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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Hunter Biden peddled influence for his dad

NY Post: Email reveals how Hunter Biden peddled influence and introduced a Ukrainian businessman to Daddy Joe Biden.   Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post (NY Post).

From another story: The campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden admitted that it’s possible that Biden may have met with an executive for Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, during his time as vice president when his son was a board member of the company (Daily Wire).

The New York Times is not pleased that the Post would dare attack their beloved candidate (WSJ).

Twitter suspended accounts for posting NY Post story on Hunter Biden

From The Federalist: They took these actions for blatantly partisan reasons: They want Joe Biden to win (Federalist).

Twitter even shut down the account of the White House Press Secretary for sharing the story (Red State).

More on the story (Townhall).

From Andrew McCarthy: Remarkably, with less than three weeks to go before the presidential election pitting Vice President Biden against President Trump, and with Americans already casting their ballots, the mainstream media, along with Facebook and Twitter, are suppressing the Post’s report. As Reason’s Robby Soave explains, reporters who have reported on it — even critically — have been denounced by other journalists and progressive groups (National Review).

David Harsanyi notes “you can tweet pieces defending Biden, but not the piece they’re taking about” (Twitter).  (This tweet is still blacked out by Twitter as of 12:45 pm PST)

From Seth Mandel: Easily the biggest ‘communication’ mistake twitter made on this was sending out that former Democratic staffer to *tell everyone they were looking for excuses to block the article* before they did it. How did they expect ppl to react? Idiots (Twitter).

The goofy excuse from Twitter that would eliminate a good bit of reporting: The policy, established in 2018, prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization. We don’t want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials (Twitter).

From Byron York: Chuck Ross is conducting an experiment — posting false anti-Trump stories from peak of media’s Russia hysteria to see if Twitter allows them to remain on platform. You know the result… (Twitter).

The Twitter CEO admits they handled this poorly (NY Post). 

And yet, as of late last night, the Daybreak Insider Twitter account was unable to post a link to the story (Twitter).

From Senator Josh Hawley: Next week when the full Senate returns we should VOTE on my bill allowing Americans to sue #BigTech for censorship & unfair treatment (Twitter).

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