Still, the disclosures are all but guaranteed to roil debate about social media censorship and free speech online.
The emails show a lengthy internal debate among Twitter employees — including at least two former staffers to Republican senators — about how best to handle the New York Post story and how to talk about that handling to the public and to lawmakers. Taibbi also included screenshots of emails of requests from unidentified people in the Biden administration, asking contacts at Twitter to take action against certain tweets. Versions of those tweets seen by NBC News on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which archives web pages, show that many if not all of the tweets in question violated Twitter rules. At least three of those tweets involved photographs of Hunter Biden.
Taibbi, a longtime magazine journalist who now writes a newsletter, is known for his provocative style and colorful turns of phrase. In 2009, he coined the term “giant vampire squid” to describe investment bank Goldman Sachs. Musk and Taibbi have had a friendly relationship on Twitter. In May, MuskThe controversy involving Twitter and Hunter Biden dates to October 2020, weeks before the presidential election between Joe Biden and then-President Donald Trump. The New York Post article on Oct.
The email was part of a cache of documents provided to the New York Post by Trump’s then-personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who said he obtained the files from a laptop dropped off at a Delaware computer store. At that time, Giuliani
Don’t think that was the only thing previous management got up to.
WRONG. there were “marching orders” in internal emails from the Biden Team and from the DNC to Twitter to SUSPEND accounts that pushed the HunterBidensLaptop Story. I know you’re trying to keep your benefactors shielded, but it won’t work this time. twitterfiles TWITTERGATE
IN OTHER WORDS- YOU HAVE BEEN LYING TO US FOR OVER TWO YEARS
After NBC covered the same story so hard ....
Interesting how NBC reports on this story with very little curiosity and any explanation as to why they have shown no in depth research into its content. Perhaps there is a story here? Wait, that would involve journalism, NBC could care less about unless Trump is involved.
Does anybody remember Stormy Daniels?
That amounted to absolutely nothing
Here comes the lies. New Communists Republican Party is not about Governoring its about spreading lies. GOP is a joke.
This also falls on you NBC. You did the same shit. You are all corrupt.
NBC you need to fire Ben Collins immediately. He makes you entire network look like a bunch of complete idiots and hacks. Unless your ok with that. I don’t think I can watch your news ever again.
Elmo’s first mistake is believing anyone of us give a shit about Hunter Biden.
Anyone else over Elon musk?
You got it right in your tweet but for some reason lied in your news story headline. 'Revealing' is right, 'rehashing' is bullcrap. Nothing was 'rehashed' these are new and shocking documents showing Twitter being used to do the Biden campaign's bidding.
Welcome to the party! Now do your job and stay on the story
Time for NBC and the rest of big me Tech/media need to come clean as well. No trust can be renewed until this happens…
TIME FOR AMERICANS TO BE TOLD THE TRUTH. STOP ACTING LIKE THIS IS A COMMUNIST COUNTRY!!
sad and ugly space karen. 😅💩
10% FOR THE BIG GUY
Yeah, you’re 2years too late…NBC fake news!
At least nbcnews reported on it. Unlike msnbcnews , abcnews , and other msm disinformation outlets. 🤣🤣
BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI!!! Remember how that was the greatest scandal since Watergate, got all your panties in a wad, and they spent millions of your tax dollars to prove... nothing? Same shit here. Keep America Stupid.
Lol. No, the story is how state actors worked with Twitter staff to delete and otherwise censor information with no cause other than a political slant. Get another job.
Lol, the domino's will fall...
So Democrats, and the FBI colluded with Big Tech to effect US elections. Ok, that’s bad.
You mean the left purposely lied to their base and omitted evidence……why is every democrat not upset 🤷🏼♀️
NBC received marching orders from the FBI in Oct 2020. Ignore Hunter Biden Laptop
Understatement of the year NBC, are you going to tell us how they “handled the story”
If Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't incriminating, why did the FBI bury the laptop for over 2 years? Tried to frame the repairman but couldn't pull it off. Pandora's hard drive.
