In an audacious act of censorship — and what Senate Judiciary Committee members have condemned as “actively interfering” in a presidential election — Twitter and Facebook teamed up last week to suppress a bombshell story on Hunter and Joe Biden by one of the biggest news publishers in the country. The move ended up backfiring massively, MIT concluding that Twitter’s actions “nearly doubled” the visibility of the damaging story. Amid congressional subpoenas and fierce backlash (which Twitter euphemistically called “significant feedback”), the platform reversed course.
The actions of the platforms were the most egregious example of news suppression we’ve seen maybe ever, but even more troubling is the defense of those actions by mainstream media outlets.
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