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Andy Meek
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- Facebook and Twitter kicked up a media firestorm on Wednesday over a decision the platforms made relative to Hunter Biden emails -- and, specifically, to either limiting their distribution across the platforms and in some cases not allowing users to share posts including a new story about them at all.
- Twitter, for example, argued that a New York Post story Wednesday about the emails from Joe Biden's son seemed based on material derived from hacked sources.
- Clamping down on a mainstream news publisher's ability to share content across the two main social media platforms moves Twitter and Facebook into tricky, politically dicey territory.
Everyone in politics and media has been in an uproar over a decision Wednesday by Facebook and Twitter to suppress a New York Post story that purported to reveal emails from Joe Biden's son Hunter that cast the former Vice President in a negative light. The emails purport to show an attempt by Hunter Biden to connect a Ukrainian executive to his father. Setting aside the contents of the news story, which is not the subject of this post, the reaction to it by both Facebook and Twitter has gone on to become something of a bigger story than the story itself.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, for example, tried to share the Post's story on her own Twitter account, tweeting: "**NEW** Email from Ukrainian executive to Hunter Biden asks Hunter to 'use his influence' on behalf of the firm paying him $50K/mo in email with subject 'urgent issue' obtained by @nypost Father @JoeBiden was in charge of Ukraine relations at time.!!" At some point on Wednesday, Twitter actually locked McEnany out of her account for sharing that. Twitter eventually clarified its position on not allowing users to share the Post's article, pointing to the platform's stance against the sharing of "hacked" material.
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Facebook and Twitter seem to only care about hacked material when it hurts Democrats originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 00:46:25 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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