

In one case, it said Facebook censored Heritage Action - the advocacy arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation - after the group posted a video on March 15 that quoted Biden's statements on energy policy. Some have suggested some of the media's suppression of the story could have contributed towards the 2020 election result falling in Biden's favor.ĬensorTrack also reported an example which saw the Big Tech companies ban users who blamed the current inflation crisis on Biden. Stories on Hunter Biden by the New York Times and The Washington Post were both allowed to be shared on their Twitter feeds. Its admission also followed a similar concession from the New York Times, which quietly noted 1,200 words into a long story published earlier in March that it had also validated material from the laptop. The Washington Post had cyber forensics experts validate material on the abandoned laptop hard drive, using similar methods that experts hired by used back in March 2021.
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Last month however - after initially dismissing the story - the Washington Post finally admitted Hunter Biden's laptop is real, nine months after first receiving a copy and a full year after authenticated it.Ī story based on the laptop's contents published by the newspaper focused on the millions of dollars Hunter and his uncle, Joe Biden's brother Jim, received from their partnership with a Chinese government-linked oil behemoth CEFC. President Joe Biden on social medial platforms Twitter and Facebook was censored 646 times in two years, a new report has foundĮmails leaked from the computer sparked a scandal before the 2020 presidential election in October, but were dismissed as Russian disinformation by the Bidens and other senior Democrats, social media giants Twitter and Facebook, and several major media organizations. When the New York Post reported on the revelations, Twitter went as far as locking the newspaper's account for 17 days, and placed a 'warning label' on the GOP House Judiciary Committee's website after it linked to the story.Ĭriticism of U.S. Meanwhile, more than a quarter of the 646 actions taken against users were related to the Hunter Biden laptop story, broken by the New York Post, which involved a cache of 103,000 text messages, 154,000 emails, more than 2,000 photos and dozens of videos that were authenticated by experts retained by. In one example cited by the organization, a user told CensorTrack that Facebook deleted one of their posts that showed Biden kissing someone - reportedly his granddaughter - on the lips.Ī caption with the image said: 'Find someone who kisses you the way Joe Biden kisses his granddaughter.' Screenshots sent by the user suggested that Facebook claimed the post breached its community rules on 'nudity or sexual activity.' Biden was forced to address this during his campaign. The largest category of banned posts related to Biden's reputation for inappropriate contact, CensorTrack said. This time period covers when Biden was running his presidential campaign culminating in his 2020 victory, and his first year occupying the White House. The CensorTrack report looked at bans between Mato March 10, 2022. The self-described 'free speech absolutist' wants Twitter's algorithm for prioritizing tweets to be public and objects to giving too much power on the service to corporations that advertise, and has said he wants to stop banning users. The release of the report comes as the world's richest man Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter $44billion, in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders. Users who posted such content saw their comments deleted, had their activities on the platforms restricted, or were out-right suspended. President Joe Biden on Twitter and Facebook was censored 646 times in two years, a new report has found.Īccording to the Media Research Center (MRC), through its CensorTrack database, the various censored content included comedic memes and generic posts taking aim at the Commander in Chief, who entered the White House in January 2021.
