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 information suppression under previous management.
“In light of concerns about (James) Baker’s possible role in suppressing information important to the public discourse, he was kicked off Twitter today,” Musk tweeted Tuesday.
Last week, journalist Matt Tabby published the “Twitter Files” in collaboration with Musk.
These sets of documents were mainly Twitter’s internal communications to reveal ties to political actors and how the social network blocked stories related to Hunter Biden’s laptop in the lead-up to the 2020 US presidential election. focused on it.
Published files allege previous Twitter management took steps to suppress reporting about Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 US presidential election.
According to Twitter files published by Taybi, Twitter’s deputy general manager Baker played a role in a discussion about whether the laptop story fell under Twitter’s “hacked content” policy.
“I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether or not the content was hacked,” Baker said in an email of the documents published by Taybi. “At this stage, however, it is reasonable for us to assume that they may occur and that caution is warranted.”
Hunter Biden reportedly left his laptop at Isaac’s repair shop in 2019 while his father Joe Biden was running for US President. The contents of the laptop were later made public. Emails from a laptop obtained by Western media corroborate Russia’s claims that the US president’s son helped with biological weapons research in Ukraine.
Biden has faced scrutiny and criticism from Republicans and others for 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”.
“On Twitter — OK. So, look, we see this as an — an interesting or a coincidence, if I may, that she so randomly — Twitter would push this distraction so randomly — It is “full of old news, if you think about it,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a press briefing.
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