by Alex Hammer and Keith Griffith at Daily Mail
- Elon Musk has said that Twitter was acting on the orders of the federal government when it allegedly censored stories on Hunter Biden’s laptop
- Journalist Matt Taibbi Friday began publishing the internal Twitter documents
- Taibbi conducted his probe with the cooperation of new Twitter chief Elon Musk
- Emails showed staffers censoring tweets at the behest of the Joe Biden’s team
- His campaign made requests for tweets to be taken down – and Twitter complied
Elon Musk has suggested Twitter was acting on the orders of the federal government when it allegedly censored stories surrounding the contents of Hunter Biden‘s laptop in the buildup to the 2020 election.
Musk made the declaration Friday online in a barrage of tweets he tauntingly titled the ‘Twitter Files,’ which saw the CEO take aim at his new company for supposed collusion with the Biden campaign by leaking old company emails.
The leaked correspondence contained damning insider communications that predate Musk’s ownership, which provided insight to the dissent and confusion seen within the company as it responded to reporting on the scandal in October 2020.
The emails provided new detail on Twitter’s shady censorship decision, which Musk said was made behind the scenes ‘at the highest levels of the company’ at the behest of Biden officials, and ‘based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter.’
Musk, however, outsourced those findings to journalist Matt Taibbi, giving him access to the explosive documents, which the reporter published in excerpts on the social media site Friday evening.
The thread contained redacted emails in which Twitter executives engaged in the foot-dragging indecision to pull prominent tweets noting the scandal, as outcry grew over the suppression. In one exchange, staffers from Biden campaign requested specific tweets be taken down – to which executives duly complied…