Over the December 3 weekend, new Twitter CEO Elon Musk gave a slew of documents to writer Matt Taibbi regarding internal discussions at the company on how to handle the New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop during the 2020 election. The Post story had broken on October 14, 2020, a few weeks before the 2020 presidential election, and was censored on Twitter and Facebook. It wasn’t just tweets or posts, even people trying to send the story via direct messenger were censored.
Taibbi, for his part, went through the documents and posted the relevant ones to Twitter.
For one thing, Twitter was working closely with the Biden campaign to remove tweets the campaign found objectionable. The Biden team would send an email with links and get the response that it had been “handled.”
Was the Donald Trump presidential campaign in 2016 getting similar assistance? Could people on the Trump team email Twitter and remove objectionable tweets about Trump or his family? If it had been Eric or Don Jr.’s laptop that had been exposed, does anyone believe that the coverage of that laptop would have been silenced throughout social media? Of course not. And everyone knows it.
There’s the additional factor that the FBI had warned Twitter to be on the lookout for information about Hunter Biden. How did they know a Hunter Biden story was coming? As Miranda Devine, who broke the laptop story open at the New York Post notes, “Well, the FBI was spying on Trump’s then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s online cloud, under the pretext of an investigation into alleged foreign agent registration violations, a probe which conveniently was dropped this year.” Giuliani had provided materials on the laptop to the Post.
It was collusion, among the Biden campaign, law enforcement and Twitter, that Americans should care about. They all pushed the lie that the laptop was some kind of Russian disinformation and not simply a drug-addled son of a presidential candidate losing his personal property.
