In the heated days shortly before the 2020 presidential election, a news story appeared in the New York Post detailing how Hunter Biden used the position and influence of his father, now President Joe Biden, for personal gain, with President Biden’s awareness.

This article, based on materials obtained from an abandoned laptop once owned by Hunter Biden, called into question statements made by President Biden denying awareness of the international business dealings of his son, Hunter.

Five days after the Post story, 51 former intelligence community officials, using their official titles and citing their national security credentials, released a public statement suggesting the story “ha[d] all the classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation.

Three days after that, Vice President Biden used this public statement in a nationally televised presidential debate to rebut President Trump’s criticisms, asserting “there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan.”

Much has been written about how social media companies and news outlets improperly censored or ignored allegations on the flimsy basis that it was “hacked” materials and “can’t be verified”, or in the inspired words of National Public Radio, a “waste of time” and a “pure distraction".

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