Trump blasts FB, Twitter for blocking NY Post article about Bidens

Washington:  President Donald Trump rebuked Facebook and Twitter Wednesday for blocking links to a New York Post article purporting to expose corrupt dealings by election rival Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine.

The newspaper said it had obtained a computer abandoned by Hunter Biden that implicated his father in his Ukraine business affairs.

The former vice president — the Democratic nominee for the November 3 election — has repeatedly denied any such involvement.

“Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad,” the newspaper’s headline read.

As Biden’s campaign denied he had ever met the businessman, Facebook and Twitter placed restrictions on linking to the article, saying there were questions over its veracity, reported Yahoo News.

“This is part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation,” said Facebook spokesman Andy Stone.

Twitter said it was limiting the article’s dissemination due to questions about “the origins of the materials” included in the article.

Republicans were outraged by what they called partisan censorship.

Trump, who trails Biden in polls 20 days before the presidential election, blasted the two social media giants.

“So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of ‘Smoking Gun’ emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the @NYPost,” Trump posted on Twitter.

“It is only the beginning for them. There is nothing worse than a corrupt politician.”

At a rally later in Iowa, Trump said his press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s Twitter account was blocked after she shared the Post story.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey expressed regret over how Twitter communicated what it was doing with the article.

“Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable,” he tweeted.

The New York Post said the computer had been left by Hunter Biden at a Delaware computer repair shop in April 2019.

The unidentified shop owner told the newspaper that after the computer seemed to have been forgotten, he copied the hard drive and gave the machine to federal authorities.

The shop owner passed the hard drive copy to Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, who provided it to the newspaper.

While the Biden campaign did not deny the existence of the computer or validity of the emails on it, Giuliani has a record of dispersing disinformation about both Bidens and Ukraine.

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