The news that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign pressured X, formerly Twitter, to censor journalist Ken Klippenstein has reignited the controversy over tech censorship in terms that replicate, almost word for word, what transpired four years ago with the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. You’ve got a news outlet publishing unauthorized disclosures that could hurt a presidential campaign on the eve of the election; you’ve got unredacted personal details ending up going public as a result; you have Twitter/X pointing to the latter fact to justify throttling the story and kicking the publisher off the platform; and you’ve got the tech company run by people with clear political sympathies toward the campaign that viewed the reporting as an electoral threat. This time, not only did this reportedly come due to pressure coming directly from a campaign, but Elon Musk, X’s owner, is also a megadonor to that same campaign.
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