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sabra

(30,404 posts)
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 03:20 PM Oct 2020

Facebook reducing distribution of Hunter Biden story in New York Post

Source: Fox 10

Facebook is limiting the distribution of a story in the New York Post about a purported email between Hunter Biden and an adviser to a Ukrainian energy company.

The 2015 email indicates that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to Burisma, thanked Biden for "giving an opportunity" to meet former Vice President Joe Biden.

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Facebook said it would rely on its fact-checking partners to determine the story's legitimacy, but until then, it is taking steps to tamp down on its spread.

"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," Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone tweeted Wednesday. "In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform."

Read more: https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/facebook-reducing-distribution-of-hunter-biden-story-in-new-york-post

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Facebook reducing distribution of Hunter Biden story in New York Post (Original Post) sabra Oct 2020 OP
Don't FB's fact checking partners include Breitbart? Nt Fiendish Thingy Oct 2020 #1
that's what i was thinking. and some other right wing trash site. n/t orleans Oct 2020 #7
Sounds like the stats people at Facebook advised Zuckerberg and crew that Trump is going greenjar_01 Oct 2020 #2
If sociopathic zuck is turning down revenue for something that helps Donnie, then Donnie is toast unblock Oct 2020 #3
Reducing? Blue Owl Oct 2020 #4
How bout not giving it a voice at all. Budi Oct 2020 #5
Streisand effect HobbsHouse Oct 2020 #6
 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
2. Sounds like the stats people at Facebook advised Zuckerberg and crew that Trump is going
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 03:26 PM
Oct 2020

to lose.

Don't want to be on the wrong side of that one, Zuck.

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