usa news: promoted a series of tweets Friday that shows Twitter executives struggled with handling tweets surrounding a report on Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 presidential election as the company took steps to block it.
“This will be awesome,” Musk, CEO of Twitter, wrote before the release of what he billed “The Twitter files” – a lengthy Twitter thread by journalist Matt Taibbi detailing internal documents that Musk apparently fed Taibbi.
Musk, who last month urged his followers to vote for Republicans, seemed to push the material to expose what he claims is the political left’s grip over Big Tech.
Taibbi said he had to “agree to certain conditions” to report on the story but did not disclose what they were. USA TODAY was unable to verify the authenticity of screenshots of emails and other documents that form the bulk of Taibbi’s reporting. The White House declined to comment.
