It noted that last week the paper reported on multi-million dollar business deals Hunter Biden made with a Chinese energy company. In 2020, the New York Post published a story about information that it said came from a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden, which was left at a computer repair shop in Delaware. In Oct. 2020, more than 50 former intelligence officials signed a letter that warned that emails the New York Post said came from Hunter Biden’s laptop might have been Russian disinformation. “Now, The Washington Post and the New York Times have vouched for many of the relevant communications,” the editorial continued. Yet there was reason in this case for reluctance on the part of the publications and the platforms alike.

Source: Washington Post April 04, 2022 23:58 UTC