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Actor James Woods said he plans to sue the Democratic National Committee (DNC) after Elon Musk shared explosive “Twitter Files” disclosures appearing to show that the DNC asked Twitter to censor Woods’s tweet about Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son.
Musk and independent journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday unveiled a series of internal Twitter communications that give insight into steps taken by staff at the social media platform around suppressing the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story.
In one of his posts, Taibbi shared a screengrab of an internal Twitter email dated Oct. 24, 2020, which appears to show a Twitter staffer sharing a list of five tweets allegedly identified by people from the campaign of then-candidate Joe Biden, a Democrat.
Taibbi wrote in a comment: “By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: ‘More to review from the Biden team.’ The reply would come back: ‘Handled.’”
Another one of the disclosures shared by Taibbi shows a screengrab of an email from one Twitter employee to another, dated Oct. 25, 2020, indicating that the DNC had flagged two embarrassing tweets, reportedly involving Hunter Biden, for censorship.
“Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party,” Taibbi wrote as a comment.
The screenshot of the email exchange showed one Twitter staffer saying they had “grabbed the first one under SI,” referring to a tweet from the account @stephen_liuhan, which is suspended.
That staff member then told their colleague “defer to Safety on the high profile second one,” referring to a tweet that came from James Woods’s account. Both tweets seem to have been deleted.
Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Andrew Kerr replied to Taibbi’s tweet, writing, “The Stephen_liuhuan tweet was a link to Hunter Biden weighing and using drugs, and another link to a Hunter Biden sex tape. The James Wood tweet is Hunter Biden smoking crack and getting a foot job.
