What, specifically, was labeled as disinformation but later turned out to be true? Please cite sources so we can be talking about the same things.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

This matters because what was covered at the time was that the laptop was known not to have a good chain of custody. At the time, journalists at the NYT, WaPo, and others reported that they were able to verify some of the emails but that large amounts of data were hard to validate and the lack of a clean forensic history made it hard to confirm validity for many of the files because there were clear signs of access and modification after it had left Hunter Biden’s control. Nothing which has come out since then has changed that, and the general consensus outside of movement conservatives seems to be that the main thing politicizing this did is to make it harder for the DOJ and other investigators to prove anything to a legal standard.

> No concrete evidence has emerged that the laptop contains Russian disinformation.

> John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, also told Fox Business Network that the “laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20201022234605/https://www.nytim...

Again, can you cite a specific claim made by a specific entity at a specific time? Your feelings don’t give the rest of us much to work with.

2) Though it is beside the pint of the discussion of disinformation, I'm interested to hear from someone I assume is actally human tell me if the email contents would affect an individual's choice in the 2020 election. The alleged corruption of a politician's son would stack against the overtly corrupt and anti-American behavior of the Republican candidate?

Right-wing blogs spreading Russian propaganda don't count.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

> Russian intelligence officers were using Mr. Giuliani, who provided the hard drive copy to the tabloid, as a conduit for disinformation aimed at undermining Mr. Biden’s presidential run.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

Also, if you're going to break HN rules by using your account to do ideological battle and spread disinformation, maybe make it a little less obvious in your username?

Shame on you for spreading misinformation.

> Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop.

Either the NY Times is a "right-wing blog spreading Russian propaganda" or the fact that they based this story on the contents of the laptop is a tacit admission that it's authentic.

> Russian intelligence officers were using Mr. Giuliani, who provided the hard drive copy to the tabloid, as a conduit for disinformation aimed at undermining Mr. Biden’s presidential run.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/hunter-biden-laptop-...

https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/new-york-times-finally-admit-h...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/analysis-...