The journalist posted screenshots of emails related to Twitter’s decision to censor a story by the New York Post in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Independent journalist Matt Taibbi on Saturday dismissed criticism he received after posting a Twitter thread containing records that showed warnings against suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story on the social media platform in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
Some critics, including MSNBC hosts Mehdi Hasan and Chris Hayes, pointed out that Taibbi’s “Twitter Files” are “PR work for the world’s richest man,” which was in reference to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
“Looking forward to going through all the tweets complaining about ‘PR for the richest man on earth,’ and seeing how many of them have run stories for anonymous sources at the FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, White House, etc,” Taibbi tweeted Saturday.
Twitter blocked users in October 2020 from sharing the Post’s report that alleged Joe Biden, who was running for president at the time, had used his former position as vice president to benefit the business interests of his son. The censorship move was heavily criticized by Republicans and the Trump administration at the time.
