Thread by @SteveKrak

1. "Twitter Files" are a fascinating look at the inner workings of Twitter, and its coziness with power (both sides). There isn't a smoking gun, and anyone who has followed these stories for years (COVID suppression for example), shouldn't be surprised.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752

2. The Hunter Biden laptop suppression in October 2020 is THE story that tells us so much about our moment. It's why I made it the prologue to my book, #Uncovered, out in February.

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3. In #Uncovered, I describe the Hunter Biden laptop handling as "perhaps the most egregious and obvious example of the elite censorship collusion racket between tech companies, government forces, and the national media that we’ve ever seen."

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4. Remember the unprecedented censorship of the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story was not just confined to Twitter. Facebook exec Andy Stone tweeted that FB was "reducing its distribution" immediately.

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https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1316395902479872000

5. The media was absolutely complicit with this censorship.

MSNBC exec producer Kyle Griffin tweeted: "No one should link to or share that NY Post 'report'" warning against "amplifying what appears to be disinformation."

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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1316375735179780096

6. Remember that @maggieNYT Haberman was trending on Twitter as "MAGA Haberman" for daring to link to the New York Post, while questioning the sourcing of the story. Just linking was a thought crime.

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7. Here's a sense of the panic among the press:

Jake Sherman got his account suspended until he agreed to delete the link to the NYP, and groveled that "I wish i had given the story a closer read before tweeting it."

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https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1316781581785337857

8. Want to know how politics got involved in the suppression of the Hunter laptop story? Sherman also tweeted that he agreed to delete his tweet b/c "the biden campaign..did respond" to it, deeming it disinformation. So he complied.
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https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1316781774442311680

9. @willcain told me the Hunter suppression story was "the canary in the coal mine." @amychozick said it was " a really dangerous proposition." @semaforben said "It is the iconic story about the tech
industry suppressing a piece of journalism."

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10. @TuckerCarlson told me he knew instantly the laptop was real, because emails between him and Hunter Biden were on it: "I always liked him, for the record, until he went off the deep end and started doing a ton of blow; his life fell apart.”

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@TuckerCarlson 11. Remember the media fed the narrative the Hunter Biden laptop story was likely Russian disinformation thanks to former intel officials - some of whom were paid contributors to their networks.

That narrative was discussed incessantly for days.
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12. It was in many
ways the end of the Trump Era of journalism, and the beginning of an even more corrosive era of censorship.

Download the prologue to #Uncovered here (and pre-order!), which delves into all aspects of the Hunter Biden laptop story: bit.ly/uncoveredbook