{"id":748115,"date":"2021-09-13T14:20:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=748115"},"modified":"2021-09-13T14:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T18:21:03","slug":"fec-finds-twitter-didnt-violate-election-law-by-suppressing-hunter-biden-story-nyt-says-story-was-unsubstantiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fec-finds-twitter-didnt-violate-election-law-by-suppressing-hunter-biden-story-nyt-says-story-was-unsubstantiated\/","title":{"rendered":"FEC Finds Twitter Didn\u2019t Violate Election Law By Suppressing Hunter Biden Story; NYT Says Story Was \u2018Unsubstantiated\u2019"},"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\">34<\/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%2Ffec-finds-twitter-didnt-violate-election-law-by-suppressing-hunter-biden-story-nyt-says-story-was-unsubstantiated%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=748115&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\/09\/GettyImages-520783510.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Federal Election Commission (FEC) dismissed a claim from Republicans that Twitter violated election laws just weeks before the 2020 election by suppressing a New York Post report on Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>While reporting on the FEC\u2019s decision, The New York Times on Twitter and in its article called story about Hunter \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/13\/us\/politics\/fec-twitter-hunter-biden-article.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\">unsubstantiated<\/a>,\u201d even though it was based on extensive documents obtained from a laptop belonging to the president\u2019s son. Numerous outlets have since corroborated and accepted the laptop story. Even CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/13\/us\/politics\/fec-twitter-hunter-biden-article.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\">acknowledged<\/a> that the FBI did receive a laptop purporting to belong to Hunter and that \u201cthe assumption is that it is Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.\u201d Many other outlets tiptoed around the information in an effort to avoid reporting it, such as The Washington Post, which was still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/07\/hunter-bidens-laptop-april-16-2015-dinner\/\">forced to admit<\/a> at least some of the information from the laptop could be verified as true. Outlets continue to couch the story with speculations that the laptop may be fake or stolen or \u201cRussian disinformation,\u201d even though no such evidence exists.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/\">original<\/a> New York Post story about the laptop included screenshots and quotes from documents the outlet obtained from Hunter\u2019s laptop, which was reportedly left at a computer repair shop in Delaware but never retrieved. The laptop also contained compromising photos of Hunter. Hunter eventually admitted that the laptop \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/02\/hunter-biden-says-laptop-at-center-of-post-expose-could-belong-to-him\/\">certainly<\/a>\u201d could belong to him, but insisted it might have been stolen or hacked.<\/p>\n<p>Without any evidence the laptop or its information was fake, Twitter blocked links to the Post\u2019s article and also suspended the Post\u2019s account, citing policy about publishing hacked information. Other social media outlets also blocked access to the article in the weeks before the 2020 election. No such action was ever taken by these outlets when the damaging information was against former President Donald Trump. For example, The New York Times reported information about Trump\u2019s taxes that it could not have obtained legally, since tax information is private. Twitter took no issue with the Times publishing that information.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee filed a formal complaint against Twitter, insisting its suppression of the New York Post article was an \u201cillegal in-kind contribution\u201d to Joe Biden\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, according to the Times, the FEC dismissed the complaint, saying Twitter had \u201ccredibly explained\u201d why it blocked the Post link, even though the social media outlet eventually reversed its decision and CEO Jack Dorsey called that decision a \u201cmistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe F.E.C.\u2019s official vote on the case \u2014 the commission is split equally between three Democratic-aligned commissioners and three Republicans \u2014 is not yet public, nor are any additional statements written by commissioners. Such statements often accompany the closure of cases and can provide further insight into the commission\u2019s reasoning,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>The FEC also rejected allegations that Twitter also violates election laws by limiting the reach of conservative users without explanation and \u201cshadow banning\u201d them. The FEC also disagreed that the social media violated election laws by treating conservatives differently than liberals, such as suppressing anti-Biden content and labeling Trump\u2019s tweets as misinformation but not doing the same for Democrats. The FEC insisted those claims were \u201cvague, speculative and unsupported by the available information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Election Commission (FEC) dismissed a claim from Republicans that Twitter violated election laws just weeks before the 2020 election by suppressing a New York Post report on Hunter &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748115","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\/748115","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748115\/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=748115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}