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Musk slams media for ‘deceiving the American public’ over suppression of Hunter Biden laptop story

Elon Musk ridiculed news outlets over the weekend for criticizing a reporter who published documents about Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

The billionaire owner of Tesla and Twitter accused the media of “not being truthful” and “deceiving the American public” following an analysis published by former Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi that examined how Twitter executives used the platform to delete and obscure news reports about the president’s son in the weeks before the 2020 election.

“I think those people should be looking in the mirror and wondering why they were deceptive. Why did they deceive the American public?