You are complicit in this .. you interferes with the flow of valid information to effect the outcome of a presidential election.. shameless and another cut down on your already weak credibility as a news outlet
Elon stick to selling your stupid worthless cars. Ugh
Thanks for reporting
elonmusk EXPOSED the deep corruption between democrats and big tech interfering in the 2020 election. There I fixed your headline, you absolute CLOWNS!
Well at least you’ve reported it. cnn cbs not a peep. TWITTERGATE
This is the most boring “news” ever. elonmusk is just trying to cover up that he’s allowing racist, bigots, and child porn to run rampant on Twitter. FirstAmendment
That’s all you’re going to report on this No wonder no one trusts you. Fake news. Do your job!
elonmusk You have a calendar problem and not just with CyberTruck… 2020 Trump ran the government. Biden was a private citizen. Nothing else matters until You learn to tell time. Buy a watch.
Imprison Hunter
NOW DO and the rest of MSM. Let’s see those internal docs.
Biggest story of the decade. WRITTEN PROOF THE DEMOCRATS COLLUDED WITH BIGTECH TO STEAL AN ELECTION. Trump was right again!
Now do Jared and Ivanka …
Do they not have the choice like Fox News how they handle a story or other media outlets podcasts?
1/6/21 - 5 dead tRump sent them there then he watched it on TV
It’s a stolen and hacked laptop by Trump operatives. It can’t even be used against Hunter in court bc it can’t be authenticated as real.
NBC is complicit. Boycott their content
Tell us, how did they 'handle' it. We're wise to ya now, weasel words won't help anymore.
The most comments and likes NBC has seen on twitter in some time.🤣😂🤣😂 Losers 🤣😂🤣
You mean manipulated it for Democrats. Still covering for Biden?
Another nothingburger
INVESTIGATE IVANKA TRUMP AND JARED KUSHNER! They were working in the WH. Hunter Biden never help a position at the WH! 🤷🏽
It is more of how Twitter handled stories about Hunter's dick images. Not a bombshell. I was expecting something big, only to get some GOP soundbites.
You mean how old Twitter purposely hid the story on the Hunter Biden laptop that NBC and CNN and ABC said was Russian disinformation.
He's desperate to generate traffic for Twitter in an attempt to restore ad revenue. Doesn't care where it comes from or what kind of depraved content he has to field.
“Handled” 🤔. You mean covered up to throw an election.
Suppressed a story on behalf of DNC
Lol great take guys! 😂🤡
Why would they 'handle' any stories What happened to Free Press And they 'handled' stories at the behest of government officials...that is classic Naziism.
Tree hugging liberals created this Frankienstein's monster by buying up every Tesla EV and shoot themselves in the foot. dnc 🤣🤣🤣
Continue the lies FASCIST' before long, we'll be putting your BacksToTheWall
Who cares about a laptop that does affect us he’s a racist, Putin supporter.
It would be much more accurate to say how Twitter (and others in MSM) mis-handled the HunterBidenLaptop story.
elonmusk and don't 4get the reports on how they allowed Trump to spew racism, hate, and lies (much like u) around for years before sparking a national tragedy at the capitol by inciting a riot! Lets see those reports first.
*How the Biden campaign directly interfered with the free speech of Americans on social media by colluding with Twitter to censor a story deemed damaging to Biden, and thus interfered with the 2020 election.
🤡
More anodyne headline, please. 🤡 elonmusk
Republicans voted for a man that admitted to sexually assaulting women, Cheated on every wife, said he'd sleep with his own daughter, talked about his daughter's breasts. What do Republicans think is on Hunter's laptop that will stop Dems & Independents from voting for Biden?
Dang it! Is Hunter running for office again?
Wow, what a puff headline! More like “how the company interfered in the 2020 election by killing the Hunter Biden laptop story”
Elon did more journalism in 1 night than NBC has done in the past year.
