{"id":542986,"date":"2021-05-27T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=542986"},"modified":"2021-05-27T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:05:48","slug":"exclusive-rep-jim-banks-demands-answers-from-facebook-over-new-york-posts-reporting-on-hunter-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-jim-banks-demands-answers-from-facebook-over-new-york-posts-reporting-on-hunter-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jim Banks Demands Answers From Facebook Over New York Post\u2019s Reporting On Hunter Biden"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fexclusive-rep-jim-banks-demands-answers-from-facebook-over-new-york-posts-reporting-on-hunter-biden%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=542986&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Photo-by-HandoutDNCC-via-Getty-Images-2131231-e1622133868877.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks sent a letter Thursday to Facebook policy communications director Andy Stone asking him if the company ever did a third-party fact check of the New York Posts\u2019 reporting on Hunter Biden while mentioning Stone\u2019s ties to Congressional Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Caller first obtained the letter from Banks which demands answers from the tech giant for censoring reports from the New York Post that allege Joe and Hunter Biden met with a Burisma executive in 2015. In October of 2020, Stone <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/14\/hawley-hunter-biden-email-new-york-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> that Facebook was reducing the article\u2019s reach on the platform even <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andymstone\/status\/1316395902479872000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">before<\/a> it had been reviewed by third-party fact-checkers.<\/p>\n<p>Stone then sent out a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andymstone\/status\/1316423671314026496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a> to a link of a Facebook policy explantation, saying: \u201cThis is part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation. We temporarily reduce distribution pending fact-checker review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn October 14, 2020, you tweeted: \u2018While 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\u2019s third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.\u2019 You continued: \u2018This is part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation. We temporarily reduce distribution pending fact-checker review,&#8217;\u201d Banks wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook subsequently suppressed the New York Posts\u2019 reporting on emails obtained from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. The emails showed Hunter Biden had introduced then-Vice President Joe Biden to Burisma executives a year after Burisma hired Hunter Biden on a $50,000 a week salary,\u201d Banks added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/10\/media-reasons-suppressing-hunter-biden-story-false\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Both Of The Media\u2019s Reasons For Suppressing The Hunter Biden Story Turned Out To Be \u2018False\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He then began listing off Democratic members of Congress that Stone has worked for. Banks also asked if Facebook ever completed a third-party fact check of the New York Posts\u2019 reporting and where it is, if that was the case.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ THE LETTER HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View (DAILY CALLER OBTAINED) -- EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jim Banks Demands Answers From Facebook Over New York Post&#039;s Reporting On Hunter Biden on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/509584591\/DAILY-CALLER-OBTAINED-EXCLUSIVE-Rep-Jim-Banks-Demands-Answers-From-Facebook-Over-New-York-Post-s-Reporting-On-Hunter-Biden#from_embed\">(DAILY CALLER OBTAINED) \u2014 \u2026<\/a> by <a title=\"View Henry Rodgers&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/527927298\/Henry-Rodgers#from_embed\">Henry Rodgers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve worked in communications for Congressional Democrats\u2019 House Majority PAC, Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat House Member Jerry McNerney and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Because of your extensive experience in communications and the gravity of Facebook\u2019s decision ahead of the 2020 election, I\u2019m assuming you didn\u2019t just make the tweet up and received permission to tweet from your Facebook superiors,\u201d Banks continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/15\/gop-senators-ted-cruz-josh-hawley-lindsey-graham-facebook-twitter-hunter-biden-ny-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Actively Interfering In This Election\u2019 \u2014 GOP Senators Want To Subpoena Twitter And Facebook CEOs Over New Censorship)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo: Did Facebook ever complete a third-party fact check of the New York Posts\u2019 reporting? Where is it?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>The email the New York Post first reported on allegedly shows talks between Burisma executive Vadym Pozharsky and Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent some time together,\u201d Pozharskyi allegedly wrote to Biden in an April 2015 email. \u201cIt\u2019s really an honor and pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Caller has not independently confirmed the authenticity of the email, although a cybersecurity expert <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/02\/hunter-biden-laptop-rudy-giuliani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously authenticated<\/a> the email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Tech\u2019s censorship of conservatives is so aggressive and wide-ranging its head spinning. It\u2019s hard to remember which conservative beliefs now qualify as \u2018disinformation,\u2019 and it\u2019s easy to forget that Facebook suppressed a legitimate and damaging story weeks ahead of 2020 in order to put Joe Biden in the White House. Facebook committed a serious crime against our democracy that they still haven\u2019t answered for. We shouldn\u2019t forget or forgive until they do,\u201d Banks told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Indiana Rep. 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