Elon Musk insists full disclosure on Twitter’s decision Censor the Post’s exclusive story Hunter Biden’s statement about the infamous laptop is “needed” to restore public trust in the social media giant.
The world’s richest man, who bought the platform last month, clarified his position late Wednesday when he responded to a Twitter user who asked whether internal communications should be released because of the censorship decision.
The user tweeted, “If you think @ElonMusk should make public all internal discussions regarding the decision to censor @NYPost’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 election in the interest of transparency, do your raise hands.”
Twitter’s new CEO responded quickly: “This is necessary to restore public trust.”
Musk’s tweet had been retweeted more than 12,900 times and had more than 153,000 likes as of Thursday afternoon.
Before his $44 billion acquisition, Musk already weighed On The Post vs Twitter debacle – back in April insisted that the platform’s decision was “plainly incredibly unfair”.
The company did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on Thursday.
Twitter and Facebook took extraordinary censorship measures against The Post in October 2020 after it first revealed its bombshell on a pile of emails discovered on Hunter’s laptop.
The platform, then under the leadership of CEO Jack Dorsey, banned users from sharing the article—and blocked posts from its Twitter account for more than two weeks because of unsubstantiated claims that the report used hacked information. Gave.
dorsey forced to accept Congressional hearings on misinformation and social media in March last year said blocking the Post’s report weeks before the presidential election was an “absolute mistake” – but they stopped short of revealing who was responsible for the mistake .
He also said that the move to block Post’s access to his own Twitter account was due to a “procedure error”.
Many mainstream outlets too defamed the article at that time but later reported the veracity of the laptop Not long after President Biden was elected.