IIRC, the companies that stopped advertising with Twitter had asked about whether Elon would handle the Trust & Safety team correctly at a conference right when Elon was preparing to take over as CEO.
The official response was to dodge the question.
Not only can Elon pin blame on the research agency for his own explicit actions, he can't pin blame on the research agency for an exodus that started before the research agency released its findings. It would be like breaking your foot, going on a rollercoaster with a broken foot, and then suing the theme park for breaking your foot. I'm not a lawyer, but in any sane court, that wouldn't hold water.
He explicitly tweeted that he would create such a council, and block anyone being added back to twitter before that council's approval.
Of course that was a direct lie and Trump (among other even less savory people) was added back shortly after.
Elon sycophants on twitter actively don't give a fuck because they WANT such a hostile and disgusting place, where being an asshole is rewarded, suggesting that human beings are bad for the way they were born is encouraged, and little bully cliques are the norm, because they want /pol/ but are butthurt that 4chan defaults to anonymity and won't let you build up a fanbase for your hatred.
The official response was to dodge the question.
Not only can Elon pin blame on the research agency for his own explicit actions, he can't pin blame on the research agency for an exodus that started before the research agency released its findings. It would be like breaking your foot, going on a rollercoaster with a broken foot, and then suing the theme park for breaking your foot. I'm not a lawyer, but in any sane court, that wouldn't hold water.