Elon Musk's Release of Documents Triggers Twitter Lawyer Jim Baker's Exit - The Wall Street Journal

said one of Twitter Inc.’s top lawyers “was exited,” part of the fallout from the billionaire’s unusual efforts to release internal communications to criticize prior practices at the company he bought almost six weeks ago.

Musk announced in a tweet Tuesday the departure of Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker, who had been with the company since 2020.

Musk has fired several company leaders, including Mr.

Musk said he gave journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss access to company documents in an effort to rebuild public trust in Twitter.

“Why should people believe Twitter in the future if Twitter does not come clean about the past?” Mr.

Musk in his management of Twitter.

Silicon Valley has seen numerous leaks of internal company information, but generally from employees unhappy with management.

Musk afterward said email addresses should have been excluded.

Musk has said he was motivated to buy Twitter over concerns that its content moderation silenced voices.

Musk has said he thinks of Twitter as the digital town square.

Taibbi said Mr.

Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Musk approached the matter in his own way, teasing the Twitter Files to his followers ahead of time. .

Taibbi said were internal communications in which executives including Mr.

In explaining its handling of the Post story, Twitter initially cited a potential violation of its rules regarding hacked materials

Twitter later unlocked the Post’s account after a two-week standoff, and executives have since said the initial decisions were wrong

CEO at the time of the decision, said Twitter didn’t base its policies on any political leanings, though he also said the company made a “total mistake” regarding the Post articles. 

The Biden campaign said at the time that the New York Post never asked the campaign about the critical elements of the story before publishing and that investigations found no wrongdoing by Joe Biden

Taibbi said in a tweet on Tuesday that more information from the data Twitter has handed over would be released

He has said he “had to agree to certain conditions” in exchange for the opportunity to write about the Twitter documents, but didn’t elaborate