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You’re talking about the contents of the laptop. Everyone else is talking about the tweets the Biden campaign asked Twitter to remove. The Biden campaign did not ask Twitter to remove all content regarding the laptop, they asked Twitter to remove a few specific tweets which contained pornographic images of Hunter Biden non-consensually posted to the internet.


Who is providing this information on the content of the tweets that were asked to be removed?

We don't have a comprehensive list of tweets the campaign and the DNC forwarded. I looked at archive.org for the tweets linked here: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064

2 of these include Hunter nudity, one is a video that doesn't play, one was never archived.

One, from GuySquiggs, is a Hunter photo with the nudity mspainted out, but questioning the age of the woman in the photo.

Also, is that a legal use of campaign funds to have staffers try to scrub the candidate's son's nudes from Twitter?


The “reporting” from Taibbi didn’t say anything about the content of the tweets. Other people discovered we can see 2 of the 4 tweets, and both of those are Hunter Biden nudes (one of which is censored). You’re the one saying the Biden campaign was trying to take down tweets about official corruption. Where is your evidence?


Yeah, I conflated the Post story suppression and the takedown requests.

I'm also not making any claim about the contents of taken down tweets aside from the ones I was able to see on archive.org. Those are just 3 tweets of 5 that were requested to be taken down by "the Biden team."

AFAIK we haven't been given any links to tweets that the DNC requested to be taken down.

The Twitter Files also says that the Trump White House made some takedown requests. Excepting actually illegal content like CSAM, any such request would be government censorship.




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