New day, new story involving Twitter. Following Musk’s attempt to get shareholders back, the CEO is now trying to “shed light” on a story related to the platform a few years ago. Reference is made to Hunter Biden caseson of Joe Biden.
In this regard, as reported by TechCrunchas well as as can be seen directly using the Musk’s Twitter profilethe entrepreneur has turned to author, journalist and podcaster Matt Taibbi, to whom he apparently provided the documents of his “findings”, to publish on a daily basis what the CEO calls the “Twitter Files”.
To understand the issue, we need to take a step back, going back to the phase preceding the 2020 United States presidential elections, more precisely to October 2020. On that occasion, the New York Post published a scoop related to Hunter Biden’s laptop, son of the current President. In other words, some thorny emails would have been sent from the laptop, which would highlight Joe Biden’s “help” in his son’s business.
More precisely, in 2015 there would have been a meeting between the current President (who was Vice President at the time) and a manager of a Ukrainian energy company tied to Hunter Biden. Biden previously said he was never involved in any business related to his son. For the rest, images that would show Hunter Biden in sexually explicit situations related to the world of drugs would also have been found in the aforementioned laptop. In the phase following the release of the scoop, there was much discussion in the United States of America about whether it could be a Russian disinformation operation, in a delicate period such as that of the elections.
Musk’s allegations are now related to a alleged “cover-up” by Twitter of this information (according to the entrepreneur, there would also be the team linked to Biden’s electoral campaign) and an attempt is therefore being made to “shed light” on what would have happened internally in the company regarding that decision, taken shortly before the elections in the context mentioned above.
The way used by Musk to try to “shed light”, now that the social network is his property, is to publish the internal Twitter conversations at the time, which according to the entrepreneur would demonstrate a “cover-up”. The first part of the “Twitter Files” was therefore made available on December 3, 2022 by the aforementioned Matt Taibbi.
The content covers emails between senior Twitter officials at the time, political leaders, and members of Biden’s campaign team. The discussion that emerges is already causing discussion, as according to sources such as The Verge what has emerged so far would simply show a team discussing how to perform an important decision in terms of moderation in a delicate period.
In short, Musk is once again attracting attention with his operations following the acquisition of Twitter, going to fit into thorny issues at the very least and attracting in the middle accusations of wanting”restore public confidence“. There are already those who define the affair as a “flop“, but certainly what Musk has done is not going unnoticed. Matt Taibbi has in any case stated that “there is no evidence […] of any government involvement in the laptop storyMeanwhile, emails like Dorsey’s would have been made public in some images related to the story: the matter is certainly intricate.
