The Post story had broken on October 14, 2020, a few weeks before the 2020 presidential election, and was censored on Twitter and Facebook. It wasn’t just tweets or posts, even people trying to send the story via direct messenger were censored.
Taibbi, for his part, went through the documents and posted the relevant ones to Twitter.
Then a liberal network of Twitter personalities and journalists quickly got to work to dismiss that anything untoward had occurred internally at Twitter. But clearly it had.