On Monday, the White House dismissed the Twitter files as “full of old news.” (representative)
Washington:
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said he fired the microblogging website’s deputy general counsel, James Baker, over concerns about his role in suppressing information under the previous management.
“In light of concerns about (James) Baker’s potential role in suppressing information important to public dialogue, he has withdrawn from Twitter today,” Musk tweeted Tuesday.
Last week, journalist Matt Taibbi published “Twitter Files” in collaboration with Musk.
This set of documents was primarily Twitter’s internal communications to disclose ties to political actors and focusing on how the social network blocked stories related to Hunter Biden’s laptop in the run-up to the 2020 US presidential election.
The files released alleged that previous Twitter management had taken steps to suppress coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 US presidential election.
According to the Twitter Files published by Taibbi, Twitter Deputy General Counsel Baker played a role in the debate over whether the laptop story fell under Twitter’s “hacked material” policy.
“I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the material has been hacked,” the documents published by Taibbi said, Baker said in one of the emails. “However, at this stage it is reasonable for us to believe that this may have been the case and caution is warranted.”
Hunter Biden allegedly left his laptop at Isaac’s repair shop in 2019 while his father, Joe Biden, was running for president of the US. The contents of the laptop were later made public. Emails obtained by Western media via laptop proved Russia’s claims that the US president’s son helped fund bioweapons research in Ukraine.
The Bidens have drawn criticism from Republicans and others for their alleged misconduct in Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, which came into the public spotlight after the release of the emails.
On Monday, the White House dismissed the Twitter files as “full of old news.”
“Through Twitter on – okay. So, look, we see this as a – interesting or coincidence, if I may, that he would so haphazardly – Twitter so haphazardly push this diversion, that’s a – that’s full of old news, if you think about it,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a news conference.
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