Forty four billion dollars, thousands of internal memos, half a dozen investigative reporters, and one tech mogul later, the public can now know: “There is no question that Twitter operated as a Democratic Party activist machine.”

Over the weekend, Elon Musk rendered this unsparing and unequivocal assessment of his new company’s former nest of power-mad, political speech brokers.  Musk deputy and “Twitter Files” investigator, former New York Times journalist Bari Weiss unearthed copious evidence that, “[T]eams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.”  Musk calls his new acquisition, “both a social media company and a crime scene.”

Instead of greeting these revelations with horror and curiosity, however, the mainstream media has, instead, adopted Twitter’s previous censorship tactics.  The Media Research Center reports that two of the three major news networks are resolutely “ignor[ing] the bombshell files showing a pattern of deception, lies, and excuses from Twitter employees to censor conservatives and opposing views to the far-left Twitter workforce.”  The Washington Post and New York Times report on reactions to the controversy than on the facts of the scandal.  The only digging political journalists appear inclined to undertake is burying the “Twitter Files” in a digital grave.

Musk, however, remains determined, tweeting, “The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters.”