The Republican National Committee filed an FEC complaint against Twitter last week, arguing that the company illegally contributed to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign by stopping Twitter users from posting links to the Post story. The core of the RNC’s argument is that Twitter violated the ban on corporations contributing directly to political campaigns. Twitter’s “suppression of the New York Post articles provides a thing of value to the Biden campaign,” the complaint alleges. And despite the complaints about the actions by Twitter and Facebook, the Post story still attracted a sizable audience and prompted a robust discussion — on Twitter and Facebook. Comparably, a New York Times article about Facebook and Twitter’s actions, also published Wednesday, has been shared on Facebook only 1,339 times.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 20, 2020 16:07 UTC