Outrage as Facebook AND Twitter throttle story about Joe Biden meeting son's Ukraine partners until it's been vetted by its third party so-called 'fact-checkers'
- Facebook said on Wednesday it is 'reducing circulation' of the NY Post story which claims Joe Biden met with Ukrainian businessman Vadym Pozharskyi
- Months after the alleged meeting, Biden - who was Vice President at the time- pressured Ukrainian officials to fire a prosecutor who was investigating Pozharskyi
- If true, it represents a huge conflict of interest and possible law break, given Biden's son Hunter was being paid $50,000-a-month by Pozharskyi's firm
- The Post published its story on Wednesday with screenshots of the emails
- Biden's campaign afterwards said the meeting never took place and that he has never been
- Facebook, on Wednesday, said it would stop the story from being shared until it had been vetted
- It has partnerships with dozens of third-party fact checkers, the identities of which are largely unknown
- Many asked why Facebook was entitled to call into question the Post's reporting
- Critics accused the company of election interference and of protecting Biden
Facebook and Twitter have been accused of 'election interference' for throttling the news story about Joe Biden meeting his son Hunter's Ukrainian partners when he was Vice President, claiming it needs to be independently verified by fact-checkers.
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