{"id":89476,"date":"2020-10-15T03:15:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T00:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/if-unreliable-is-the-issue-why-did-social-media-never-block-anti-trump-stories\/"},"modified":"2020-10-15T03:15:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T00:15:59","slug":"if-unreliable-is-the-issue-why-did-social-media-never-block-anti-trump-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/if-unreliable-is-the-issue-why-did-social-media-never-block-anti-trump-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"#If \u2018unreliable\u2019 is the issue, why did social media never\u00a0block anti-Trump stories?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#If \u2018unreliable\u2019 is the issue, why did social media<\/a> never\u00a0block anti-Trump stories?<\/strong>”
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\n 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 expos\u00e9 on their preferred presidential candidate.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Facebook and Twitter did to the New York Post\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

According to e-mails obtained by The Post, Hunter introduced the firm\u2019s executives to his father \u2014 just when Joe Biden was the second-most powerful man on earth, with outsize influence over the fate of the embattled Eastern European country.<\/p>\n

That information is squarely in the public interest as we head into an election, right? Yes, but it\u2019s also extremely embarrassing for President Trump\u2019s opponent, and so social-media executives went into action.<\/p>\n

Andy Stone, a member of Facebook\u2019s p.r. team, said, \u201cWe are reducing [the Post story\u2019s] distribution on our platform.\u201d Before joining the social-media giant, Stone worked for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, yet he insisted that Facebook\u2019s action was \u201cpart of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation.\u201d Right.<\/p>\n

Then, Twitter began blocking users from posting the story, with a spokesman telling a Washington Examiner scribe that the move was prompted by \u201cthe lack of authoritative reporting on the origins of the materials included\u201d in the report.<\/p>\n

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 \u2014 yet neither Facebook nor Twitter took similar action as part of any \u201cstandard process\u201d:<\/p>\n