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HUNTER BIDEN AND THE BIG TECH INFORMATION COUP: There is nothing to see because Facebook doesn?t ?

By Ed Driscoll

HUNTER BIDEN AND THE BIG TECH INFORMATION COUP:

There is nothing to see because Facebook doesn?t want you to see it and Twitter won?t let you share it. On Wednesday, Andy Stone, who runs ?communications? at Facebook, announced that the New York Post?s story was ?eligible to be fact checked by Facebook?s third-party checking partners?. While Facebook?s faceless and unaccountable partners checked the facts, the site, Stone said, would be ?reducing? the story?s ?distribution?. Stone used to work Democratic senator Barbara Boxer, Democratic congressman Jerry McNerney and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Twitter, meanwhile, stopped its users from forwarding or privately sharing the Post?s article for a couple of hours. Now when you click on the story, Twitter gives you a disclaimer, as if you are ?proceeding to an unsafe site?. It was, however, still possible to read and circulate the Steele dossier on Twitter, and to read and circulate the racist drivel of the Iranian regime? leaders.

Anyone with a brain can see what is going on in plain sight. The only reason Burisma would want to employ Hunter Biden is to buy influence with his father. So there are reasonable questions to be asked of Joe Biden, a presidential candidate. He is doing his utmost to avoid them. He is succeeding in this shameful evasion because the pro-Democratic media, which is most of the American media, are actively helping him. They refuse to ask him serious questions and promulgate his talking points as their editorial lines.

Read the whole thing. Abandoning the decentralized Blogosphere for the walled gardens of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube was a huge mistake, particularly for conservatives. Somebody should write a book about the reasons why.

UPDATE: “Social media executives are about to discover the Streisand effect.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 14, 2020 (boomark / email).