It's hard to overstate the extent to which the FBI-Twitter-Hunter Biden narrative promoted by Musk depends on narrative over evidence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/20/twitter-fbi-story-relies-far-more-insinuation-than-evidence/
The Twitter-FBI story relies far more on insinuation than evidence

What's been revealed is vague or clearly innocuous. What's presented — and therefore believed — is far more shocking.

The Washington Post
@pbump The problem is that we now live in a post evidence world. Whether it’s the laptop, the election, deepstate, climate change, lab leak, whatever, so many people live in a choose your own adventure novel.