Owner‑Released Moderation Leaks

When a platform owner selectively hands internal moderation and takedown records to sympathetic journalists and coordinates serial public disclosures (threads, excerpts), those curated 'leaks' become a new instrument of political narrative‑shaping rather than straightforward transparency. Because the release is partial and mediated, it changes how evidence is weighed by courts, regulators, and the public and intensifies polarization around platform oversight. — This matters because curated internal releases convert corporate document dumps into political weapons, forcing new rules for how platforms, journalists, and oversight bodies treat partial disclosures and how they verify claims about government–platform interactions.