Facebook and Twitter are under fire for their handling of a New York Post article containing claims about Joe Biden. 9News
's re-election campaign account was also locked for a few hours after it posted a video relating to the article.
Democrats praised the tech companies, which are often criticised for being too slow to clamp down on false or misleading information. Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2014, around the time his father, then US vice-president, was helping conduct the Obama administration's foreign policy with Ukraine.These latest emails suggest he tried to extract more money from Burisma in exchange for introducing a top executive to his father.
The article contained emails that were recovered from a laptop, allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden, that was dropped off at a computer repair shop in Delaware in April 2019.It is potentially damaging to Mr Biden, who holds a strong lead in the polls over Mr Trump, with Election Day on November 3 fast approaching and already a record million people have turned out for early-voting.
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