IMO the most important revelations from the Twitter files, which are surely the tip of the iceberg, is how the Social Media giant was used by the national security state, as revealed in Lee Fang's article in The Intercept.
In my view, this kind of thing was what it (and Facebook) was all about in the first place. Facebook for sure was a CIA invention, "spun off" to one if it's developers to appear independent. Social Media is he ultimate surveillance nirvana, with powerful levers for narrative management as well, though it seems especially (as now configured) designed to enable the destruction of social cohesion (ie polarization).
Nevertheless, Twitter has remained less (though not entirely not) hostile to communists, anti hegemonists, and so on than most media, and so remains valuable at this moment. There are clear examples of good people STILL being banned (Scott Ritter) and one is fairly certain some kinds of comments are not well promoted. But I can read a lot of people who won't be found elsewhere.
It neither was perfect, nor has it been destroyed yet. It is not the way things should be done, but won't be easy to replace--and certainly communists are not now in a good position to do so.
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