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Social media censorship of the story of Biden’s son may, on the contrary, help Trump. Photo: New York Post
There is a new twist in the case of compromising evidence leaked from former US Vice President and Trump election rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who are blamed for the murky issues in Ukraine.
On the third day of Bidengate, the social media that blocked the distribution of the controversial New York Post article about the family’s corruption fell back.
Twitter changed its mind
Twitter already allows you to share links to a high-profile post, which tells of how Hunter Biden five years ago brought a Ukrainian businessman from Burisma to his father, then acting vice president of the United States. Hunter was one of the top managers of this Ukrainian gas company and received $ 4 million in salary there.
This was made clear in Hunter’s correspondence, stored on a laptop, which was delivered to the shop and whose details fell into the hands of reporters.
Retweets and opinions became available after the head of the social network Jack Dorsey was summoned to the carpet in the Senate, for an emergency hearing on electoral interference and censorship in social networks.
An illustrative explanation is why Twitter suddenly changed its decision on an article that it had previously blocked for “lack of authorized sources of origin of the information.” Now, they say, the publication has gone out into the world and access to it has been opened.
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to Hill that users of the social network can now share the post because “the once-private information it contains now circulates widely in the press and on other digital platforms.”
In the case of Facebook, the social network continues to “cut back” the distribution of the Post article in anticipation of “an investigation by independent fact-checkers.”
At the same time, Trump supporters accuse social media of double standards; after all, they have never blocked posts against the current president of the United States, although many allegations against him have not been confirmed to date.
“Write with errors”
Meanwhile, the New York Post continues to print details about the adventures of the son of the vice president of the United States, because in addition to business correspondence, at least 25 thousand photos and videos of a pornographic nature were found on Hunter’s hard drive.
For the most part, Hunter captured moments from his personal life, filled with cocaine, alcohol, and endless club parties.
“The computer camera left almost 25,000 images of sexually explicit selfies and pornography (the New York Post will not publish them), as well as photographs of Biden’s childhood and vacations,” writes the New York Post.
In one of the more chaste photos stored on Hunter Biden’s laptop, he is depicted on vacation with a girl. Photo: New York Post
“With the $ 4 million he earned from Burisma, $ 3.5 million from Elena Baturina and another $ 10 million from Chinese bankers, he managed to go out for a walk while his father was in the White House,” writes the blog “Politics in America . Elections 2020 “on Facebook.
The hard drive contained numerous selfies and sex videos with Joe Biden’s son. Photo: New York Post
And then they found the “Kremlin hand”
Three days after the publication in the New York Post, the press sympathetic to the Democrats, who had previously ignored the scandal, reacted.
It is true that traditionally everything was reduced to “the hand of the Kremlin”.
USA Today writes that the FBI has launched an investigation into “Russian intervention” (although the first, after the last elections, failed) in the leak of emails from Biden’s son, behind which is Trump’s personal lawyer. , Rudolph Giuliani.
The FBI investigation relates to this week’s New York Post report on the contents of a computer’s hard drive obtained from Giuliani. According to the newspaper, the computer data was provided to Giuliani by the owner of a repair shop. of computers in Delaware, where a laptop was left in service last year. But the client never came looking for him. The FBI intervened after US intelligence officials warned last month that Russia was working to blacken Joe Biden before the presidential election, “wrote USA Today.
Robert Costello, an attorney representing Giuliani, said he was not aware of the FBI investigation.
The New York Times, citing some anonymous sources in the intelligence community, also wrote that a “disinformation campaign” by the Russians was allegedly behind the scandal.
“Bomba” 10 days before the elections
But it seems that the most interesting is reserved “for dessert”: just before the election, they promise to release even more serious incriminating evidence about Biden.
Giuliani, in an interview with the Daily Caller at the White House, Christian Detock on YouTube, promised 10 days before the election to issue direct evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement in the corruption scandal.
Doubts about the veracity of the information on Hunter Biden published by the New York Post, he described as “petty nonsense” promoted by the “liberal press.”
“We can guess as much as we want, but nobody was guessing when they stole Donald Trump’s tax returns and released them without verifying anything, and they don’t even have an anonymous source,” Giuliani continued.
Trump’s opponents say the scandal with Biden and his son, they say, is not a scandal.
“The story of Hunter Biden’s involvement in the Ukrainian gas company Burisma is not a scandal surrounding his father, as the Trump campaign claims, but part of the personal tragedy of the vice president’s son, and it seems misinformation about the role. Joe Biden, “writes Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.
The columnist admits that “Hunter Biden made the mistake of contacting a controversial company like Burisma.”
“But the idea that the Burisma case is affecting Joe Biden’s chances of running for president is, as he would put it, delusional,” Ignatius writes.
There is another opinion: that censorship on Facebook and Twitter will backfire and help the Trump campaign.
“The deliberate attempt by Twitter and Facebook to hide this story simply did not work and, in fact, damaged its own reputations. After all, there were no restrictions on recently leaked information on Donald Trump’s tax returns, not to mention the tsunami. of other accusations against Trump that were disseminated through these media, based on the dossier of Christopher Steele (a former MI6 agent who prepared reports on the alleged links of Donald Trump and his entourage with the Kremlin – prim. row.) to deception about “collusion with Russia”. No matter how hard the anti-Trump media tries, this story will get nowhere, “writes Briton Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit party, in Opinions column in Newseeek.
Furthermore, the politician believes, there are still questions about some of Joe Biden’s other relatives, which must also be answered.
“The October surprise has just started,” Farage said.
Among American experts, there is also an opinion that social media censorship in the story of Biden’s son may play Trump’s game.
“The top executives of Twitter and Facebook are loyal to the Democrats, but a boycott of a scandalous article can add a couple of percent to Trump, which is why Twitter withdrew. The double standards of American politics are in the face. True, people are arguing that if Trump’s son earns $ 50,000 apiece a month in a Ukrainian company and was involved in the removal of an inconvenient prosecutor from office (i.e., the firing of Viktor Shokin – Ed.), I’m not sure Trump would have resisted the presidency, he would have been impeached, “Jerry Bishop, an Eastern European expert from the Washington think tank, told Strana.
