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lon Musk plans to release Twitter’s internal discussions on how the platform decided on censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
On Wednesday, Musk, who has been vocal about the company’s future as a platform for the truth, said that he intended to release internal Twitter messages about Biden’s laptop as being “necessary to restore public trust.”This is necessary to restore public trust
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2022
The story, which was published by the New York Post weeks ahead of the 2020 election, has been confirmed by numerous outlets including CBS and the New York Times some two years since it first ran.
At the time of its publication, dozens of intelligence officials swore on their reputations that the laptop story was a Russian intelligence operation — propaganda designed to aid the Trump campaign and throw the election into disarray.
The Biden administration’s briefly-appointed “Disinformation Czar” Nina Jankowicz, who worked for the Ukrainian government prior to her appointment in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was among those who disputed the veracity of the laptop’s contents.
