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‘Unprecedented Suppression’: Hawley Asks FEC To Investigate Facebook, Twitter For Quashing NY Post Hunter Biden Story

Jon Brown
‘Unprecedented Suppression’: Hawley Asks FEC To Investigate Facebook, Twitter For Quashing NY Post Hunter Biden Story
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) demanded answers Wednesday regarding why both Facebook and Twitter limited the ability of their users to read a New York Post story unflattering to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, and even floated the idea that the tech giants violated campaign finance law.

Soon after news broke that Twitter had joined Facebook in suppressing the reach of the story alleging that Hunter Biden introduced his father to a Burisma executive a year before the former vice president pushed Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating the energy company, Hawley wrote to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to express his concern regarding what he described as “unprecedented suppression” from Big Tech.

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