There’s another reason why Twitter censored the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020. For a year, the FBI reportedly sat on the laptop scandal, which turned out to be loaded with controversial material. And then, the FBI held weekly meetings with Twitter, warning the social media giant to expect so-called “hack-and-leak operations” by “state actors” involving Hunter Biden in the weeks before the 2020 election.
In an exclusive story, The NY Post reports the FBI’s warnings were so specific that Twitter immediately censored the newspaper’s legitimate news story about Hunter Biden’s laptop on Oct. 14, 2020. Twitter said it blocked the story due to its “hacked materials” policy. But on Saturday, new CEO Elon Musk called that move “election interference.”
“If Twitter is doing one team’s bidding before an election, shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election, that is the very definition of election interference … Frankly Twitter was acting like an arm of the Democratic National Committee. It was absurd,” Musk said during a live Q&A session on Twitter Spaces on Saturday.
“The extraordinary revelation for the first time lays bare how the FBI was involved in pre-bunking the story of the laptop, which had been in the bureau’s possession for almost a year,” according to The NY Post.
“I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,” the company’s former head of site integrity, Yoel Roth, told the Federal Election Commission on Dec. 21, 2020.
“I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden,” he added. As CBN News reported in October of 2020, The Post produced emails showing Joe Biden’s son Hunter appears to have introduced the then-Vice President Biden to a Ukrainian energy executive.
An April 2015 email reads in part, “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving me an opportunity to meet your father and spen(d) some time together.” President Biden has claimed he knew nothing about his son’s business dealings. But as multiple news outlets reported in October 2020, a former business associate of Hunter Biden said the claim made by then-presidential candidate Biden was false. (READ MORE)
