He attacked them for censoring opposing viewpoints for political and ideological reasons. That's a far cry from hacked personal information. I admit, it is a bit of a grey line, but neither of these cases are particularly close to the line.
He attacked Twitter in the past for banning someone for the exact same reason.
Musk was one of the people who was unhappy with the decision to ban links to the Post’s story. “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” Musk wrote of the decision on the story in April 2022. He even invited former Rolling Stone pundit Matt Taibbi to examine internal documents showing how Twitter handled the decision. (In the course of tweeting his conclusions, Taibbi exposed the email addresses of Dorsey and Representative Ro Khanna.)
Info from Hunter Biden’s laptop was a focus of the “Twitter Files” and explicitly involved information being taken unethically and possibly illegally from a laptop at a repair shop.
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He attacked them for censoring opposing viewpoints for political and ideological reasons. That's a far cry from hacked personal information. I admit, it is a bit of a grey line, but neither of these cases are particularly close to the line.
He attacked Twitter in the past for banning someone for the exact same reason.
Musk was one of the people who was unhappy with the decision to ban links to the Post’s story. “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” Musk wrote of the decision on the story in April 2022. He even invited former Rolling Stone pundit Matt Taibbi to examine internal documents showing how Twitter handled the decision. (In the course of tweeting his conclusions, Taibbi exposed the email addresses of Dorsey and Representative Ro Khanna.)
Yes. WaPo didn’t post the contents of the laptop. They reported on the fbi report that hunters laptop was turned in with incriminating information.
It’s the difference between reporting on a hack (though Hunters laptop wasn’t hacked) and releasing the hack.
Info from Hunter Biden’s laptop was a focus of the “Twitter Files” and explicitly involved information being taken unethically and possibly illegally from a laptop at a repair shop.