Left media NBC news thinks this isn’t a bigger story. Biden and DNC committed treason. They willfully told Twitter to hold back anything about Hunter This is treason and everyone is going down. Biden is a crook. FYI this isn’t misinformation. It’s the TRUTH
And it was a big nothing burger for the most part. Employee discussion on their policy Hunter's dick picks Oh, and Trump's White House asking for 'favors.' Yawn
“Handled a story” LOL. Someone must have spent quite a while thinking the headline, how not to say anything about the issue at hand must have been hard
WHEN TRUMP WAS IN OFFICE....not quite the gotcha you wanted is it?
Trying so hard to do the journalism thing. We can see how painful it is for you by this tweet.
2020 rigged election. The truth is coming out.
'try not to show my sons dick pics' its not the conspiracy they think!!!!
'Handled' the Hunter Biden story. Just like how Jerry Sandusky 'handled' those kids in Penn State football locker room shower. RealJamesWoods elonmusk ksorbs RealDeanCain
Democrats are crooked. They don't believe in democracy and despise our constitution. Next I want to see the communications with the FBI.
Nice white wash of this story. Could you think of a more benign headline? I guess I should just be glad you mentioned it at all. twitterfiles ELONMUSK HunterBidenLaptop HunterBiden
He just put Trump in hot water too…
Anybody else tired as shit of hearing about Hunter already? 😴😴😴
We should just all unfollowtwitter
You guys were in on it. Please just tell the truth 🙏
Just another distracting nothing burger.
After so many years of corrupt Trump's and the way they ruined social media, a laptop seems like a bit of a nothing Burger after what they put the American people through
mtaibbi destroyed his reputation by bending over to service a 'rich' guy... humiliating. Elon is performing, feeding his ego from the power wielded over MINIONS like Matt. Nude pictures of Hunter that we’re shared WITHOUT consent is REVENGE PORN. Twitter complied NOTHING BURGER
This post is spamming my feed over and over again. Why spread Elons filth?
Handled = suppressed at the request of the Biden campaign.
People think he invented Tesla when he just bought the company.
Naturally he would as he is on Trump side and that of KanyeWest Why leak info rather than giving to the lawyers prosecuting hunter? (Free speech, its not) We are starting to see his Mr Hyde side. 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' Right elonmusk
Weird how he left out Ivermectin, Russian interference, and Jared and Ivanka cashing in.
Its amazing how everyone says it's 'nothing burger' yet it's only part of the files and already they admit that the government doesn't believe 1st amendment isn't an absolute. Its not the FIRST for no reason FreeSpeech
Musk trying to get back in favor with his favorite Apartheid right winger Trump.
Joke of a headline. The headline should be: Elon musk, exposes, Biden administration violating the first amendment provisions of free speech by using the government to censor their political foes and citizens.
Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the non- story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message. White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the non-story
You should be embarrassed at the least. You supposedly have ‘journalists’ and didn’t break this story.
Translation: Twitter worked with Biden to censor information showing that he was directly involved in selling access to himself to foreign adversaries for profit.
This is the insanity that falls upon the mind of a genius when that genius sells his soul to that harlot called Fame.
Trying to find grounds for impeachment of Prez Biden... but Trump was Prez in 2020
Who honestly cares if Hunter goes to jail ? He’s just as bad as Trumps kids. Just rich spoiled white kids doing what they do
Way to minimize the headline…
It was a non-story that was known a year ago.
What’s wrong with this guy Ugly as hell, thinks he is some kind of God, promoting hate, promoting lies twisted truth. Eww.
nbcnews just want to help you out here. Like helping the blind.
I was expecting some bombshell and all I got was Zzzzzzz. Probably how women feel when they sleep with Elon.
Now now tell it like it is they stole the election. Come on you already were proven wrong about idk EVERYTHING in the last two years. Lol. It's not like we're gonna start believing you now RET. ARD HAHAHA
And it was an absolute embarrassment of 'journalism' devoid of meaningful facts or things that were not already publicly known and discussed months ago.
