Congressman Ro Khanna and Vijaya Gadde, two Indian-Americans, played significant roles in the laptop tale involving US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, whose complete disclosure, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced would be made public on the microblogging platform.
The richest person in the world, Elon Musk, who last month bought Twitter, said on Friday that he would reveal information regarding what he called Twitter’s “suppression” of a contentious report by the New York Post about Hunter Biden’s laptop that was released prior to the 2020 US election. Additionally, he tweeted that the event will be “amazing” and have a “live Q&A” on the subject.
Twitter initially restricted the story’s reach due to worries that a foreign disinformation campaign may have been behind it
According to the story, emails that belonged to Hunter were found on a laptop. The New York Post claimed to have gotten the emails from Trump’s former personal attorney at the time, Rudy Giuliani, and to have learned of their existence through Trump’s former White House top strategist, Steve Bannon.
Twitter initially restricted the story’s reach due to worries that a foreign disinformation campaign may have been behind it. However, the social media business swiftly changed its stance after being criticized for blocking the link by its then-CEO, Jack Dorsey.
The Democratic congressman for Silicon Valley in the US House of Representatives is Ro Khanna, and before being fired by her new boss and CEO Musk, attorney Vijaya Gadde oversaw legal, policy, and trust matters at Twitter.
In response to claims that Twitter withheld news and information pertaining to Hunter’s laptop during the 2020 election campaign, author Matt Taibbi published a number of tweets along with internal Twitter communications. Ro Khanna appears to have questioned Twitter’s decision to block access to a New York Post investigative report on Hunter’s laptop, according to information made public by Matt Taibbi.
“I say this as a total Biden partisan and convinced he did not do anything wrong”
Ro Khanna is fantastic, wrote Elon Musk in a tweet as the information began to flow. Khanna challenged Twitter’s alleged censoring in a private email to Vijaya Gadde. “I say this as a staunch supporter of Biden who is sure he did nothing wrong. However, the focus of the story has shifted to censorship rather than a few harmless emails, making it more significant than it otherwise would have been “Ro Kha wrote to Vijaya Gadde.
Khanna responded to Vijaya Gadde and asked her not to release the content of their emails because “in the heat of a presidential campaign, restricting dissemination of newspaper articles (even if New York Post is far right) seems like it will create more reaction than it will do good.” According to Khanna, Twitter’s action appears to be a violation of the principles of the First Amendment.
“I believe the NYT should have the authority to publish any stolen classified information or any information that could reveal a severe war crime. Unless they actively assisted the hack, a journalist should not be held responsible for the illegal actions of the source “said Khanna.