Posted on 10/15/2020 7:44:13 PM PDT by bitt
This is what totalitarianism looks like in our century: not men in darkened cells driving screws under the fingernails of dissidents, but Silicon Valley dweebs removing from vast swaths of the Internet a damaging exposé on their preferred presidential candidate.
That’s what Facebook and Twitter did to the New York Post’s bombshell report on Hunter Biden, revealing why the illustrious vice-presidential son was hired by a shady Ukrainian energy firm in exchange for at least $50,000 a month.
According to e-mails obtained by The Post, Hunter introduced the firm’s executives to his father — just when Joe Biden was the second-most powerful man on earth, with outsize influence over the fate of the embattled Eastern European country.
That information is squarely in the public interest as we head into an election, right? Yes, but it’s also extremely embarrassing for President Trump’s opponent, and so social-media executives went into action.
Andy Stone, a member of Facebook’s p.r. team, said, “We are reducing [the Post story’s] distribution on our platform.” Before joining the social-media giant, Stone worked for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, yet he insisted that Facebook’s action was “part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation.” Right.
Then, Twitter began blocking users from posting the story, with a spokesman telling a Washington Examiner scribe that the move was prompted by “the lack of authoritative reporting on the origins of the materials included” in the report.
Misinformation? Lack of authoritative reporting? The story explained exactly The Post got the material, and the supporting evidence. Yet the past four years have seen left-of-center outlets devote millions of column inches to anti-Trump stories that turned out to be utter bunk — yet neither Facebook nor Twitter took similar action as part of any “standard process”:
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Same reason they sued jimrob
Exactly
Honest? A lot of people I know wouldn’t have even heard about this story if it wasn’t blocked by twitter and facebook.
I said that on another board also.
I wouldn’t have known about the story except for FR and the twitter and facebook blocked it.
So if I had just read google news, it would have been woefully underreported.
The blocking thing made every major outlet put out a story, even if it was defending biden.
It still got out there 10x more because of their antics.
Trump will win.
And then he will damage those companies in ways they will not forget.
These very people are happy socialist terrorists smash cities and burn them and destroy property and murder people.
Wonder how they would feel if it happened to their business buildings, and cars, and homes, and neighborhoods?
Would they still be cheering? Would they be applauding tjose doing that destruction if it was their business and homes?
Fricking collaborators. Remember who gave support and cover for the socialist terrorists.
l8r
Twitter and FakeBook execs went to work on Bidens transition team. They are pulling out all of the stops to enrich themselves under the biden/harris regime.
It’s a regime that will never be.
I have no doubts about it at all.
Like I said in another post, nobody goes to the polls saying “I want to be worse off than i’ve been the last four years”
A VERY recent poll shows 57 percent think they are better off.
If this were any other election, people would say that’s game over.
MAYBE Trump is just tired or up or down by 1.
He can be down by as much as 4 percent and still win because of the overwhelming votes in NY and CA.
Trump will be an 8 year president.
Bookmark.
Can you say “blowback”, boys and girls?
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