On Friday afternoon, Twitter owner Elon Musk announced that he would be dropping all information relating to the Hunter Biden laptop story and what Twitter did to cover up the story before the 2020 election.
“What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!” Musk said in a tweet.
“This will be awesome,” he said as he added a popcorn emoji.
“Will include live Q&A,” he 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
BREAKING: Elon Musk just said he is dropping all of the Hunter Biden receipts on Twitter tonight.
Here. We. Go.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 2, 2022
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The news from Musk comes after Twitter’s former safety chief who was at the center of the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story admitted that the censorship was a mistake… Two years late.
The New York Post reports:
Yoel Roth, who was Twitter’s head of trust and safety until he quit in November in the wake of Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover, confessed Tuesday that the company erred in restricting people from sharing the scoop.
In an interview with journalist Kara Swisher, Roth appeared to deflect the blame — insisting that even though he had concerns about the authenticity of the first son’s device, it never got to the point where he thought the story should be suppressed.
“We didn’t know what to believe, we didn’t know what was true, there was smoke — and ultimately for me, it didn’t reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter,” Roth said during an interview at the Knight Foundation conference.
“But it set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 ‘hack and leak campaign’ alarm bells,” he added, using an alternative name for the Russian cybercrime group Fancy Bear.
Asked if it was a mistake for Twitter to have blocked the story from being shared, Roth responded: “In my opinion, yes.”
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