Elon Musk to publish ‘What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression’ on Twitter

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk promised that: “What happened to Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden story will be posted on Twitter at 5pm ET!”

The South African billionaire followed with a message reading, “This is going to be amazing,” accompanied by a popcorn emoji.

He went on to say that the post will be accompanied by a Q&A on life. It is unclear who will appear at the session.

Last month, Musk said posting details about the laptop’s history was “necessary to restore public trust” on Twitter. Back in April, Musk commented on the scandal, describing it as “totally inappropriate.”

Twitter deliberately prevented users from sharing links to a front-page newspaper article about Hunter Biden’s private life and controversial business ties to Ukraine in the run-up to the 2020 election between Biden’s father and Donald Trump.

Musk sent the tweet announcing the release of the report around 4:00 p.m. on Friday.

Musk sent the tweet announcing the release of the report around 4:00 p.m. on Friday.

In November 2020 congressional testimony, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said, “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 for Twitter to be used to spread pirated material.” . This resulted in us blocking people from sharing a New York Post article publicly or privately.”

He continued: ‘We made a quick interpretation without any other evidence that the materials in the article were obtained through piracy and, in accordance with our policy, we blocked their dissemination. Upon further consideration, we admit that this action was wrong and corrected it within 24 hours.’

Twitter CEO Elon Musk promised that:

Twitter CEO Elon Musk promised that: “What happened to Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden story will be posted on Twitter at 5pm ET!”

Elon Musk said Twitter would publish files about his own

Elon Musk said Twitter would release files on its own “suppression of free speech,” in a tweet on Monday.

On Wednesday, Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former director of trust and safety, admitted the company made a mistake by censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Roth resigned in November following Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the company. He said the authenticity of the New York Post laptop story was difficult for the social media company to verify, and it was quickly censored in October 2020.

Speaking in an interview with journalist Kara Swisher, Roth said: “We didn’t know what to believe, we didn’t know what was true, there was smoke, and ultimately, for me, it didn’t get to the place where I was.” comfortable removing this content from Twitter.’

“But it set off each and every one of my finely tuned APT28 hack and leak campaign alarm bells. Everything about him seemed like a hack and a leak.

Roth’s comments come as Musk is set to release files on Twitter’s “suppression of free speech,” which is expected to include details about the censorship of the laptop story.

John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the computer store where Hunter abandoned his laptop, gave a copy of his hard drive to Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani in September 2020.

Giuliani reportedly leaked campaign documents and photos to the New York Post, also giving a full copy of the campaign to former Trump adviser Bannon and his podcast co-host Maxey.

The Post published excerpts from emails and photos of the laptop ahead of the 2020 election, but without authentication, they were widely dismissed as fake or ‘Russian disinformation’.

DailyMail.com eventually proved the laptop and its files were real, and its contents became a treasure trove for the media to report on.

Roth repeatedly claimed Wednesday that despite sounding alarm bells, he never believed the story should have been censored.

‘So it was a mistake?’ Swisher asked.

“In my opinion, yes,” he replied.

Elon Musk is expected to reveal full details of Twitter's 2020 blackout of New York Post reports on Hunter Biden's laptop.

Elon Musk is expected to reveal full details of Twitter’s 2020 blackout of New York Post reports on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

The former Twitter trust and security chief noted that social media platforms were on high alert in 2020 and said both he and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg were warned by the FBI about foreign propaganda and misinformation ahead of the election. .

Roth is the latest to criticize the company’s decision after former chief executive Jack Dorsey said last year it was a “total mistake.”

“We made a total mistake with the New York Post, we corrected it within 24 hours,” Dorsey said during a meeting with lawmakers. “It didn’t have to do with the content, it had to do with a pirated materials policy, we had a wrong interpretation.”

Both Roth and Dorsey have not said who ultimately oversaw the censorship of the story.