Back when the New York Post dropped its ground shaking report on the Hunter Biden laptop in the runup to the 2020 election, Twitter locked its account. That action prevented the outlet from posting follow-up articles about the laptop, defending its reporting, or otherwise pushing the story and informing people about what Hunter had been up to. Twitter justified its decision at the time by saying the story violated its “hacked materials policy,” though it never presented any evidence that the NYP hacked anything to get the story.
And that’s not all. Twitter didn’t just lock the New York Post account, it also suspended other accounts posting about the New York Post story. The Daily Caller, reporting on that crackdown on all those that shared the story, reported that:
The platform restricted any Twitter user from sharing links of the Post’s article either publicly or through direct message. The social media site further locked former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s personal account and the official account for former President Donald Trump’s campaign for sharing the link.
Well, now we might finally get some insight as to what was going on with that and what influences might have been exerted to get Twitter to do that.
Elon announced as much on Twitter, commenting “This is necessary to restore public trust” in response to a tweet saying “Raise your hand if you think @ElonMusk should make public all internal discussions about the decision to censor the @NYPost ’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 Election in the interest of Transparency.”
This is necessary to restore public trust
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2022
This wasn’t the first time that Elon commented on Twitter’s interference in the sharing of the highly important story. Back in late April of 2022 he did as well, saying:
Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate
That came in response to a tweet about Twitter’s top censor being angry that Elon would be purchasing and taking over Twitter:
Vijaya Gadde, the top censorship advocate at Twitter who famously gaslit the world on Joe Rogan’s podcast and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, is very upset about the @elonmusk takeover
Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
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