Article contentThe biggest story in Canada over the past week should be Twitter and Facebook’s unprecedented actions to censor the New York Post. But almost none of Canada’s news outlets have covered the story, leaving the impression that our country’s top journalists believe the threat posed to democracy by Big Tech stops at the border. Last week, the New York Post published multiple stories about Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, alleging that he leveraged his relationship with his father in business dealings with Ukranian and Chinese companies, while his father was vice-president. Try refreshing your browser, or Jamil Jivani: Censoring of Hunter Biden story should concern us all Back to videoWhatever you make of the New York Post’s reporting, Facebook and Twitter’s decisions to censor the story are unparalleled uses of their power. Twitter went so far as to block the URLs altogether, making the story nearly impossible to share even in private messages, and even blocked the paper from accessing its own Twitter account.

Source: National Post October 20, 2020 09:56 UTC