Supreme Court Nukes Hunter Biden Laptop Conspiracy in Brutal Ruling

[Judi Lynn]

Talia Jane
/ June 26, 2024/11:52 a.m. ET

Even the conservative Supreme Court thinks the far-right’s FBI conspiracy theory is ridiculous.



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The Supreme Court issued a surprising decision on Wednesday, finding that complaints that the Biden administration had forced censorship on conservative social media users were unfounded. In its 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court laid a death blow in particular to the conspiracy theory that the FBI forced social media companies to suppress stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

One of the main conspiracy theories that has kept conservatives in a chokehold for the past three years is that the FBI forced social media companies to remove content discussing Hunter Biden’s laptop to protect the Bidens. In reality, social media companies cracked down on the dissemination of photos purporting to have come from Biden’s laptop in accordance with their boilerplate hacked-materials policies, which enforce against the dissemination of content obtained through illegal means, such as revenge porn. That enforcement resulted in a removal of posts discussing Biden’s laptop that included those photos, but discussions of the laptop on their own weren’t restricted.

One plaintiff in the Supreme Court case was Jim Hoft, founder of the failing far-right conspiracy website Gateway Pundit. Hoft elevated the FBI interference conspiracy and claimed moderation efforts taken by Twitter caused him harm. Hoft embedded Twitter posts made by his brother, Joe Hoft, sharing photos claiming to be from Biden’s laptop. Twitter suspended Joe Hoft’s account, which resulted in the posts embedded on Gateway Pundit turning up as dead links. Hoft was likely trying to pull a sneaky workaround to avoid licensing and verifying the images himself, instead sourcing to content published on Twitter, and the effort failed. Hoft claimed the FBI interfered to remove the photos and that doing so caused him harm.

The Supreme Court meticulously ripped these claims to shreds, hilariously sourcing Hoft’s own claims that the crackdown came from Twitter’s existing hacked materials policy.

More:
https://newrepublic.com/post/183140/supreme-court-hunter-biden-laptop-conspiracy-fbi-social-media

[wolfie001]

1. What about the Biden niece's diary

Some lady's sitting in a jail cell over that one. I don't wanna search for it because there's so much RW bullshit surrounding it. Is that a non-story?

[womanofthehills]

5. It's not Biden's niece - it's his daughter Ashley's diary

The woman who found & sold the diary served a month in jail.

[wolfie001]

8. Thanks

Haven't really followed it and appreciate the update.

[sboatcar]

6. I feel so bad about that diary

That poor woman has been absolutely dragged through the mud over it, and its her PRIVATE DIARY, her PRIVATE THOUGHTS. I feel so bad for her, she was suffering and trying to put her thoughts on a page, and now its been plastered everywhere.

[wolfie001]

7. Stuff like this just feeds into repukes mania

They take some little thing and make it radioactive through all of their media sources, blogs, podcasts. Really repulsive people.

[sboatcar]

9. Its digusting

They were all salivating over every last detail of it. Its like a lot of them have that exact fantasy or something. The reaction was so creepy among some of the Trumpers I see online.

[tanyev]

2. Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch.

[KS Toronado]

3. Those appear to be the 3 in this case

that voted party over common sense.

[ShazzieB]

4. It's so nice when this Court actually gets something right.

I'm not at all surprised that 2 of the dissenters were Uncle Ruckus and Sam the Sham. Not sure who I would have guessed for the third, but Gorsuch? Yeah, sure.

[Hekate]

10. KnR. Supreme Court Nukes Hunter Biden Laptop Conspiracy in Brutal Ruling