Hunter Biden is the son of President Obama. Kris Connor/WireImage
The lawsuit against Twitter was filed against the computer repairman who repaired Hunter Biden's laptop.
He claimed that Twitter had defamed his character when it blocked the NY Post's account to distribute information "obtained by hacking".
Mac Isaac cannot re-file the case in court because the district judge dismissed it with prejudice.
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On Monday, the lawsuit against Twitter was filed against Hunter Biden's computer repairman.
District Judge Beth Bloom dismissed the case with prejudice against the social media company. This means that the case can't be brought back to court. Bloom also ordered John Paul Mac Isaac to pay Twitter's attorney costs under Florida's antiSLAPP statute.
The Mac Shop was owned by Mac Isaac in Delaware. Biden visited the shop in 2019 and asked him for data recovery from his computers. He never returned to collect the data or pay the invoice.
After Biden failed to pick up the hard disk of recovered data, Mac Isaac eventually turned the data over to the FBI. Rudy Giuliani was then appointed as the FBI's attorney. Giuliani provided the information to The New York Post. They ran a story using it, but inadvertently included Mac Isaac's name in a photograph.
Twitter eventually locked the account of the company for sharing the article. Twitter noted that the NY Post had distributed "content obtained by hacking that contains personal information."
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Mac Isaac claimed that he was threatened by Twitter after his business was revealed in the story. This forced him to close his business and sue Twitter for damages. He claimed that Twitter had spread the "false belief that Plaintiff was a hacker" as it warned of its hacked material policy in a NY Post article.
The judge pointed out that neither Mac Isaac nor his business name were mentioned by the platform in any of its posts. Judge specifically stated that only news websites reported the name of the business owner, not Twitter.
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She wrote that Twitter is protected under the First Amendment and can decide what content to publish or not on its platform.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Mac Isaac is now the owner of Johnny Mac's data recovery company in Denver, Colorado.
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