Did Ex-Intel Officials Call Hunter Biden Laptop Disinformation?

The "Twitter files", an exposé of internal communications at the social media platform, has reheated interest in Hunter Biden's laptop, a story that revealed potentially compromising correspondence between an adviser at Ukraine energy firm Burisma and President Joe Biden's son.

Following a New York Post exclusive report in 2020, social media networks initially made efforts to limit the spread of the story, including Twitter, which suppressed the article and briefly suspended the tabloid's account.

While the significance of the "Twitter files" is under debate, it has reignited examination of the reach that behind-the-scenes characters had in the proliferation of the early Hunter Biden reports, including the role of figures from the U.S. intelligence community.

Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) stated in a Facebook post published on 15 December 2022, that "51 former 'intelligence' officials told us the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation."