Politics

Facebook and Twitter stupidly censor New York Post’s forbidden story about Biden and Ukraine

Well absolute chaos has broken out on Twitter and Facebook after they tried to censor a story about Biden and his son and their dealings in Ukraine. Here’s what the New York Post is reporting about the censorship:

Facebook moved Wednesday to limit the spread of The Post’s reporting on bombshell emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop that show he introduced his father, Joe Biden, to a Ukrainian energy executive — a move that led President Trump’s campaign to accuse the company of “interfering” in the election.

The social network may also have independent fact-checkers examine the exclusive story based on the younger Biden’s emails, according to Facebook spokesman Andy Stone.

“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,” Stone said on Twitter. “In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.”

Uhm. WOW. That is absolutely insane. This has been going on for hours and I don’t understand why. How long does it take to check if they should allow this one story to go or not?

Now at the risk of being banned myself, here’s the forbidden story from the New York Post:

Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, 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, according to emails obtained by The Post.

The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.

“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email reads.

An earlier email from May 2014 also shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma’s No. 3 exec, asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf.

I don’t even think this is such a big deal, except for the next sentence:

The blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim that he’s “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings” — is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer.

Well that’s a problem. Anyway, it goes on for a while. Go to the New York Post to get the rest of the details. Now, it may be a real story or it may be not, but I think what Facebook and Twitter are doing here is really problematic, and if it continues there is going to be even more chaos.

Like, for instance, this:

And also this:

Are they gonna cancel his account next? We shall see.