Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk did as he promised and revealed on Friday a trove of emails detailing the internal debate at Twitter over the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election.
Musk tweeted an announcement about the emails, and after a delay, the "Twitter files" were released in a lengthy tweet thread by journalist Matt Taibbi
Censoring the laptop story
He then jumped into the emails about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
"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," Taibbi wrote.
Initially, the decision was made to censor the story based on a dubious claim that information on the laptop might contain hacked documents from foreign governments.
“They just freelanced it,” said a former Twitter employee to Taibbi. “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.”
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