The computer repair shop owner tied to the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden sued Twitter on Monday, claiming the tech giant defamed him by incorrectly calling him a “hacker.” The owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, is seeking at least $500 million in damages.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, says Isaac was forced to close his Delaware shop after Twitter blocked the New York Post’s Hunter Biden reports in October, weeks before Election Day. Twitter claimed the initial report — which said Hunter Biden introduced his dad, former Vice President and current President-elect Joe Biden, to a “top executive” at a Ukrainian energy company, before pressuring Ukrainian lawmakers to fire a prosecutor looking into the company a year later — was “potentially harmful” and blocked users from reading the story.