Anne Applebaum (first image), Pulitzer prize winner, did an opinion piece in the Atlantic. She writes frequently for the Atlantic.
Applebaum's 2020 opinion piece didn't agree or disagree with the 'not Biden's laptop' theory, Instead, it attacked the reporters associated with the NYPost piece (a journalistic ad hominen argument) and also stated that the NYPost report didn't make sense. It was a pretty long piece.
By 2022, the NYTimes, the Washington Post and others had come to the conclusion that the Biden laptop was real and, in fact, the NYPost story was essentially true.
In a conference recently, the subject of which was journalistic misinformation, Applebaum was asked whether the actions of the NYTimes, etc. constituted misinformation. Her response was essentially that she didn't find the laptop story interesting or relevant to anything.
I find this to be an incoherent comment as it doesn't answer the question and is inconsistent with Applebaum's 2020 piece which presupposes the laptop story to be interesting and relevant (the second image shows Hunter and Joe Biden meeting with officials of Kazakhstan).
My theory is that Applebaum knows that she was wrong in 2020 but doesn't want to admit it and rather than pretending that she still believes what she did in 2020 is trying to find a novel way to avoid the obvious. Not exactly hypocrisy but still dishonest and unprofessional.
Applebaum's 2020 opinion piece is here.
Article by the person who asked Applebaum the question in 2022 is here.
A NYPost article from 2020 on the subject is here.
