The Big Tech geeks that got the Hunter Biden story wrong

 Jordon Bruneau:

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The emails suggest Hunter was trading access to and influence from his father abroad in return for money. Specifically, they indicate that in 2015, Hunter secured a meeting with his father for a Ukrainian businessman working for the energy firm Burisma, which was paying Hunter $50,000 a month even though he had no energy experience. Then-Vice President Joe Biden subsequently convinced Ukrainian officials to fire a prosecutor investigating the company (in Biden's partial defense, here, the prosecutor is widely believed to have been corrupt).

Other emails from 2017 suggest Hunter was involved in a deal with a Chinese energy company known as CEFC that would see Hunter hold a 10% equity stake for his father. Hunter claimed a deal with this Chinese company, which the emails indicate would pay him $10 million per year for "introductions alone," was "interesting to me and my family."

If more Americans knew more about these potential quid pro quo business arrangements, this October surprise could have flipped the sliver of the electorate - a mere 44,000 votes in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin - that Trump needed to win a second term.

Yet in an act of brazen political censorship, Facebook and Twitter closed ranks around Democrats immediately after the story broke and restricted distribution of the reporting, impeding the roughly half of Americans who get their news from social media from seeing it. Twitter didn't allow the story to be shared - even in direct messages. It locked the New York Post - one of the nation's oldest and most-read newspapers - out of its account entirely for two weeks.

This social media censorship gave the mainstream media time to get out ahead of the story by promoting the deep state fiction that the emails were "Russian disinformation" despite no evidence for this narrative.

The Russian disinformation angle allowed the media to pretend it was doing its minimal duty to cover the news without reporting the actual email contents. It succeeded in shifting the story from foreign influence peddling to Russian election interference. The Biden campaign was able to avoid deserved press scrutiny.

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Their actions helped to get Biden elected and they should be held responsible for all of the fiascos Biden has brought to this country since he took office.  It is screaming evidence that they are totally inept when it comes to censoring information that Americans should be entitled to. 

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