Twitter and Facebook worked in lockstep to restrict the flow of the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 presidential election. These platforms stifled the spread of that story at the same time that Big Media did, as MRC research found.
Facebook’s suppression broke the platform’s own fact-checking policy, and Twitter’s attempt to cancel the story so outrageously violated content moderation norms that it drew criticism from the likes of leftist Poynter Institute fact-checkers. Even then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey criticized his platform after the fact.
Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone announced the platform had preempted third-party fact-checks on the Hunter Biden story the day it broke on Oct. 14, 2020, and limited its spread moving forward. Stone has a long history working directly for Democrats, and Facebook’s hair-trigger, broad-brush blackout blatantly broke the platform’s content moderation policy.
Under Facebook’s third-party fact-checker policy, the fact-checkers decide what content gets restricted. Facebook’s fact-checking partners, which are certified by the liberal Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), are supposed to flag Facebook posts found to be “False,” “Altered,” “Missing Context,” or “Partly False.”
Twitter responded to the New York Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden report by disabling the link to the story on the day it was released, and claimed: “Warning: this link may be unsafe.” Twitter then restricted the Post account from Oct. 14 to Oct. 30.
Twitter’s action eventually prompted an admission of error by Dorsey during Senate questioning on Oct. 28, 2020. Twitter’s and Facebook’s joint suppression drew criticism from the brass of the fact-checking network that oversees Facebook’s fact-checking partners.
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Just like CNN…… We the People
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