."