Elon Musk Releasing Full Details About How Twitter Censored Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ryan Saavedra.

    Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Friday afternoon that he will release more information about how the platform censored the New York Post's bombshell report about Hunter Biden's laptop just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.

    Musk tweeted, "What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!"

    "This will be awesome," Musk added. "Will include live Q&A."

    The statement from Musk comes after said last month that releasing details of what happened was "necessary to restore public trust" in the platform.

    The New York Post first reported messages from Biden's laptop in October 2020, weeks before a presidential election. Social media giants, including Twitter, cracked down on the story to prevent its spread. Current and former national security officials claimed at the time that the Biden story was likely Russian disinformation and a veiled attempt from Moscow to intervene in U.S. elections.

    Media outlets such as The Washington Examiner, CBS News, The New York Times, and The Washington Post have confirmed the laptop's contents and messages, in part regarding foreign business deals Hunter Biden worked on in Ukraine, China, and elsewhere.

    Twitter initially banned the Post's story on the social media platform. Users were blocked from posting the link to the story or direct messaging it to other users. Twitter also locked the Post's account for weeks, saying that the Post's story violated Twitter's rules against "hacked materials" despite lacking evidence that the materials were obtained through hacking.

    Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey later admitted that Twitter made a mistake in taking action against the Post over its Biden laptop story.

    "We were called here today because of an enforcement decision we made against the New York Post based on a policy we created in 2018 to prevent Twitter from being used to spread hacked materials. This resulted in us blocking people from sharing a New York Post article publicly or privately," Dorsey said in November 2020 testimony to Congress. "We made a quick interpretation using no other evidence that the materials in the article were obtained through hacking, and according to our policy, we blocked them from being spread. Upon further consideration, we admitted this action was wrong and corrected it within 24 hours."

    Former Twitter Trust and Safety boss Yoel Roth admitted last month that the company made a "mistake" by censoring the story.

    "We didn't know what to believe, we didn't know what was true, there was smoke - and ultimately, for me, it didn't reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter," Roth said. "But it set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 'hack and leak campaign' alarm bells."

    Roth further noted that he felt "a responsibility to protect the integrity" of conversations relating to foreign governments attempting to interfere in elections on the platform, which ultimately led to the platform removing content surrounding the Post's report and suspending the news outlet's account for weeks.

    "There were lots of reasons why the entire industry was on alert," Roth added.

    Tim Pearce and Brandon Drey contributed to this report.

poll#165

In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

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poll#128

Where do you stand on the wanton censorship by Big Tech Platforms, while retaining their Section 230 carveout indemnifying them for Slander /Defamation lawsuits and Copyright infringements?

  Big Tech Platforms have the right to Censor all speech providing they voluntarily relinquish their Section 230 Carveout.

  Big Tech Platforms DO NOT have the right to Censor any speech, while retaining multiple indemnifications by virtue of the Section 230 Carveout.

  I know nothing of this 230 talk, but "I do love me some social media".

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