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
I hope the Washington Post remembered to use a "but both sides" argument to make the Republicans seem less bad, otherwise, they're going to have to print more opinion pieces about "polarization" as penance.