Facebook spokesman: We’re reducing distribution of the NY Post story on Biden until it gets fact-checked (Update: Twitter too)
“Now that they’re actively controlling the news and discourse, it’s beyond just a menace.”[/url]
The NY Post has a big story out today headlined “Biden’s Secret E-mails” about files found on an old laptop computer someone dropped off at a repair shop and never returned to collect. One of the items discovered on the computer was an email in which an advisor to the board of Burisma sent to Hunter Biden thanking him for a chance to meet with his father Joe Biden.
Michael Knowles
@michaeljknowles
Democrat operatives at Facebook are suppressing information about Democrat corruption weeks before a presidential election. They don't even dispute the story. They don't have a shred of evidence it isn't true. They don't just want it to spread.
Mollie
@MZHemingway
Holy bleeping bleep. Facebook explicitly admitting it is protecting Biden -- and interfering in the presidential election -- by censoring media outlets and limiting discussion of today's breaking news about Biden's engagement with Burisma.
Sohrab Ahmari
@SohrabAhmari
To be very clear: A former longtime Democratic staffer, now working at
@Facebook, is boasting about censoring a reported
@nypost story damaging to the Democratic candidate for president. Section 230 reform — now.
Byron York
@ByronYork
Facebook says it is 'reducing [the] distribution' of the New York Post's report that Hunter Biden introduced an executive for the Ukrainian company that was paying him to his father when Joe Biden was vice president.
Legal Insurrection
@LegInsurrection
Folks, if you don't understand, this is
@Facebook warning you that they may put a strike on your page if you post
@nypost article, and if you get multiple strikes, they will throttle your page reach, if you post this story. They are protecting Biden, they are biased.
Steve Krakauer
@SteveKrak
The idea that Facebook would brag about “pre-ducing” distribution even before a fact check shows how far we’ve come on this topic - a few years ago this would be the kind of thing James O’Keefe would uncover through secret recordings. Now execs just…tweet it out...
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
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Oct 14, 2020
If I were Facebook, and I wanted to announce the systemic suppression of a questionable news story that reflected poorly on the Democratic presidential nominee, I probably wouldn't have a life-long Democratic Party operative make the announcement on my behalf:
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
The power of Facebook -- due to its sheer size, integration and gobbling up of competitors -- was already way larger than any democracy should tolerate. Now that they're actively controlling the news and discourse, it's beyond just a menace. It's a terrifying threat.
Mark Hemingway
@Heminator
Has Facebook ever preemptively limited a story from a major media outlet to verify it’s true without a specific reason to doubt it?
Son of Spengler
@spengjr
As hard as I squint, I can’t see the unbiased algorithm here
Jesse Walker
@notjessewalker
The reaction to this tweet shows how this sort of move can backfire. Instead of stopping the story, Stone made himself a part of it.
Facebook shouldn’t be using their monopoly to pre-judge the outcome of a story’s reliability weeks before an election. This looks politically motivated and, as mentioned above, having a long-time Democratic politico make the announcement only adds to that suspicion.
Update: Twitter is doing the same.
Yashar Ali
@yashar
Twitter has blocked users from tweeting the New York Post story link and from sending the link via direct message to other users.
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