Missouri Senator Josh Hawley blasted Facebook and Twitter for the way they handled the Hunter Biden story before the election, now that, after the election, they’ve finally allowed conversations about reports Joe Biden’s son is the subject of several investigations.
Just before the election, the New York Post published a story suggesting that Joe Biden abused his powers when he was Vice President to help the energy company his son Hunter was working for to avoid an investigation. It also showed Hunter Biden’s questionable business dealings in Ukraine.
The two social media companies tried to kill the story. Facebook flagged it as being “misinformation” while Twitter warned users that the story could be “harmful.”
At the time, Facebook’s policy communication’s director Andy Stone tweeted, “While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact-checked by Facebook’s third-party fact checking partners.”
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