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Elon Musk says Twitter should release logs on censoring Hunter Biden laptop story ‘to restore public trust’
The Independent via Yahoo ^ | NOVEMBER 25 2022 | Eric Garcia

Posted on 11/25/2022 5:30:22 PM PST by SmokingJoe

Elon Musk revealed that he believes Twitter should release the chat logs regarding their decision to restrict sharing a story from The New York Post on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

On Wednesday, Mr Musk responded to a tweet from the account @alx asking for the new owner of Twitter to look into the company’s decision to not allow people to tweet The Post’s story.

“Raise your hand if you think @ElonMusk should make public all internal discussions about the decision to censor the @NYPost’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 Election in the interest of Transparency,” @ALX tweeted.

Mr Musk responded shortly thereafer in kind: “This is necessary to restore public trust.”

Many conservatives criticised Twitter for its decision to not allow people to tweet a 2020 story from The New York Post that alleged that emails on a laptop revealed that Mr Biden arranged to introduce a Ukrainian businessman named Vadym Pozharskyi to his father President Joe Biden, who was then vice president of the United States.

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The following year, The New York Post published the story but Twitter prevented it from being shared on the grounds that it might be disinformation. Many major news outlets also chose not to promote the story because it was linked to Mr Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani. The story turned out not to be disinformation, but other media outlets that independently verified emails found no illicit behavior from Mr Biden or his son.

Mr Musk’s move comes shortly after Republicans won back the House of Representatives. Many Republicans in Congress have pledged to investigate the younger Biden.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: hunter; joebiden; musk; twitter
Fake news are always gonna fake to shill for Creepy Joe.:

“but other media outlets that independently verified emails found no illicit behavior from Mr Biden or his son”

1 posted on 11/25/2022 5:30:22 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

So that’s the spin now.

We didn’t want you to see it, but there isn’t anything bad in it. LOL


2 posted on 11/25/2022 5:35:42 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: SmokingJoe

I want him to release all external communications with the government.


3 posted on 11/25/2022 5:44:12 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SmokingJoe
There is no "should". Just do it. The longer you talk beforehand the greater there's the chance that someone will sue (probably at the direction of the FBI) to prevent Twitter from releasing it. Then they get it in front of a Deep State judge and Musk will not be allowed to talk about it or to even talk about the fact that he can't talk about it.
4 posted on 11/25/2022 5:46:15 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Soon the January 6 protesters will be held (without trial or bail) longer than Jefferson Davis was.)
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To: for-q-clinton; SmokingJoe

There is an interesting potential twist here. So let’s say for argument’s sake that Biden people and Twitter people and “deep state” intel type people and their proxies colluded to suppress news that would be important to voters. And Musk decides that this, as a matter of principle, is something that the public needs to know all about.

For one, it could be a great story for Twitter and Musk. Could generate a lot of media attention. On the other hand, it suggests all sorts of nefarious activity between politicians and media - not that this should be any kind of surprise to anyone. Dan Rather, Stephanopolous, Psaki etc these people are all political operatives masquerading as journalists.

So I wonder, if there was a “bombshell” and Twitter made a conscious decision (which we all pretty much know they did) do throw in with one candidate and it was so obvious that they had 1000s of emails and communiqués and internal chat board chatter linking social media and political operatives and intel people - would it even make the news?

Could the news actually ignore it, if it was all over Twitter?


5 posted on 11/25/2022 5:50:03 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Many conservatives criticized Twitter b/c
<><>twitter did not allow tweets WRT a NYP 2020 story
<><>the story alleged Hunter introduced a Ukrainian businessman to then VP Biden.
<><>Twitter prevented it from being shared b/c it might be disinformation.
<><>MSM also chose not to promote the story b/c it was linked to Rudy Giuliani.

The story turned out not to be disinformation, but other media outlets
verified emails but found no illicit behavior from Biden or his son.


6 posted on 11/25/2022 5:50:37 PM PST by Liz (Vox Populi, Vox Dei (voice of the people is the voice of God))
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To: monkeyshine

They will just say “Musk CLAIMS” or we couldn’t independently verify this.

Of course, Russia collusion was 100% fake and yet they ran with it and spread it like it was the word of God.

At this point fake news is just that Fake. And then this just needs to be told to everyone. Make their trustworthy rating less than congress.


7 posted on 11/25/2022 5:55:07 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: KarlInOhio
The "should" is in the headline by The Independent. The excerpt tells a very different story...
@ALX: “Raise your hand if you think @ElonMusk should make public all internal discussions about the decision to censor the @NYPost’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 Election in the interest of Transparency.”

Mr Musk responded shortly thereafer in kind: “This is necessary to restore public trust.”

Musk did NOT say "It should be done." There's a world of difference between poorly written headline and what was tweeted.
8 posted on 11/25/2022 6:05:54 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: SmokingJoe
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
The person who was leading the charge over the past week with threats to kill me was just suspended. I noticed many others who sent death threats were suspended as well. Thank you
@elonmusk
!

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1596223095869685765

9 posted on 11/25/2022 6:24:49 PM PST by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: KarlInOhio
'zactly !
10 posted on 11/25/2022 7:19:00 PM PST by A strike ("The worse, the better." - V.I.Lenin, (and Klaus Schwab and Soros))
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To: monkeyshine

pretty squirrely


11 posted on 11/25/2022 7:28:11 PM PST by A strike ("The worse, the better." - V.I.Lenin, (and Klaus Schwab and Soros))
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To: SmokingJoe

Any tweets on election fraud 2020 or 2022?


12 posted on 11/25/2022 7:48:13 PM PST by Singermom
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To: SmokingJoe

Here’s a thought, Musk’s people can now go over all the twitter backups with a fine tooth sifting program for ALL the FBI/Hunter Biden Laptop election tampering and ANITFA/BLM tweets linking them to all the death and destruction the last couple years...

is that RAT arseholes I hear slamming shut across the country?

And Google/Apple stores are threatening to ban Twitter’s app??? please

Elon is capable of making his OWN app-store, and when Elon comes out with his own phone, and you KNOW it’s coming, he’s got his OWN NETWORK -— Starlink -— so he doesn’t need, anybody... and the left will completely go blind with rage.

And it will be beautiful...


13 posted on 11/25/2022 9:16:44 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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