The line between the New York Times Trump tax return expose and the New York Post Hunter Biden emails seems pretty fuzzy from the perspective of content aggregators. I think that at the end of the day, the NYT tax return story will prove to be authentic and legitimate, and the Hunter Biden emails will be shown to be bunk. But the content aggregators aren’t quite making that claim, but are more focussed on the journalistic process and content. They justify it based on the criteria of the documents being illicitly acquired, and on it revealing personal information. I think both fo these are just as true for the New York Times tax return story as the Hunter Biden email story, and definitely create the appearance of big tech putting their thumb on the scale in favor of the Democrats.
It’s almost like the provenance of this “hard drive” is so shady that it’s just a dare for the content aggregators to suppress it, so that republicans can call foul. If they actually wanted to get it circulation they would have been a lot better off just saying that these were provided by an anonymous source.