As promised, Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, released what he calls the “Twitter Files” on Friday regarding the social media’s “suppression of free speech,” including the affair of the emails of Hunter Biden, son of the American president.
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“What really happened with the removal of the Hunter Biden story by Twitter will be posted on Twitter at 5 p.m. ET,” Elon Musk wrote on his account, with the link to the page of author Matt Taibbi.
The latter published in a series of tweets emails asking social media employees to remove posts about the case.
Recall that the New York Post had published in October 2020 the secret emails of Biden’s son, recovered from his abandoned laptop.
“Twitter took extraordinary steps to remove the article, removing the links and posting warnings that it may be ‘dangerous’. They even blocked its transmission by direct message, a tool until then reserved for extreme cases, for example child pornography, ”explained Matt Taibbi.
The Democratic and Republican parties would thus have intervened with Twitter in order to have certain tweets on this affair removed. In order to justify this control of the thread, Twitter would have invoked its policy of “pirated material”, according to Taibbi.
If it is now known that Hunter Biden had simply forgotten his computer in a repair shop and that no hack was involved, Twitter would not have had “the courage to back down”, according to the comments of a former employee.
Also according to Matt Taibbi, this deletion would have been made “without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey”, but with “former head of legal, political and trust affairs Vijaya Gadde, who played a key role”.