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“#Facebook<\/a>, Twitter block The Post from posting<\/strong>”
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\n Both Twitter and Facebook took extraordinary censorship measures against The Post on Wednesday over its expos\u00e9s about Hunter Biden\u2019s emails \u2014 and leveled baseless accusations that the reports used \u201chacked materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suppression effort came despite presidential candidate Joe Biden\u2019s campaign merely denying that he had anything on his \u201cofficial schedules\u201d about meeting a Ukrainian energy executive in 2015 \u2014 along with zero claims that his son\u2019s computer had been hacked.<\/p>\n

The Post\u2019s primary Twitter account was locked as of 2:20 p.m. Wednesday because its articles about the messages obtained from Biden\u2019s laptop broke the social network\u2019s rules against \u201cdistribution of hacked material,\u201d according to an email The Post received from Twitter.<\/p>\n

Twitter also blocked users from sharing the link to The Post article indicating that Hunter Biden introduced Joe Biden to the Ukrainian businessman, calling the link \u201cpotentially harmful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn line with our Hacked Materials Policy, as well as our app<\/a>roach to blocking URLs, we are taking action to block any links to or images of the material in question on Twitter,\u201d a Twitter spokesperson told The Post in a statement.<\/p>\n

The company said it took the step because of the lack of authoritative reporting on where the materials included in The Post\u2019s story originated.<\/p>\n

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Users who clicked the link on Twitter were shown an alert<\/a> warning them that the webpage may be \u201cunsafe\u201d and could contain content that would break Twitter\u2019s rules if it were shared directly on the platform.<\/p>\n

The extraordinary move came after Facebook said it would limit the spread of The Post\u2019s story on its own platform. The social network added that the story would be eligible for review by independent fact-checkers.<\/p>\n

US Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) fired off a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday demanding answers about why the platform \u201ccensored\u201d The Post\u2019s reporting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe seemingly selective nature of this public intervention suggests partiality on the part of Facebook,\u201d Hawley wrote. \u201cAnd your efforts to suppress the distribution of content revealing potentially unethical activity by a candidate for president raises a number of additional questions, to which I expect responses immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hawley later sent a similar letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, blasting the company<\/a> for what he said was \u201can unusual intervention that is not universally applied to all content.\u201d<\/p>\n

The senator demanded to know how Twitter had determined that The Post\u2019s story was violating its policy on hacked materials and why the company had taken the \u201cunprecedented action\u201d to lock the news<\/a> org\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ask that you immediately answer these questions and provide the necessary justifications so that your users can feel confident that you are not seeking to influence the outcome of the presidential election with your content removal decisions,\u201d Hawley wrote.\n <\/p><\/div>\n