‘This will be awesome’: Musk leaks Twitter's Hunter Biden files

The tech billionaire's latest move will likely ingratiate him further with conservatives — and plunge the social media platform deeper into political controversy.

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Elon Musk is stoking controversy on a new front, this time revealing sensitive internal deliberations at Twitter around Hunter Biden’s personal computer files in the fall of 2020.

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Last month, he reinstated former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account after taking an informal online poll.

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Musk teased the event hours before it began to spill out in Taibbi’s tweets, promising, “This will be awesome,” and suggested he was personally involved in its preparation.

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“We’re double-checking some facts, so probably start live tweeting in about 40 mins,”

Musk tweeted as users waited for the promised disclosures.

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His latest latest controversial move came before the dust had settled from his last one, which saw Musk block Ye’s account after the rapper tweeted, “I like Hitler.”

Ahead of the midterm elections, Musk urged his followers to vote Republican.

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