Elon Musk is stoking controversy on a new front, this time revealing sensitive internal deliberations at Twitter around Hunter Biden’s personal computer files in the fall of 2020.
Within the current contours of the culture wars, the right has taken up the mantle of free speech, while the center and left have cited concerns about disinformation and hate speech to argue for greater limits in online expression. Since taking the reins of Twitter in October, Musk has endeared himself to the right andthat he would release information about Twitter’s role in suppressing the New York Post’s reports, tweeting, “This is necessary to restore public trust.
Twitter initially blocked links to the New York Post’s reporting, going so far as to prevent users from sharing them in private messages, initially citing its policy on hacked and stolen materials, but reversed itself days later. In the aftermath, Twitter’s then-CEO, Jack Dorsey, said he regretted the platform’s decision to censor the story.
Trump’s then-director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, said there was no evidence indicating the stories were the result of a Russian disinformation campaign.whether equipment was his, but that it “certainly” could have been.
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