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View Winners → Opinion Oct 16, 2020
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), shown at a Senate committee hearing in 2019, has pushed for changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The New York Post published a story Wednesday about Joe Biden and his son Hunter that read suspiciously like disinformation. More important, the piece included images of Hunter Biden and emails obtained almost certainly without his permission, supposedly from a laptop purportedly abandoned at a Delaware repair shop. The hacked material is what got the Post story into trouble with Twitter, which has a policy against publishing links to such content . Meanwhile, Facebook had already slowed the piece’s redistribution out of concern that it might violate its policy against “misinformation.” These moves drew a chorus of boos from Republicans, along with a demand for a federal investigation . The denunciations multiplied after Twitter temporarily suspended the accounts of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday afternoon and the Trump campaign Thursday morning for tweets related to the Post story that violated its terms of service. In McEnany’s case, liberal media critic Parker Molloy said, the offending tweet included an image of an email address , a clear Twitter no-no. And herein lies the […]
