Agreed, you can't trust Twitter. Yet. (Give it more than 2 weeks.)
The Twitter layoffs hoax was reported by many media. You can google it. The hoaxers spoke to some media reporters, then the story was repeated by many other media without verifying it, despite the hilarious names the hoaxers gave for themselves.
I'm saying it's difficult to know which is which, unless I spend a lot of time trying to verify claims... time I don't want to spend. I've watched many hours of Elon speaking, and read many of his writings. I think I know who the man is, and what his goals are.
The smear campaign against Elon and Tesla is not a theory, but an obvious fact. Someone here just mentioned a front-page NY Times story that smears EVs in general, and pretends that Tesla has not solved the problems it reports. The NY Times is highly dependent on advertising, including ads from legacy automakers. Tesla doesn't advertise, so the Times has little incentive to report on them accurately.
The term "conspiracy theory" is often used as a synonym for "crackpot theory," but commercial conspiracies are well-established in history. The tobacco industry conspired to suppress and sow doubt about the dangers of smoking. The oil industry conspired to sow doubt about climate change. The drug industry conspired to suppress and sow doubt about non-patentable health remedies. Such conspiracies are numerous and ongoing.