In this special edition of the Fourth Watch Podcast, Steve Krakauer is joined by David Folkenflik, NPR media correspondent, for a deep dive on the Hunter Biden laptop story and the media coverage of it. They discuss the unprecedented social media crackdown on the New York Post, the ramifications for free speech, connections to 2016 and Hillary Clinton email coverage, press coverage of Russiagate and the Steele Dossier, fear in newsrooms, media suppression, the censoriousness of some on Twitter, hall monitors and hive mentality, cable news amplification, coziness between the media and the intelligence community to spin the laptop story, media's resistance to correcting false stories, how the media is covering the story now and what happens next, and more.

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