The White House sees the recent publication of internal Twitter documents regarding the son of US President Joe Biden as a diversionary maneuver.

The spokeswoman for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, said it was an interesting "coincidence" that the documents "full of old news" would be published at a time when Twitter would be "very serious questions about the growing extent of anger , Hate and anti -Semitism on his platform "is confronted - and ask how the group let this happen. "This is a distraction maneuver," she said.

Twitter boss Elon Musk had shared tweets on internal Twitter documents for controversy around a "New York Post" article that was published shortly before the 2020 presidential election. The article included an email from Biden's son, Hunter, related to his overseas business, which has often been the subject of political attacks on Joe Biden.

Musk shared a series of tweets from a journalist. These showed, among other things, several screenshots of internal communication, according to which was controversial on the blocking of the article on Twitter. Musk wrote that the story was deliberately withheld.

Twitter blocked the newspaper's article and account at the time because the report allegedly violated rules prohibiting the dissemination of information obtained through illegal hacks. Der damalige Twitter-Chef Jack Dorsey räumte später ein, dass das Vorgehen gegen die "New York Post" ein Fehler gewesen sei. Twitter then changed its rules.

Musk bought Twitter for around $44 billion at the end of October. Before the congressional elections in November, he campaigned on the platform for the Republicans. He also unlocked the account of former US President Donald Trump.