In October of 2020, the NY Post ran a story about the laptop that showed up at a computer repair shop and how it was Hunter Biden’s and about some of the information on that. Almost immediately Joe Biden called it Russian disinformation. The media and big tech quickly started echoing this statement to the point that social media accounts were canceled for spreading “fake news” and “disinformation”. All these even though there was confirmation that the e-mails on the laptop were real. Now, a year and a half later, the NYT has come out and admitted that the story was true all along. Data from this laptop is being used in ongoing investigations.

So the question is: does the reaction to the initial story show a real problem in the US society? Someone that has a lot to lose by a story says it is false and the media outlets and Big Tech jump to support that view? Does this show that censorship based on political views is alive and well in the US? There is a poll that shows that 10% of Biden voters would not have voted for him had they known there was an FBI investigation going on into the Biden family. Suppression of the laptop story helped with the election, assuming that had it been broadcast as the big deal it is those voters would have known about it.