{"id":1761376,"date":"2022-12-03T14:32:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T19:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1761376"},"modified":"2022-12-03T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T19:32:43","slug":"twitter-files-confirm-big-tech-leftists-suppressed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-ahead-of-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-files-confirm-big-tech-leftists-suppressed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-ahead-of-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Twitter Files\u2019 Confirm Big Tech Leftists Suppressed Hunter Biden Laptop Story Ahead Of 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-files-confirm-big-tech-leftists-suppressed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-ahead-of-2020-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1761376&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Insider documents released on Friday confirm Twitter\u2019s decision to suppress the New York Post\u2019s legitimate reporting about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop mere weeks before the 2020 presidential election was a political one. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Twitter Files,\u201d passed by the Big Tech giant\u2019s new CEO Elon Musk to independent journalist Matt Taibbi, prove Twitter censors, which have a history of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/30\/musk-admits-twitter-has-interfered-in-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interfering with elections<\/a>, colluded to throttle news of the Biden family\u2019s deep corruption. The documents also demonstrate those leftist censors happily excused the company\u2019s election meddling on behalf of President Joe Biden using a weak and manufactured \u201chacked materials policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his Twitter thread detailing the insider information, Taibbi confirmed the story\u2014one that had the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/24\/poll-one-in-six-biden-voters-would-have-changed-their-vote-if-they-had-known-about-scandals-suppressed-by-media\/\">potential to change<\/a>\u00a0Americans\u2019 votes in the 2020 election\u2014was deliberately blocked by Big Tech censors who spent months building relationships with Biden\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: \u2018More to review from the Biden team.\u2019 The reply would come back: \u2018Handled.\u2019\u201d Taibbi wrote.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: \u201cMore to review from the Biden team.\u201d The reply would come back: \u201cHandled.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mnv0YZI4af\">pic.twitter.com\/mnv0YZI4af<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598827602403160064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>As Taibbi notes, Twitter \u201ctook extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be \u2018unsafe.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">18. Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be \u201cunsafe.\u201d They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598831435288563712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Taibbi maintains that Twitter employees were not basing their censorship orders for the laptop story on demands from the government. He did, however, add that several Twitter sources recalled hearing the FBI\u2019s demands that the social media giants censor \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">23. The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598834231794315265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Just this week, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan confirmed the government\u2019s information suppression campaign to Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana. In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-weekly-big-tech-ahead-2020-election-agent-testifies?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=ncl_amplify&#038;utm_campaign=221202-icymi_fbi_met_weekly_with_big_tech_ahead_of_the_2020_election_agent_testifies&#038;utm_content=ncl-aAZZeuhfCh&#038;_nlid=aAZZeuhfCh&#038;_nhids=m3NfvEK\">testimony<\/a>, Chan disclosed that agents from the FBI\u2019s Foreign Influence Task Force and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency met weekly with Big Tech companies to encourage censorship ahead of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s instructions inspired Facebook to reduce distribution on posts reporting about the laptop, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the FBI\u2026 if they come to us and tell us we need to be on guard about something, then I want to take that seriously,\u201d Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BN3PIGLDscQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on an episode of \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insider documents released on Friday confirm Twitter\u2019s decision to suppress the New York Post\u2019s legitimate reporting about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop mere weeks before the 2020 presidential election was a political one. \u201cThe Twitter Files,\u201d passed by the Big Tech giant\u2019s new CEO Elon Musk to independent journalist Matt Taibbi, prove Twitter censors, which have a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1761379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1761379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}