Sky News contributor DaisyCousens says the censoring of the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop is a case of “Twitter meddling in the 2020 election”.
Sky News contributor Daisy Cousens says the censoring of the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop is a case of “Twitter meddling in the 2020 election”. “To be fair, they’ve been meddling in this election really since the 2016 election,” she told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
Facebook and Twitter both censored the article from the New York Post. “This was a very tangible suppression campaign of information that is absolutely in the public interest. “Twitter especially, went on a rampage, I’ve never seen anything like it.” “They locked the Trump campaign account, which is heinous to do this close to an election. “They grossly manipulated what was trending in the US trends.
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