Overview
- On her show, Jennings called portraying the laptop as Russian disinformation 'one of the biggest lies' to aid Joe Biden, rejecting Swisher’s view that it was simply politics.
- Twitter and Facebook restricted the New York Post’s October 2020 reporting after 51 former intelligence officials said it had the hallmarks of a Russian operation.
- Later reviews by the Washington Post and CBS determined large portions of the laptop data were authentic and showed no evidence of tampering, undermining the disinformation claim.
- The laptop’s contents featured in federal cases against Hunter Biden, including his 2024 gun conviction and his guilty plea to tax charges, followed by a full pardon in December 2024.
- Jennings tied the episode to wider distrust of elite narrative control, while Swisher pointed to current lawsuits against outlets like ABC and CBS to argue such tactics are bipartisan.