The discovery of the laptop alleged that the then vice president Joe Biden acted in Ukraine to protect his son from a corruption investigation by Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published an article based on an email from the laptop about a purported meeting between then-Vice President Joe Biden and Burisma advisor Vadym Pozharskyi. Below is a timeline of the media coverage of the events, highlighting the split in coverage between left-leaning and right-leaning news outlets.