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Internet giants Facebook and Twitter have come under fire from President Donald Trump for his decision to limit the online distribution of a controversial post about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, world news agencies reported.
The publication’s blocking and the resulting controversy came just three weeks before the US presidential election, in which Trump faces off with Biden.
The publication, blocked by the two social networks, is in the New York Post. It contained emails that had been illegally obtained from a computer that contained personal messages, photos, and videos of Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The reports, from which the New York Post was prepared, renew the accusations against Joe Biden from Trump’s side, according to which he helped the Ukrainian gas company Burisma avoid investigations into corruption in Ukraine. Hunter Biden served on Burisma’s oversight board from 2014 to 2019. During part of that period, Joe Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president. He has always denied discussing his overseas activities with his son Hunter while serving as Obama’s vice president.
The New York Post publication has, among other things, a confidential file between Hunter Biden and the adviser to the management of “Burisma” – Vadim Pozharski. One of the letters dated April 17, 2015, was sent to Hunter Biden a year after he joined the company’s supervisory board. In that letter, Pozharsky thanked Hunter Biden for the invitation to visit Washington and for the opportunity to meet with Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time. In another statement, from May 2014, Pozharsky asked Hunter Biden for advice on how representatives of the Burisma company could use their influence.
The New York Post clarified that it had seized the electronic file from the hard drive of a computer delivered for repair in the state of Delaware, but did not specify who it was from.
While Hunter Biden was on Burisma’s supervisory board, his father called for the removal of Ukraine’s attorney general, Viktor Shokin, who had launched an investigation into the activities of the Ukrainian gas company. Shokin was fired and the Burisma investigation was dropped.
In February 2020, the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine opened a criminal case at Shokin’s request for interference in his work by Joe Biden.
Biden’s name is also linked to the scandalous story that resulted in Trump’s impeachment in Congress. According to US media, Trump administration officials tried to ask Ukraine to compromise Biden and obstruct his campaign for the 2020 elections. Democrats then accused Trump of trying to blackmail and pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to renew him. . the investigation against Burisma and initiated the prosecution procedure. However, on February 5, the United States Senate cleared Trump of all charges related to this story.
Now on Facebook and Twitter’s decision to limit the distribution of the New York Post article, Trump said: “It’s horrible that Facebook and Twitter downloaded the New York Post article on emails related to Joe Biden the sleepwalker and his son. Hunter “. Addressing Joe Biden, Trump said that “there is nothing worse than a corrupt political representative.” Trump accused Biden, “of blatantly lying that he had nothing to do with his son’s corruption in business. Hunter Biden was paid for the opportunity to address his father, the vice president,” Trump added. As vice president of the Obama administration, Biden was in charge of Ukraine and Russia, and Trump said that Biden’s allegations that he never spoke to his son about his business were a lie, according to the New York Post. .
Trump concluded that there was no administration more corrupt than that of Obama and Biden.
Regarding the criticism of the two social networks, one of the leaders of Facebook Andy Stone questioned the authenticity of the emails and announced that the information from the “New York Post” will be subject to verification, and pending its results “its visibility on the platform. “Facebook will be limited.
Twitter also confirmed that it blocked the publication of the publication because its content was the result of an attack by hackers.
The New York Post itself, in an editorial, accused the two social networks of thus supporting Biden’s campaign.
At the same time, it became clear that the account of the White House spokeswoman Kaylee McKennai was blocked on Twitter because there she shared the information of the New York edition. Trump criticized this, saying, “Because she shared the truth, they closed her account.”
Biden’s headquarters said it had never met with Burisma’s representative, Vadim Pozharski. Something similar is mentioned in the New York Post publication.
However, Trump said that Biden should disclose all information about his family’s business connections.
