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Showtime – Elon Musk Reveals Why Twitter Suppressed Hunter Biden ‘Laptop From Hell’ Story
On Friday evening Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk released his social media company’s much-anticipated internal discussions that led to its decision to block any links exposing Hunter’s laptop from hell before the 2020 general election.
The conversations dealt with the suppression of the “October surprise”, a New York Post article published several days before the general election.
The article contained damning and explosive original source content from Hunter Biden’s laptop. The information was provided by the owner of a computer repair shop after Hunter had abandoned it and the time to reclaim it had expired.
Twitter’s far-left, anti-Trump staff, immediately banned the newspaper for their reporting on Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s morally corrupt son, trying to help Biden win the election. The problem with Twitter’s actions is the information in the Post article came straight from Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The nation’s oldest-running newspaper was locked out of its account for several weeks, until after Joe was declared president-elect. In addition, every account that tweeted about Hunter’s laptop from hell was also banned, some just now allowed by Musk to come back online.
Elon Musk outsourced the dissemination of Twitter documents to the prominent Substack journalist.
Matt Taibbi was selected to share Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ on Hunter Biden’s story, after agreeing to ‘certain conditions’.
Shortly before their release, Taibbi sent the following email to his substack subscribers:
Dear TK Readers:
Very shortly, I’m going to begin posting a long thread of information on Twitter, at my account, @mtaibbi. This material is likely to get a lot of attention. I will absolutely understand if subscribers are angry that it is not appearing here on Substack first. I’d be angry, too.
The last 96 hours have been among the most chaotic of my life, involving multiple trips back and forth across the country, with a debate in Canada in between. There’s a long story I hope to be able to tell soon, but can’t, not quite yet anyway. What I can say is that in exchange for the opportunity to cover a unique and explosive story, I had to agree to certain conditions.
Those of you who’ve been here for years know how seriously I take my obligation to this site’s subscribers. On this one occasion, I’m going to have to simply ask you to trust me. As it happens, there may be a few more big surprises coming, and those will be here on Substack. And there will be room here to to discuss this, too, in time. In any case, thanks for your support and your patience, and please hold me to a promise to make all this up to you, and then some.
Moments later Elon confirmed that he did, in fact, work with Taibbi:
Here we go!! ?? https://t.co/eILK9f3bAm
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
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
The WOKE staff and executives morphed into speech Nazis acquiescing to leftist demands that they manipulate their content, suppressing alternative 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 and others were 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
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
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
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
Twitter bogusly claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was hacked into, even though in reality he had abonded his laptop at a computer repair shop in Delaware.
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, but without CEO Jack Dorsey’s participation.
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
Everyone knew the ‘hacking’ excuse wasn’t true but no one dared intervene.
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
James Baker, the 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
This Twitter thread will continue to be added to on Saturday. Refresh the page to check for the latest updates.
Leftist publications, such as The Rolling Stone, immediately published reactions to the tweets apparently trying to downplay the narrative, once again.
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