Twitter CEO Elon Musk agreed with a post on the platform that urged him to make public all “internal discussions” about the New York Post’s “decision to censor.” Story on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

What happened: Musk, who took over Twitter In late October, he said, “This is necessary to restore public confidence,” in response to a tweet asking him to make the discussion public.

In October 2020, both Twitter and Rivale Facebook operated by Metaplatforms Inc META faced allegations of political bias over constrain a story associated with the President Joe Biden‘s son hunter.

Back then the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that blocking the URL related to the story was “unacceptable”.

The New York Post story was based on materials obtained from a laptop left at a Delaware repair shop. The report claimed Hunter introduced then-Vice President Biden to a Ukrainian businessman.

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Why it matters: Twitter clarified that it had blocked the posts related to the story because they contained “personal and private information,” according to a previous report.

Later, Twitter’s legal, policy, trust and security edge Vijaya Gade said that the platform would no longer “remove hacked content” provided they are not shared directly by attackers, and instead “tag tweets to provide context”.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in August that the US Federal Office of Investigations approached the company and said they should be on “High Alert” before Hunter Biden story broke.

The FBI responded by saying so routinely notifies US private sector companies of potential threat information.

This story was originally published on November 24, 2022.

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