A computer repair shop owner who Hunter Biden handed his laptops over to in April 2019 is suing Twitter for defamation, claiming moderators labeled him a hacker.
John Paul Mac Isaac is seeking $500 million in damages from Twitter after The New York Post's story about Biden, obtained from the 50-year-old's laptop, was labeled as potentially coming from hacked material.
Facebook and Twitter both restricted viewing of the Post's story, and Twitter pointed to its ban on posting 'hacked materials' as an explanation.
Mac Isaac claims, according to The Verge, that Twitter specifically made this decision to 'communicate to the world that [Mac Isaac] is a hacker.'
He says that his business began to receive threats and negative reviews after Twitter's moderation decision, and that he is 'now widely considered a hacker' because of Twitter.
Earlier this month Mac Isaac, 44, released a YouTube video hitting back at the claims, that he himself was a Russian hacker, insisting it was 'absurd' that anyone could believe he was a Russian agent and that he was a 'proud' American.
He added that the saga has had 'an irreversible impact on my business and my character'.
Hunter left three damaged Apple laptops at Mac Isaac's shop in April 2019 but never returned or paid the $85 bill for recovering the data from them.
Mac Isaac handed over the laptops to both Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's lawyer, and to the FBI, in the fall.
The New York Post began publishing the private details in October, after Giuliani passed them along.
The laptop contained a series of emails, as well as personal photos.
The emails appeared to show that Hunter Biden introduced his father to his business partner in Ukraine - but that was denied rapidly by the Biden campaign, who said that no such meeting was found in his schedules from 2015, when the email suggested it happened.
Joe Biden has always insisted that he had no knowledge of, or involvement in, Hunter's businesses.
But the emails made oblique references to payments to 'the big guy' - which many interpreted as being Joe Biden.
Mac Isaac is not complaining that Twitter removed content, and he is not claiming other people defamed him through Twitter - a accusation made by Rep. Devin Nunes of California, who lost his suit.
His suit, the site reported, is similar to that of conservative activist Laura Loomer, who sued Facebook for banning her under a 'dangerous individuals' policy, in a case which was dismissed in August.
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- John Paul Mac Isaac owns a Mac repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware
- In April 2019 Hunter Biden brought three laptops into his store for repair but reportedly never returned to pick them up
- Computer engineer John Paul Mac Isaac handed over the laptops to the FBI and Rudy Giuliani - who leaked the contents to the media
- The New York Post's story based on the contents was flagged by Twitter as being potentially obtained from hacked information
- Mac Isaac is now suing Twitter for $500 million in defamation and is seeking a public retraction
- Mac Isaac earlier this month spoke out on YouTube to insist that he is neither a Russian spy nor hacker, and saying so had been 'a death sentence' for his business
Viral images on social media link Malia Obama with Hunter Biden in the ongoing laptop scandal.
