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The so-called API leak is a hoax, and an obvious one at that.

The supposed evidence is a screenshot of a file supposedly hosted on Okta (the URL doesn't go to anything and Okta have said themselves that it never had anything), and includes the usernames of a tiny number of people, specifically US right-wing figures, right next to a list of slurs they're supposedly allowed to say.

The thing looks like it's meant to be some config file, but the format makes zero sense, and using usernames and not user IDs is also nonsense. Remember, people can change their usernames on twitter, such a list would be of account IDs.

Twitter does give some accounts special treatment, but that special treatment is set in a flag against the user account, and it results in the account being completely exempt from automatic moderation. So, a list of permitted words makes no sense in that context.