Hunter Biden's Laptop - the news cycle

First up, the Streisand Effect - from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT Technology Review:

Twitter’s ban almost doubled attention for Biden misinformation
When Twitter banned, and then unbanned, links to a questionably sourced New York Post article about Joe Biden’s son Hunter, its stated intention was to prevent people from spreading harmful false material as America heads into the final stretch of the election campaign. But thanks to the cycle of misinformation—and claims from conservatives that social-media platforms are deliberately censoring their views—Twitter managed to do the opposite of what it intended.

According to Zignal Labs, a media intelligence firm, shares of the Post article “nearly doubled” after Twitter started suppressing it. The poorly-thought-through ban triggered the so-called Streisand Effect and helped turn a sketchy article into a must-share blockbuster. And then on Friday, the Republican National Committee filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against Twitter, claiming that the ban “amounts to an illegal corporate in-kind political contribution to the Biden campaign.”

Tip of the hat to Atomic Fungus who has this timeline of the news cycle:

1. It’s Not Real
2. It’s Russian Disinfo
3. It’s Real But Doesn’t Matter :: YOU ARE HERE
4. It Matters But Not Very Much
5. This is Old News
6. Shut Up Racist

Absolutely correct...