Trump threatened Facebook and Twitter again after they throttled the spread ...
Trump threatened Facebook and Twitter again after they throttled the spread of a dubious New York Post story about Hunter Biden
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-post-hunter-biden-trump-facebook-twitter-section-230-2020-10
US President Donald Trump expressed outrage Wednesday when Facebook and Twitter decided to limit the spread of a dubious New York Post story about Hunter Biden, the son of Trump's presidential rival Joe Biden.
"So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of 'Smoking Gun' emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the @NYPost," Trump tweeted Wednesday.
Neither Facebook nor Twitter took down the New York Post article.
The Facebook spokesman Andy Stone on Wednesday said the platform was "reducing its distribution" of the story while it gave its third-party fact-checkers time to look over the piece. The article appeared to be riddled with holes and red flags.
Twitter blocked users from tweeting links to the story, and a spokesman said this was because the article broke its "Hacked Materials Policy." Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey later said that the platform's communication about its actions "was not great" and that blocking users from sharing the article without any context was "unacceptable."
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