Trump slams Facebook, Twitter for taking down Biden story in NY Post

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Trump slams Facebook, Twitter for taking down Biden story in NY Post

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S. October 13, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized a decision by Facebook and Twitter to limit the distribution of a story in the New York Post about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

 

"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 wrote in a tweet.

 

(Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Chris Reese)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-10-15

 

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[Thailand]

Says honest Donald!

[Berkshire]

Poor Trump.  First his bogus "unmasking" investigation--using taxpayer money no less--and that he's been spouting about for months, found absolutely nothing.  Then his Russian propaganda on Hunter Biden is being ignored by reputable media and censored by Twitter and Facebook.  This close to the election.  But Trump needn't worry.  People are already early voting, so no point in manufacturing fake news now. 

[Eric Loh]

Grasping at straws Donny. Your own GOP-led Senate Finance Committee and Senate Homeland Security Committee have gone through this and came up with nothing to back this conspiracy theory. 

[Adam219]

Pretty funny guys, I get that you hate trump, but that doesnt make this story any less true.

 

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/

[stevenl]

1 minute ago, Adam219 said:

Pretty funny guys, I get that you hate trump, but that doesnt make this story any less true.

 

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/

This story coming from Republican trolls?

 

Not true.

[Tug]

Poor Donald all his conspiracy enuendo/ slander tactics aren’t working anymore here’s a thought how about trying some policy issue related stuff heck we have been waiting almost four years for your health care plan there’s a start hummmmm

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The New York Post story is the journalistic equivalent of a Hail Mary pass. Or rather a Hail Satan pass.

[Berkshire]

4 minutes ago, Adam219 said:

Pretty funny guys, I get that you hate trump, but that doesnt make this story any less true.

 

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/

5555...you guys can keep bringing up this story.  But the more it's vetted, the more it will be revealed that it's fabricated Russian propaganda.

 

[The Post's story had several red flags that raised doubts about its authenticity. The most glaring questions center around whether the emails described in the story are legitimate, how they were uncovered, and how the Post obtained them.]

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-post-hunter-joe-biden-giuliani-red-flags-disinformation-2020-10

 

 

[Walker88]

Putin has to be wearing a Cheshire Cat grin realizing how easily the FSB can manufacture a story and get desperate 45 and his quisling repubs to latch onto it like it's a lifeboat from the Titanic...albeit full of holes.

 

This doesn't even rise to the level of the Zinoviev Letter from the days of the Cheka, but maybe the FSB knew the bar was set so low that even a silly tale like this would find an audience. FSB or SVR must have used the JV Team for this one; the KGB was ham-fisted, but they occasionally did some good covert action and disinformation campaigns. Still, as noted, the intended audience isn't exactly sophisticated.

[onthedarkside]

Some more elaboration here:

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/14/923766097/facebook-and-twitter-limit-sharing-new-york-post-story-about-joe-biden

 

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Facebook and Twitter took action on Wednesday to limit the distribution of New York Post reporting with unconfirmed claims about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, leading President Trump's campaign and allies to charge the companies with censorship.

 

Both social media companies said the moves were aimed at slowing the spread of potentially false information. But they gave few details about how they reached their decisions, sparking criticism about the lack of clarity and consistency with which they apply their rules.

 

The New York Post published a series of stories on Wednesday citing emails, purportedly sent by Biden's son Hunter, that the news outlet says it got from Trump's private lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.

 

 

 

[Ventenio]

There are 2 billion fake profiles on the internet, with over 300 billion fake news stories

 

I have 5879 friends on Facebook and just found out only 1 was real, my cat.

 

i knew that beautiful lady from Russia who needed money was too good to be true!!!

 

EVERYONE is on the internet.  The internet is controlled by smart people.  We are dumb.  you do the Maths....1 plus 1 equals whatever they tell us.....

[onthedarkside]

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a statement at odds with the massive trove of data recovered from a laptop at a Delaware repair shop.

 

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/facebook-censors-the-post-to-help-joe-bidens-2020-campaign/

 

[Dumbastheycome]

13 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

5555...you guys can keep bringing up this story.  But the more it's vetted, the more it will be revealed that it's fabricated Russian propaganda.

 

[The Post's story had several red flags that raised doubts about its authenticity. The most glaring questions center around whether the emails described in the story are legitimate, how they were uncovered, and how the Post obtained them.]

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-post-hunter-joe-biden-giuliani-red-flags-disinformation-2020-10

 

 

Reading the content of the e-mails strikes me as similar to the contrived style of a  Nigerian scam letter.How difficult would it actually be to "create" such content ?

 

 

[Phoenix Rising]

7 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

Reading the content of the e-mails strikes me as similar to the contrived style of a  Nigerian scam letter.How difficult would it actually be to "create" such content ?

 

 

Well, to be fair the guy who most certainly wrote it is not the brightest light in the night sky.

 

'An explosive New York Post story that's sending Trumpworld into a frenzy is riddled with holes and red flags'

 

The Post's report said that an unidentified computer-repair-shop owner discovered the emails and other compromising material about Hunter Biden after an unidentified person dropped off a water-damaged laptop last year to be repaired but never picked it up.

