Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’: Internal Hunter Biden Debate Revealed With Much Hype But No Bombshells

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Friday released, through an independent journalist, the Twitter Files, a 37-part Twitter thread of internal documents that shows some of the internal debate and reasoning behind the social media platform’s controversial “free speech suppression” around a bombshell 2020 report on President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden—though despite Musk’s hype, it doesn’t deliver any particular shocking new details.

Musk, a self-described free-speech absolutist, retweeted the Twitter Files Friday night, releasing a series of internal communications released to and reported on by the independent journalist Matt Taibbi, who called the internal documents a “Frankenstinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.”

The documents show Twitter staff took “extraordinary steps” to suppress an October 2020 New York Post story that claimed unseemly ties between then Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian energy company that paid money to Biden’s son Hunter—and which former President Donald Trump took as an October Surprise to falsely allege Biden had acted corruptly.

Twitter officials, the documents show, debated whether or not to suppress the story, which claimed to be sourced to a laptop once owned by Hunter Biden, but which they feared could be the result of Russian hacking.