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The Aspen Institute held a "tabletop exercise" in September 2020 that involved a simulation of a hack-and-dump operation related to Hunter Biden's laptop, aimed at shaping how news media and tech companies handled potential, leaked information just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.

According to documents released via the "Twitter Files" (reported by Michael Shellenberger), this exercise is seen by critics as a pre-planned effort to influence the narrative surrounding the laptop, which later emerged to be legitimate.Key Details of the Aspen Institute Exercise:

Purpose: The exercise, titled "12 Cyber Threats That Could Wreak Havoc on the Election," was designed to model how to handle a data leak aimed at interfering in the election.

Participants: The meeting included high-level participants from tech platforms (including Facebook's head of security policy and Twitter's then-head of trust and safety) and top national security reporters from major media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post.

The "Laptop" Simulation: The simulation involved a hypothetical scenario, often referred to as a "hack-and-dump" or "hack-and-leak" story, that closely matched the future Hunter Biden laptop story.

Influence on Media: The exercise and subsequent discussions encouraged news organizations and tech platforms to suppress or heavily scrutinize the information, framing it as potential foreign disinformation.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
Fire them ALL.

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:
Thinking back to previous decades, any one of the very many revelations coming out would have been a yuuuge scandal resulting in lost careers and probable jail time. Watergate was a botched burglary that involved a coverup. That's it. The Republican Senator from Alaska who was caught soliciting gay sex in a Minneapolis airport men's room.

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But now a group of federal government employees engaged in a conspiracy and then committing suppression of First Amendment rights for the purpose of swaying a Presidential election? Nary a peep out of the media, and nothing more than shrugs from the left half of the population. The Russiagate conspiracy involving then-President Obama and a significant number of other high level government officials.