Elon Musk hyped the publication of shocking revelations on Friday about Twitter’s controversial decision to restrict stories about Hunter Biden’s laptops on the platform, but the leak was a failure. resonates with many right-wing pundits.
“So far, I am extremely disappointed,” Sebastian Gorka, a former Trump administration official turned right-wing radio host, said. His comments came after the journalist Matt Taibbi released a long thread on Twitter details Musk’s advertised findings, specifically that Twitter executives themselves have been conflicted about whether to limit Hunter Biden’s reporting and that Democrats (and Republicans) peace) sent a censorship request to the social media giant.
“We know Dems in DC colluded with Dems in Palo Alto [Califonia]. Big Whop,” Gorka added.
But the right-wing host didn’t leave it in just one post. He continued by doubling down when pressed by MAGA’s avid followers, who believed the “Twitter files” advertised by Musk were a smoking gun.
Responding to a user who claimed that Twitter’s corporate emails were “a clear violation of the First Amendment,” the radio host shot back: “No, the DNC’s request for a Private censorship has nothing to do with the First Amendment.”
Likewise, the New York Post columnist Miranda Devine—one of the first right-wing reporters to start writing about laptops—told FoxNews presenter Tucker Carlson it’s not the “fuming gun we expected.”
“I feel that Elon Musk has withheld some documents,” she later alleged, suggesting that sinister forces were probably controlling Musk after the Twitter head had a meeting with the CEO. Apple Tim Cook at the beginning of the week. “In particular, there was a tweet in which Matt Taibbi said he did not see any evidence that law enforcement specifically warned Twitter off our story. But that’s not true.”
Others echo similar sediments about political rights.
“Twitter files [are] overwhelming so far. Just revealing what we already know: Twitter is run by democrats who bid on Democrats,” Free Beacon reporter Joe Simonson Written.
Far-right Twitter rival gab took it a step further by attacking Musk. “Elon has omitted this story about Hunter Biden that has absolutely nothing to do with the hunter, which does not reveal anything new beyond what we have known for years now,” the company wrote on Telegram. to distract from the fact that he suspended the biggest cultural superstar of a generation for going on a podcast to say he loves everyone.”