It was just a big ole nothing burger right? You are NBC NEWS right? You should be ashamed.
The question is why does Musk want to hurt Hunter Biden? He is a recovering addict trying to return to life.
Pestilence Jones in for death stock exchange
Oh no I'm so mad. Twitter removed dick pics. I'm incredibly happy Twitter removed dick pics
Actually lets be clear, they are internal correspondence from DNC and The Biden team to Twitter to suppress Hunter’s deals and suspend James Woods days before the election. Episode 2 is tomorrow, don’t miss it! Hop on a Twitter group chat to listen in, all are welcome.
Blocking you for amplifying this load of BS. Try to amplify those who speak truth rather than the charlatans desperate for attention. Buh bye.
MUSKFORPRISON2022 HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS OR WHAT IS PUT ON TWITTER MUSK ONLY CARES ABOUT HIMSELF AND BY MAKING MONEY FROM TWITTER
And no crimes were committed.
It shows the extent of the manipulation of the government in social media.
Mountain out of a molehill. I still think its wrong to take someones private laptop and release what amounts to revenge porn. Even if not hacked.
The headline misleads in that the core accusation of nutters like Musk and Taibbi is that some sort of government action was involved - the Biden camp wasn't in office! In a headline-only world, you must address this foremost. 'Musk inaccurately claims . . .' or similar.
TaibbiNothingBurger
Isn't he using the platform similarly then?
Promotes? He gave the documents to the Reporter. This is called Real News and it’s all not out yet!
🍿 ready for the Third party system, corruption on both sides like usual
Matt Taibbi lived for 6 years in…RUSSIA 🤣
There Is No Hunter Biden Laptop
Hunter, Hunter, Hunter. They’ve moved on from Hillary. The Republicans are a bunch of spineless hypocrites.
What actual fascism looks like
An amazing example of how social media used censorship in order to protect Joe Biden because of their hatred for Trump. A time when so many were willing to toss their journalistic ethics aside to protect a favoured political candidate. Shameful.
사법살인~
what is..
Did democrats illegally try to change the results of the 2020 election?
NBC is the DNC spokesperson.
Why give this air, this is nuts
now change the headline to the truth DNC colluded with big tech to run election interference on social media and disenfranchise more then half of american voters !
Should read “TWITTER SUPPRESSED AND DELETED TWEETS AT THE BEHEST OF THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN.”
Anything else you would like to say about this? How humiliating this entire episode has been for an already credibility deficient media...all of you deserve this
'Handled'
It just shows you that the use some sort of data collection and algorithm to explicitly put in on certain time.
Weird word choice. “Twitter documents shed light on how the Hunter Biden laptop story was deliberately suppressed, despite any substantive rationale” is a better summary.
It’s weird that the US President’s son is such an evil little shit. Just saying.
When Biden wasn’t president. Just so we clear.
*NBC pissed that a real journalist revealed how Twitter purposely suppressed info on NBC's preferred presidential candidate in order to sway an election
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Elon Musk reveals a series of tweets revealing Republicans really want everyone to see Hunter Biden's penis.
Trying to distract from his own choice to ban Kanye with “the Biden campaign asked us to remove dick pics”
'alleging without clear evidence that it was biased toward Democrats.' You can't be serious. sheesh.
You act like exposing corruption is a bad thing. You mad?
What say you, NBC News?
Oh I think it’s a wee bit more than that, you downplaying hacks.
Truth is best suited in the light.
The same day his boss fell down and shit his pants.
Scared about the truth NBC? Fake news.
Wish we could see NBC’s internal dialogue with the DNC.
Spoiler alert: there was confusion. Then it was over. The end.
No one cares about Elon’s little tantrum, it will all be forgotten in a day or so..People are fed up with the Bull 💩 move on
Maybe a better headline would be this: Elon musk exposes collusion between the Democrats Twitter mainstream media and the security state.
Are you going to cover this? 😂
Nothing to see here. Twitter followed policy. Big whoop.
