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How Did Twitter Shut Down the Hunter Biden Laptop Story in 2020? Elon Musk revealed

 



Elon Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist and author Matt Tabby, who posted a series of tweets revealing the story about the decision behind the censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop story.

Tweet chief Elon Musk on Friday released internal 'Twitter files' that show the company responded to a request from the 'Biden team' during the 2020 election. Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist and author Matt Tabby, who posted a series of tweets disclosing the story about the decision behind the censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop story.

"Here, we go!!" Musk wrote on Twitter, linking to Tibby's tweet.

Introducing 'The Twitter Files', Taibbi said the first installment in the series is based on thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at the micro-blogging site.

"The Twitter Files" tells an incredible story from inside one of the world's largest and most influential social media platforms. It's a Frankensteinian tale of a man-made mechanism that evolved out of control of its designer," he tweeted.

The freelance journalist said, "Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making global conversations possible in real time for the first time."

The author continued, "As time went on, the company was gradually forced to add to those constraints. Some of the first tools to control speech were used to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters." were designed for."

1. Thread: The Twitter Files

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022

Furthermore, Taibbi stated that as of 2020 requests to remove tweets by concerned actors were routine. He also gave an example of such situations.

"One executive will write to another: "To review more from the Biden team. "Reply will come back: "handled", he tweeted.

He posted screengrabs of such requests, writing, "Celebrities and unknowns alike can be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party."

He then moved on to "How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story".

16. The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022

According to Taibbi, the social media company "took extraordinary steps to suppress" the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story, removing links and posting warnings that it could be "unsafe".

“On October 14, 2020, The New York Post published the Biden Secret Emails, an exposé based on the contents of Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop,” he said.

"White House spokeswoman Kellig McEnany was kicked out of her account for tweeting about the story," he added, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who said: "At least." Pretend you care for the next 20 days. Also shared the picture of that email.

"You can see the confusion in the next long exchange, which ends with Mattress and former trust and security chief Joel Roth involved. I fail to understand the policy basis for flagging this as unsafe," writes comms officer Trenton Kennedy. fighting for," he said.

Earlier, in 2020, The New York Post revealed that Hunter Biden had introduced his father, the then vice president, to a top executive of a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year earlier, when the elder Biden had met government officials in Ukraine. But there was pressure to sack the prosecutor. Who was investigating the company.

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