Elon Musk announced he will be publishing the real reason behind Twitter’s decision to block the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 general election.
Elon Musk Friday evening released Twitter’s internal discussions that led to its decision to block any links exposing Hunter’s laptop from hell.
The New York Post released damning and explosive contents from Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020 several days before the general election.
Twitter banned The New York Post at the time for their reporting on crackhead Hunter and his illegal dealings.
The information came straight from Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The New York Post was locked out of Twitter for several weeks and every account that tweeted about Hunter’s laptop from hell was also banned.
“And we continue to stand by every word of our reporting — and so, apparently, do Hunter and Joe Biden since NEITHER has disputed the authenticity of the e-mails or the ownership of the hard drive.” the New York Post’s then-op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari tweeted in October 2020.
And we continue to stand by every word of our reporting — and so, apparently, do Hunter and Joe Biden since NEITHER has disputed the authenticity of the e-mails or the ownership of the hard drive. https://t.co/2NYfIafVSl
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) October 21, 2020
Here it is…
Here is why Twitter suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, based on thousands of internal documents:
2. What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
4. Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true real-time global conversation possible for the first time.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
6. As time progressed, however, the company was slowly forced to add those barriers. Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
OUTSIDERS BEGAN PETITIONING TWITTER TO MANIPULATE SPEECH.
7. Slowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
IN 2020 JOE BIDEN’S TEAM DEMANDED TWITTER DELETE TWEETS.
8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.” pic.twitter.com/mnv0YZI4af
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
James Woods was targeted by Democrats and Twitter.
9. Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party: pic.twitter.com/4uzkHnQ65E
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022
More Democrats had access to Twitter insiders.
Twitter is overwhelmingly staffed with far-left radicals so Biden and Democrats have more control over what is posted to Twitter.
11. This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right. https://t.co/sa1uVRNhuH pic.twitter.com/K1xmqQ0TrD
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
TWITTER FILES PART ONE: HOW AND WHY TWITTER BLOCKED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY:
17. On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop: https://t.co/q4zaMw6aVV
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
“Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.”
18. Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
20.This led public policy executive Caroline Strom to send out a polite WTF query. Several employees noted that there was tension between the comms/policy teams, who had little/less control over moderation, and the safety/trust teams: pic.twitter.com/0IFnVPCOgY
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
The laptop from hell story had been removed for violation of the company’s “hacked materials” policy even though Hunter’s laptop was never hacked into!
Hunter Biden left his laptop at a computer repair shot in Delaware and never retrieved his property!
21. Strom’s note returned the answer that the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company’s “hacked materials” policy: https://t.co/EdTa2xbXn1 pic.twitter.com/KQFRiKYKkb
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
The decision to block the Hunter laptop story was made at the highest levels at Twitter.
Jack Dorsey supposed didn’t have knowledge about the decision.
23. The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
One Twitter employee said everyone knew the ‘hacking’ excuse wasn’t going to hold but no one reversed it.
24. “They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.”
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
The Twitter executives knew the Hunter Biden laptop was not ‘hacked’ but they suppressed the story anyway.
26. By this point “everyone knew this was fucked,” said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of… continuing to err. pic.twitter.com/2wJMFAUBoe
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
Fired FBI Counsel James Baker – the corrupt lawyer involved in Trump-Russia-Spygate was also involved in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story.
James Baker, the corrupt FBI lawyer who defended his decision to launch the Trump-Russia probe, advised Twitter to suppress the Hunter laptop story!
28. To which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker again seems to advise staying the non-course, because “caution is warranted”: pic.twitter.com/tg4D0gLWI6
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
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