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January 2025 Former Politico reporters Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri revealed that editors had previously instructed them not to write, talk, or tweet about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
June 2024 Hunter Biden agrees to drop the lawsuit against Giuliani and his associates.
June 2024 Supreme Court rejects claims of government coercion in social media content moderation in Murthy v. Missouri, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett noting social media companies acted independently.
June 2024 Federal prosecutors used the laptop as evidence in a criminal case against Hunter Biden, including testimony from an FBI agent who authenticated the laptop.
April 2024 Republican House Oversight committee investigation released, finding no wrongdoing by Joe Biden related to Ukraine and his son's business dealings.
September 2023 Hunter Biden files a civil lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, his companies, and attorney Robert Costello, accusing them of hacking, tampering, and disseminating private data from his personal devices.
March 2023 Hunter Biden files a countersuit against Mac Isaac, alleging invasion of privacy and seeking compensatory and punitive damages through a jury trial.
January 2023 Republican House members Jim Jordan and James Comer launch investigations into the Hunter Biden laptop controversy.
December 2022 Elon Musk provides internal Twitter documents from October 2020 showing company executives' discussions about content moderation of the Post laptop story.
December 2022 Classified materials were discovered in Joe Biden's home and former office, prompting renewed scrutiny of the laptop controversy.
November 21 2022 CBS News published the first photograph of the damaged Macbook Pro, which was provided by Hunter Biden's legal team.
August 2022 Mark Zuckerberg reveals in a Joe Rogan podcast interview that Facebook initially thought the laptop story fit a pattern of potential Russian propaganda.
May 2022 Mac Isaac files another defamation lawsuit against Hunter Biden, Adam Schiff, and several news publications, alleging reputational damage over claims of Russian disinformation and illegal data access.
May 2022 NBC News published an analysis of the laptop's hard drive, revealing that Hunter Biden's firm earned $11 million between 2013 and 2018, with most deals not materializing.
April 2022 The Washington Post editorial board published an opinion report critiquing Joe Biden's family's overseas business dealings while stating there was no proof of presidential corruption.
March 2022 The New York Times reported finding emails from a laptop allegedly abandoned by Hunter Biden in a Delaware repair shop.
March 2022 The Washington Post published forensic analysis findings from two information analysts examining 217 gigabytes of data from the laptop, revealing multiple access points and potential data manipulation concerns.
2021 Politico verified two key emails from the laptop by cross-referencing with other datasets and contacting recipients.
September 2021 Florida district judge Beth Bloom dismisses Mac Isaac's lawsuit against Twitter with prejudice, ordering Mac Isaac to pay Twitter's attorney fees.
June 2021 PolitiFact confirmed the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden but did not demonstrate wrongdoing by Joe Biden.
May 2021 The New York Times reported that federal investigators in Brooklyn began a criminal investigation into potential efforts by Ukrainian officials to spread unsubstantiated allegations about Joe Biden's corruption.
May 26 2021 New York Post published an article suggesting Joe Biden met with Vadym Pozharskyi at a dinner in Cafe Milano, which was later disputed by dinner attendees who stated Joe Biden briefly dropped by and was not part of the dinner discussions.
April 2021 During an interview with CBS correspondent Tracy Smith, Hunter Biden publicly addressed the laptop controversy, stating he was unsure if the laptop was his and suggested multiple possibilities including theft or hacking.
March 2021 Jack Dorsey tells Congress that the story blocking was 'literally just a process error'.
January 21 2021 Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene filed an article of impeachment referencing Hunter Biden's laptop controversy, which was not co-sponsored by any other Congressional members.
2020 Ukrainian legislator Andrii Derkach was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for disinformation about Joe Biden and identified as an active Russian intelligence agent.
December 2020 Mac Isaac files a defamation lawsuit against Twitter over their handling of the New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop, claiming he was falsely portrayed as a hacker.
October 23 2020 Senate Judiciary Committee announces potential subpoena for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify about the platform's actions regarding the New York Post article.
October 19 2020 Ukrainian legislator Andrii Derkach posted on social media claiming to possess a second Hunter Biden laptop with 'facts confirming international corruption'.
October 15 2020 New York Post published a second article about a business venture with CEFC China Energy that Hunter Biden was negotiating in May 2017, revealing a purported email discussing investment shares and a reference to 'the big guy'.
October 15 2020 Twitter briefly locks Trump's presidential campaign Twitter account for sharing a controversial Hunter Biden video.
September 2020 Six new folders were created on the laptop drive, including folders named 'Biden Burisma', 'Big Guy File', 'Salacious Pics Package', and 'Hunter. Burisma Documents'.
September 2020 A joint investigation by two Republican Senate committees was released, finding no wrongdoing by Joe Biden regarding Ukraine and his son's business dealings.
January 2020 During Trump's first impeachment trial, Mac Isaac became alarmed that the laptop was not mentioned.
2019 Rudy Giuliani meets with Andrii Derkach, later confirmed to be a Russian agent, while conducting opposition research against Joe Biden in Ukraine
December 2019 FBI seized Hunter Biden's laptop under a subpoena issued by a Wilmington grand jury. FBI investigators concluded the laptop was genuine and had not been tampered with.
September 2019 A second individual reported being approached with an attempt to sell compromising information about Hunter Biden to Republican Party allies.
May 2019 An individual was approached with an offer to sell compromising information about Hunter Biden to Republican Party allies of Donald Trump for $5 million.
May 30 2019 Rudy Giuliani was informed about potentially compromising material regarding Hunter Biden during a meeting with Vitaly Pruss, an associate of Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky.
April 2019 John Paul Mac Isaac claims Hunter Biden dropped off a water-damaged MacBook Pro at his computer repair shop, The Mac Shop in Wilmington, Delaware, requesting data recovery.
2018 US attorney's office in Wilmington begins investigating Hunter Biden about lobbying and financial matters

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