Self-proclaimed “Chief Twit” Elon Musk teased that he will make good on his promise to shed light on Twitter’s Hunter Biden laptop story suppression and release information at 5 p.m. EST Friday.
The billionaire electric car and space tycoon has long chastised the social giant’s handling of the laptop saga and vowed to increase transparency at the company following his $44 billion takeover in October. He noted that Friday’s revelations will feature a question-and-answer session.
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“What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET,” Musk teased.
“This will be awesome,” he later added.
What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
In the dog days of the 2020 presidential election, Twitter moved to block sharing of an October 2020 New York Post story about the future first son’s laptop. The story raised questions about the younger Biden’s overseas business dealings and the potential involvement of his father, President Joe Biden.
Concerned that the story may have been riddled with Russian propaganda aimed at influencing the election, the company also temporarily froze the New York Post’s Twitter account, before reversing course. Conservatives seethed at the incident, which became a flashpoint in the uproar over Big Tech.
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Musk, who has championed free speech on social media, described the handling of the incident as “obviously incredibly inappropriate” and called for more transparency on the matter. Since the censorship, several media outlets, such as the Washington Examiner, have done reporting on the drive, corroborating many of the New York Post’s findings.
Prior to burking the story, FBI officials had approached companies such as Twitter and Facebook, warning that Russia could dump misinformation in the election homestretch to influence the outcome. Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey subsequently admitted the company made a “total mistake.”
