The incredible decision by Twitter and Facebook to block access to a New York Post story about a cache of e-mails reportedly belonging to Democratic nominee Joe Biden's son Hunter, with Twitter going so far as to lock the 200-year-old newspaper out of its own account for more than a week, continues to be a major underreported scandal.
Try to look up anything about Burisma, Joe Biden or Hunter Biden in English, and you're likely to be shown a pile of "Fact-checks" and explainers ahead of the raw information.
Editors have been telling staffers that any effort to determine whether or not the Biden laptop material is true, or to ask the Biden campaign to confirm or deny the story, will either not be allowed or put through heightened fact-checking procedures.
What happens a month from now when an ambitious Republican like Sen. Tom Cotton leaks a document damaging to a President-Elect Biden? Or two years from now, if in the weeks before midterm elections, we get bad economic news, or a Biden-Harris administration foreign-policy initiative takes a turn for the worse? Are we sure those stories will be run?
The Republican version of the Burisma story - essentially, that former General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin was Elliott Ness, and Joe Biden intervened to fire him specifically to aid his son's company - is also not supported by evidence.
Examining the timeline of Hunter Biden's work for Burisma, and Joe Biden's urging of the firing of Shokin, shows several things that have been quietly non-reported on our side of the Atlantic.
If such stories become off-limits just because they make the wrong people look bad, we do have a serious problem, no matter who wins the presidency.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Drive to squelch information a menace no matter who wins election
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