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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Elon Musk continues to release internal files from Twitter from before he took over the company and going back to the 2020 presidential campaign.

In the documents he's releasing is a Twitter shadow ban certain individuals whose views differed from progressive political orthodoxy.

Plus, Kevin McCarthy struggles to get 218 votes to become the next speaker of the house. Why is it proving so hard and who's the alternative?

Welcome, I'm Paul Gigo and I'm here today with Kim Strassel, just the two of us. We'll be hashing over these subjects.

Kim, let's start with the Twitter files. They have seemed to have been released in three batches through two journalists, some at the E.B. and Barry Weiss.

It first showed some collaboration with the Biden campaign officials and others to suppress the New York Post story in 2020 about 100 Biden's laptop and his foreign business dealing.

Second now is this batch which shows shadow banning of certain individuals suppressing their Twitter feeds and views.

And third shows a debate inside Twitter to ban Donald Trump on Twitter after the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol.

What's your takeaway so far from all of this? What is it telling us about not just Twitter but about our political debate and culture?

I would just to give a shout out to one of the batches was also released by Michael Schellenberger, who's another writer.

So we've had four at this point. He is also dealt with decisions that were made after January 6 about how to censor Trump in particular.

And I guess I have two broad takeaways on this. One is that the latest batches really show the degree to which in the lead up to January 6 and the days after Twitter just decided to be a content moderator at Weiss.

And sort of divorced from rules. But prior to that they at least made an effort to have a more rules based system where occasionally senior executives would step in and call a tough case.

But after the election and then definitely after January 6, that became different.

This very powerful group of people just started making decisions on a whim sometimes in the space of seconds. And it's very clear that they were making it up as they went along.

And that was particularly the case with Trump after January 6. They sort of said, well, we're just going to have new rules based on his account.

And we're going to look at things beyond just individual offenses, but put it all in the context of four years, a bad behavior.

They started looking at why tweets were put up in terms of their intent or their orientation. What were they supporting or the reception where they causing confusion.

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