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In October of 2020, The New York Post published a story that a computer repair man had Hunter's laptop. He doesn't know who dropped it off because he's partially blind (I can't make this shit up), but it was never picked up. He went through the laptop and supposedly found alarming information, so he gave it to the FBI who's investigating Hunter for lobbying for a foreign nation without registering and for not paying taxes. He also gave a copy of the hard drive to Rudy Giuliani, who then shared it with a million MAGAt goons and The New York Post.
The New York Post published a story that Hunter has a laptop with alarming things on it, like photos of drug use, photos of Hunter naked, and emails that may prove corruption involving his father. At the time, none of this was authenticated to be Hunter's laptop. Even the reporters who were assigned the story didn't want their names on it. The story wasn't fleshed out by The New York Post, so it wasn't ready to be published yet. But, The Post is a Murdoch publication and the entire intention of publishing this wasn't to provide news, but more to help Donald Trump win the 2020 election.
The Twitter Files show that the executives at Twitter agonized over what to do with this. Remember, this was stolen information provided by Rudy Giuliani. They had a responsibility to check this. They decided to suspend the account of The New York Post, which was the wrong thing to do. Blocking the story is understandable since, at that point, nobody knew if it was a Russian scam or not. It has since turned out that it's probably Hunter's laptop although there is NOTHING on it that suggests either of the Bidens did anything illegal. No, you stupid MAGAts, and you too Ted Rall, there's nothing.
There was also no evidence that Twitter was doing the bidding of the Biden campaign. The Biden campaign did ask Twitter to block the nude photos that were supposedly of Hunter, which is also understandable. The Trump campaign and White House also attempted to influence what Twitter allowed, and they were often successful. There was nothing in the Twitter Files that even suggest their actions were political or they were doing it to protect and help the Biden campaign.
Republicans are running with this and claiming it proves corruption between Democrats and "big tech." Others say if the Post story and nude photos of Hunter Biden weren't suppressed, then Trump would have won the election. Donald Trump is even using the Twitter Files to demand that he be reinstated to the presidency and that the Constitution be "terminated."
Republicans ignore that it came from a stolen laptop and was provided by a MAGAt to Rudy Giuliani, and then given to the right-wing tabloid, The New York Post, and published in a story so full of holes that the reporters didn't want their names on it.
One of the complaints from the right is that the mainstream media (the media that doesn't make shit up) isn't covering the release of the Twitter Files. That's false as I've seen coverage of it on CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. It doesn't get more mainstream media than that.
Gary McCoy drew a cartoon complaining about the "left-wing" media's "profound silence" over the release of the Twitter Files, but the media has covered it (see above)...just not to the liking of Gare Bear. McCoy posted on Facebook that the release proves "that the Democrats rigged the last election" and "Trump would be president today were it not for this scandal." Gary's also a moron and a former Never-Trump who got on the Trump Train after discovering just how racist Trump is. On another point: Why hasn't The Week run a cartoon of mine over the past week, but they're running this shit? C'mon, man. I think The Week is suppressing my free speech (see what I did there?).
Lisa Benson drew a cartoon claiming Twitter's suppression of the files was "government meddling" and an attack on "free speech," except Joe Biden wasn't the government. He was a candidate at the time. Also, this isn't a free speech issue since the Constitution, the same one Trump wants to terminate, doesn't guarantee a constitutional right to tweet. Lisa, good cartoonists understand the issues they cover. So either you don't understand what you're covering, or you're lying.
Mike Lester also claims it's an attack on "free speech" with a metaphor about urinating on legs which is in some awesome artwork but....what? I scrolled through Lester's Twitter to see if he had done something more recent since this was posted on December 2, but my god...that guy tweets racism and conspiracy theories as if he's making up for Ben Garrison's Twitter absence.
Bob Gorrell, who repurposes old drawings instead of actually drawing new cartoons, also got it wrong. There is no evidence in the Twitter Files that shows Twitter interfered in the election. Twitter is NOT a government platform and can choose to allow what is and isn't published.
Eric Allie also complains about the lack of media coverage by drawing a "nothing-burger," ironically with the huge label "Democrats and media collude with tech companies to suppress the free press." Eric, the media is the free press.
Al Goodwyn drew a cartoon accusing Twitter and Democrats of "inappropriate relations," ignoring that the Twitter Files also showed that Twitter often relented to demands from the Trump White House (sic).