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Wed, Dec 30th 2020 9:36am — Mike Masnick As basically a million people mentioned to me, on Monday, John Paul Mac Isaac, computer repair shop owner, sued Twitter for defamation. You may recall his name as the computer repair shop guy who allegedly had Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop, which later became a NY Post story. That story then became a content moderation story, as both Twitter and Facebook sought to limit the spread of the story. In Twitter's case, the company claimed that it violated the social media site's policy against linking to "hacked materials." As we noted at the time, this ...

A Delaware computer repairman has filed a $500 million lawsuit against Twitter for alleged defamation in response to the repairman's involvement with Hunter Biden's laptop, which became the subject of bombshell stories published by the New York Post ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Geeky Gadgets 8:28 am Twitter headquarters, located at1355 Market St, Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the computer repair shop at the heart of that New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s emails, has filed a $500 million defamation lawsuit against Twitter. Isaac owned the Mac Shop, which the NY Post cited as the source for the laptop story. Twitter blocked the article’s URL, citing its existing policy around hacked materials. In his lawsuit, Isaac said that in doing this, Twitter labeled him a “hacker,” and he began getting negative reviews for his bus...

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The laptop was dropped off at The Mac Shop in April 2019, according to Mr. Mac Isaac, who said he was asked to recover information from it. Material from the laptop’s alleged hard drive was then published by the New York Post, and Twitter restricted distribution of the story and temporarily suspended the New York Post’s account and other accounts sharing the news article. Twitter cited its Hacked Materials Policy in explaining its crackdown on the New York Post’s story, which Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey later labeled a “mistake” at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last month. But Mr...