Would Donald Trump still be president if Twitter and Facebook had not prevented people from sharing the now-infamous New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop?
It’s a question that can legitimately be revisited thanks to covertly recorded videos released last week by conservative activist media organisation Project Veritas. The videos appear to show senior Twitter employees admitting political bias and the suppression of right-wing views.
Back in October 2020, the social media companies said the decision to block the laptop story – which seemed to expose Biden Jnr using his father’s name for nefarious financial gain – was taken in good faith, on the basis that the computer’s files might have been falsified.
Then Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told a congressional hearing that the company’s decision-making processes had simply misfired. ‘It was literally just a process error… We don’t have a censoring department’, he said.
We will, of course, never know what might have turned out differently had Twitter not prevented the sharing of the Biden laptop story
But how to square that statement with film
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