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Twitter, Facebook censor Post over Hunter Biden exposé
New York Post ^ | 10/14/2020 | Noah Manskar

Posted on 10/14/2020 1:31:09 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

Both Twitter and Facebook took extraordinary censorship measures against The Post on Wednesday over its exposés about Hunter Biden’s emails — and leveled baseless accusations that the reports used “hacked materials.”

The suppression effort came despite presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign merely denying that he had anything on his “official schedules” about meeting a Ukrainian energy executive in 2015 — along with zero claims that his son’s computer had been hacked.

The Post’s primary Twitter account was locked as of 2:20 p.m. Wednesday because its articles about the messages obtained from Biden’s laptop broke the social network’s rules against “distribution of hacked material,” according to an email The Post received from Twitter.

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 “potentially harmful.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; effthebi; facebook; ftroop; hunterbiden; search; twitter
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1 posted on 10/14/2020 1:31:10 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

They fear what the Left will do to them when they get power at some point in the future more than they fear what our side will do to them now.


2 posted on 10/14/2020 1:34:08 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: marcusmaximus

People were better off without Facebook. They can censor this all they want , the truth is out there and they are f&$@ed!


3 posted on 10/14/2020 1:34:59 PM PDT by BillyCuccio (MAGA)
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To: marcusmaximus

Twitter and Facebook need to be regulated like any public utility


4 posted on 10/14/2020 1:35:01 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigedLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: marcusmaximus

“...and leveled baseless accusations that the reports used “hacked materials.”

Wow! I’d like to see the forensic data labs at Facebook & Twitter that could arrive at that conclusion without physical possession of the hard-drive of the Crackhead-son of the Crypt Keeper running for President. Sheesh! Even the FBI can’t do this kind of analysis. They job it out to some Democrat-friendly Tech outfit to come up with a half-baked explanation a year later.


5 posted on 10/14/2020 1:35:53 PM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Anti Trust
Illegal In Kind Political Contribution


6 posted on 10/14/2020 1:36:05 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Cant’t have anyone having thoughts other than Groupthink.@uckerburg and Dorksey are threats to freedom of thought.Chicom asskissing tech barons of silicon feudalism


7 posted on 10/14/2020 1:36:56 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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Just keeping their own users stupid.


8 posted on 10/14/2020 1:37:13 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: marcusmaximus

And the secret recordings of Malania Trump were OK? What hypocrisy!


9 posted on 10/14/2020 1:37:14 PM PDT by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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To: Steely Tom

Ridden hard, put away wet.

10 posted on 10/14/2020 1:37:22 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: BillyCuccio
People were better off without Facebook

No argument here


11 posted on 10/14/2020 1:37:30 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Sue ‘em! They have lots of $$$s!!!


12 posted on 10/14/2020 1:37:49 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban Gun Free Zones)
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Makes Pravda and TASS look like amateurs.

Look for pretty much all negative news on Sleepy Joe and company to be suppressed until after the election after which there will be no need to publish it anyway.


13 posted on 10/14/2020 1:38:02 PM PDT by SouthParkRepublican
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Did they apply the same standards to the Wikileaks revelations about the Iraq War?


14 posted on 10/14/2020 1:38:21 PM PDT by henkster ("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
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To: BigEdLB

Their Board of Directors needs to be charged with treason—interference in a Presidential election.


15 posted on 10/14/2020 1:38:22 PM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Will be biggest censorship FAIL since Gulag Archipelago.


16 posted on 10/14/2020 1:38:39 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: eyeamok

Censoring you, me or Aunt Penny? Yeah, they can get away with that.

Censoring one of the nation’s largest newspapers? They may have bitten off more than they can chew here.


17 posted on 10/14/2020 1:39:08 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: cgbg

In addition, Republican Senators and other office-holders need to hold press conferences and just read the article out load.

Beat the censors!

We can do this!


18 posted on 10/14/2020 1:40:20 PM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: SouthParkRepublican

Pravda = “Truth”
TASS = News agency

Russian joke: “No truth in TASS and no news in Pravda”


19 posted on 10/14/2020 1:41:17 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: marcusmaximus

If Twitter and Facebook will go as far as throttle down or even hide articles from others that do not portray their preferred candidate in a good light. Who’s to say they do not throttle back paid advertisements from businesses in order to help keep the economy down as much as possible to help their preferred candidate?


20 posted on 10/14/2020 1:41:32 PM PDT by tsowellfan (https://twitter.com/cafenetamerica)
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