This was once deemed "disinformation" and the product of Russian interference. Any mention was subject to a ban on social media highlighting the incredible bias and attempts by social media to influence the 2020 election. Chris Wallace actually shutdown President Trump when he tried to raise this issue during the debate. Ironically, the leftist media did exactly what they were suggesting the Russians were doing during the election.
Better later than never, though: "CBS joins New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, CNN in verifying laptop after media dismissed New York Post's reporting."
How could the media, or anyone, "verify" the laptop.
Did the laptop go directly from Hunter Biden to a reputable agency like the Washington Post or the FBI?
No. It went from Hunter Biden, to someone hostile to him, a laptop repairman, before it, or a copy of the data went on to the Washington post. Did the people hostile to Hunter Biden have access to experts who could fake data very well?
Yes, by simply taking the laptop to any Russian embassy and asking them to examine it. Such a notion would be obvious, because Trump, in a 2016 Presidential debate, called upon the Russians to find/manufacture email evidence against Hillary Clinton.
Quote from Wikipedia on the Hunter Biden laptop controversy:
On October 19, 2020, a group of 51 former senior intelligence officials, who had served in the Trump administration and those of the three previous presidents, released an open letter stating that the release of the alleged emails "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation," adding:
We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement – just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.
This is a classic case of a piece of 'evidence' having major "Chain of Custody" issues. The CTers cite this a lot. But never with an example of a piece of evidence passing through the hands of a non police or FBI official, with a clear motive to fake the evidence. Merely the suggestion that such and such an officer may have been motivated against Oswald. Never a clear case like that of the laptop repairman being hostile to the Biden's.