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Lawyers for Hunter Biden, the controversial son of President Joe Biden, appear to have admitted that some of the data associated with the story of his infamous laptop are, in fact, his.

However, they stop short of admitting the laptop is his, suggesting instead that his data were stolen and that additional material may have been added.

The attorneys, from the Winston & Strawn

Former Twitter executives acknowledged to lawmakers Wednesday that the social media company erred when it temporarily suppressed a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020, but the officials emphasized there was no government involvement in the decision.

Republicans grilled the social media executives – including former Twitter deputy counsel James Baker –

Last week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) labeled the New York Post’s October 2020 report on Hunter Biden’s laptop “half fake” despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary.

“We’re talking about Hunter Biden’s half-fake laptop story. I mean, this is an embarrassment,” the congresswoman said at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter’s censorship of the laptop

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