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Facebook criticized for suppressing Hunter Biden email report

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Following The New York Post‘s bombshell front-page report about the damning Hunter Biden emails that it obtained, the social media site will be “reducing” the article’s “distribution” on its platform.

Andy Stone, who is a Policy Communications Manager at Facebook, late on Wednesday morning tweeted about this move from the social media giant without linking The Post‘s article.

“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.”

“This is part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation,” the spokesperson added. “We temporarily reduce distribution pending fact-checker review.”

Shortly thereafter, The Post published a piece reporting this announcement from Stone.

Also following Stone’s tweet, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sternly asked Facebook for its reasoning and threatened the company, saying that it should “expect a formal inquiry” from his office.

“I want to know on what grounds you are actively censoring a news report about potentially illegal corruption by the Democrat candidate for president,” Hawley warned. “If you have evidence this is ‘disinformation,’ disclose it immediately.”

The Senate Homeland Security Committee, which Sen. Hawley sits on, announced on Wednesday that it has launched an investigation into these revealing emails published by The Post.

RELATED: Senate committee to investigate new Hunter Biden emails

Furthermore, one of President Donald Trump‘s 2020 campaign Twitter accounts claimed that, because of this action, “Facebook is actively interfering in the election” and “is rigging the election for Joe Biden.”

Across the board, commentators, political figures, and journalists alike—predominantly conservative ones—have denounced the move, accusing Facebook of censorship. Here are what many of them had to say:

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1316407160050520065
https://twitter.com/Surabees/status/1316411062103703553

Facebook, and other social media platforms, have come under fire in recent years for allegedly allowing misinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theories spread by its users to flourish on the site.

Both Twitter and Facebook have subsequently made efforts to stymie the spread of such content, especially during the 2020 election. Conservatives have universally decried these efforts, seeing them as outright censorship of conservative figures and outlets.

You can follow Douglas Braff on Twitter @Douglas_P_Braff.

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FL Governor DeSantis announces Presidential run via Twitter to over half a million live viewers

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Republican Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, is officially running for president of the United States. DeSantis took the unique approach to announce his bid for the 2024 presidential election at 6 p.m. ET during an online Twitter event hosted by the Twitter CEO himself, Elon Musk.

DeSantis told the nation to “buckle up” and prepare for “our great American comeback.”  The event began roughly 30 minutes late, as the streaming “feed struggled under the weight of more than a half million users” writes National Review. “As the event launched, Musk and Sacks could be heard talking about their servers ‘melting’ and ‘straining.’ The audio feed went in and out and sounded distorted at times.”

“I am running for president of the United States to lead our great American comeback,” DeSantis began in his interview with Musk and tech entrepreneur David Sacks.

“We know our country is going in the wrong direction. We see it with our eyes and we feel it in our bones,” he said, listing national woes, including the border crisis and spiking crime. He took a swipe at President Joe Biden, saying the 80-year-old “lacks vigor” and “flounders in the face of our nation’s challenges, and he takes his cues from the woke mob.”

“American decline is not inevitable. It’s a choice,” DeSantis said, calling for a restoration of sanity to the nation, including fiscal and economic sanity. “This also means replacing the woke mind virus with reality, facts, and enduring principles.”

 

 

 

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