Shocked that nbc posted an article about this lol
Another day, another failed stunt by Elon. 🥴
Good
Tattle tellers.
Cry more
Free speech when the owner is behaving like a colonial master. Is it under twitter policy to do that or owners using his toy to fight personal vendetta?
No one freaking cares!!!
Elon Musk can not be trusted. I bet he will go broke from stunts like this.
It was great too!
Stop lying 🤥. It out there allof your hide that information.
he has to SAVE this company, after a LOT of mistakes, has to do something, nasty musko!
Way to downplay a major story NBC. Make it seem like it’s nothing when it is something. But that is the MSM only job, to downplay anything that does not fit the narrative.
That’s it; I will not ever vote for Hunter.
Trying pretty hard to be vague I see. This way, you can say you covered it, right? Remember, your First Amendment Rights are the same as those the nypost were trying to exercise in 2020. A loss for one is a loss for all.
ImpeachHunter😤NOW!
Really NBC that’s how you word it? 😂😂😂 NBC”news” is far-left communist propaganda disguised as journalism.
Who?
NBC is still in bed with the nasty democrats
No one cares about hunter Biden
I'm independent, I think it's sickening, and your article is why nobody trusts the media anymore.
So?
Elon is only exposing the facts. People who have been on Twitter for years know they were unfairly sensored. The truth needs to be revealed, people need to know what was being done to misinform & control the narrative.
So y’all wanted to see Hunters peen?
Did you fact check this? Musk can’t be trusted.
'NBC News has not seen or verified those files. ' That's what you write? Then how can you publish an article on this? Don't you think you should go back and look again? Like, maybe send a reporter?
Your headline left out “under the direction and collusion of Government officials, specifically from the Biden campaign” That is a first amendment violation. This is why you are not trusted
When Trump was POTUS.
You are Still very bias in this story how would it be if we could every get the truth instead of blatant obvious bias
My first like for u, good job. CNN continue reporting on your breaking news about landing on the moon or something ...
Way to dodge the real story here
The real reason he bought Twitter..
Yep and NBC was complicit, tick tock mofo!
Your headline needs to be: Elon Musk confirms the Biden campaign and the DNC colluded with Twitter to suppress damning truths about 'The Big Guy' There. Fixed it for you.
Talk about burying the headline, holy misinformation Batman.
Why big story? People could discuss an article but couldn’t post a link to article?!!!!? Twitter execs didn’t want to spread illegally obtained/hacked info? Is ethical behavior abhorrent to Republicans? How does this compare to FBI keeping Trump/Russia investigations secret?
So really it was a nothing burger…got it
Pretty misleading based on the information…. Can show any more bias here NBC?
Big nothing burger
Anyone who thinks what Twitter did is right need to wake up.
“Handled” wow
QuinnTelsa The Hunter iden laptop is the smoking gun to proof of potus46 corruption.
Con. Grifters gonna grift. Back away, NBC lol.
“showed Hunter Biden and his company had received about $11 million through his work as an attorney and board member with a Ukrainian company accused of bribery and his work with a Chinese businessman who has also been accused of fraud.”
“Handled a story about Hunter Biden”
The Biden campaign and Twitter conspired to hide corruption within the Biden family days before the election.
Ho hum
Here we go!
And it was dumb. Yawn.
Something needs to be 'hashed' first to be rehashed. That has NEVER happend NBCNews.
Deflection from being a Nazi sympathizer
And it was a HUGE nothing burger
Elon Musk is a joke! A report came out today about how hate speech against gays, blacks and Jews increased since Elon Musk took over twitter. Elon’s response: let’s talk about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
If it was up for DNBC ‘News’ the official narrative on the Gulf of Tonkin would stir be standing.
‘… a story about Hunter Biden in 2020.’ Is one way to describe it. NBC is pretty much forced to introduce it so generally, since no one reported on it at the time
Nothing to see here
Who is Hunter Biden ? Related to the President ?
Hunter Biden Did Nothing Wrong
As a press office for the Democratic party , you can do better than this.
