They didn’t report it then and they don’t want to report it now. The Hunter Biden laptop story that broke wide open in October of 2020 was entirely legitimate and real, which is why the Biden campaign asked Twitter to bury it deep and suspend the New York Post’s account for even bringing it to light.
Now, with Elon Musk running Twitter, and a vow to open the books and transparently reveal the inner workings of how the platform chooses to censor certain subjects, several bombshells dropped over the weekend. The content of the internal Twitter communications, some of which included external requests from the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee, reveals a company in chaos trying desperately to come up with a legal reason for trying to kill the Hunter Biden laptop story before it left the barn.
The New York Post, which is taking numerous well-deserved victory laps, provides a brief summary of what came out late on Friday evening:
That is “f—ed.”
Twitter “just freelanced” its baseless decision to censor The Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden laptop scoop in the run up to the 2020 election — with top-level workers at the social media giant agreeing that controversial decision was “f–ked,” damning insider communications released by CEO Elon Musk Friday reveal.
The chaos and confusion behind closed doors at Twitter in the immediate aftermath of the October 2020 Hunter Biden expose show that a small group of top-level execs decided to label the Post’s story as “hacked material” without any evidence — behind the back of then-CEO and founder Jack Dorsey.
Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist Matt Taibbi shortly after 6 p.m., who shed light on Twitter’s shady censorship decision by posting what appeared to be redacted emails between Twitter employees.
The decision to censor The Post’s story was made “at the highest levels of the company,” according to Taibbi, but without Dorsey’s involvement.
As Taibbi put it: The internal communications reveal “just how much was done without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, and how long it took for the situation to get ‘unf–ked’ (as one ex-employee put it) even after Dorsey jumped in.”
According to Taibbi, Twitter’s former head of legal, policy, and trust Vijaya Gadde played a “key role” in the censorship decision.
Damning emails and comments from former Twitter employees showed that “everyone knew” the social media giant’s suppression of The Post’s scoops about Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop. “was f—ed.”
The company’s shaky rationale for taking the extraordinary censorship step was that the story violated the company’s “hacked materials” policy, according to Taibbi — which was questioned by many insiders.
Where to begin? The general gist of the first document drop is that Twitter was experiencing fits of disagreement between top executives over how to justify censoring the story. Was it hacked material as alleged? If so, Twitter could censor it under its existing policy of removing hacked material from the platform. This is a policy that exists, for example, if someone’s cell phone gets hacked and their personal information or sensitive photos get released. Twitter can ban the accounts releasing the data and remove it.
However, there was never any proof that the New York Post material obtained was ever “hacked” material from Hunter Biden’s laptop. Instead, the chain of custody was legitimate as Hunter Biden abandoned the laptop for repair at a Delaware computer shop, then never came back for it. Under the agreement he signed to initiate repair, the laptop became legal custody of the repair shop owner. Once that chain had been legally established, and it was not in doubt, the Post had every legal base covered.
That didn’t matter for Twitter and executives in the Biden administration and the DNC, the story had to be killed and anyone talking about it was deemed to be part of the plot as a Russian spy. It was so absurd on its face, yet Twitter and Facebook went along with the censorship at the behest of helping the Biden campaign while it violated its own internal policies to do it.
As a result, very little of the mainstream press outside the New York Post and a few others have even bothered reporting on recent revelations that a presidential campaign was able to squash a story about financial misdeeds, possibly involving Joe Biden himself, with just a request to a social media platform.
What’s now well known is that the story was real and the laptop, and its contents, are completely genuine. What we learned was that Joe Biden was tightly involved with his son’s foreign business dealings and has likely lied about that fact publicly and repeatedly.
Musk has said there are more volumes of information to come to shine more sunlight on the dark and rotten connection between liberal social media tech companies and the Democratic Party. They became one and the same in recent years, both working toward the same goal of defeating Donald Trump and protecting Democrats at all costs.
What else will Musk reveal this week? Stay tuned!
