The inner workings of the platform's moderation practices were revealed in a bombshell report by the 2020 Biden presidential campaign.
On Friday, journalist Matt Taibbi, who writes the substack newsletter TK News, published a thread oftweets containing internal communications from the company indicating they had received requests from the campaign of Joe Biden. The posts were taken down.
An email was sent to five links shared by another Twitter employee.
Four of the five links that Taibbi shared were online. Nude photos and videos of the president's son were leaked after he left his laptop at a Delaware repair shop.
The removal has been seized upon by critics as evidence of the social media platform's bias in favor of Democratic politicians, but Musk went so far as to call them a violation of the First Amendment
Sharing images or videos that are taken in an intimate setting and not intended for public distribution is not allowed. It's illegal to share such imagery in California state law.
Musk responded to readers who argued that the Biden campaign's request was a violation of the constitution's first amendment because they were acting under orders from the government.
Legal experts quickly pointed out that the issue was not related to the constitution because representatives of the 2020 Biden campaign were not operating in any official government capacity as they were not yet government officials.
The First Amendment only applies to the government according to a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School. Biden was a private individual and his campaign was not government-funded. Revenge porn and nude pictures of Hunter Biden are illegal in many states.
Musk, Taibbi, and representatives for the Biden administration did not respond to Insider's questions.
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