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Re:Twitter Drops the Big One by jhanschoo on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:19AM (#24799642)
> What does Twitter know about how the materials in the laptop were obtained and their validity? Is it invoking a precaution ahead of time in blocking material that could be hacked? If so, Twitter has not bothered to say anything about it. For all we know, it could have been illegally obtained somehow.

Wouldn't the Post's claims that the data was obtained by hacking suffice? For as long as nobody is claiming in good faith that the data was not obtained through hacking, the Post's own claim should suffice; I think it is too burdensome for the onus to be on twitter to independently verify that for every case of this like.

Re:Twitter Drops the Big One by PixyMisa on Friday October 16, 2020 @10:58AM (#24801434)
The Post made no such claims.
Re:Twitter Drops the Big One by jhanschoo on Friday October 16, 2020 @06:25PM (#24805620)
It did.

> The blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim that he’s “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings” — is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer.

Hunter Biden email

The computer was dropped off at a repair shop in Biden’s home state of Delaware in April 2019, according to the store’s owner.