The New York Post, after publishing an exclusive report on October 14 that Hunter Biden, the second son of Democratic presidential candidate Biden, had introduced his father, then Vice President of the United States, to an executive at the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, published another report on October 15. “Exposing” Hunter Biden’s alleged ties to Chinese companies. The link to the story is currently marked as “potentially unsafe” by the Twitter platform, and if a user attempts to click on the link from the platform, they will be automatically redirected to the Twitter description page, which ignores the warning before going to the original page of the New York Post story.
In fact, the New York Post’s Wednesday report on the alleged ties between the Biden father and son and Brismar executive Vadym Pozharskyi has been blocked by Twitter and Facebook since its publication. On their respective platforms, they blocked a number of accounts that forwarded links to the story on the grounds that it was “inaccurate,” causing not only New York Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari to be unable to post a link to his own article for a time, but also White House spokeswoman McInerney ( (Kayleigh McEnany) have also all had their personal accounts suspended outright.
McEnany posted Thursday via her official White House spokesperson’s account, saying, “(Speech) censorship is reprehensible! @Twitter and Facebook This is not the American way”. She also wrote, “You would expect censorship of political speech in China, North Korea or Iran, not in the United States. This should scare every American who values the right to free and open speech. Don’t let the big tech companies silence you.” In addition, Mike Hahn, a social media official for the Trump campaign, said the same day that the team’s Twitter account had been suspended for publishing a claim that accused Biden of lying about his son’s previous lack of knowledge about his business practices. That video was captioned, “Joe Biden is a liar and has been lying to our country for years.”
After Mike Han posted the news on his personal Twitter account and received coverage from right-wing media outlets such as Fox News, the Trump campaign’s official Twitter account is now back in use. The team also republished the video with a message that read, “We’re back and we’re republishing the video that Twitter doesn’t want you to see.” It’s worth noting that after the New York Post published the latest story on its website about “exposing” Hunter Biden’s ties to Chinese companies, Twitter once again rejected an effort by the paper’s editor, Ahmari, to tweet a link to the story.
The link to the story is currently marked as “potentially unsafe” by the Twitter platform, which automatically redirects Twitter users who try to click on the link from the platform to a Twitter description page. The description page reads, “The link you are trying to access has been flagged by Twitter or our partners as; according to Twitter’s URL policy, possibly spam or unsafe email. The link may fall into any of the following categories: malicious links that could steal personal information or damage electronic devices; spammy links that are misleading or disruptive to the user experience; violent or misleading content that could cause actual harm; content that would violate Twitter’s rules if posted directly on Twitter”. Internet users had to ignore the warning before they could access the article on the New York Post’s website where the story was originally published.
In the face of criticism from Republican politicians and many in the public of Twitter’s censorship of news and speech, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had already posted on his Twitter account admitting that the company’s handling of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden and Ukraine story was problematic, and that republishing links to articles by banning tweets or sharing links to articles privately was It is “unacceptable”. In addition, the Biden team responded to reports that Hunter Biden was in contact with Ukraine by saying that what the New York Post wanted to imply through those emails did not exist, and called the content “Russian disinformation”.
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