Elon Musk is putting the Democratic National Committee on high alert.
The billionaire called the censorship of news stories regarding Hunter Biden's laptop, "tantamount to interfering in the 2020 election."
Musk, who recently became Twitter CEO, has released never-before-seen information regarding the social media platform's decision to suppress news stories about Hunter Biden's laptop in October 2020.
The information was released via a thread from writer Matt Taibbi, which Musk shared along with the caption "Here we go" followed by popcorn emojis.
"On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop," Taibbi wrote. "Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be 'unsafe.' They even blocked its transmission via direct message."
The suppression of the Biden story took place three weeks before the 2020 presidential election. According to the New York Post, the laptop contained emails that show Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company,
Taibbi's characterization of the internal documents amounted to a sharp criticism of how Twitter's previous management handled the situation and ran the company, alleging without clear evidence that it was biased toward Democrats, NBC News reported.
Musk says his goal is, after showing how Twitter suppressed information, that legacy media will be more committed to the truth. He is also threatening to expose more "smoking guns" in his efforts to release internal communications and documents to the public.
"If Twitter is doing one team's bidding before an election, shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election, that is the definition of election interference," he said during a roundtable discussion on Twitter Spaces.
He also called Twitter the "arm of the Democratic National Committee."
"It's absurd," he said. "It's just obvious there's been a lot of control of information, suppression of information, including things that affected elections."
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