CNN pundit downplays Big Tech censorship of Hunter Biden laptop in 2020, calls government collusion 'nonsense'

CNN contributor Kara Swisher raised eyebrows arsenic she importantly downplayed Big Tech's censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop communicative during the 2020 predetermination and called claims of collusion betwixt tech companies and the national authorities "absolute nonsense."

On Wednesday night, a CNN sheet treatment enactment a spotlight connected comments made by Republican vice-presidential campaigner Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, who suggested that President Biden's triumph was illegitimate by pointing to however societal media giants "verifiably" "censored Americans from talking astir things similar the Hunter Biden laptop story," saying that had a "major, large consequence" connected the results of the erstwhile election. 

"There is nary impervious that tech companies colluded to bash this," Swisher reacted. "This is nonsense and helium knows it."

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CNN contributor Kara Swisher raised eyebrows erstwhile she downplayed the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop communicative during the 2020 election. (Screenshot/CNN)

Fellow panelist, blimpish CNN governmental expert Scott Jennings, pushed back, saying determination was an "institutional effort" to suppress the New York Post's bombshell reporting connected the laptop. 

"I person been 1 of the biggest critics of tech. This is nonsense. Absolute nonsense," Swisher doubled down.

"Wasn't the New York Post thrown disconnected of Twitter?" Jennings asked. 

As Jennings attempted to refute Swisher, CNN anchor Abby Phillip interjected to validate Swisher arsenic a tech journalist, telling him Swisher "has done existent reporting connected this" and that she's "done the work."

"I don't cognize wherefore you support repeating things that aren't true," Swisher told Jennings. 

"Did they get thrown disconnected of Twitter? It's true!" Jennings reacted.

"They did, and past [Twitter] said they made a mistake and they enactment them close backmost on, conscionable similar CNN does, conscionable similar The New York Time does," Swisher responded. "It wasn't aft the election, it was during the time… and [then-Twitter CEO] Jack Dorsey switched."

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Big tech famously dismissed the New York Post's bombshell reporting during the 2020 statesmanlike election. The Post reporting was famously censored by Twitter up of the 2020 election. (Getty images  |  New York Post)

Swisher continued, "So I deliberation what the contented is – is you deliberation Twitter is the government. You deliberation Twitter is moving things. And determination is not this wide collusion. And JD Vance knows that due to the fact that he's worked successful tech. He knows there's nary specified happening arsenic Big Tech. There are large tech companies. They bash not collude connected this issue."

However, Swisher was incorrect erstwhile she claimed The New York Post was enactment "right backmost on" Twitter (now called X). The New York Post's relationship was locked for a whopping 16 days due to the fact that it refused to instrumentality down its posts linking to its Hunter Biden laptop reporting, being fto backmost connected the level little than a week earlier Election Day 2020. 

Also near unmentioned was however Twitter blocked its users from adjacent sharing the links done nonstop messages and that Twitter users including then-White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany had their accounts locked for sharing the Post's reporting, claiming they violated Twitter's rules "against organisation of hacked material" contempt the information the Biden run ne'er claimed the laptop was hacked. 

Additionally, Swisher's assertion that determination was nary collusion betwixt the societal media giants and the authorities is undercut by the revelations from the Twitter Files, which showed however the FBI and DOJ informed Twitter astir a imaginable "hack and leak" cognition from Russia pertaining to Hunter Biden earlier the New York Post ran its story.  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg besides admitted successful August however his institution was pressured by the Biden administration to region COVID-related contented it deemed misinformation and that the FBI antecedently warned astir "Russian propaganda" earlier Hunter Biden's laptop surfaced.

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Conservative CNN expert Scott Jennings clashed with wide workfellow Kara Swisher implicit Big Tech's relation successful the 2020 predetermination during a sheet discussion. (Screenshot/CNN)

Critics took purpose astatine Swisher's comments connected societal media. 

"Yes, this is each a implicit prevarication from @karaswisher connected CNN - arsenic they assertion she's the 1 who ‘knows,’" autarkic writer Glenn Greenwald reacted. Twitter locked the NY Post retired of their relationship for 2 weeks - until **3 days earlier the election** - due to the fact that the NY Post refused to region links to 6 stories astir Biden."

"The Hunter Biden laptop communicative was evidently suppressed by Twitter and Facebook," Twitter Files writer Matt Taibbi reacted. "Mark Zuckerberg’s letters, the deposition of FBI cause Elvis Chan, the FEC declaration of Yoel Roth, and different docs amusement the FBI astatine minimum falsely warned of a overseas ‘hack and leak’ operation."

"Perfect illustration of the arrogance of pigheaded ignorance," New York Post columnist Miranda Devine said. "The @nypost twitter relationship was locked for 2 weeks, until a fewer days earlier the 2020 election. People similar @kayleighmcenany were suspended conscionable for trying to privately DM a nexus to our story. You don’t cognize what you are talking astir @karaswisher."

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