Sen. Josh Hawley calls for investigation after Facebook egregiously censors news of Hunter Biden's email scandal
By newseditors // 2020-10-15
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is calling for an investigation after a Facebook executive announced earlier today that the platform would be egregiously censoring a report detailing Hunter Biden’s leaked emails. (Article by Shane Trejo republished from BigLeaguePolitics.com) https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1316412214589501440 Hawley was responding to a shocking post from Facebook Communications Director Andy Stone, a veteran Democrat operative before being hired by the social media giant, who announced publicly that the report would be censored regardless of its accuracy: https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1316395902479872000 The explosive report, which was initially published in the New York Post, detailed Hunter Biden’s drug-fueled cronyism. The emails showed how Hunter Biden introduced his father Joe, who was vice president at the time, to Ukrainian Burisma advisor Vadym Pozharskyi. This contradicts claims made by the Biden campaign that Joe and his troubled son never talked business while he was vice president. “The seemingly selective nature of this public intervention suggests partiality on the part of Facebook,” Hawley wrote in a letter addressed to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “And your efforts to suppress the distribution of content revealing potentially unethical activity by a candidate for president raises a number of additional questions, to which I expect responses immediately,” he continued.
“Isn’t such a public intervention itself a reflection of Facebook’s assessment of a news report’s credibility?” Hawley asked. “The New York Post previously reported that employees of the six largest Silicon Valley tech firms – including Facebook – have donated nearly $5 million to the Biden-Harris campaign, compared to just $239,000 to President Trump’s campaign. What steps has Facebook taken to ensure that your employees’ political preferences don’t influence decisions to suppress content?” Howley added. Hawley’s full letter to Zuckerberg can be seen here: https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1316439344090157058 Big League Politics has reported on Facebook’s malicious efforts to oust President Trump from the White House, which has ramped up dramatically throughout the election season:
Facebook has announced an October surprise in the form of a new policy that will come into place just weeks before the November election. “We also can remove or restrict access to your content, services or information if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts to Facebook,” the new terms of service read… This new policy will allow Facebook to capriciously censor content from Trump supporters in the lead up to this year’s presidential election. It is another encroachment in the real electoral interference conspiracy coming from the Silicon Valley tech giants… Facebook is trying to use their monopoly power, granted to them under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, to influence elections. They are more dangerous to democracy than the Russians could ever hope to be.
Facebook and other monolithic Big Tech entities are guilty of the collusion that the Russians were framed for. They have emerged as an existential threat to democracy. Read more at: BigLeaguePolitics.com
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