That's such a stupid explanation that it's probably true.

It would make sense if they had to scrub logs and emails for legal reasons in the future.

IANAL, but Twitter is a private company fully owned by Musk. This might be a publicity disaster, but legally they should be fully in the clear.

I was going to say "legal or PR reasons" but was too lazy to type it out.

Is the spoilation of evidence not evidence of the original issue itself in civil cases?

Should anyone care?

The person who’s trying to fashion himself a free speech liberator while being a capricious egomaniac who invents transparently post-hoc justifications for his selfish hypocrisy on a platform with world changing impact and expects the same world to just accept his manufactured reality because he’s used to getting his way… yeah, that seems important to me.

Maybe

Or the remaining Twitter staff are tripping over each other trying to interpret the master's wishes.