Facebook and Twitter restricted the spread of a disputed New York Post article on Wednesday.
The article in question, which makes claims about former Vice President Joe Biden’s work in Ukraine, is supposedly based on a hard drive that was abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in April of last year. Twitter is actively blocking users from both tweeting and direct messaging the article link. Facebook, for its part, is “reducing [the article’s] distribution” for the time being.
We reached out to Facebook in an attempt to determine what, exactly, that means, but received no immediate response. Twitter’s action, however, is hard to miss. Attempts to either tweet a link to the New York Post article, or send it via Direct Message, are currently being blocked. Read more…
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