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by shadowgovt 1717 days ago
A simple search for "hunter biden laptop" on Facebook immediately kicks up three news articles, dozens of site posts, and (in the bubble I can see from my own friends list) several dozen posts on the topic from the point of view that the laptop was real.

If this is Democratic censorship in action, it's incredibly bad at its goals.
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hunterb123 1717 days ago
It was censored on all tech platforms at once when the story broke so the information wouldn't hit mainstream weeks ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Yes eventually they had to allow it because it was blatant censorship, but the damage is done.

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jwond 1717 days ago
You are correct, so I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. Facebook explicitly suppressed the story.

> While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook's third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.

-- Andy Stone, Facebook Policy Communications Director

https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1316395902479872000

Coincidentally enough, if you check Andy Stone's LinkedIn you will see that before he started working at Facebook he worked for various organizations associated with the Democratic party.

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