The incredible decision by Twitter and Facebook to block access to a New York Post story about a cache of emails 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 over a week, continues to be a major underreported scandal.
Some outlets learned a lesson from that episode, and have treated new Biden recordings out of Ukraine with care.
Most mainstream-media outlets have decided that the recordings that have emerged so far offer "Little new insight into Biden's actions in Ukraine," as The Washington Post's Carol Morello wrote after the recordings were first released.
Editors have been telling charges 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 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 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.
The suppression story is almost certainly a bigger scandal than the Hunter Biden affair itself, but it's all become part of the same picture.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/with-the-hunter-biden-expose-suppression-136
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