On Wednesday, the New York Post revealed various sordid details about
Hunter’s private life, including the suggestion that Biden Snr might
have met an official from Burisma – the Ukrainian energy firm his son
worked for – while he was Vice-President.Given the seriousness of the allegations,
you might have expected them to dominate the news. Oddly, they didn’t.
Thanks in no small part to the intervention of Twitter and Facebook.No
sooner had the story gone live than Twitter told users the link to the
newspaper site was ‘unsafe’ and blocked them from sharing it in tweets
or private messages. Facebook
downplayed the report on news feeds pending ‘independent verification’
by ‘fact checkers’ – in both cases effectively suppressing the report. ......
In the case of Clegg, there is something distasteful, not to say dishonest, about a man who singularly failed to secure power by open democratic means – the good people of Sheffield kicked him out as an MP in 2017 – and acquired it instead surreptitiously via the back door. He and his cronies want Biden to win, believing – as all illiberal liberals do – that they know best, and the end ultimately justifies the means. And the usual rules of honesty, transparency and fair play don’t, ultimately, apply to them. And the truth is, they don’t. It’s increasingly apparent that whoever controls social media, controls America. Unless people realise this – and stop playing the game according to their rules, we might as well just accept it.
And that includes Britain. Because as with all these things, if it’s happening over there, it’s only a matter of time before it happens over here."
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