When the story regarding Hunter Biden’s “laptop from Hell” first broke ahead of the November 3, 2020 presidential election, offering insight into the business deals that allegedly involved a shady scheme peddling access to Joe Biden – then Barack Obama’s VP - Facebook* and Twitter joined efforts to smother it as “Russian disinformation.”
Elon Musk, Twitter's new CEO, has hinted that more disclosures might be coming regarding how the social media site along with Facebook* sought to censor the now-notorious Hunter Biden "laptop from Hell" story ahead of and during the 2020 presidential election.
After news personality Alex Lorusso went on Twitter to ask his followers to "raise your hand" if they favored making "all internal discussions about the decision to censor the @NYPost's story on Hunter Biden’s laptop" public, the US billionaire entrepreneur was quick to respond.
Musk's cryptic comment under the post underscored that further revelations were "necessary to restore public trust.”
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.
— ALX 🇺🇸 #BringThemBack (@alx) November 24, 2022
Back in April, when Elon Musk first set out to acquire the microblogging site in a deal worth $44 billion - something he finally sealed on October 28 - the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX denounced Twitter’s decision to ban The New York Post’s exclusive story about Hunter Biden’s shady overseas business dealings in the run up to the November 2020 presidential election.
This is necessary to restore public trust
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2022
After reporter Saagar Enjeti tweeted an article stating how Twitter's then top lawyer - Vijaya Gadde - acted as 'top censorship advocate' on the platform and blacklisted the Hunter Biden laptop story, the tech billionaire slammed the move.
The exclusive story run originally on October 14, 2020, by The New York Post first suggested the existence of a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving Hunter Biden selling businessmen and women from a host of foreign entities - including countries like China and Russia - access to his father Joe Biden while the latter was serving as Barack Obama’s vice president.
The details came to light after over 200 gigabytes of data, including nearly 130,000 emails, plus thousands of text messages from Hunter Biden’s iPhone, photos and videos, and other files were discovered on the water-damaged MacBook Pro that he had left at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware.
Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
The shop owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, recovered the data but Hunter Biden failed to ever retrieve his laptop. According to the repair technician, while copying and verifying files, he found both pornographic materials featuring Biden, as well as potentially “geopolitically sensitive” information on his alleged dubious dealings with foreign businessmen.
Despite the Post publishing several additional follow-up reports after first breaking the story, referencing a “Big Guy” in the emails who was to receive a cut of the money, the reporting was studiously swept under the rug by mainstream media, declared a "Russian disinformation" scheme and censored by Facebook* and Twitter.
At the time, Twitter justified its decision to ban the story on Hunter Biden by labeling it as “content obtained through hacking that contains private information.” A plethora of mainstream outlets also eagerly sought to discredit the story.
However, a couple of mainstream media outlets confirmed that the laptop was authentic earlier this year, and that the damning information contained on the device was genuine amid ongoing Justice Department investigations into Hunter Biden’s taxes and dubious foreign consulting work.
GOP lawmakers have since announced a formal probe into the activities of the Biden family, citing suspected criminal activity, some of which they allege may pose a threat to national security.
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