The documents show a confused staff unable to determine whether or not to publish material that may have been hacked and ultimately deciding it was better to be safe (by not publishing) than sorry and causing hysteria. If anything the Tweets show they acted responsibly.
He did more than promote! Tell the truth!
Don’t worry now we have on the case. Finally a reputable news organization covering the story.
Looks like I won't be voting for Hunter anytime soon.
Let’s do the math, Biden was ELECTED NOVEMBER 2020. Biden became president JANUARY 20 2021.
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mainstream media scratching for credibility - elonmusk mtaibbi when will (abcnews CBSNews CNN nytimes) be questioned for the gross mishandling of a potentially significant story
Let's see if NBC continues to bury the Hunter story.
More like a cure for insomnia
What’s the update on the highly anticipated Hunter Laptop by Mr. Musk!
Twitter used to be useless entertainment. Now under ElongatedMuskrat it's just useless
NBC you are just as guilty and you know you are!! Tell us, did someone from the government ask you to suppress stories?
How about just “how the democrats pressured twitter to censor negative information in the lead up to the election to influence voters and subvert democracy.”
Let's see. An opportunity for real journalism. Will NBC go for it or check in the the WH on what the talking points should be?
“A story about Hunter Biden” LOL. You’re pathetic. I despise Trump and the Republicans, but your behavior is pretty much the same shit
And mainstream media followed along...
Sucks to be a democrat, right about now
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And no body cares…
A little credit for NBC for at least posting this. None of the other lefties will even mention it
Cry harder. You all are the equivalent of Pravda
They obsessed with this bs and nobody cares. Their campaign is a laptop smh we phucked
This is the reason I created a twitter account in the 1st place. The media is so corrupt they cant even report correctly. If you go read the actual tweets this is a smoking gun with evidence of how the democrats squashed this story. Even had the press secretary account locked out
The more he tweets the less I care what he has to say.
Way to soft-pedal 😂
Twitter emails proving election interference and fake news covering it all up
And of course nbc will not broadcast it on the nightly news, wouldn’t want to upset your democratic overlords.
Nice headline. Way to really report what's happening! Disgrace
We don’t care.
Thanks we saw.
Hunter is never gonna be PoTUS again. He is fu⁉️ed. lol.
The primary claim revolves around the theory that Joe Biden, not Donald Trump, was the President of the United States of America in October 2020. The problem for conspiracy theorists like Elon Musk is that Donald Trump, not Joe Biden was the president in October 2020!
NBC failed to mention some of the most damning things in the article but at least they acknowledged it!
National security, COMPROMISED
How'd NBC handle the story in 2021? Who, with the DNC, told you to supress the story We all know, have known for years, you all get your talking points from the DNC. The repeating montages are endless. Check them out.
Why don't you just admit you support child pedo and crack addict Hunter Biden
It’s called ELECTION SUPPRESSION.. liberal MSM
The Congress basically told Twitter that the 1st amendment is not absolute, thereby breaching their oath to the Constitution, which makes them traitors. The thread is not as much about Twitter as about the Congress. They take away everything 1 by 1. Not that there is much left.
This just shows how the game of politics is dirty. But also, how corrupt certain Blue Party individuals got inside the White House. Straight up House of Cards.......
That’s a weird way to frame the disclosure of a fascist plot to interfere with an election between government and a private company.
Elon is lying, there is no media or social media manipulation for elections, there is not now and there’s never been. Bad Elon, Bad!
And you are STILL covering this whole thing up by making your headline as vague as possible. This could be one of the biggest stories of the decade and our feckless, corrupt media doesn’t care because it doesn’t fit their pre-determined narrative. ShameOnYou
The first amendment was violated prior to a pivotal election... Heads need to roll
Yeah nothing? The biggest election scandal since Watergate, involving elected and non elected politicians collaborating with private company to effect an hotly contested presidential election. Yeah right!
Looking forward to the civil war!
👏👏 transparency is refreshing
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