Wed Dec 7, 2022 – 6:22 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Twitter owner Elon Musk said the platform’s deputy general counsel James Baker, who previously served as general counsel for the FBI, was “exited” from the company Tuesday over concerns regarding his “possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue.”
Musk made the announcement in a December 6 tweet responding to journalist Matt Taibbi, who released the first installment of the so-called “Twitter files” on Friday.
The “Twitter files” highlight internal company communications surrounding the censorship of the politically damning Hunter Biden laptop story broken by the New York Post just weeks before the 2020 presidential election. According to an August poll by TIPP Insights, 71% of Democrat respondents would likely have voted differently in the presidential race if they had known the Hunter Biden story was true.
The internal emails released Friday include one authored by Baker in which he defended the company’s early claim that the laptop story violated Twitter’s “hacked materials” policy. In the email, Baker argued it was “reasonable for us to assume that” the laptop had been hacked, “and that caution is warranted.” However, a forensic analysis has subsequently
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