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0 pointsrootusrootus4y ago0 comments

> get together

That's probably the moment they could face regulation. Individually, it's their platform to choose what they want to host or not.

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bko4y ago

Do you think it was weird that when a damning article about a presidential candidate's son came out a few weeks before the election, every single media company and social network decided at the same exact time not to cover the story? Even so much as censoring the one paper that carried it and on private messages between people? Twitter, Facebook, NY Times, NPR and others.

The former guy got banned on all the services all at once. Even tiktok which he was not on. Hell, even grindr banned him.

There may not be direct coordination (maybe there is), but there's a signal and no one likes to make waves

They all took a different direction about the "pee tape":

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/opinion/comey-book-steele...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/magazine/nothing-proves-y...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/media/spooked-pr...

For more: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anytimes.com+trump+pee...

maccam944y ago

No, it's not weird at all that the mainstream media wouldn't publish such a story without multiple sources right before an election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspira...

roenxi4y ago

Seems a bit weird, there is quite a story there [0]. In the grand scheme of things is looks like a pretty routine case of potential corruption, but that being associated with the president's son like a big deal. Vigorously suppressing the story was a pretty suspect move.

The complaint seems to be that the corruption he was probably involved in is slightly different than the corruption Trump was talking about. Which again, standard political fare but the crackdown on the story seems suspicious. If it had been Trump there is no way such a story would have been quietened down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#Investor_and_lobb...

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