"It's going to be great" - Musk promotes release of internal Twitter documents

Twitter boss Elon Musk has launched another attack on the US Democrats. This time, the tech billionaire shared tweets via internal Twitter documents about the controversy surrounding a New York Post article that appeared just ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

The article included an email from the current US President's son, Hunter Biden, about his foreign dealings. "What really happened to the Hunter Biden story suppressed by Twitter will (...) be published on Twitter!" Musk announced beforehand and went on to write: "It's going to be great". At the same time, the hashtag was circulating

Twitter then blocked the newspaper's article and account because the report allegedly violated rules prohibiting the dissemination of information obtained through illegal hacks. In the debate going on in the US at the time, it was also pointed out that a laptop full of material (including e-mails, but also photos) on which the reporting was based was possibly a fake.

In the meantime, however, it has been established that the device and some of the content found on it are authentic and can be attributed to the president's son, as the "New York Times" and the "Wall Street Journal" now also concede. Twitter boss Jack Dorsey later admitted that the platform's actions against the New York Post were a mistake. Twitter then changed its rules.

Musk shared a series of tweets from journalist Matt Taibbi. This shows, among other things, in several screenshots of internal messages that the blocking of the "New York Post" article was also the subject of controversial debates within the company. Taibbi also wanted to prove an alleged influence of the Democrats on the platform.

Biden's son Hunter's foreign dealings had made headlines in the past and given Republicans political attacks on Democrat Joe Biden. Business in Ukraine, for example, raised questions: Between 2014 and 2019, Hunter Biden held a lucrative post on the board of directors of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, while Joe Biden, as US Vice President, was responsible for Ukraine.

Musk announced further releases, as did Taibbi himself. He wrote on Twitter: “For me (the) 96 hours were a hurricane. Much more is to come, including answers to questions on topics such as shadow bans, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more. These issues are not limited to the political right,” the journalist said. A shadow ban means that a user is not officially blocked on the platform, but his content is played out to his followers less frequently than before.

The response to the publications was mixed. Many users on the platform itself cheered the

Musk bought Twitter for around $44 billion at the end of October. Before the midterm elections in November, he campaigned for the Republicans on the platform. He later said on the platform that he would support a presidential nomination from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. He also unlocked the account of former US President Donald Trump.