Censoring by Facebook, Twitter Feeds Cynicism in Our Politics
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
The campaign to suppress the New York Post’s scoop on how Hunter Biden “merchandized access to his dad” reminds us of a story we were told early in our newspaper career. It might have been apocryphal, but it involved a plutonium-powered satellite that was wobbling in orbit and could crash in Seattle. The government asked the newspapers to hold the story, lest it trigger a panic. The newspapers promptly rushed it into print.
“What would we have done if we’d sat on the story and it did crash in Seattle?” one editor supposedly growled. Lucky for him he didn’t work for Facebook or Twitter, which have been suppressing the Post’s scoop. Twitter has gone so far as to lock the personal twitter account of the White House press secretary, Kayleigh MeEnany, because she linked to the Post’s scoop. She says she’ll have to sever the link in order to get her account back.
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