{"id":1840179,"date":"2023-02-08T15:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840179"},"modified":"2023-02-08T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:35:37","slug":"fact-check-aoc-says-twitter-censorship-of-hunters-laptop-was-24-hour-hiccup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-aoc-says-twitter-censorship-of-hunters-laptop-was-24-hour-hiccup\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: AOC Says Twitter Censorship of Hunter&#8217;s Laptop Was &#8217;24-Hour Hiccup&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ffact-check-aoc-says-twitter-censorship-of-hunters-laptop-was-24-hour-hiccup%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=1840179&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-->\n<p><strong>Claim:<\/strong> Twitter&#8217;s 2020 censorship of Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop story was an act of censorship. &#8220;24-hour hiccup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">AOC complains to the Oversight committee &#8220;talking about Hunter Biden&#8217;s half fake laptop story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A whole hearing about a 24 hour hiccup in a right-wing political operation &#8230; it&#8217;s just an abuse of public resources and an abuse of public time.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rb4DONhWC2\">pic.twitter.com\/rb4DONhWC2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1623382801306337280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who said it?<\/strong> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D., N.Y., who has made a career out of complaining about small-minded slights against others on social media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong> Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats are downplaying the electoral impact of Twitter&#8217;s decision to block users from sharing the laptop story\u2014which included unflattering revelations about President Joe Biden and his family&#8217;s business activities\u2014in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong> The House Oversight Committee is headed by Republican Rep. James Comer (Ky.). It is looking into whether Twitter improperly assisted the Biden campaign through suppressing the <em>New York Post<\/em>The bombshell story by&#8217;s about the laptop. It included information about Hunter Biden\u2019s suspicious foreign business deals, and his attempts to cash in on His Father&#8217;s political position.<\/p>\n<p>An ex-official at Twitter told the committee Wednesday that Twitter initially suspected the allegations. <em>Post<\/em>Based on &#8220;Russian disinformation,&#8221; Many Biden supporters also supported this claim. Later, this claim was found to be unfounded and the ex-Twitter official stated that he now believes that the censorship was intentional. &#8220;mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Analysis:<\/strong> Twitter banned users from sharing the information <em>Post<\/em>The article was published almost immediately after its publication on Oct. 14. It expressed concerns about the &#8220;origins of the materials&#8221; Citing the company\u2019s anti-hacking policy. The social media site also blocked the access. <em>Post<\/em>The paper&#8217;s Oct. 14 tweet was retweeted by&#8217;s twitter account and refused to remove a link from its article.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter lifted the link ban, and users could tweet the article two days later on Oct. 16. Twitter refused to restore the link ban. <em>Post<\/em>&#8216;s Twitter account until Oct. 30, however\u201416 days after the article was initially posted.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen days is more than 24 hours. Therefore, AOC&#8217;s claim of censorship being a one-day event seems absurd. &#8220;hiccup&#8221; This is inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s actions also contributed to the now-debunked claim of the <em>Post<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0report was based on &#8220;Russian disinformation,&#8221; It discouraged many Americans to take the news seriously during the crucial days leading to the election. This claim could have caused further damage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats are downplaying the electoral impact of Twitter&#8217;s decision to block users from sharing the laptop story\u2014which included unflattering revelations about President Joe Biden and his family&#8217;s business activities\u2014in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election.<br \/>\nThe post FACT CHECK: AOC Says Twitter Censorship of Hunter&#8217;s Laptop Was &#8217;24-Hour Hiccup&#8217; appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1840182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[18069,8334,6371,5335,18070,9381,6880,4253],"class_list":["post-1840179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-24-hour","tag-aoc","tag-censorship","tag-check","tag-hiccup","tag-hunters","tag-laptop","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840179","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}