{"id":55322,"date":"2020-10-15T06:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T11:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55322"},"modified":"2020-10-15T06:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T11:58:29","slug":"imagine-if-msm-consistently-applied-the-evidentiary-standards-its-applying-to-hunter-bidens-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55322","title":{"rendered":"Imagine If MSM Consistently Applied The Evidentiary Standards It\u2019s Applying To Hunter Biden\u2019s Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine If MSM Consistently Applied The Evidentiary Standards It\u2019s Applying To Hunter Biden\u2019s Emails<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Mainstream media and social media platforms are actively blacking out an October surprise\u00a0published by\u00a0The New York Post<\/em><\/a>\u00a0which purports to show \u201csmoking gun\u201d emails from the laptop of Hunter Biden, son of Democratic nominee Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Both Twitter and Facebook have censored the story on their platforms, the first time we\u2019ve seen the powerful social media giants deplatform a mainstream news media article, both citing concerns about the origins of the emails and an uncertainty about the veracity of the claims.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook was limiting distribution of the story while its outside fact-checkers reviewed the story\u2019s claims, spokesman Andy Stone said,\u201d\u00a0reports NPR<\/a>, adding that \u201cTwitter said it decided to block the story because it couldn\u2019t be sure about the origins of the emails.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twitter\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0it found the emails to be in violation of its policies banning content which contained private information and its rules against \u201chacked materials\u201d, both of which would have forbidden all articles sharing the contents of the 2016 WikiLeaks drops if those rules had existed back then. As\u00a0I warned could happen<\/a>\u00a0back in August, these rules have set the stage for the cross-platform censorship of a 2020 October surprise.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a\u00a0good thread<\/a>\u00a0going around Twitter compiling posts that mainstream media reporters have been making in objection to the circulation of Hunter Biden\u2019s emails alongside posts made by those same reporters promoting far more ridiculous and insubstantial allegations, like MSNBC\u2019s virulent Russia conspiracy theorist Kyle Griffin saying nobody should link to the\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0report because if they do they\u2019ll be \u201camplifying disinformation\u201d.<\/p>\n

A new\u00a0Reason<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a> discusses how the mass media are not just avoiding the story but actively discouraging it:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine If MSM Consistently Applied The Evidentiary Standards It\u2019s Applying To Hunter Biden\u2019s Emails Mainstream media and social media platforms are actively blacking out an October surprise\u00a0published by\u00a0The New York Post\u00a0which purports to show \u201csmoking gun\u201d emails from the laptop of Hunter Biden, son of Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Both Twitter and Facebook have censored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[17039,120,1493,30447,1320,496,30448,819,827],"class_list":["post-55322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-facebook","tag-hunter-biden","tag-joe-biden","tag-mainstream-media","tag-the-new-york-post","tag-twitter","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55323,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55322\/revisions\/55323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}