First Draft News, a non-profit organization that is now defunct and has received funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations in the past, played an integral role in Twitter’s preparation to shut down the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, per internal documents that author Michael Shellenberger published, better known as “Twitter Files.”
Per Shellenberger’s findings, the Aspen Institute hosted a training exercise in September 2020 for traditional media and social leaders concerning the handling of hypothetical data leaks which resembled the Hunter Biden laptop report that was released in October of that year. Claire Wardle, former executive director and co-founder of First Draft News, apparently participated in the exercise, per an email that Shellenberger published.
Shellenberger noted that the address apparently belonging to Wardle was one of several email addresses in an email directed to leading national security reporters, Facebook’s head of security policy and other individuals, per Shellenberger. The […]
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