The repair shop owner was later identified as John Paul Mac Isaac, an avid Trump supporter who told several reporters who tracked him down that Trump's impeachment was a "sham." Isaac also did not have a clear grasp on the timeline of events that he initially described to the Post.

Edited October 15, 2020 by Phoenix Rising

[Jack Mountain]

Looks like Twitter and FB gave this story a boomerang Ban. LOL

 

I don't care who will be elected, the Americans deserve both ...

Make Biden VP!! The Fossile Crooks Team.

 ROFLOL

Edited October 15, 2020 by Jack Mountain

[RoadWarrior371]

1 hour ago, Adam219 said:

Pretty funny guys, I get that you hate trump, but that doesnt make this story any less true.

 

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/

Biden's laptop is the gift that keeps giving....   ????

[Phoenix Rising]

3 minutes ago, RoadWarrior371 said:

Biden's laptop is the gift that keeps giving....   ????

It is? Who has it?

[Jingthing]

The New York Post lacks much journalistic credibility.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-post/

[Berkshire]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

The New York Post lacks much journalistic credibility.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-post/

It's just not 2016 anymore.  In 2020, no one is buying this load of manure.

 

["It's a garbage fire story with obscene numbers of legal holes and flaws," he said.]

["At least in 2016, Trump's allies pushed powerful disinformation," national security attorney Bradley Moss told Salon. "These last-ditch efforts barely qualify as trying anymore."]

["It seems like a complete fabrication," former U.S. Attorney and national security law expert Barb McQuade told Salon. "What are the chances that an anonymous person abandons a laptop that contains evidence about the very same conspiracy theory that Trump and Giuliani have been pursuing for more than a year?]

 

https://news.yahoo.com/experts-dismiss-garbage-fire-hunter-003503600.html

[Chomper Higgot]

Trump ordered Government agencies to undertake an investigation of the Biden’s, the outcome of which is zilch.

 

No crimes, no indictments, not anything Trump can mischaracterize as ‘dodgy’ - absolutely nothing.

 

So he gets Giuliani to send this fabricated garbage to the NY Post.

 

It plays well to the fanatics in his base but nobody else is taking this seriously.

 

[OneMoreFarang]

And I thought when media expose something he always calls that fake news. Or does he do that only if they expose news about him?

 

I don't know if the Biden story is true or not. It seems until now it's unconfirmed. If Hunter did something illegal then he should be prosecuted by a court of law.

[onthedarkside]

A post based on a link to a Daily Mail UK report has been removed, as the Daily Mail is not considered a credible source for the ThaiVisa forum.

 

Reports by Fox News and the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post are allowed as credible sources here, even with their well-known political leanings.

 

 

[Baerboxer]

3 hours ago, Thailand said:

Says honest Donald!

 

Honest or not, he has a point. 

 

Are FB and Twitter deliberately censoring a story that could be very harmful to Joe Biden? Are they showing their political bias? 

[Baerboxer]

28 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

And I thought when media expose something he always calls that fake news. Or does he do that only if they expose news about him?

 

I don't know if the Biden story is true or not. It seems until now it's unconfirmed. If Hunter did something illegal then he should be prosecuted by a court of law.

 

Indeed. It should be the same rules for everyone.

 

The right wing press are running amok suggesting Obama was fully aware of Biden's conflicts of interest and actions that favored his son and large payments. If there is truth in that, they should be thoroughly investigated and appropriate charges brought. 

 

But, as we see more and more, the US Justice System has become highly politicized.

 

Social media that censors the press when it doesn't like the content is a very worrying development.

[Sujo]

6 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Honest or not, he has a point. 

 

Are FB and Twitter deliberately censoring a story that could be very harmful to Joe Biden? Are they showing their political bias? 

No they are censoring it because its unconfirmed, unverified, well its pretty much been debunked.

 

Perhaps heed intelligence agencies reports that russia is meddling.

[Phoenix Rising]

6 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Honest or not, he has a point. 

 

Are FB and Twitter deliberately censoring a story that could be very harmful to Joe Biden? Are they showing their political bias? 

No, they rightly block a story that stinks worse than a vagrant's underwear.

[Sujo]

3 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Indeed. It should be the same rules for everyone.

 

The right wing press are running amok suggesting Obama was fully aware of Biden's conflicts of interest and actions that favored his son and large payments. If there is truth in that, they should be thoroughly investigated and appropriate charges brought. 

 

But, as we see more and more, the US Justice System has become highly politicized.

 

Social media that censors the press when it doesn't like the content is a very worrying development.

Did you forget the republican committee investigated and cleared him.

[Baerboxer]

3 hours ago, stevenl said:

This story coming from Republican trolls?

 

Not true.

 

So you can prove it's not true then?

 

Please show us your proof.

[Baerboxer]

3 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Did you forget the republican committee investigated and cleared him.

 

So then he's got nothing to worry about, has he?

 

And was all this information laid before the committee?