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Facebook official who said platform is reducing distribution of Hunter Biden story has worked for top Dems
Fox News ^ | 10/14/2020 | Audrey Conklin

Posted on 10/14/2020 12:53:48 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

Facebook Policy Communications Director Andy Stone, who said Wednesday the site is reducing the distribution of a New York Post exposé revealing private emails between Hunter Biden and an adviser to Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, has years of professional experience working for top Democrats.

"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. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform," Stone wrote on Twitter.

The Facebook communications director has worked for Facebook for more than six-and-a-half years. He previously served as communications director for the House Majority PAC between 2012 and 2014; press secretary for Democratic California Sen. Barbara Boxer between 2011 and 2012; and press secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) between 2009 and 2011, according to his LinkedIn profile.

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KEYWORDS: andystone; corruption; hunterbiden
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1 posted on 10/14/2020 12:53:49 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Either way, they are influencing the election. Too big to fail.


2 posted on 10/14/2020 12:56:37 PM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: marcusmaximus

I don’t like Facebook. I go there as little as possible,
but I have family members who swear by it and I have to
go there at times to view what they posted, so I can tell
them how great it was.

Then I remind them, I don’t frequent the place.

They think I’m tweaked. I have no problem with that.


3 posted on 10/14/2020 12:57:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you're neverTrump at this point, drop the charade, you're just I never the United States.)
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To: marcusmaximus

The Streisand effect.


4 posted on 10/14/2020 12:58:57 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: marcusmaximus
If it's censorship, it's singularly ineffective censorship.

The story of Facebook and Twitter spiking the story gives it exponentially greater coverage than just the NY Post.


5 posted on 10/14/2020 1:00:12 PM PDT by Salman (If they win by terrorism, they will rule by terrorism. Nobody ever got mellower by getting power.)
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To: marcusmaximus

The Republican senate could have done something about this a long time ago. They’re slow walking president Trump’s nominee to the FCC.


6 posted on 10/14/2020 1:00:41 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: marcusmaximus

He is complicit. Every single last one of there swamp creatures needs to have their lives turned upside down. Investigate and litigate. His email records need to be obtained now. You can be guaranteed he has communications with the Biden Campaign and is actively covering up Biden’s illegal activities.


7 posted on 10/14/2020 1:01:34 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: marcusmaximus; Monkey Face
Didn't see that coming!

This is why I don't DO fascistbook.

Come the revolution, they will cheerfully turn in everyone who makes conservative posts.

8 posted on 10/14/2020 1:03:00 PM PDT by null and void (Surely there must be someone on FR who makes bricks! Contact me if that's you!)
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To: proust

“Either way, they are influencing the election. Too big to fail.”

They aren’t too big to fail. People will just have to share pictures of their pets and chatrooms somewhere else.


9 posted on 10/14/2020 1:03:53 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven is finally upon us.)
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10 posted on 10/14/2020 1:04:41 PM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: marcusmaximus

Are they stupid enough to think people can’t go around them? They are and people will.


11 posted on 10/14/2020 1:05:17 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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twitter is preventing sharing.

I’ll say what I think. The social media have a direct link to the democrat party, which dictates what they must do. In return, major rich democrats contribute to the bottom line of the social media.

This is not an accident. It didn’t “just” happen. It was dictated by the democrat party which controls the flow of money to the social media, and therefore is able to dictate 100% what the social media allow or block.

George Orwell’s thought control police are here, and they are named twitter, facebook, google and instagram.

Obviously the new revelations by the NY Post are true, or the democrats wouldn’t have given to the order to the media to suppress them.

We have GOT to reelect Trump and rub it all in the faces of the hard left.


12 posted on 10/14/2020 1:06:02 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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I’m thinking this story might get out there, in spite of the censorship....


13 posted on 10/14/2020 1:06:08 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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OK I’m guilty.......FB keeps me in touch with my family who have moved to different parts of the state and yes I do love mixing it up with stupid liberals and yes I was suspended for 24 hours this past weekend and I despise FB but what’s the alternative? I’ve renewed old friendships, gotten in touch with long lost family members. I hope they will ALL be (I can’t believe I’m saying this) regulated in Trumps second term. My Hub went back on recently and it didn’t take him but a couple of weeks to stop completely.....he won’t go back on.


14 posted on 10/14/2020 1:10:28 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: marcusmaximus

The left said 2016 will not be in vain and the same mistakes not made. Our side did nothing. The Republicans did NOTHING to advance MAGA nor prevent the left from keeping the coup alive. Our country is now in the hands of voters and those who count votes. It partly makes me extremely worried and dismayed.


15 posted on 10/14/2020 1:14:33 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: I want the USA back

It’s my theory that one day, the whole world will be controlled by a conglomerate called:

GooglaTubAzonagram.


16 posted on 10/14/2020 1:15:20 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: I want the USA back

Oh, yeah, in the future, when people sneeze, others will say, “Yahoo!” Instead of God Bless You.

Don’t want to forget one of the first sites.


17 posted on 10/14/2020 1:18:04 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

The GOP-e blocked the investigation because at least 5 GOP Senators were also involved in Ukraine.
For sure we know:
McCain
Graham
Romney


18 posted on 10/14/2020 1:47:16 PM PDT by Zathras
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"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.

In my opinion, this is why Biden issued the absurd 'it's not on my official calendar' excuse today. Now the 'third party fact checkers' can rule it false because it's not on Biden's calendar and Twitter can say 'fake news according to our fact checkers' and censor it outright.

19 posted on 10/14/2020 2:37:28 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: null and void; marcusmaximus

Yes, well, thanks for the heads up. I’m spending less and less time there but because of my family members, I check in once or twice a day to let them know I love them. I just wish there was a place as good as FR for them to go, but they think they have a good thing going. Until it isn’t any more. A few have tried MeWe, but they keep going back to FB. *sigh* I hate to abandon them, but the day is coming soon.

‘Face

:o|


20 posted on 10/14/2020 2:41:41 PM PDT by Monkey Face (You canÂ’t go back & change the beginning but you can start where you are & change the ending.CSLewi)
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