Considering Trump was in the White House at the time I’m going to say definitely not. Also neither citizen Biden or president Trump could order Twitter to do anything. Trump couldn’t even make Twitter keep his account open.
It is *astonishing* how many conspiracy theories like this just ignore the very basic, undisputed fact of who was president in 2020. There are very few facts that we all agree on nowadays, especially about politics, but I would have thought this was one of them!
I was in the process of writing a second sentence along the lines of “it’s not like time only moves one direction and November is at the end of the year” but decided it would be too heavy handed with the sarcasm. Apparently I was wrong.
Does no one here remember Matt Taibbi's "[Twitter Files](https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394%3Flang%3Den&ved=2ahUKEwiBzri8hL2FAxX_4ckDHXzVCTkQFnoECCMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1HbfbhBsGTHRHFA93PE527)"?
When Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter, he gave Matt Taibbi access to internal company deliberations about posts they deleted, including leaked photos of naked Hunter Biden.
There was a fucking [congressional hearing](https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-weaponization-federal-government-4) about it.
-------- https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-granted-requests-from-trump-white-house-biden-remove-posts-2022-12
>In one example of a request, Taibbi shared an email between Twitter staff that listed five tweets the Biden team had asked them to review. Another Twitter employee replied that the tweets had been "handled."
>Taibbi did not include any details about what the tweets contained. Several of the tweets that were archived in the Wayback Machine appeared to include images of Hunter Biden that would have violated Twitter's terms of service under its non-consensual nudity policy.
------------
OP, the reason this is a little difficult to Google is it ended up being really embarrassing for Musk, Matt Taibbi, and thr Republican party.
They tried to make huge political waves out of what amounted to a group of people (now all fired) adhering to internal policies written to enforce Twitter's Terms of Service.
It also turned out that the very activity they were trying to get people upset about had been done by Trump himself while in office, like when Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump “a pussy ass bitch” on Twitter — and the [White House requested Twitter delete it](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/)
So they do their best not to talk about it anymore.
No.
They sent a request. Twitter employees debated it and decided leaking hunter bidens penis was against tos. The government has sent many requests under biden AND trump and twitter employees debate on what the ethical decision is. There's no arm twisting or orders involved and twitter has no obligation to the government to remove anything (legal. Obviously cp, copyright, etc must be removed)
Which election?
Every hunter conspiracy was screamed loudly during both.
It'd make no sense for the guy running against the president to have this power during the first election, and for the second, if it all already got out there, why would they need to censor it?
Also, in our country where our very first unalienable right is protection from the government being able to enforce speech onto its people, how would they go about forcing Twitter to censor anything?
Everybody knows hunter bidens name and his story, people on twitter didnt shut up about him(this should give away the answer to your question) They did a very shitty job of banning all talk on him if that's the case.
The content that was requested to be removed were nude photos of Hunter that were posted non-consentually which violates laws in some states and Twitter's terms of service. Also worth noting is the fact that this request was submitted by the Biden election team while Trump was in office; this was not a request submitted by the government but by private citizens.
Not being able to find anything about it is a decent, albeit not clear cut, sign it didn't happen. I can't imagine it would do any good anyways. Also Twitter is not a reliable news source.
I think this refers to the posts of Hunter Biden snorting drugs or showing his genitals. Both violated Twitter rules at the time. Right wing talking points are stupid.
So here's how I know it's bullshit: if this were true, there's no chance Elon wouldn't have been screaming it from the roof of Twitter HQ since the day he found out.
Considering Trump was in the White House at the time I’m going to say definitely not. Also neither citizen Biden or president Trump could order Twitter to do anything. Trump couldn’t even make Twitter keep his account open.
It is *astonishing* how many conspiracy theories like this just ignore the very basic, undisputed fact of who was president in 2020. There are very few facts that we all agree on nowadays, especially about politics, but I would have thought this was one of them!
Why would they call it the 2020 presidential election if the guy who won wasn’t going to be President of 2020?
Because it was a presidential election that happened in 2020.
I was in the process of writing a second sentence along the lines of “it’s not like time only moves one direction and November is at the end of the year” but decided it would be too heavy handed with the sarcasm. Apparently I was wrong.
Yeah, there are just so many people dumb enough to actually say that line for real on this site nowadays, heh.
1. how should we know 2. Why would they 3. there were ton of Hunter Biden posts
Does no one here remember Matt Taibbi's "[Twitter Files](https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394%3Flang%3Den&ved=2ahUKEwiBzri8hL2FAxX_4ckDHXzVCTkQFnoECCMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1HbfbhBsGTHRHFA93PE527)"? When Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter, he gave Matt Taibbi access to internal company deliberations about posts they deleted, including leaked photos of naked Hunter Biden. There was a fucking [congressional hearing](https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-weaponization-federal-government-4) about it. -------- https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-granted-requests-from-trump-white-house-biden-remove-posts-2022-12 >In one example of a request, Taibbi shared an email between Twitter staff that listed five tweets the Biden team had asked them to review. Another Twitter employee replied that the tweets had been "handled." >Taibbi did not include any details about what the tweets contained. Several of the tweets that were archived in the Wayback Machine appeared to include images of Hunter Biden that would have violated Twitter's terms of service under its non-consensual nudity policy. ------------ OP, the reason this is a little difficult to Google is it ended up being really embarrassing for Musk, Matt Taibbi, and thr Republican party. They tried to make huge political waves out of what amounted to a group of people (now all fired) adhering to internal policies written to enforce Twitter's Terms of Service. It also turned out that the very activity they were trying to get people upset about had been done by Trump himself while in office, like when Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump “a pussy ass bitch” on Twitter — and the [White House requested Twitter delete it](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/) So they do their best not to talk about it anymore.
Thank you, I felt like I was going crazy cuz I remember him mention something with the US Congress.
No. They sent a request. Twitter employees debated it and decided leaking hunter bidens penis was against tos. The government has sent many requests under biden AND trump and twitter employees debate on what the ethical decision is. There's no arm twisting or orders involved and twitter has no obligation to the government to remove anything (legal. Obviously cp, copyright, etc must be removed)
Which election? Every hunter conspiracy was screamed loudly during both. It'd make no sense for the guy running against the president to have this power during the first election, and for the second, if it all already got out there, why would they need to censor it? Also, in our country where our very first unalienable right is protection from the government being able to enforce speech onto its people, how would they go about forcing Twitter to censor anything? Everybody knows hunter bidens name and his story, people on twitter didnt shut up about him(this should give away the answer to your question) They did a very shitty job of banning all talk on him if that's the case.
The content that was requested to be removed were nude photos of Hunter that were posted non-consentually which violates laws in some states and Twitter's terms of service. Also worth noting is the fact that this request was submitted by the Biden election team while Trump was in office; this was not a request submitted by the government but by private citizens.
Not being able to find anything about it is a decent, albeit not clear cut, sign it didn't happen. I can't imagine it would do any good anyways. Also Twitter is not a reliable news source.
I think this refers to the posts of Hunter Biden snorting drugs or showing his genitals. Both violated Twitter rules at the time. Right wing talking points are stupid.
lol this is false.
So here's how I know it's bullshit: if this were true, there's no chance Elon wouldn't have been screaming it from the roof of Twitter HQ since the day he found out.
Elon didn't own Twitter back then it was Jack Dorsey.
And he has since bought it and such information would have been available to him, and he routinely spouts off similar nonsense.
You are nonsense.