Democracy works with an informed public - without that you’re just guessing or picking your leaders randomly or at worst for those most willing to use the levers of power to suppress their opponents. Arguably such situations are not the “free and fair” election standard we keep hassling other countries to uphold.
Twitter’s actions were election interference since enough people said the Hunter story could have changed their votes that the censoring of speech on Twitter very well could have caused us to elect the wrong president. If you prefer, Twitter provided a huge in-kind advertising contribution to the Democrats in violation of election laws.
Trump pollster John McLaughlin found that 4.6% of Biden voters would have changed their minds if they had known about it, easily enough to flip results in key states. Another survey by The Polling Company showed that even more Biden voters in seven swing states — 17% — would have switched their votes if they had been aware of the laptop and other stories.
Likewise, you may recall Pfizer did the same with last minute changes and coverups in their vaccine results by delaying the very positive results, which they had promised to release as soon as they were available, by several weeks until after both the election and the media had crowned Biden President.
Apparently HL Mencken is still right after all these years.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.