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Re:The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence com... by Ygg2 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @08:29PM (#34133550)
> You're misunderstanding the thread. So let me lay it out.

You're misrepresenting the story.

One big omission is this:

> On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop:

> Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598831212310601728 https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598831435288563712

> and they were nothing except pictures of Hunter's penis

It wasn't. https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden... Find me a picture of penis in this news or prove that mtaibbi had somehow distorted this.

They treated a legitimate news, that was obtained by gray means as a child porn and de-ranked it.

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Re:The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence com... by belltaco on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:09PM (#34145016)
I am referring to these tweets in the two tweets from Matt Taibbi.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064

This shows that they were pornography:

https://twitter.com/Schneider_CM/status/1598832424754073601

Yet Matt Taibbi used those to spread baseless propaganda without giving the context behind the removal of those tweets. That clouds the rest of the claims too. Matt isn't interested in the truth. He's being a political hack serving partisan interests.

And even he was forced to concede that he couldn't find anything from the govt about the laptop.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598833927405215744

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