Twitter released a tweetstorm of its internal discussions about its efforts to remove the story from Hunter Biden’s laptop on Friday night via reporter Matt Taibbi.
The most shocking revelation in the news, delivered in a series of separate tweets, is that former CEO Jack Dorsey was unaware of the decisions to hold back. Instead, Vijaya Gadde, the company’s head of Trust & Safety – and one of the first executives fired by new owner Elon Musk during the Twitter takeover – made the call.
The controversial hardware on Biden’s laptop was discovered when he left the computer at a repair shop. When he failed to return to retrieve it, the owner examined its hard drive, leading to a potential political scandal over its contents shortly before the 2020 presidential election.
The thread is ongoing as of this writing and can be found here:
Earlier, Musk promised to uncover internal communications regarding Twitter’s censorship efforts as a way to be transparent and inspire confidence in his new regime.
Although Twitter eventually deleted the Biden laptop story, the thread shows that many at the company were concerned about the decision. Eventually, the company said that releasing the story would violate the company’s policy on “pirated material.”