Elon Musk attacks Twitter’s past leaders by trying to bring attention back to the GOP’s favorite target: Hunter Biden and his laptop

In fact, the alleged evidence was the work of an independent journalist who had access to internal Twitter emails showing debate within the company about restricting a New York Post Article in 2020 about the contents of a laptop belonging to the son of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. Twitter initially restricted user access to this article, fueling Republican claims that the company was attempting to suppress harmful information about the Bidens ahead of the election.

Musk, who has been trying to ingratiate himself with Republicans since taking over Twitter in October, hit the subject as explosive new information about the company favoring Democrats over Republicans. In reality, the emails merely highlighted the back and forth between Twitter employees and Biden’s campaign team, who had asked Twitter to remove several tweets.

Journalist Matt Taibbi, who published the emails on Friday, did not reveal the content of the tweets in question. But some That’s what Twitter users who followed the spectacle found The deleted tweets were pornographic photos of Biden.

An email shows that at least one Democrat was concerned about Twitter censorship The New York Post Story. Democratic MP Ro Khanna wrote to Vijaya Gadde, the former head of legal, political and trust at Twitter, to say that banning the article “creates a huge backlash against Hill Re Speech,” and offers to speak.

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO at the time, eventually denied the Twitter ban New York Post Article. Initially, he had no idea the article was being banned, according to Taibbi, who portrayed the decision as a decision by Dorsey’s runaway staff.

“There are several instances on file where Dorsey intervened to challenge suspensions and other moderation actions for accounts across the political spectrum,” Taibbi said wroteapparently to rid Musk’s friend Dorsey of political bias.