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The Big Tech companies restricted distribution of the New York Post's 'smoking gun' story about the candidate's past dealings with Ukraine.
October 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Yet another attack has been made against free speech and reporting by Facebook and Twitter, which deliberately censored promotion of a New York Post story revealing that Joe Biden was aware of his son’s Ukrainian business dealings.
Andy Stone, policy communications manager for Facebook, tweeted that “we are reducing its distribution on our platform.”
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. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.
Stone continued by inferring that the article contained misinformation and thus its distribution needed to be limited: “This is part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation,” he said. Censorship occurs before fact-checking on Facebook, according to Stone.
The article in question presented email evidence that Joe Biden had been introduced by his son “to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.”
The report has been touted as a “smoking gun” and the Trump campaign warned voters that “Joe Biden lied to you!”
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‘Digital civil war’: Facebook, Twitter censor article detailing Biden corruption
October 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Yet another attack has been made against free speech and reporting by Facebook and Twitter, which deliberately censored promotion of a New York Post story revealing that Joe Biden was aware of his son’s Ukrainian business dealings.
Andy Stone, policy communications manager for Facebook, tweeted that “we are reducing its distribution on our platform.”
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. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.
Stone continued by inferring that the article contained misinformation and thus its distribution needed to be limited: “This is part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation,” he said. Censorship occurs before fact-checking on Facebook, according to Stone.
The article in question presented email evidence that Joe Biden had been introduced by his son “to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.”
The report has been touted as a “smoking gun” and the Trump campaign warned voters that “Joe Biden lied to you!”
Continued below.
‘Digital civil war’: Facebook, Twitter censor article detailing Biden corruption
