{"id":1216052,"date":"2022-01-14T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216052"},"modified":"2022-01-14T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:34:25","slug":"democratic-rep-ro-khanna-calls-out-twitter-for-trying-to-hide-hunter-biden-laptop-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-rep-ro-khanna-calls-out-twitter-for-trying-to-hide-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna Calls Out Twitter For Trying To Hide Hunter Biden Laptop Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-rep-ro-khanna-calls-out-twitter-for-trying-to-hide-hunter-biden-laptop-story%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216052&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna criticized Twitter and Facebook for censoring the New York Post\u2019s story on Hunter Biden, saying the story should not have been blocked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was a mistake for Twitter to take down some of this stuff about Hunter Biden, or Facebook to do that,\u201d Khanna said during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3mtrNt1mNpI\">interview<\/a> with Joe Lonsdale on the American Optimist podcast while promoting his book \u201cDignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/14\/report-hunter-biden-introduced-joe-burisma-executive\/\">published<\/a>&nbsp;a story in October 2020 detailing a meeting between Hunter Biden, then-Vice President Joe Biden and a top executive at Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2015, relying on data recovered from a laptop reportedly belonging to Hunter. Shortly after the story was published, Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/16\/rnc-files-fec-complaint-twitter-censoring-new-york-post-article-hunter-biden\/\">blocked<\/a>&nbsp;users from sharing the link and suspended accounts that attempted to tweet it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that story was total hogwash, I think Joe Biden was unfairly attacked because of his son, but that doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t belong in the public sphere,\u201d Khanna said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/20\/treasury-department-warren-davidson-janet-yellen-infrastructure-cryptocurrency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: House Lawmakers Set To Square Off With White House, Treasury Department Over \u2018Stifling\u2019 Crypto Tax Plan)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Democrat also pushed back on the notion that social media companies are too influential in shaping people\u2019s behavior, disagreeing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/07\/30\/lawmaker-wants-end-social-media-addiction-by-killing-features-that-enable-mindless-scrolling\/\">suggestions<\/a>&nbsp;voiced by Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley that online platforms are akin to drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Hawley is a little too sensational,\u201d Khanna said, adding that he does not have the view \u201cthat all Americans are so manipulatable that somehow because of Facebook they aren\u2019t capable of free critical thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Khanna said he was in favor of limiting online speech that incited violence, he said he remains wary of government censorship and tech companies assuming a greater degree of control over what can be said online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not for having either the government or tech companies, ultimately, being the arbiter of truth,\u201d Khanna said.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna criticized Twitter and Facebook for censoring the New York Post\u2019s story on Hunter Biden, saying the story should not have been blocked.\u201cI thought it was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}