Twitter CEO Elon Musk early this morning promoted an alleged leak of a series of internal deliberations by former Twitter management regarding the 2020 controversy over the personal files of Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden.
The deliberations, ultimately published by journalist Matt Taibbi, appear a week after the South African tycoon warned to disclose what happened within the company, which he accused of neturalizar in the social network the dissemination of information about Hunter Biden’s computer that released the ‘New York Post’.
Hunter Biden, whose erratic lifestyle was denounced for months by supporters of former President Donald Trump, remains the subject of a criminal investigation by the Department of Justice that has focused on his tax affairs and his economic operations abroad, Ukraine in particular.
Musk, who has retweeted Taibbi’s thread with additional comments throughout this past evening, argued then that such a leak would be necessary «to restore people’s trust» in the organization.
For example, and as Politico news portal Politico recalls, when the Post refused to delete a tweet about the story, Twitter suspended the media outlet’s account for more than two weeks, before reversing the suspension on Oct. 30, 2020. The then head of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, later indicated that he regretted the platform’s decision to censor the story.
The thread posted by Taibbi on Twitter revealed conversations both internally and externally, including with Democratic congregant Ro Khanna about Twitter’s decision to restrict access to the Post article. Khanna appeared to question Twitter’s reasoning for blocking the story and the congressman, one of Silcon Valley’s top representatives on Capitol Hill, has defended his comments in the leak to NBC News.
«Our democracy can only thrive if we are open to a marketplace of ideas and engage with people we disagree with,» he has said.
