Election Interference? Facebook Suppressing New York Post Bombshell Story Of Damaging Hunter Biden Emails

Twitter followed suit soon after, labeling links to the story “unsafe.”The story made the front page of the Post, which also reveals that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is investigating emails provided to it by a whistleblower, allegedly between Hunter Biden and executives at Burisma.His father has previously said, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”But according to emails obtained by the Post, Hunter introduced his father to a Burisma executive less than a year before the then-vice president pressured the Ukrainian government into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.Facebook spokesman and former Democrat staffer Andy Stone announced the decision on Twitter, and also practically invited Facebook’s supposedly neutral fact-checkers to challenge the story.Significantly, the social network took the rare step of acting in advance of a decision by its “third-party fact-checkers,” on which it usually relies on to defer responsibility for censoring news publishers.That move is practically unprecedented, arguably protecting the former vice president from a major political scandal at a critical time in the 2020 election.“While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook’s third-party fact checking partners,” said Stone. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.— Andy Stone (@andymstone) October 14, 2020Twitter followed Facebook’s lead, censoring existing links to the New York Post article as “unsafe,” and preventing people — including the newspaper’s own employees — from posting new ones.“This is a Big Tech information coup,” said the New York Post’s op-eds editor, Sohrab Ahmari.