Elon Musk calls Hunter Biden’s laptop censorship of Twitter ‘incredibly inappropriate’ | United States and world
Elon Musk entered the chat about the censorship of the laptop that allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden.
After convincing Twitter to sell him the company for $44 billion, the billionaire tech mogul commented on a post about a Politics report on Twitter’s top lawyer, whose team decides how to moderate content, crying while trying to reassure staff amid the takeover.
“Suspending a major news agency’s Twitter account for publishing a true story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” Musk said in a tweet on Tuesday.
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He was responding to a tweet from a journalist who called the lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, the “top censorship advocate on Twitter who notoriously lit up the world on Joe Rogan’s podcast and censored the laptop story. of Hunter Biden”.
Details of Biden’s business dealings and personal life surfaced in the media through copies of a laptop and hard drive. The FBI took possession of the actual equipment after the owner, believed to be Biden, left it for repair at a Delaware store in April 2019 and never returned. Copies were made and disseminated in the media landscape, and the New York Post led the charge by reporting the contents of the laptop that allegedly belonged to the president’s son. While other mainstream media sought to cast doubt on its authenticity, big tech companies even took steps to suppress its spread in the final weeks of the 2020 election.
When the New York Post attempted to post the articles to its Twitter account, the social media company claimed to have violated its rule prohibiting the sharing of “pirated” materials. In fact, Twitter and Facebook have restricted users from sharing it for a while. Twitter has locked down the New York Post out of his account on October 14, 2020, in a stalemate that lasted about two weeks. In recent months, the New York Times and Politics have published reports indicating that at least some of the contents of the laptop have been authenticated. Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey called the New York Post lock an “error”.
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Biden’s financial affairs, including business dealings related to countries such as Ukraine, China and Russia, are under scrutiny amid a federal criminal investigation. Biden never publicly denied that the laptop belonged to him, but insisted he was “100% certain” that he would be exonerated.
As Republicans in the House brace for a full investigation if they take control of the chamber after this year’s midterm elections, Rep. Darrell Issa, who is the Judiciary Committee’s most senior panel member on Intellectual Property and the Internet, sent records preservation notices for investigation into any effort to suppress media coverage of the laptop in the run-up to the 2020 election.
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