Twitter’s new CEO, Elon Musk teased today that he will release behind the scene records of the company’s decision to censor The New York Post’s reporting of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop from 2020.
Musk wrote on Twitter that the details will be shared today on Twitter itself. “What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!”
This will be awesome 🍿
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
“This will be awesome,” he added in a separate tweet and wrote, he will include “live Q&A”
Will include live Q&A
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
Musk officially became the new owner of Twitter last month and had assured that he will reveal full details of the company’s decision-making process to censor a major bombshell that involved disturbing details about then-candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter’s abandoned laptop in the weeks leading to the 2020 election.
Musk is teasing the release of these internal records for several days, arguing that the public “deserves to know what really happened.”
“This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead,” he tweeted Monday and assured users that the records would “soon to be published on Twitter itself.”
The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
Prior to announcing his Twitter takeover, Musk had weighed in on the New York Post vs. Twitter controversy, and noted in April that the company’s decision to censor the Post’s reporting was “obviously incredibly inappropriate.”
Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
Twitter, along with Facebook, worked in locksteps to ensure the censorship of the Post reporting when the bombshell was first published in October 2020. The company blocked its users from sharing the article and also locked the New York Post’s Twitter account, falsely alleging that the report contains “Russian disinformation”
Twitter’s then-CEO, Jack Dorsey, later admitted in a congressional hearing that the company’s decision to censor the reporting was a “total mistake”
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the platform “made a total mistake” in its handling of a New York Post story on the Biden family. https://t.co/GiodFMVqVI pic.twitter.com/62cJDtB52W
— Cheddar News (@cheddar) March 25, 2021
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