Exhibit 1103 ยท Social-media thread (Twitter Files)
The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story (thread, 2 December 2022)
Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:
Forty-post thread by Matt Taibbi, the first Twitter Files release. Post 8 says that by 2020 'requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine' and shows an email screenshot (read from the Wayback copy of the image, see exhibit twitter-2020-email-biden-team-review). Post 10 says requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were 'received and honored'; post 11 says the system 'wasn't balanced' because Twitter staff had more channels open to Democrats. Posts 17 to 28 describe Twitter's 14 October 2020 block of the New York Post laptop story and an internal debate over its hacked-materials basis. Post 22 says the author saw 'no evidence' of government involvement in that decision, only a 'general' warning from federal law enforcement that summer. The thread names no document for the Trump White House request it describes in post 10.
- Source
- Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi), Twitter thread
- Date
- 2 December 2022
- Quoted from
- Post 10 of 40 (thread of 2 Dec 2022, Thread Reader copy; the author skips numbers 13-15 in the thread)
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Reported: internal Twitter documents as selected, screenshotted and described by the thread's author after Twitter's owner gave the writers access; no complete archive is public and the one X capture opened (Part 1) rendered as an empty shell in the Wayback Machine, so the readable copy is the Thread Reader capture linked under archive (the posts themselves were not re-opened on X). The primary documents that would replace it are the underlying emails and Slack messages, which a court, Twitter or a regulator has not produced in full.